Technology

There comes a pivotal time in every adult's life when they finally upgrade from hand-me-downs. A bed frame might seem like something you can go without, but not only can they upgrade the look of your room, but they...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.On warm summer nights, green lacewings flutter around bright lanterns in backyards and at campsites. The insects, with their veil-like wings, are easily distracted from their natural preoccupation with sipping...

With its most recent update, Google Bard can now sort through your trove of Google Docs, rediscover ancient Gmail messages, and search through every video on YouTube. Before experimenting too much with the new extensions available for Google’s chatbot,...

Alarms clocks and I have a damaged relationship. Friends notice me wince every time I'm watching a movie and a character's alarm blares them awake with all of the subtlety and gentleness of an aircraft carrier slamming into the...

The United Auto Workers strike against Detroit’s Big Three—Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis—escalated into its third week on Friday. Workers at two additional plants operated by Ford and GM walked off the job, taking the number of union members...

If you're shopping for a smartphone, you're probably weighing how powerful it is, how good the cameras are, and of course how much you're going to have to pay for it—but it's also worth considering how long the handset...

When I worked as a copywriter at a dog-toy-slash-tech company, we used Airtable and Basecamp to organize our workflows. At my next job, the marketers made us learn Asana (“same as Airtable but much better”), but the product team...

Lego has built an empire out of plastic. It was always thus. The bricks weren’t originally made from wood, or metal, or some other material. Ever since the company’s founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen, bought Denmark’s first plastic-injection molding machine...

I've NEver set up a turntable before. Sure, I've used some, but they were all-in-ones that had speakers and preamps built in, and I had friends who set up the arm balance. A fully fledged turntable setup has always...

WIRED broke the news on Wednesday that SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is acquiring some assets—including patents, customers, and employees—from the firm Geolitica, which developed the notorious predictive policing software PredPol. WIRED also exclusively reported this...