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WIRED's Reviews team has published a gift guide featuring products priced at $25 or less, including a MoMA Design Store acrylic pen and pencil holder ($15) and Field Notes' National Parks Series notebooks ($15 for a three-pack). The outlet says every item was tested by at least one staff member before inclusion on the list.
A roundup tested 11 budget 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED gaming monitors priced under $500, with some models recently dropping to around $300. The review identifies three panel variants sold at similar prices: a 280Hz version with full brightness, a 240Hz version with full brightness, and a 240Hz version limited to roughly 400 nits versus the 1,000-nit full-brightness panels.
New commentary on workplace networking argues that loosely connected acquaintances, rather than close colleagues, often provide the most useful leads for job opportunities. These peripheral contacts are described as sources of fresh information and connections not already circulating within a person's close circle.
A 2022 guide (updated March 2024) lays out technical recommendations for blog feeds, advising publishers to use RSS 2 or Atom rather than older RSS versions, JSON Feed, or Microformats h-feed. It argues Atom is preferable for new feeds due to its clearer, less ambiguous specification, while existing RSS 2 feeds need not be upgraded. The post includes a minimal Atom XML template covering required elements like title, id, links, updated timestamp, author, and entries.
WIRED's product testing roundup evaluates personal repellent devices and yard-based mosquito control tools, including the Thermacell E-ZoneGuard E55, a rechargeable device that heats metofluthrin to create a repelling vapor cloud. The review draws on multiple years of hands-on testing of insecticides, vapor repellents and mosquito traps to determine which methods genuinely reduce mosquito presence around homes and yards.
Android Authority tested the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, POCO F9 Ultra, POCO F9 Pro, and OnePlus 15R to compare Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the Galaxy-exclusive overclocked Elite Gen 5, the Elite Gen 5V, and the standard Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. The chips differ mainly in CPU clock speeds and GPU compute slice counts, with the Galaxy variant hitting 4.74GHz versus 4.6GHz on the standard Elite Gen 5, and the 5V variant cut down to two GPU compute slices instead of three.
An Entrepreneur opinion piece argues that widely used hiring criteria — resume formatting conventions, degree requirements, years-of-experience minimums and expectations of steady career progression — were rarely validated and instead became standard through repetition. It cites a 2026 audit of 14 AI resume-screening models showing that a 2023-built model still favored 'white-sounding' names in callbacks, while models built from 2024 onward showed no such gap.
A WIRED hands-on review tested the Fi Mini and Tractive smart cat trackers, evaluating GPS accuracy, app-based safe-zone alerts, activity tracking, and sleep monitoring using a test cat named Basil. The reviewer found both trackers rely on GPS, which can falter with spotty satellite signal, and noted Tractive's app offered more detailed activity and sleep data than Fi's.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a new arcade racing game set in the Star Wars universe, has been receiving praise from critics who describe it as one of the strongest arcade racing titles in recent years. Specific details about the game's platforms, release date, or developer were not included in the available report.
OpenAI has introduced a virtual try-on feature in ChatGPT that lets users upload a selfie or full-body photo to see how clothing items would look on them, powered by the ChatGPT Images 2.5 model. Users can also upload clothing links or outfit photos to find similar products and try those on virtually, while a new Favorites list and folders let shoppers save items they like. The features are rolling out on mobile and web, with reference photos reusable or deletable via settings.
Engadget has reviewed more than 130 tech products so far in 2026, scoring them on a 100-point scale ranging from 67 to 94. The outlet's editors selected Best of 2026 award winners by first narrowing the field to products scoring 90 or above, then comparing top contenders within categories, and rechecking prices and performance before finalizing picks. Some categories, including earbuds, headphones, tablets, Windows laptops, foldable phones and smart glasses, are still pending due to expected late-year product launches.
Android Authority's monthly roundup highlights new Android apps for October 2026, led by Adobe Premiere finally arriving on Android after launching on iPhone nearly a year earlier. The free app, with in-app purchases, offers short-form video editing tools, AI features requiring an Adobe account after free credits run out, and requires Android 13 or newer with at least 5GB of RAM. The list also features SongFlip, a free app from developer goork that addresses cross-platform music link sharing between streaming services.