In November 2017, Sridhar Ramaswamy—the head of Google’s $95 billion advertising arm—left the company after a scandal concerning advertisements for major corporations found on YouTube videos that put children in questionable situations. Ramaswamy told The New York Times that shortly after that incident, he decided that he needed to do something different in his life—because…
DetailsBack when we started WIRED magazine, it was all digital, all the time. In Silicon Valley, bodies were treated like the somewhat inconvenient and sometimes embarrassing things that needed to be fueled and occasionally rested so that they could support big heads that housed big ideas about the future. Human biology wasn’t exactly on our…
DetailsCooling towers are stupidly large, some towering more than 800 feet tall. And according to Reginald Van de Velde, who has spent quite a lot of time inside them, they look bigger from within. “You feel really little in them,” he says.The structures have to be enormous to do their job. Thermoelectric power plants use…
DetailsExpressing excitement for his soon-to-arrive “new material,” a man shared with his online network of child sexual abusers an in-utero picture of his unborn child. This is just one of far too many horror stories I have heard from investigators at the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.Children as young as 8, 4,…
DetailsMost new TVs are very good. So good I have a hard time telling friends, family, and readers to spend more than a thousand dollars on any of them.That’s because you can easily get a fantastic TV capable of delivering the best picture quality that Amazon, Netflix, or Disney+ have to offer—like 4K resolution and…
DetailsAnytime astronomers figure out a new way of looking for magnetic fields in ever more remote regions of the cosmos, inexplicably, they find them. Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developments and trends…
DetailsYou are, we hope, already protecting your phone with a PIN, a fingerprint, or a face (or all three), but sometimes you’ll want to add an extra barrier to particular apps—if you’re lending your phone to a friend, say, or if your kids or partner are always borrowing your phone for whatever reason. How you…
DetailsPokemon Journeys: The Series has seen Ash Ketchum catch a surprising line up so far, but his newest catch has to be one of the most surprising yet! The latest episode of the series sees Ash and Goh head back to the Galar region in order to watch an official battle between two trainers in…
DetailsNaughty Dog, the studio behind The Last of Us Part 2, as well as Abby’s voice actor Laura Bailey and director Neil Druckmann, have responded to the online harassment and death threats they have received following the game’s release. Laura Bailey took to Twitter on July 3 to share some of the horrible messages she…
DetailsInvestment Thesis Simply put, this article is a rebuttal of a recent, bearish Seeking Alpha article about Intel’s (INTC) ‘losses’ – as such, this is a bullish article. Its thesis, as the article went, is that Intel losing the Apple (AAPL) iPhone modem business, as well as Apple’s MacBook CPU business, would swing it from…
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