Finding the lettuce took days. Finding Taco Bell took two months. Mastercard patented a fix in 2014 and shelved it, chasing the wrong half of the problem.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ouster of his longtime tech wizard, Mykhailo Fedorov, as defense minister could halt Ukraine’s striking rise in drone and robotic warfare.
A landmark study of over 2 million people reveals which personality traits actually predict intelligence — and surprisingly, politeness isn’t one of them.
Yesterday the UN’s General Assembly passed a near-unanimous declaration on cutting road-traffic deaths in half.
OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. This is not just any system. About two months ago it …
Gecko toe hairs use van der Waals forces so strong DARPA copied them into real wall-climbing suits — the science behind nature’s own Spider-Man trick.
On Sunday evening, as Spain and Argentina played out the World Cup final, the mathematician Levent Alpöge posted a short message on X. The Jacobian conjecture, he wrote, is false. He thanked a friend for asking about it, and another friend, “fable,” fo…
Michigan has been at the epicenter of the wildfire smoke and explosive diarrhea outbreaks. The progressive Democrat talks to WIRED about how he would tackle the forces behind them if he’s elected.
How does AI make you feel? Are you excited to “vibe-code” your smart home? Or anxious about all the added pollution and billions of gallons of water used by data centers? Dig a little deeper and you’ll start to question the actual value of the GPUs that underpin all the leaps and promises of generative […]
A rare bird turned up in central Brazil, or so it seemed. A photo on the wildlife platform iNaturalist showed a red-winged blackbird. That North American species had never turned up in that part of Brazil. It would have been a notable first. It was not…