The Best Tech for Back to School

As summer melts away like a fruity popsicle left on a poolside deck chair, our thoughts turn to the coming school year. Whether they’re prepping for middle school, high school, or college, every student heading back to class will need the right gear. The WIRED Reviews team has spent years extensively testing consumer tech for…

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WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped

Zoë Schiffer: Right. I love how you said that. Yeah, basically, if you want to potentially try and curry favor with Trump, you buy into one of these schemes, and maybe you’ll get invited to a fancy crypto dinner, which has happened before. Maybe you get something else. But even just the optics here are…

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The West Texas Measles Outbreak Has Ended

A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according to an announcement Monday by the Texas Department of State Health Services. The agency says it has been more than 42 days since a new case was reported in any of the counties that previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission….

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Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them

Jennifer Goodnow, who teaches English as a second language in New York, feels similarly. She now plugs complex readings, like essays or book excerpts, into ChatGPT and asks it to create separate versions for advanced and beginner students, with corresponding depth-of-knowledge questions. Amanda Bickerstaff, a former teacher and CEO of AI for Education, an organization…

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Is Roblox Getting Worse? | WIRED

Still, when the biggest game during the summer break involves kids cultivating their own gardens, it’s easy to see why parents let their children continue to use the platform. “Maybe it’s because of the graphics, or maybe it’s because of the way it’s marketed, [but] there’s an assumption that Roblox is made for children, and…

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The End of Handwriting | WIRED

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on…

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