The Cats reception is cold and you’re getting old, but first: a cartoon about Bluetooth Secret Santa.Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less.Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here!Today’s NewsCats is as terrible as the internet guessed it might beNo surprise here. When…
Computers have learned to see the world more clearly in recent years, thanks to some impressive leaps in artificial intelligence. But you might be surprised—and upset—to know what these AI algorithms really think of you. As a recent experiment demonstrated, the best AI vision system might see a picture of your face and spit out…
It’s a brisk December morning at Spaceport Tucson, America’s premiere (only?) dedicated launch pad for stratospheric balloons, and a small army of technicians in reflective vests is milling around on the concrete and thawing out after a long, cold night. Nearby, a white metal tripod the size of a smart car is tethered to two…
Good day, and welcome to another installment of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. What’s happening this week? Star Wars, mostly. But also some news about Watchmen—and, interestingly, about a new team-up between Leslie Jones, David Benioff, and D.B. Weiss.Regina King Would Do a Second Season of WatchmenAfter seeing the amazing cliffhanger on last Sunday’s…
Amazon has afforded a few opportunities in the past few weeks to nab its own devices at steep discounts, and—good news fellow last-minute deal seeker—there are still some surprisingly good deals going on.These last-minute device deals aren’t as cheap as the same items were during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals week, but they’re pretty close.…
For hundreds of millions of years, sharks have been roaming Earth’s oceans making meals out of a huge range of critters, from the whale shark gobbling up tiny krill to the 60-foot megalodon that could take down whales. Their ancestral line has survived mass extinctions with ease, most notably the catastrophe that took down the…
All told, 2019 was kind of a weird year for movies. Disney, whose world we increasingly live in, made $10 billion at the box office before releasing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—thanks to cash cows like Avengers: Endgame (on our list) and a live-action remake of the The Lion King (very much not). Meanwhile,…
As a baby nerd, I was obsessed with Hackers. The 1995 cult movie followed Dade Murphy, who banded together with his fellow computer-savvy outcasts to expose a nefarious embezzlement scheme perpetrated by a rogue hacker at the supercorp Ellingson Mineral. It was the first time that I’d ever seen the message that it was cool…
I’ve always had trouble sleeping. Between crippling anxiety and general insomnia, I take all the help I can get. And I’m not alone. Most of us are probably not getting enough sleep, and that can have a serious impact on our overall health.So, I traveled far and wide (on the web) and tested dozens of…
The US is about to lose another car-share service. On Wednesday, the Daimler- and BMW-owned entity that operates the service Share Now said the company’s cars would disappear from North American streets by the end of February 2020. For customers in New York, Montreal, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Vancouver, that’s a bummer. It’s a bummer…
