I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
Wiredby Boone Ashworth21h ago
Neon Don is really pissed at his ex-wife’s lawyer. He’ll tell you any chance he gets while he shotguns lines of pixelated bad guys.
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top 92%Inside the Muslim Manosphere Policing Women Online
Wiredby Maysaa Ajjan22h ago
Mariam recently disabled Facebook Messenger. As the administrator of a Facebook group for women in the United Arab Emirates with close to 400,000 members, she’d become accustomed to receiving...
These Midterm Races Will Decide Data Centers’ Political Fate
Wiredby Molly Taft22h ago
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers.
Let’s Talk About the Super El Niño and Climate Change
Wiredby Fernanda González23h ago
The tropical Pacific has seen heat build for months as a “super” El Niño takes shape. A climate phenomenon that forms every few years, this year’s iteration of El Niño has been on a tear of daily...
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Wiredby Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess1d ago
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security.
Go Beyond Basic Sets With These 18 Quirky Lego Gifts
Wiredby Simon Hill1d ago
Featured in this article Lego isn't going anywhere. Those beloved little bricks won't biodegrade, are machined to incredibly tight tolerances, and—unless your dog chews one up—retain what Lego...
Humans Watched This Supernova Explode Nearly a Millennium Ago. Now You Can See It in High Definition
Wiredby Jorge Garay1d ago
Astronomers have obtained the most detailed image to date of the Pa 30 nebula, the remnants of a supernova famous for having likely been observed and documented from Earth during the Middle Ages.
How This Tiny Startup Built the World’s Safest Bike Helmet
Wiredby Chris Haslam1d ago
For decades, researchers judged cycling helmets on how well they protected against direct impacts.
Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Becomes ‘Assisted Driving’ in Europe
Wiredby Aarian Marshall2d ago
Tesla’s most advanced driver-assistance feature is named Full Self-Driving (Supervised), but it can’t actually drive itself.
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Wiredby Adam Morgan2d ago
In headline after headline this year, American book publishers have appeared to be fighting back against generative AI, from suing Google for copyright infringement to canceling books by authors...
NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public
Wiredby Jorge Garay2d ago
NASA has just released about 800 gigabytes of scientific data generated by the Artemis II mission.
The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson
Wiredby Hugo Lowell2d ago
Federal prosecutors have been weighing a perjury and obstruction of justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, who implicated President Donald Trump in the January 6 Capitol riot in testimony four...
I’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget
Wiredby Steven Levy2d ago
I remember the birth of the iPod, 25 years ago this month. I was working at Newsweek. It was October 23, little more than a month after the attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and...
I’ve Tested the 3 Mac Desktops That Apple Makes, and There’s a Clear Winner
Wiredby Luke Larsen2d ago
MacBooks have taken most of the spotlight away from Mac desktops in recent years. Now that mobile performance and battery life have improved so much, there's less of a reason to buy a desktop that...
Dunking on Dating App Profiles Is Content Gold. People Are Getting Sick of It
Wiredby Jason Parham2d ago
Evangelizing to his 512,000 TikTok followers occasionally requires that dating coach Chad Franklin post the private communications of his clients, who pay upwards of $5,000 for his services.
The Best Battery-Powered Leaf Blowers, Tested With 8,800 Leaves
Wiredby Sal Vaglica2d ago
Leaves are a problem of addition by subtraction: Just a couple of mature trees can drop enough debris that you need to remove, and in the process, consume hours of your weekends.
Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
Wiredby Ej Dickson2d ago
Longtime fans of the NBC procedural Law & Order know that storylines often center around hot-button issues in the news cycle, often to absurdist effect (see: the episode brave enough to ask: “What...
A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up
Wiredby Yulia Almazova2d ago
Sally Schultz thought she had struck gold when she purchased land in Rio Rancho Estates, an unincorporated, census-designated community just outside the city of Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
America’s Hybrid Hype Has Hit the Used Market
Wiredby Aarian Marshall2d ago
Conventional wisdom is that cars are bad investments. Drive one off the lot, and it starts losing value the minute its wheels touch the road.
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Wiredby Dhruv Mehrotra, Ali Winston, Maddy Varner3d ago
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during...