My fitness tracker is a secret weapon against my chronic illness
One of the first major crashes I experienced as a chronically ill person happened on an unusually sunny January day …
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Style social media ban
British teenagers, like their peers abroad, have a conflicted relationship with social media. They know it can feed them a …
Models Are Applying to Be the Face of AI Scams
Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The (mostly) women who land these …
Leadership exits, Grok controversy: Why Elon Musk wants xAI to start over again
Elon Musk’s xAI is poised for a major transformation as it faces a wave of employee departures amid intensifying competitive …
AI writes buggy code. A Silicon Valley startup wants to fix it.
In January, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a study analyzing the use of artificial intelligence technologies …
Beating AI advances at megaconference
When Jensen Huang strides onto the stage of a packed hockey arena to kick off Nvidia’s annual developer conference on …
Google, Accel India accelerator chooses 5 startups and none are ‘AI wrappers’
Google and Accel say about 70% of AI startup pitches tied to India were "wrappers" as they reviewed more than …
Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks
AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty …
Generated voice lines, using professional actors instead
In an unexpected twist, humans have taken some jobs back from AI. Embark Studios' CEO Patrick Söderlund recently told GamesIndustry.biz …
Anthropic is doubling Claude's usage limits during off
To capitalize on Claude's recent spike in popularity, Anthropic is offering a limited-time promotion that doubles usage limits for anyone …
Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI
A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after police in Fargo, North Dakota, used facial recognition software to …
Wiz investor unpacks Google’s $32B acquisition
Shardul Shah of Index Ventures walks us through Google's biggest acquisition ever.
AI companies want to harvest improv actors’ skills to train AI on human emotion
If you've got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a …
Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro are the choice — if you have a Galaxy phone
Samsung promised "more than a design refresh" for its new top-end Galaxy Buds - it added upgraded woofers for improved, …
The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse
In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app …
Reading videos go viral
Advisers say to ‘assume the cameras are always rolling’ as exchanges can be decoded in seconds and posted onlineRoyals and …
Nigeria’s online content creator market has boomed. Can the skit
As platforms make less from advertising, creators are struggling to monetise work – leading to calls for more government investment …
The $100,000 fee for H
Last fall, President Donald Trump's executive order raising the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000 - like many of his …
‘Clean-room reimplementation’ of DR-DOS hits early beta, modernizing the operating system 38 years after its debut — runs Doom, Warcraft, SimCity, and other period
DR DOS version 9.0 is now in beta testing, with Revision 291 recently released and available for anyone to download …
Uber CEO launches robotics startup ‘Atoms’ for mining, transport, and food automation
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick on Friday, March 13, launched a startup called Atoms that is focused on specialised industrial robotics …