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Sunday November 10, 2024. 03:02 PM
There are many kinds of mothers, but these are our favorite picks for the WIRED mom in your life.
Sweet dreams are made of these, from special lamps to noise machines.
Microplastics cause clouds to form in places where they wouldn't otherwise, which is likely to have knock-on effects on the weather and climate.
'The Rust trademark policy has been updated and a new draft is available to view,' announced the Rust Foundation this week. The last proposed trademark policy (in April of 2023) was criticized by open source advocate Bruce Perens in The Register as 'far awry of fair use...
Researchers are exploring new ways that quantum computers will be able to reveal the secrets of complex quantum systems.
Oral phenylephrine was shown to be ineffective for treating nasal congestion over a year ago. This week, the FDA took the first steps toward removing it from pharmacy shelves.
Sodium-ion batteries are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries — and they're also more environmentally friendly. And 'In the past few years, sodium-ion battery production has increased in the United States,' reports the Washington Post, with a new factory planned to manufacture...
TL;DR: Xbox Game Pass Core gives you a year of games for $49.99, multiplayer access, exclusive discounts, and the option to stack codes for up to 36 months. Holiday gatherings are great, but let’s be real — sometimes you just need an escape from the endless chit-chat...
TL;DR: The OneAir AI Travel Elite plan helps you find the best flight deals and stay one step ahead of travel trends with lifetime access to AI-powered trip planning for $59.97. Dreaming of far-off places, but hate the endless scroll for deals? The OneAir AI Travel Elite...
On Tuesday Massachusetts voted to become the first state to allow gig-working drivers to join labor unions, reports WBUR: Since these gig workers are classified as independent contractors, federal law allowing employees the right to unionize does not apply to them. With the...
Friday 'would have been his 38th birthday,' writes the EFF, remembering Aaron Swartz as 'a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open...' And they add that today the official web site for Aaron Swartz Day honored his memory with a special...
This week Discover magazine looks at evidence — both old and new — for a ninth planet in our solar system: 'Orbits of the most distant small bodies — comets or asteroids — seem to be clustered on one half or one side of the solar system,' says Amir Siraj [an astrophysicist...
Saturday November 9, 2024. 11:57 PM
'The majority of strokes could be prevented,' reports the Associated Press, according to the first new guidelines in 10 years from the American Stroke Association, which are 'aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that.' Stroke was the fourth leading cause of...
Tuesday at California's Vandenberg Space Force base, the U.S. launched a Minuteman III missile, 'in an important test of the weapon's ability to strike its targets with multiple warheads,' according to Air and Space Forces magazine: The Minuteman III missiles that form a...
Back in 1976, Mattel Electronics Auto Race became the very first handheld game to use only solid-state electronics, according to Wikipedia. (Its only mechanical elements were its on/off switch and hand-operated controls...) Nearly half a century goes by — until the ancient...
TL;DR: With Koofr’s 1TB lifetime plan for $119.97, you get clutter-free cloud storage, seamless integration with other accounts, and privacy that doesn’t follow you around. Tired of monthly fees and privacy worries? Koofr’s 1TB lifetime subscription combines long-term...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Digital Trends: A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools â' and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion...
After missing a chance to capitalize on the AI boom, 'Samsung's profit has plunged,' reports CNBC, and 'around $126 billion has been wiped off its market value, according to data from S&P Capital IQ.' It's gotten so bad that 'an executive issued a rare public apology about...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week... Intel thankfully has the resources to maintain this automated service for per-kernel...
Though it breaks down faster than CO2, methane is a greenhouse gas over 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide, reports the Washington Post. It suddenly started increasing in the atmosphere in 2007 — and then in 2020, its growth rate doubled. While scientists have suspected it...
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