Lauren Goode
Senior Writer
Lauren Goode is a senior writer at WIRED covering products, apps, services, and consumer tech issues and trends. Prior to WIRED she was a senior editor at The Verge and worked at Recode, AllThingsD, and The Wall Street Journal before that. Goode is a graduate of Clark University and Stanford University. She currently lives in the Bay Area.
Ultra-Long Battery Life Is Coming … Eventually
Consumer electronics companies are boasting about unprecedented leaps in battery tech. How legit are the claims?
Sonos’ Patent Win Will Change Google’s Smart Speakers—for Now
Your Google speakers will lose some of their features in an upcoming software update. Here's what that means.
Yup, CES Is Happening. Here’s What to Expect
Things couldn’t be weirder at the premier consumer tech conference—or in general.
I Thought Tech Would Take a Pandemic Hit. I Was Wrong
Plus: Digital forgetting, concerns over TikTok and China, and the prescience of king tides.
Facebook Reaches for More Realistic VR With Haptic Gloves
The company has unveiled a new prototype wearable that mimics the feeling of handling real objects in the virtual world.
Microsoft Surface Duo 2: A Bad Case for 2 Screens
Microsoft's book-phone displays flashes of brilliance, but delivers endless annoyance.
Look Over Here, Kids, It’s the Metaverse
Facebook’s vision for the future of computing comes with some shiny new branding.
Apple Finally Remembered What Makes Laptops Great
To build a MacBook Pro for the future, the company has gone back to what worked in the past.
Facebook Renews Its Ambitions to Connect the World
The social media behemoth outlines plans to bring speedy internet access to hard-to-reach places.
Amazon’s Astro Is a Robot Without a Cause
It’s the company’s first foray into mobile robots for the home, and likely not its last.
You Can Now Buy Ring’s In-Home Drone—if You’re Invited
The flying camera from the Amazon-owned company is back.
Microsoft’s Surface Duo 2 Is a Lovable Weirdo
The second time around, Microsoft’s foldable mobile comes closer to what it actually is: a phone.
Everything Microsoft Announced, Including a Wacky Laptop
The new hardware includes an updated Surface Duo 2, which you can finally call a phone, and a cute eco-friendly mouse.
iPhone 13 and 13 Mini Review: Time to Upgrade
Looking to replace an old model? Apple’s newest non-Pro handsets are more than enough phone for most everyone.
Watch Apple’s iPhone 13 Launch Event Right Here
The big show starts at 1 pm Eastern, 10 am Pacific.
Facebook’s New Camera Glasses Are Dangerously Easy to Use
The company has partnered with Ray-Ban to make a pair of video-capturing Wayfarers. They’re everything you hoped for and feared in smart glasses.
Whoop’s New Wearable Can Go on Your Wrist—or in Your Clothes
Your workout apparel just got a lot smarter.
The Architects of the Metaverse Need to Read the Virtual Room
Plus: Ten years of Apple without Steve Jobs, thoughts on the Apple Watch, and a baby bird’s worst nightmare.
Tesla Bot Takes Tech Demos to Their Logical Conclusion
Elon Musk’s bizarre demo laid bare the truth of many new tech demos: They are a storyboarded vision of the future held together by digital duct tape.