AI Companion App Replika Faces FTC ComplaintThe chatbot, which offers romantic companionship, has been hit with an FTC complaint from tech ethics organizations
After TikTok, the WiFi Router in Your Home May Be Next Chinese Tech Ban TargetTP-Link routers, among Amazon best sellers and according to some estimates up to 65% of the U.S. market, are on the radar of the U.S. government.
The Best Smart Glasses to Augment Your RealityThis burgeoning wearable tech category lets you dabble in augmented reality, virtual screens, and AI assistants right on your face.
App Fatigue Is Real—Rethink Apps Beyond SubscriptionsApp users want different models to use and pay for apps. Smart app makers will offer them.
DeepSeek Vs ChatGPT - How Do They Compare?The Chinese AI app has raced to the top of the download charts - does it perform as well as its US rivals?
While Musk and Altman wage their silly little feud, China is making all the broligarchs look like chumpsThey say your enemy’s enemy is your friend. Sometimes, however, your enemy’s enemy is a little twerp who is almost as bad as your enemy. Rather than creating a strategic alliance, the best thing to do is sit back and watch the pair of them tear each other apart.
The Worlds of Noam ChomskyIf ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is the most famous critic of US empire in the world. No single living intellectual comes close.
The Great Crypto CrashTrump will usher in a speculative frenzy. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app.
Egg Prices Are High. They Will Likely Go Higher.On a trip to a Walmart in Ozark, Mo., in early January, Laura Modrell was surprised to see shoppers “standing around and gasping” in the grocery’s dairy section. As she got closer, she saw that the shelves, where there would normally be stacks of egg cartons, were nearly empty.
A Good Company, by Justin NobelIllustrations by Giovanni Alberti. Source images courtesy the author Out in the country north of New York City, Karret and I cut a pathway through reeds and wildflowers, and one day drove to the end of it in an old Fleetwood Bounder, parked under a black oak tree, and moved in.
There’s a word for people who prefer phones to meeting friends: addictsOver the decades, research has chipped away at our most cherished ideas about human specialness: it turns out that we share such things as theory of mind, empathy, and time perception with many other creatures. But there is one feature of humanity that we can claim to be uniquely our own.
Leaked Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300,000 to post. Read the contract terms.Instagram wants to be the first place creators go to post short-form videos. And it's attempting to do so with piles of cash.
Trump’s Crypto Venture Divides the Industry He Aims to SupportDressed in ball gowns, tuxedos and “Make Bitcoin Great Again” baseball caps, a crowd of some of the country’s most powerful cryptocurrency executives gathered a few blocks from the White House for a lavish party three days before President Trump’s inauguration, toasting an incoming administr
Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNCThe device, known as a cell-site simulator, was identified by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights advocacy organization, after analyzing wireless signal data collected by WIRED during the August event.
Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles InfernoOn the seventh day of the Eaton Fire, the most lethal of several wildfires burning in Southern California, I woke up in a tent at the Rose Bowl, which had become a staging area for first responders, called “fire camp.” At 7 A.M.