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Saturday December 27, 2025. 08:34 PM
Waymo explained this week that its self-driving car technology is already 'designed to handle dark traffic signals,' and successfully handled over 7,000 last Saturday during San Francisco's long power outage, properly treating those intersections as four-way stops. But while ...
The nonprofit Open Source Initiative offers 'enriched' license pages with 'relevant metadata to provide deeper insights and better support'. So which pages got the most pageviews in 2025? The MIT license, Apache 2.0 license, BSD licenses (3-clause and 2-clause), and GNU...
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant 'was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986,' CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities 'have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant,' reports CNN, 'which has sat...
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant 'was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986,' CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities 'have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant,' reports CNN, 'which has sat...
Money gifts burning a hole in your pocket? These deals on WIRED-tested gadgets and gizmos will stretch your dollars.
An astrophysicist at the University of Rochester writes that 'many' of his colleagues in physics 'have come to believe that a mystery is unfolding in every microbe, animal, and human.' And it's a mystery that: - 'Challenges basic assumptions physicists have held for...
Lobbyists 'close to Trump' are charging $1m and up to secure presidential pardons for their clients, with some paying as much as $6m. The Wall Street Journal reports a simple process: you give them the money, they talk to someone in Trump's inner circle such as his son, then ...
On Wednesday (Christmas Eve), the Free Software Foundation announced it had received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD — in the cryptocurrency Monero. The two donations 'are among some of the largest private gifts ever made to the organization,' the FSF...
If you have use BitLocker to secure files within Windows 11, you will almost certainly have noticed something of a performance hit. Microsoft is not unaware of this, and is taking steps to help improve things. The company is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker, which...
Depending on when you signed up for a Gmail account, and factoring in the uniqueness or otherwise of your name, your email address may be one you are happy with, or it could feel like a burden. If you have become unhappy with the @gmail.com address you chose years ago, you...
A Salvation Army bell ringer was arrested Tuesday after trying to 'impale' the manager of the store he was collecting donations at. This Florida man's weapon of choice: the distinctive red tripod used by the church to carry donation buckets. Martin County Sheriff's Office...
Famed football coach and commentator John Madden, a legend to sports fans and gamers alike, has received in death the ultimate form of memorialization: a biopic starring Nicolas Cage in a fat suit. Netflix posted a trailer (embedded below) for the upcoming movie, to be...
If you’re building a package manager and git-as-index seems appealing, look at Cargo, Homebrew, CocoaPods, vcpkg, Go. They all had to build workarounds as they grew, causing pain for users and maintainers. The pull request workflow is nice. The version history is nice. You ...
This copycat controller can’t clone the PS5’s best features, but it’s a solid option for Xbox and PC gamers.
Best not touch that screen, eh? Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's Christmas bork comes from London's Victoria train station, just before the festive season got underway, and is an update to the old IT standby: 'It isn't DNS. It can't be DNS... It was SSL.'…
Those brief freezes and audio hiccups that plague video calls are not the benign nuisances that most people assume them to be, according to a new study published in Nature that found glitches during virtual interactions can meaningfully damage hiring prospects, reduce trust...
Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas, but the projects are having significant social, environmental, and human rights impacts.
Choosing a mattress for your guest room, Airbnb, or VRBO rental is challenging. This hybrid is up for it.
In the AI boom, chatbots and GPTs come and go quickly. (Remember Llama?) GPT-5 had a big year, but 2026 will be all about Qwen.
In a year that began with a memecoin trading frenzy, stablecoins have emerged as the respectable face of the crypto industry.
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