Well actually WIRED shares a parent company with Reddit.Good. Get rid of it.What’s the part of all of it that feels the weirdest to you still? Is it weird to have something happen in your life and have...
On Tuesday night, vice presidential nominees J.D. Vance and Tim Walz will debate one another for the first and only time ahead of the November presidential election.Before becoming an Ohio senator, Vance built his profile as a Silicon...
Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, had always worried that his company’s victory last year in a multimillion-dollar legal battle against Google’s app store monopoly wouldn’t be enough to open up competition. Even if Google could no...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping up from behind. Your heart pounds,...
The flurry of private contracts became part of a “kleptocratic” regime, according to one 2017 report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Nearly all of the ISDS claims have their roots in contracts, laws or other agreements...
Mindlessly scroll through TikTok long enough and you’re bound to stumble on one: An older person, possibly a boomer, gesturing blithely at something—maybe it’s a B&B, maybe it’s a set of blinds—and unfurling a litany of Gen Z...
In January 2023, they published the initial results of their work, an enormous collection of web vulnerabilities affecting Kia, Honda, Infiniti, Nissan, Acura, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Genesis, BMW, Rolls Royce, and Ferrari—all of which they had reported to the...
Today, X released the company’s first transparency report since Elon Musk bought the company, formerly Twitter, in 2022.Before Musk’s takeover, Twitter would release transparency reports every six months.These largely covered the same ground as the new X report,...
One afternoon I was using the device for a little over an hour when I heard a voice in the headset: “You’ve earned a brain break.” Alcaide says the device can detect when your focus is starting to...
Migraine attacks are no ordinary headache. They can cause intense pain and sickness, lasting hours or even days, making it impossible to do anything but rest in a dark, quiet room. And for millions of women, these debilitating...
