AIPAC While You Were Offline: The New 'New Colossus'WIRED - Graeme McMillan The last week of internet madness started, of course, with the death of Jeffrey Epstein, and the numerous resultant conspiracy theories that …
Gear & Gadgets Review: Form Swim GogglesWIRED - Meredith Fore When my mother uses an elliptical machine, she covers the screen with a towel. She says she doesn’t want to “become obsessed” with when it will end. …
A Brief History of Vanity License Plates Gone WrongWIRED - Condé Nast This week, WIRED looked into the plight of Joseph Tartaro, a security researcher whose NULL vanity license plate at one point had him on the hook for …
Mathematics A Major Proof Shows How to Approximate Numbers Like PiWIRED - Kevin Hartnett The deep recesses of the number line are not as forbidding as they might seem. That’s one consequence of a major new proof about how complicated …
Facial Recognition Amazon Says It Can Detect Fear on Your Face. You Scared?WIRED - Tom Simonite Amazon announced a breakthrough from its AI experts Monday: Their algorithms can now read fear on your face, at a cost of $0.001 per image—or less if …
Technology Robot Coffee Tastes Great, But at What Cost? (About $5)WIRED - Adam Rogers But first, consider that moment—you’ve experienced this—where your multiply delayed flight finally lands, maybe at the airport you expected and maybe …
Photos Space Photos of the Week: Sun SpottingWIRED - Shannon Stirone Much of how the Sun works remains a mystery: It has its own weather cycles, which we are just beginning to understand, for starters, and scientists …
Culture When Tech Moguls Act Like Galactic OverlordsWIRED - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Author: Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Culture The protagonist of Max Gladstone’s new novel Empress of Forever is Vivian Liao, …
Bluetooth Security News This Week: Facebook's Voice Transcripts Were More Invasive Than Amazon'sWIRED - Lily Hay Newman The tail end of the Defcon hacking conference this week saw a remote car-start dongle and app that could have been hacked to steal cars, along with a …
Mobile Technology VW Revives the Classic Dune Buggy as an All-Electric BlastWIRED - Eric Adams In the race toward electrification, some car companies are more motivated than others. Take Volkswagen: Still reeling from the fallout of its …
Gear & Gadgets The Best Back-to-School Sales on Laptops, Speakers, and MoreWIRED - WIRED Staff The air is cooling, the days are getting shorter, and the school-goers among us are returning to their desks and carrels kicking and screaming. Don't …
Transportation A Heroic Plane Landing, Instagram's New Fact Checkers, and More NewsWIRED - Alex Baker-Whitcomb A gull strike forced a Russian airliner to land in a cornfield, Instagram is getting into the fact-checking game, and new technology is catching …
Coinbase The Serious Money Is Warming to BitcoinWIRED - Gregory Barber There’s an arms race afoot over who can store cryptocurrency safest. Perhaps you’d like your bitcoin buried in a vault under a mountain in the Swiss …
Amazon What Does Amazon's 'Top Brand' Badge Actually Even Mean?WIRED - Louise Matsakis Amazon’s biggest asset can also be a headache for its customers. The so-called “everything store” really does sell almost any item consumers might …
Transportation How to Land a Busted Airliner in a Russian CornfieldWIRED - Alex Davies A Russian airliner crash-landed in a cornfield after a bird strike took out both engines on Thursday afternoon, leaving some of the 233 people aboard …
Walt Disney Company Disney Is Finally Taking On Account SharersWIRED - Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica Disney and Charter Communications are teaming up to fight account sharing in an attempt to prevent multiple people from using a single account to …
Apple Store Apple Puts the AR in 'Art' (and in 'Transparent Sky-Being')WIRED - Condé Nast The result, as with the best of the pieces in the process, hinges on some painstaking procedural hygiene. Two employees from Apple's in-store events …
Science Even Physics Textbooks Tend to Get Friction Slightly WrongWIRED - Rhett Allain Sometimes you think you have a complete understanding of something and then BOOM—a simple problem throws everything out the window. Let's consider a …
Photos The Smart Prison Initiative Pairing Inmates With Rescue DogsWIRED - Michael Hardy In 2016, the California City Correctional Facility launched a pilot program that paired inmates, many of them convicted of violent offenses, with …
Nintendo Nintendo Is Taking Down YouTube Archives of Its MusicWIRED - Julie Muncy Welcome to Replay, your one-stop destination for all of the biggest gaming news of the last few days. This week, we explore some Nintendo copyright …
Pizza Domino's and the Web are Failing the DisabledWIRED - Jason McKee Pizza always finds itself at the cusp of innovation. It was the first food sold online, the first food purchased with Bitcoin, and the first food …
Anxiously Seeking the Perfect Anti-Anxiety AppWIRED - Collier Meyerson When I’m having a bout of anxiety, or even just an avoidant feeling (that is probably the precursor to a bout of anxiety), I pull out my phone to …
Facebook Instagram Now Fact-Checks, but Who Will Do the Checking?WIRED - Sara Harrison Facebook Thursday said it would expand a fact-checking program to its Instagram image-sharing service. Instagram users in the US can now report …
Gear & Gadgets How Google’s Secrecy Led to Company TurmoilWIRED - WIRED Staff For years, Google has flourished in large part because of its famously open internal structure. Leadership encouraged active and vocal communication …
Culture Reality TV Meets Crowdsourced Medicine in Netflix's DiagnosisWIRED - Emma Grey Ellis Before Angel exposed her health struggles to the internet, the 23-year-old woman had no idea what was happening to her body—only that it was in …
Adobe Creative Cloud iPad Artists, Don't Brush Off Adobe FrescoWIRED - Jess Grey Creating art on the iPad Pro is a joy. It got me to draw every day—something I hadn’t done since college, and I’m not alone. The iPad Pro and Apple …
Lyft Surprise! Uber and Lyft Don’t Like NYC’s New Ride-Hail RulesWIRED - Aarian Marshall Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who took the helm of the controversial company back in 2017, is known for being pretty unflappable. He was even upbeat …
Josh Hawley Josh Hawley Says Tech Enables 'Some of the Worst of America'WIRED - Condé Nast The business of Big Tech has been front and center in the 116th Congress, and unlike in years past, now many Republicans are some of the loudest …
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