Beatbot Pool-Cleaning Robots Are on Sale for a Limited Time
It’s about that time of year. National Pool Opening Day is tomorrow, April 25, and summer is almost here, which...
Designer Baby Companies Are in Turmoil
Two companies that launched last year with plans to create gene-edited babies have already shut down, citing money issues and...
AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold has already revolutionized scientists’ understanding of proteins. Now, the ability of the platform to design safe and...
The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess
Leaders in the United States House of Representatives on Thursday released the text of a negotiated bill to reauthorize a...
Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product
Sometime in the next year or two, Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, will step onto a stage and tell the...
They Wanted to Join Raya. They’ve Been on the Waiting List for Years
There is a special agony to existing in limbo, that state of eternal in-between, where time stretches into infinity. Today,...
The Federal Agency Coming for Gender-Affirming Care
The Federal Trade Commission appears to be targeting transgender rights, going beyond its usual ways of operating to do so,...
The Men Behind Your Favorite AI Gay Thirst Traps
With his deep brown eyes, wide grin, and almost comically chiseled body, Jae Young Joon is the platonic ideal of...
5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
I’ve used ChatGPT to help me build a budget before, and it was genuinely helpful. After I input my monthly...
Airfare Keeps Going Up. Here Are Some Tricks to Finding Cheap(er) Tickets
As a general rule, global instability leads to higher prices, and boy, is the world a doozy right now. Airfare...
The WIRED Gear Team’s Tips on Ways to Save Money
The Iran war has spiked gas prices. The RAM crisis has spiked prices on electronics. A wide swath of imported...
US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army’s...
Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet
In the history of state-sponsored hacking, the spectrum of cyber operations bent on sabotage have ranged from crude “wiper” attacks...
Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World
Rednote, the Chinese app that got its fifteen minutes of fame during the “TikTok refugee” trend last year, has ambitions...
Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto
This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses what’s next for Apple as Tim Cook steps down from his role...
