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Saturday March 9, 2024. 04:00 PM
There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $150 to $500—stood up to WIRED’s testing.
Plus: Reddit helps brands find all your comments, Dodge debuts an electric muscle car, and Nikon buys the cinematic camera company Red.
Plus: An ex-Google engineer gets arrested for allegedly stealing trade secrets, hackers breach the top US cybersecurity agency, and X’s new feature exposes sensitive user data.
Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe.
Social robots for older adults might not be new, but now they’re recording, listening—and talking back.
Sex differences explain some of the gaping health inequalities between men and women—but a lot of the time, it’s sexism.
Friday March 8, 2024. 11:51 PM
OpenAI named Sam Altman, its fired-then-rehired CEO, to its board of directors Friday. It also added three women with executive experience at Sony, Meta, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Netflix canceled 1899 after just one season, but many viewers still go online asking for more.
In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating AI-generated images depicting middle school classmates.
Senator Maggie Hassan wrote to Meta and other platforms asking what they're doing to protect girls after The New York Times found some parents posting suggestive images of their daughters online.
Earlier this week, after Instagram, Facebook, and Threads went down, Leave the World Behind took off on social media. The trend’s bizarre origins have something in common with Alex Garland’s new movie Civil War.
This pleasingly versatile ebike is powerful, light, fun to ride, and a little too expensive.
This machine delivers the same sleek design and portability, with a mightier M3 processor. But is it worth the upgrade?
An architect of the EU’s tough new Digital Markets Acts says Apple would be a logical first candidate for investigation under the law, which aims to “break open” tech platforms.
Thursday March 7, 2024. 08:45 PM
The Rivian R2, a new smaller EV, will cost “around” $45,000 and will be available in 2026, the troubled automaker said at an event in California today. Two crossovers, the R3 and R3X, will follow.
Emails released by OpenAI to refute a lawsuit from Elon Musk show how he, Sam Altman, and other cofounders were motivated by fears of Google's dominance.
This stylish budget bar-and-subwoofer combo will give your home theater a boost, but its performance fails to rise above the crowd.
It’s 2024, time to stop letting Depression-era flimflam get between you and a great cup of coffee.
The Biden administration is looking for a new way to reach voters who don’t engage with traditional media.
This week on Gadget Lab, we talk about the rocky rollout of Google’s Gemini image generator, and some internal tensions recently reported by company employees.
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