Rhett Allain 2022-07-04 09:00:00 www.wired.com Finally, we have the crane itself. I left off some of the unimportant forces here—the most critical are the forces from the magnet and the cart pulling in opposite directions.All of these objects have…
Adam Speight 2022-07-04 07:00:00 www.wired.com The Surface Laptop Go 2 is an iterative upgrade from the previous model, there’s no doubt about that. But as a device that prioritizes design, portability, and usability, it may just be a shrewd…
Jennifer Conrad 2022-06-29 07:00:00 www.wired.com “China has gone from having virtually no electric vehicles to having almost half of the world’s stock of passenger electric vehicles, and far more of that in terms of buses, trucks, and two-wheelers,” says…
Will Knight 2022-06-27 07:00:00 www.wired.com On June 6, Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence projects, saw traffic to an AI image-generation tool called DALL-E Mini skyrocket.The outwardly simple app, which generates nine images in response…
Rebecca Boyle 2022-06-26 08:00:00 www.wired.com Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but it is otherwise unremarkable. Its planets, however, are another story.First, Mercury: More charred innards than fully fledged…
Simon Lucas 2022-06-26 08:00:00 www.wired.com In the 15 years of its existence, Parisian audio technology company Devialet has established itself as a purveyor of the “slightly unusual.” In fact, it’s not above veering into the realm of the “very…
Adam Speight 2022-06-24 08:00:00 www.wired.com Gaming laptops are an ever expanding breed, especially in 2022 when machines with powerful graphics cards extend far beyond the traditional hefty devices with flashing RGB you may expect in this field. Oddly, the…
Justin Pot 2022-06-23 08:00:00 www.wired.com There's also support for formatting. Italics are added by surrounding text with either asterisks or underscores; bolds by surrounding text with two asterisks or two underscores on each side; and strikethrough by surrounding text…
Stephanie Pearson 2022-06-21 08:00:00 www.wired.com Like most humans who have passed the half-century mark, I flip between fantasy and reality when it comes to my physical fitness. My fantasy is that I’m as fit and strong as I was…
Jeremy White 2022-06-20 07:00:00 www.wired.com Even if you've never held one of his namesake instruments, you may know that Les Paul designed one of the first solid-body electric guitars. Astonishingly, Gibson, which manufactured the guitar, was fearful this radical…
David Nield 2022-06-19 07:00:00 www.wired.com You never know when one of your files might reach someone it wasn't intended to reach—perhaps through an email forward, a USB stick left behind on a desk, or maybe even an unauthorized user…
Parker Hall 2022-06-12 08:00:00 www.wired.com If you’ve ever considered buying a projector to live out your home theater fantasies, the thought has probably been quickly thwarted by basic logistics. Mounting a projector, routing cables, and finding a compatible surround…
Simon Lucas 2022-06-09 08:00:00 www.wired.com At lower volumes (and lower speeds) it’s reasonably balanced, with just a little coarseness and edginess higher up the frequency range giving any cause for concern. But turn it up (while the Taycan is…
Will Knight 2022-06-08 09:00:00 www.wired.com The collaboration with Geely could give Jidu a big boost when it comes to the notoriously tricky business of making cars at high volume and with high reliability, says Tu Le, managing director of…
Julian Chokkattu 2022-06-06 16:02:36 www.wired.com Remember MagSafe? The power cord that magnetically stuck itself to the charging port on old MacBooks to prevent it from flying off the desk when someone tripped over the wire? Apple brought the innovative…
David Nield 2022-06-05 08:00:00 www.wired.com If you don't see these drop-down menus, you should see a prompt asking if you want to install the wireless projection feature: Just follow the prompts on screen to do this. The feature you…
Kelsey Houston-Edwards 2022-06-05 08:00:00 www.wired.com “[Floer] homology theory depends only on the topology of your manifold. [This] is Floer’s incredible insight,” said Agustin Moreno of the Institute for Advanced Study.Dividing by ZeroFloer theory ended up being wildly useful in…
Justin Pot 2022-06-05 07:00:00 www.wired.com There are 1.5 billion (with a b!) active Gmail users, which Google clearly sees as an asset it can leverage. Perhaps you've noticed: Google keeps filling the interface with buttons for other services.The left…
Jeremy White 2022-06-04 08:00:00 www.wired.com The frenetic pace of gear releases means it is inevitable that WIRED cannot get to all of them in a timely fashion. But if they are important, rest assured, we will catch up eventually.…
David Nield 2022-05-29 07:00:00 www.wired.com Telegram checks just about every box when it comes to a modern-day messaging app: It's available on multiple platforms, it offers end-to-end encryption, it supports stickers and media files, and it enables group and…
Williesha Morris 2022-05-28 08:00:00 www.wired.com “What are the consequential choices people are faced with that a player could get and understand and lead them to think about it in their own lives or to interrogate their own experiences or…
Steven Levy 2022-05-27 09:00:00 www.wired.com Hi, everyone. Another grim week. The plain truth is that we have got to stop selling weapons of war to random civilians.The Plain ViewIn 1727, 21-year-old Benjamin Franklin invited, as he put it, “my…
David Nield 2022-05-22 07:00:00 www.wired.com From the Facebook Privacy Checkup page on the web, you can click Who can see what you share to choose what the default setting is for this audience selector. If you want your posts…
David Nield 2022-05-15 08:00:00 www.wired.com There's PDF functionality built right into Finder as well. If you select multiple files and then Ctrl+click on the selection, you can pick Quick Actions and Create PDF to do just that (most common…
Eric Ravenscraft 2022-05-14 08:00:00 www.wired.com For a time, if you were looking for a USB mic to start a podcast, stream on Twitch, or even just have better Zoom calls, the only name anyone would utter was Blue Yeti. But…
Ramin Skibba 2022-05-12 07:00:00 www.wired.com Photograph: Tyler JonesNASA performed a few experiments following the 1960s and ’70s moon landing missions that brought back lunar material, but those were nothing like what Paul and Ferl attempted. “A small amount of…
Lily Hay Newman 2022-05-10 15:00:00 www.wired.com An unusual partnership between Google and AMD may offer a blueprint for how the tech industry can better tackle processor security risks before they spiral out of control. The only problem? The setup…
Allison Whitten 2022-05-08 08:00:00 www.wired.com By washing through the brain, neuromodulators “allow you to govern the excitability of a large region of the brain more or less in the same way or at the same time,” said Eve Marder,…
David Nield 2022-05-08 07:00:00 www.wired.com For hundreds of millions of users, Google Docs is in regular if not constant use. Behind it's apparent simplicity—just open it up and start typing—there are numerous features and tools to explore, many of…
Medea Giordano 2022-05-04 08:00:00 www.wired.com We all need to drink more water. For humans, there are apps and even smart water bottles to keep us on track. For our pets, it isn't as easy. We can encourage them to…
Adam Speight 2022-05-02 07:00:00 www.wired.com The headline news is that this new MSI GS77 Stealth is one of the very first gaming laptops with Intel’s latest 12th Gen processors. For the chip, the results are impressive, but the overall…
David Nield 2022-05-01 07:00:00 www.wired.com For many years, Windows users had to rely on a third-party security tool to keep viruses and malware at bay, but now Microsoft's operating system comes with its own package, in the form of…
Scott Gilbertson 2022-05-01 08:00:00 www.wired.com There will never be the perfect drone for everyone. There are too many different reasons for owning a drone. Some like to race. Some like to shoot sweeping cinematic masterpieces, and some want to…