It has 512 GB of storage, a huge battery, Fortnite, and a stylus that doubles as a selfie assist. Samsung has gone all out with the new Galaxy Note 9. Why?

The New MacBook Pro

Jul 27th, 2018 50m 19s

This week, WIRED's product reviews editor Brendan Nystedt joins the show to run down the particulars of the 2018 MacBook Pro.

Juul of the Valley

Jul 20th, 2018 51m 53s

This week, special guest Nitasha Tiku charts Juul's ever-changing relationship with its consumers, its investors, and those who oppose its product.

Talk to the Bot

Jun 29th, 2018 58m 23s

Google plans to start publicly testing Duplex, its uncanny robot-phone-calling technology, within the next couple weeks.

The Quantified Ovary

Jun 1st, 2018 38m 8s

On this week's show, Arielle Pardes charts Silicon Valley's growing fascination with technology for enabling women to track their fertility.

As Easy As Riding a Bike (to Work)

May 18th, 2018 46m 4s

"Bikes" Calore makes a case for why everyone should bike more-and tells you the gear you need to do it right.

Google's Human-Robot Caller

May 11th, 2018 45m 44s

Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, is clearly no longer just about the newest version of Android. This year Google used the keynote stage to show off some of its advancements in artificial intelligence, including a demo of

The Virtual Insanity of F8

May 4th, 2018 53m 53s

F8, Facebook’s annual developers conference, was earlier this week, so we decided to host this week’s Gadget Lab podcast entirely in VR, which means you’ll need an Oculus Go headset to listen to it as well. Just kidding, but really, that might

Quite the Spectacles

Apr 27th, 2018 49m 45s

Oh Snap: The next generation of Snapchat Spectacles has arrived, and they look a lot like…the first pair of Spectacles. But Snap has made some notable changes to the guts of the glasses, even if they still have that I-just-came-back-from-Coache

Daily Drivers

Apr 20th, 2018 59m 14s

Lauren’s new around here, and she wants to get to know Mike and Arielle a little better. So she came up with the prompt for this episode: What’s the stuff you can’t live without? In this hour, we go deep into our personal relationships with ina

Our Yikes Phase

Apr 13th, 2018 41m

Even though Facebook’s massive success will likely continue unabated after this week’s Congressional hearings, things are going to be very different for the social networking company in the future. One of the most impactful things this week’s h

The (Near) Future of PCs

Apr 6th, 2018 34m 7s

There’s a new push in the industry toward computers that are always connected and don’t need Wi-Fi. They also have insane battery life and exceedingly thin hardware profiles. Sounds like an iPad right? Or maybe a phone? Correct; These devices h

You Know, for Kids

Mar 30th, 2018 52m 50s

Apple released new iPads this week at a splashy event in Chicago. Actually, the new iPads are very much like the old iPads, and even priced the same at $329. But the new 2018 iPad has an updated processor, and Apple has added support for the Pe

The Uber Crash

Mar 23rd, 2018 38m 3s

This week, a self-driving Volvo owned by Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. We won’t know the exact details of what happened until much later once Uber, the local police, and the federal government have completed their inves

Raise Your Glasses

Mar 16th, 2018 46m 38s

With so many smart glasses showing up as prototypes and, sometimes, as finished consumer products, we have to ask ourselves: Where is this all going? Some say the future of augmented reality is a set of glasses you wear on your head, speaking a

Total Clips

Mar 2nd, 2018 39m 55s

Google’s new Clips camera takes short looping videos of your kids and your pets, and it does it all using AI. Sure, that sounds like some weird technophobic nightmare—Google, one of the most data-thirsty companies on the planet, pointing a came

All About HomePod

Feb 23rd, 2018 53m 46s

The way you control Apple’s smart speaker, the HomePod, is pretty cool. You just talk to it. But Siri, Apple’s voice assistant, can’t make the speaker do much beyond the basics and can only summon music from Apple-owned cloud services. That set

Two Years of Hell

Feb 16th, 2018 48m 12s

Everything changed for Facebook two years ago. The company was accused of making politically biased choices about which news stories showed up as trending topics in users’ news feeds. The adjustments Facebook made in response to those criticism

Extra Sticky

Feb 9th, 2018 46m 1s

You may find it hard to close Facebook and get on with your day, and you may flick open Twitter as soon as you wake up, or browse your feeds for an hour every night before you fall asleep. But are you addicted to social media? Are your app usag

Let's Talk About Cars

Jan 26th, 2018 43m 37s

January has so far proven to be one of the busiest months for the transportation industry. CES in early January was flooded with car news, including the debut of a new $45,000 electric SUV by a Chinese Tesla competitor called Byton. Then, just

The News

Jan 19th, 2018 51m 34s

With Facebook de-prioritizing news stories in its users feeds, some nearly two billion Facebook devotees are going to see big changes in their news consumption habits. And of course, hundreds of publishers are going to see big changes in their