[photo1]Nadia AsparouhovaIt was the spring of 2016, and I was in the Oval Office, waiting to interview for a job. Only I wasn't in Washington, DC. I was at the headquarters of GitHub, a code hosting p...
[photo1]Steven LevyAs the artificial intelligence frenzy builds, a sudden consensus has formed. We should regulate it!While there's a very real question whether this is like closing the barn door afte...
[photo1]Megan FarokhmaneshFor the average player, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will take upwards of 50 hours to beat--that is, complete the game's main storyline and save Hyrule. In the s...
Eric RavenscraftIt's nearing the hottest time of year, so why not trick out your home theater and stay indoors? Or, if you plan on venturing out, you can pick up some earbuds to keep tunes blasti...
[photo1]Jeremy WhiteAn entire decade after the launch of its first full production electric vehicle, the i3, BMW has finally revealed its full electric version of the 5 Series, its second most popular...
[photo1]Jacopo PriscoThe Oceanbird Wing 560 isn't a wing, but it isn't a sail either. When it's first assembled a few months from now in a shipyard just north of Malmo, Sweden, it'll be 40 meters high...
[photo1]Matt SimonAdd up the million or so buildings in New York City, and you get something on the order of 1.7 trillion pounds of weight pressing on the earth--and that's not even counting all the o...
[photo1]Meghan O'Gieblyn"There's been a lot of speculation recently about the possibility of AI consciousness or self-awareness. But I wonder: Does AI have a subconscious?"
--Psycho...
[photo1]Ramin SkibbaLast night, an Axiom Space mission carrying a private crew blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading toward the International Space Station. The crew of four...
[photo1]Lily Hay Newman Morgan Meaker Matt BurgessSpain has advocated banning encryption for hundreds of millions of people within the European Union, according to a leaked document obtained by WIRED ...
[photo1]Lily Hay NewmanAt the beginning of May, Google released eight new top-level domains (TLDs)--the suffixes at the end of URLs, like ".com" or ".uk." These little addendums were developed decades...
Brenda Stolyarsummer is quickly approaching. And while it's a season meant for rest, relaxation, and soaking up the rays, it can also become extremely hectic. Most of us are attempting to squeeze...
[photo1]Brenda Stolyarthe concept of working from home has been utterly redefined in the past few years. As long as there's Wi-Fi and a computer, many people can technically work from anywhere. But fo...
[photo1]Rachel FairbankIn the months after giving birth to my son in March 2019, my Fitbit started recording some unusual heart rate readings. Pregnancy causes the resting heart rate to rise about 20 ...
[photo1]Angela WatercutterAbout 30 minutes into Fast X, the 10th installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, there is a moment of exposition so self-aware it seems all but designed to make longtime...
[photo1]Reece RogersOn May 16, Google announced new plans to delete accounts that have been inactive for two years, as well as accounts that were created and never used (or used only briefly). Got an ...
Louryn StrampeWe're in that weird liminal deals space between sales holidays. It's not quite early enough for Memorial Day deals, but most Mother's Day discounts have come and gone. That didn't s...
[photo1]Amanda HooverThere's no such thing as a free lunch. Nor is there such a thing as a free TV.But Telly TV is offering just that. Its 55-inch smart TV is free to the first 500,000 people who put ...
[photo1]Dell CameronEach year, at the request of police and intelligence agents across the country, the United States Postal Service conducts surveillance on physical pieces of mail going to and from ...
[photo1]Khari JohnsonSince the tech industry began its love affair with machine learning about a decade ago, US lawmakers have chattered about the potential need for regulation to rein in the technolo...