[photo1]Andy GreenbergHiding malicious programs in a computer's UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become an insidious trick in the toolkit of st...
[photo1]By fostering the relationships that naturally form in close-knit working environments, small law firms have unique opportunities to develop the young attorneys who may one day take over the fi...
On Tuesday, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) released a single-sentence statement signed by executives from OpenAI and DeepMind, Turing Award winners, and other AI researchers warning that their life's...
[photo1]Joel KhaliliAs cryptocurrencies rise and fall, there's one number that just keeps going up. Whenever somebody loses money to a crypto scam or hack, the Grift Counter on Molly White's blog, Web...
[photo1]Lauren GoodeIn late March, a well-funded artificial intelligence startup hosted what it said was the first ever AI film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse theater in San Francisco. The startup, ...
[photo1]Megan FarokhmaneshFor the average player, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will take upwards of 50 hours to beat--that is, complete the game's main storyline and save Hyrule. In the s...
This article features an interview with Krijn de Nood, the CEO and co-founder of cultivated meat startup Meatable. De Nood will be speaking at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 15 & 16 in Amst...
Joel Khalili"I think it's funny--that's it!" says Ace, an investor in meme-based cryptocurrencies from Toronto, Canada. The point of meme coins, he explains, is that there is no point. It's all one bi...
[photo1]Paresh DaveGoogle has spent the past few weeks promoting generative AI tools that can summarize search results for users, help them draft essays, and swap out overcast skies for sunshine in ot...
Apple today announced a multi-billion dollar deal with Broadcom to build some wireless components in the United States. Under the terms of the agreement, Broadcom will design and build 5G components, ...
[photo1]Matt BurgessEurope's GDPR has just dealt its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years since the continent's strict data rules came into force, Meta has been hit with a colossal EUR1....
[photo1]Lily Hay Newman Morgan Meaker Matt BurgessSpain has advocated banning encryption for hundreds of millions of people within the European Union, according to a leaked document obtained by WIRED ...
Venmo announced today that it's introducing teen accounts, allowing parents and legal guardians to open a Venmo account for their teenagers so they can send and receive money. The account, which has n...
[photo1]Lily Hay NewmanAt the beginning of May, Google released eight new top-level domains (TLDs)--the suffixes at the end of URLs, like ".com" or ".uk." These little addendums were developed decades...
[photo1]Adam WelzThis story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Thanks to years of campaigning by wildlife conservation groups, it's widely known ...
[photo1]Rachel FairbankIn the months after giving birth to my son in March 2019, my Fitbit started recording some unusual heart rate readings. Pregnancy causes the resting heart rate to rise about 20 ...
When the first Pixel 8 Pro renders leaked, the primary point of speculation revolved around the camera layout. Besides the usual three cameras and an LED flash, what in the world was the second circle...
This wasn't supposed to happen. In 2020, in a house surrounded by fields in the Irish countryside, Liam, 19, sat at his laptop, an energy drink fizzing at his elbow. He leaned in for a better look at ...
[photo1]Matt SimonHumanity's relationship with plastic isn't just broken--it's absurd. We're now churning out a trillion pounds of it a year--an altogether more stunning figure when you consider that ...
[photo1]By Mike OrcuttThe pitch sounds like an echo from the distant crypto past, when the blockchain was not only going to fight climate change but also cure cancer. Log on to Minecraft clone OPCraft...