[photo1]Lily Hay NewmanOfficials in Spain want to ban end-to-end encryption in the European Union, according to a leaked government document obtained by WIRED. The stance emerged as part of a survey o...
[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...
[photo1]Matt JancerYes, your bike runs on magic. Yes, its machinations are entirely unknowable. Alright, we're exaggerating, but bicycles can feel that way to a lot of people--even die-hard cycle...
[photo1]Irene SolaimanRecently, a leaked document, allegedly from Google, claimed that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI. The leak brought to the fore ongoing conversations in the AI co...
[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]Paresh DaveGoogle has spent the past few weeks promoting generative AI tools that can summarize search results for users, help them draft essays, and swap out overcast skies for sunshine in ot...
[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]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]Max G. LevyIn a future when gene therapy can tweak a person's genome precisely enough to cure them of severe disease, treating earlier will often be better--and the womb is as early as it gets...
[photo1]David NieldThe capabilities of AI tools are progressing rapidly, with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and many others racing to stay ahead of the competition. It feels like advances and apps are ar...
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]Morgan MeakerEvery time a new iPhone comes out, a team of technicians in the French city of Toulouse start to pull it apart. In the three years they've been doing this, they've found a device ...
[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 ...
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 ...
Matt BurgessThe UK government is quietly expanding and developing a controversial surveillance technology that could be capable of logging and storing the web histories of millions of people.Official ...
[photo1]Jeremy WhiteThere are more than a few unlikely collaborations in the watchmaking world. This year's Muppets mash-up with Oris to produce the ProPilot X Kermit Edition is a fine example, o...
[photo1]Saima May SidikThis story originally appeared on Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Dead fish were everywhere, speckling the beach near town and extending onto the surrounding...
[photo1]Paresh DaveLinda Yaccarino is going to have to change her tune. As a long-time executive overseeing ad sales at global television giant NBCUniversal, she spent years fighting social media comp...