Julian Chokkattu 2021-07-22 13:00:00 www.wired.com More than two years after it was first introduced, Panic's Playdate finally has a preorder date: Thursday, July 29. This charming and bright yellow handheld video game console has a unique crank on its…
David Nield 2021-07-18 08:00:00 www.wired.com Sign up for a Google account, and you get 15GB of cloud storage space for free, split across three main products—Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. Once you exceed that limit, you need to…
Parker Hall 2021-07-13 08:00:00 www.wired.com Almost all of today’s best-looking TVs are produced by LG. That's because it's the only company in the world churning out Organic LED (OLED) displays at such large sizes. Vizio OLED? It uses an…
Allison Whitten 2021-07-11 08:00:00 www.wired.com The presence of conformal invariance has a direct physical meaning: It indicates that the global behavior of the system won’t change even if you tweak the microscopic details of the substance. It also hints…
David Nield 2021-07-11 07:00:00 www.wired.com You'll also see drop-down menus above your search results that let you filter them by location and time. Depending on what keywords you've used, you might also see a Local results tab—this will temporarily…
Julian Chokkattu 2021-07-07 08:00:00 www.wired.com I've been testing a lot of electric kick scooters this year, and Yadea's KS5 Pro is one of the first to offer a nice compromise between virtues. It's not incredibly powerful and extremely heavy…
Jeremy White, Wired UK 2021-07-05 09:00:00 www.wired.com A plethora of substances can be used for 3D printing these days. Most people go for conventional plastics like ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) or polycarbonate. Krill Design, however, has opted for fruit.…
Charlie Wood 2021-07-04 08:00:00 www.wired.com It’s an elegant idea that yields concrete answers only for select quantum fields. No known mathematical procedure can meaningfully average an infinite number of objects covering an infinite expanse of space in general. The…
Khari Johnson 2021-07-03 07:00:00 www.wired.com Four years ago, organizers created the international AI City Challenge to spur the development of artificial intelligence for real-world scenarios like counting cars traveling through intersections or spotting accidents on freeways.In the first years,…
Keith Gillogly 2021-07-02 08:00:00 www.wired.com For the current study, the researchers injected the solution into maize leaves, which they chose, in part, because the crop is critical to worldwide food supply. The nanosensors coated the outside of the leaf’s…
Jeffrey Van Camp, Scott Gilbertson 2021-06-30 09:00:00 www.wired.com Most frothers make a stiff frothy foam that sits on top of the milk, which isn't great for lattes or cappuccinos. Properly textured milk is creamy, light, airy, and never stiff…
Tom Simonite 2021-06-23 08:00:00 www.wired.com Billions of times each year, people turn to Google’s web search box for help figuring out what’s wrong with their skin. Now, Google is preparing to launch an app that uses image recognition algorithms…
David Nield 2021-06-22 07:00:00 www.wired.com Google is rolling out upgraded features and an improved experience to some of its biggest web apps—including Gmail and Google Docs—while at the same time also transforming the apps that consumers use for instant…
David Nield 2021-06-20 09:00:00 www.wired.com More apps than you might have realized are available on the web as well as on your phone, syncing with your handset to give you access to all the same data, files and conversations…
Whitney Phillips 2021-06-18 09:00:00 www.wired.com Earlier this week, on Flag Day, Senator Ted Cruz tweeted a video in which he gazed at Old Glory and recited the Pledge of Allegiance. “This didn’t use [sic] to be controversial,” he lamented.…
Lily Hay Newman 2021-06-17 14:06:49 www.wired.com On Wednesday, as United States President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to meet in Geneva, Ukrainian law enforcement announced the arrest of six suspects allegedly tied to the notorious Cl0p…
Tom Simonite 2021-06-16 07:00:00 www.wired.com Since the dawn of the iPhone, many of the smarts in smartphones have come from elsewhere: the corporate computers known as the cloud. Mobile apps sent user data cloudward for useful tasks like transcribing…
Medea Giordano 2021-06-16 08:00:00 www.wired.com Rocki only works while you're controlling it via the app (available on iOS and Android). There's no autonomous mode, so if you stop steering it, it stops moving. Sometimes that's OK, like when I…
Matthew Smith 2021-06-15 08:00:00 www.wired.com This trio wasn’t alone. Canada had its own network, Nabu, which promoted itself with the slogan “Switch on to smart TV!”Warner Cable and American Express launched a partnership to create a network based on…
Julian Chokkattu 2021-06-13 09:00:00 www.wired.com Photograph: BiktrixFolding it is simple but unwieldy, due to the bike's 60-pound weight. Undo a clamp in the middle of the frame, then lift the front half and pull it over to the back.…
David Nield 2021-06-13 07:00:00 www.wired.com As it does every year, Apple has used its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to show off some of the changes coming to its software this year—and, unsurprisingly given Apple's track record, privacy and security…
Gear Team 2021-06-07 16:11:38 www.wired.com For years, the iPad has been a beloved tool in the creative community, with apps for drawing, editing photos, and working with audio. But for so-called knowledge workers—folks who spend most of their days…
Medea Giordano 2021-06-06 09:00:00 www.wired.com Straightening my curly, poofy hair is an arduous, two-day affair. I would do almost anything to make the process faster and easier, but I never quite pictured myself loading locks of my hair into…
Rhett Allain 2021-06-04 09:00:00 www.wired.com Let's suppose you need to measure the mass of some water, and you want to construct a scale to do it. But you are in a normal house filled with normal stuff. There’s no…
Medea Giordano 2021-06-03 10:00:00 www.wired.com Over the past year, I've heavily relied on Google's Nest Hub Max in the kitchen. This 10-inch smart display has helped me remember important ingredients while I cooked, and it's entertained me with music…
Sidney Fussell 2021-06-03 00:01:00 www.wired.com A new video from human rights organization Amnesty International maps the locations of more than 15,000 cameras used by the New York Police Department, both for routine surveillance and in facial-recognition searches. A 3D…
Gregory Barber 2021-06-01 08:00:00 www.wired.com Hillary Schieve, the mayor of Reno, Nevada, takes my arm before we jaywalk across the street from City Hall. She continues clutching it as we traverse the gritty public plaza on the other side,…
Rhett Allain 2021-05-31 09:00:00 www.wired.com When people build dams—giant walls that hold back entire lakes and rivers—they have to build an overflow channel called a spillway, a mitigation against flooding. A spillway could be something as simple as a…
David Nield 2021-05-30 08:00:00 www.wired.com The best memes are funny, used at just the right time, and say just the right thing. It's easy to just grab them from around the web, but sometimes the best ones are the…
Luiz Romero 2021-05-28 15:58:00 www.wired.com The latest wave of violence between Israel and Palestine ended on May 20, after the two sides agreed to a ceasefire. The Gaza Strip suffered the bulk of the deaths and destruction, where airstrikes…
Eric Ravenscraft 2021-05-28 09:00:00 www.wired.com You can turn the feature on in the Phone app under Settings > Spam and Call Screen > Call Screen. From here, if you enable automatic call screening, then whenever you receive a phone…
Aarian Marshall 2021-05-27 07:00:00 www.wired.com Researchers, industry executives, and government officials have long puzzled over how self-driving cars might change the planet. If you could do something else while stuck in traffic, would it change the way you use…
Sandy Milne 2021-05-25 09:00:00 www.wired.com “Nothing awaits you. Just a broken radio, loneliness, and endless snow.” That’s how Ilia Mazo, the brains behind It’s Winter, introduces potential players to his game on Steam. That’s pretty blunt, even for a…
