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Friday January 10, 2025. 04:30 PM
Gaming mice with 4K polling rates became the norm this year. In fact, we saw hardly any mice with 1,000Hz and 2,000Hz polling rates being released — period. These new-generation gaming mice weren’t hard to spot thanks to manufacturers using higher polling rates a bit...
Early life exposure to toxic PFAS 'forever chemicals' could impact economic success in adulthood, new first-of-its-kind research [PDF] suggests. From a report: The Iowa State University and US Census Bureau working paper compared the earnings, college graduation rates, and...
Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range.
Sacked in the endzone? Down for the count? Struck out swinging? Go ahead and pick your favorite sport metaphor, but the bottom line is that Venu Sports is done. In a joint statement, Venu Sports backers Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced they are dropping...
How much RAM do you need? It’s a common question, but one that doesn’t always have a straightforward answer. The Raspberry Pi, a cheap all-in-one system-on-a-chip for hobbyists, typically makes do with less RAM than conventional PCs, but a new 16GB version of the Pi 5...
Three mathematicians have developed a breakthrough method for proving whether numbers can be written as fractions, solving a problem that has puzzled researchers for decades. Frank Calegari, Vesselin Dimitrov and Yunqing Tang proved the irrationality of an infinite...
Users of doomed operating system to receive unloved app via an update Microsoft's new Outlook will be automatically installed on Windows 10 machines as part of an upcoming monthly security release.…
India's homegrown digital payments ecosystem, anchored by two systems, is challenging Visa and Mastercard's dominance in the world's most populous nation. The backbone is UPI, a nine-year-old bank-to-bank payment network that processes over 13 billion monthly transactions...
Touchscreens don’t always get the job done. Try one of these WIRED-tested controllers for your iPhone or Android instead.
In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other video games like US dollars.
If you’re a PC gamer, and you have a lot of room in your budget, the biggest news to come out of CES 2025 is almost certainly Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 GPU. That’s figuratively big, not literally, because the Founder’s Edition of this $2,000 beast is shockingly small at...
On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code Sebastian Steck, a software developer based in Germany, has obtained the source code and library installation scripts for his AVM FRITZ!Box 4020 router, thanks to a lawsuit funded ...
We’re tuning in live as the justices consider what could be one of the most consequential First Amendment rulings of the past several decades.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Crypto Briefing: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has been authorized to sell approximately 69,370 Bitcoin seized in connection with the Silk Road darknet marketplace, a haul currently valued at around $6.5 billion, DB News reported ...
Exposure to smoke is dangerous regardless of your health status, so follow these steps to limit the risk.
Automakers are showing off whizz-bang tech for vehicle interiors meant to reshape drivers’ relationships with their cars.
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is always a massive event that sees dozens of laptops announced, but CES 2025 was especially notable. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all made significant hardware announcements, and those announcements meant every laptop maker had a...
Nvidia is truly masterful at one thing: perfectly showcasing the graphics cards at the launch of a new GPU generation. This isn’t bad in itself; after all, a fruit seller at the market also advertises his bright red apples as a real treat. But apple doesn’t cost $2,000...
If you don’t know Shelly, you should. Extremely popular among hard-core smart home enthusiasts, the company introduced the fourth generation of its innovative smart home controls at CES this week. What makes them different? Instead of supporting Wi-Fi or Bluetooth or...
Old deadline of January 2025 being used to push victims into paying up UK consumer champion Which? warns that scammers are using the ongoing phone line digital switchover program in Britain and Northern Ireland to trick customers into handing over their payment details.…
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