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12.02.2021 John Doerr Wants to Stop Climate Change—With OKRs Plus: Bill Gates’ climate plan, real estate in the metaverse, and a different kind of mirrorworld.
12.01.2021 Twitter Blue Is for People Who Love Reading the News The platform's first subscription feature has a specific target audience.
11.30.2021 You Don’t Have to WFH at Home—Try These Places Instead Mix up your new normal by seeking out quirky local coworking spaces—or find some inspiration in a museum.
11.29.2021 The Hidden Dangers of 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Apps Services such as Afterpay, Affirm, and Klarna are soaring in popularity and valuation. But consumer advocates say they make it easy to get overextended.
11.23.2021 Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down The AI researcher, who left Google last year, says the incentives around AI research are all wrong.
11.22.2021 How To Fix Email … With Science! Email isn’t broken—it’s the people who are the problem. But if you start treating it like old-fashioned snail mail, suddenly it makes sense again.
11.19.2021 Sodium Batteries May Power Your New Electric Car As EV sales increase, supplies of lithium may get tight. So some companies are incorporating cells with sodium, which provides almost as big a charge.
11.18.2021 The Wild Rise of Moonbug—YouTube’s Magic Money Machine The company, which runs several channels full of children's content, just sold for $3 billion. Disney, look out.
11.17.2021 The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Mobile Do-Over Plus: Facebook’s Home flop, the trouble with Covid answers, and good and bad news from Gaia.
11.16.2021 These Robots Follow You to Learn Where to Go Burro makes carts that help growers of trees and vineyards with harvests. Meanwhile, the maker of Vespa scooters wants to carry your groceries.
11.15.2021 These Philadelphians Created an App to Prevent Gun Violence Two neighbors stepped up to use technology to protect their community, and now they're sharing how easy it is for others to do the same.
11.12.2021 Google Staff Squirm as Remote Workers Face Pay Cuts As more and more people switch to working from home, some are left counting the cost.
11.11.2021 Even as China Cracks Down on Tech, AI Companies Plan IPOs SenseTime and Megvii both include facial recognition technology among their offerings and do a lot of business with government agencies.
11.10.2021 Facebook Drops Facial Recognition to Tag People in Photos The social media company will delete data from images of more than 1 billion people.
11.09.2021 These Companies Are Already Living in Zuckerberg’s Metaverse The Meta dream envisages whole companies operating in a virtual world. Many made the switch years ago—with mixed results.
11.08.2021 These Batteries Can't Power a Car—but They Can Light Up a City Entrepreneurs are devising innovative ways to reuse spent electric vehicle batteries. One promising idea is storing power from solar and wind farms.
11.05.2021 Facebook Is Going Meta Mark Zuckerberg would like you to call his troubled company something else now.
11.04.2021 This Group Pushed More AI in US Security—and Boosted Big Tech The National Security Commission on AI included members from Oracle, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Some of its recommendations are already federal law.
11.03.2021 This Program Can Give AI a Sense of Ethics—Sometimes Researchers trained an algorithm to answer questions about human values. Some of the responses are troubling.
11.02.2021 Apple’s New MacBook Pro Chips Flex the Power of Custom Silicon The new M1 Pro and M1 Max better integrate the computers’ hardware with their software—much like the iPhone.
11.01.2021 Facebook Is Everywhere; Its Moderation Is Nowhere Close Human reviewers and AI filters struggle to police the flood of content—or understand the nuances in different Arabic dialects.
10.29.2021 I Used Facebook Without the Algorithm, and You Can Too Making your News Feed chronological is an enlightening look at what's really happening on the platform.
10.28.2021 You Can Get This Free Crypto—If the ‘Orb’ Scans Your Eye Worldcoin's backers see it as a potential first step to a universal basic income.
10.27.2021 The ‘Broadband Gap’ Is Now a Housing Problem Many people eligible for Covid-era rent assistance have trouble navigating a “tangled web” of agencies because they don't have reliable internet access.
10.26.2021 Facebook Can't Hide Its Problems Behind a New Name Can rebranding the company herald a fresh start? Experts, as you might guess, are skeptical.
10.25.2021 A New Credit Card Arrives—With a Silicon Valley Twist The X1 is designed for spenders who are young, high-earning, and live on their phones.
10.22.2021 With Subscriptions, Automakers Mimic Netflix’s Playbook GM thinks consumers might pay $135 a month for emergency assistance, enhanced maps, and software-enabled upgrades that boost acceleration.
10.21.2021 AI’s Smarts Now Come With a Big Price Tag As language models get more complex, they also get more expensive to create and run. Some companies are locked out.
10.20.2021 A Huge Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface Deep in the mantle, a branching plume of intensely hot material appears to be the engine powering vast volcanic activity.
10.19.2021 These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk Researchers used specialized chips and simulation software to teach a four-legged robot to navigate stairs and blocks.
10.18.2021 The Government Wants to Bolster Its Tech—Starting With Workers Robin Carnahan, head of the agency that manages the federal government's offices and IT, is revamping job descriptions and pushing remote work.
10.15.2021 Borrowed a School Laptop? Mind Your Open Tabs Students—many from lower-income households—were likely to use school-issued devices for remote learning. But the devices often contained monitoring software.
10.14.2021 A True Story About Bogus Photos of People Making Fake News A photographer set out to capture the misinformation producers in a small town in Macedonia. He wound up revealing uncomfortable truths about his own profession.
10.13.2021 Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America Last year, Netflix made a pledge that represents the tech industry’s best shot at redressing the nation’s racial inequality. How seriously should we take it?
10.12.2021 Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.
10.11.2021 Bring on the Fist Bumps and Nasal Swabs—Tech Conferences Are Back Hundreds of (vaccinated) attendees gathered in a Beverly Hills hotel ballroom as Code Conference returned after a year-long hiatus.
10.08.2021 China's Sweeping Cryptocurrency Ban Was Inevitable The decentralized technology clashes with the government’s plans for a state-dominated economy—one that includes its own digital currency.
10.07.2021 Soon Your Google Searches Can Combine Text and Images With the help of AI, you’ll be able to take a picture of a shirt, then ask Google to find socks with the same pattern.
10.06.2021 This Software Aims to Make Your Flight Smoother—and Help the Planet Airplanes taxiing isn't just annoying—it's a big source of emissions. The FAA and NASA created a new system to save time and fuel.
10.05.2021 Why Tesla Is Designing Chips to Train Its Self-Driving Tech Developing AI is costly and time-consuming. Custom silicon can give companies an edge.
10.04.2021 These Deepfake Voices Can Help Trans Gamers Players of online games can be harassed when their voices don't match their gender identity. New AI-fueled software may help.
10.01.2021 AI Can Write Code Like Humans—Bugs and All New tools that help developers write software also generate similar mistakes.
09.30.2021 It’s Time to Talk About Facebook Research Plus: Adam Mosseri on News Feeds, remote drivers for cars, and a pickle for Greenland.
09.29.2021 How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron? Scientists taught an artificial neural network to imitate a biological neuron. The result offers a new way to think about the complexity of brain cells.
09.28.2021 The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is Underway. Silicon Valley Is Watching “I’m glad the ‘Fake it till you make it’ mantra of Silicon Valley is coming into question,” one investor told WIRED.
09.27.2021 Google Is Getting Caught in the Global Antitrust Net As more governments force US tech companies to change how they do business, one case in Turkey cuts to the heart of the search giant’s power.
09.24.2021 A Stanford Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Ignites Debate A research paper that dubs some artificial intelligence models "foundational" is sparking a dispute over the future of the field.
09.23.2021 Community Pharmacies Stepped Up During Covid—and Changed for Good Pharmacies have long been perceived as commodities. Now, they’re a central tool for removing barriers to health care.
09.22.2021 In the US, the AI Industry Risks Becoming Winner-Take-Most A new study illustrates just how geographically concentrated AI activity has become.
09.21.2021 El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble Is Off to a Rocky Start Enthusiasm, fear, and light shows usher the country into the age of cryptocurrency.

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