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California’s Wildfires Show No Signs of Slowing Down On Tuesday, Santa Ana winds swept seaward through Southern California, scattering embers and then fanning flames of a growing wildfire. By nighttime, residents received urgent text alerts warning of potential 100...

Meta Follows Elon Musk’s Lead, Moves Staffers to Billionaire-Friendly Texas “Executives are doing everything they can to create an environment conducive for actions they want to take, absent review or accountability from actors like our courts or legislators or...

Pebble Flow EV Travel Trailer: Glamping Goes Electric One of the great joys of camping is the silence. There’s nothing worse than getting out into the wilderness, away from society, and then hearing somebody one campsite over start up a loud, smelly gas...

Best iPad to Buy (and Some to Avoid) in 2025 Other Good iPadsPhotograph: AppleApple no longer sells these iPads, but these slightly older models are still good options, as long as you can find them for the right discount. I recommend checking third-party retailers...

Elon Musk Calls Out NASA’s Moon Ambitions: ‘We’re Going Straight to Mars’ Although SpaceX founder Elon Musk is known for outspokenness and controversial comments on his social media site X, he has been relatively restrained when it comes to US space policy in recent...

A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year summary feature recapping what books users read in 2024. It was...

The 45 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (January 2025) It may not have the shine it once did, but Max (previously HBO Max) is still home to some of the best TV shows of the past 25 years, from The Sopranos and The Wire to Game of Thrones and The Leftovers.Max...

The Cumulus Machine Review: Fast and Frothy Cold Brew But, a word on oxygen. The device essentially pumps pure air (79 percent nitrogen, 20 percent oxygen) into the coffee rather than fuss with nitro cartridges. This is cool, but oxygen exposure is the known enemy of...

Our Favorite Fitness Apps for 2025, Tested and Reviewed At the start of the pandemic—and I realize I may be alone in this—it did not seem possible that I could run out of new online workouts. Gyms began closing, as did the rest of the world, but that didn't stop every...