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Best Android Phone Google Pixel 10a Read more $499 Amazon The Smartest Smartphones Google Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL Read more $799 $599 (25% off) Amazon (10) The Best Flagship Phones Samsung Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra Read more $900 $853 (5% off) Amazon (S26) Best Battery Life OnePlus 15 and OnePlus 15R Read more $900 $800 (11% off) Amazon (15) The best Android phone means something different to everyone—it’s hard to find one that caters to every need. But chances are there’s a new smartphone that comes close to what you’re looking for.

When George W. Maschke applied to work for the FBI in 1994, he had already held a security clearance for over 11 years.

Best All-Round Polar H10 Read more $105 $77 (27% off) Amazon Best for Running Garmin Forerunner 970 Read more $750 Amazon Best for Swimming Form Smart Swim 2 Pro Read more $299 Backcountry Best for Garmin Users Garmin HRM 600 Read more $170 REI Getting your pulse taken only once a year at the doctor's office is a thing of the past. Nowadays, the best heart rate monitors are cheap, comfortable, and ubiquitous.

Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images; Courtesy of Ferrari; Aston Martin; Mercedes; Tesla Save this story Save this story Could you design a steering wheel? How hard could it be?

Best for Sound Quality Sony WF-1000xM6 Read more $330 $298 (10% off) Amazon Best Overall ANC Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2 Earbuds Read more $299 Amazon Best Budget Noise Cancelers Soundpeats Capsule3 Pro+ Read more $100 $80 (20% off) Amazon Best for Apple Users Apple AirPods Pro 3 Read more $249 $199 (20% off) Amazon If you only own one pair of headphones, noise-canceling earbuds are the baseline. Thanks to their pocketable designs and ability to suppress environmental sounds or invite them in with tiny exterior microphones, these buds can be your everything headphones , and I've worn them everywhere, from transatlantic flights and bustling cafés to lush forest hikes in the Pacific Northwest.

Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Save this story Save this story Take a photo on any digital camera or smartphone and it's not just the pixels that are saved. The image also gets a bunch of metadata appended to it, also known as EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data, including details of when it was taken, the device that was used to capture it, and the camera settings that were used.

Meta didn’t consult its Oversight Board last year when it announced sweeping policy changes to content moderation and a rollback of third-party fact checking in the United States in favor of Community Notes. But the company did ask the board for advice on how to expand the crowd-sourced fact checks to other countries.

Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai are gearing up to launch a robotaxi service for Europe, starting with Zagreb in Croatia. The companies are working with Croatian company Verne, which will provide the service ecosystem and operational framework for the service.