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ChatGPT Is Making Universities Rethink Plagiarism
Students and professors can’t decide whether ChatGPT, the AI chatbot, is a research tool—or a cheating engine. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Case of the Incredibly Long-Lived Mouse Cells
Scientists kept the rodents’ immune T cells active four times longer than mice can live—with huge implications for cancer, vaccination, and aging res…
3 years, 8 months ago
Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People
Workers from Google, Meta, and Twitter reveal the brutal ways they got dumped. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more sto…
3 years, 8 months ago
ChatGPT Is Coming for Classrooms. Don't Panic
The AI chatbot has stoked fears of an educational apocalypse. Some teachers see it as the reboot education sorely needs. Thanks for listening to WIRE…
3 years, 8 months ago
Airlines and Cattle Farmers Have Beef With Google’s Climate Math
Google estimates the emissions impacts of things like flights and certain recipes. Businesses with sales at stake are pushing back. Thanks for listen…
3 years, 8 months ago
China Is the World’s Biggest Face Recognition Dealer
Experts fear sales of the technology also export authoritarian ideas about biometric surveillance. The second largest exporter is the US. Thanks for …
3 years, 8 months ago
Easily Distracted? You Need to Think Like a Medieval Monk
Focusing wasn’t much easier in the time before electricity or on-demand TV. In fact, you probably have a lot in common with these super-distracted mo…
3 years, 8 months ago
Big Tech Is Playing it Safe on Iran. Workers Are Taking Charge
Google and other giants have offered muted support for Iran compared to their Ukraine response. Employees are starting anti-censorship projects of th…
3 years, 8 months ago
A Damning US Report Lays Bare Amazon’s Worker Injury Crisis
Federal investigators found that conditions in three of the company’s facilities risk “serious physical harm” to workers. Thanks for listening to WIR…
3 years, 9 months ago
It’s Getting Too Hot to Make Snow
Some ski resorts rely on machines to keep powder on the slopes. But snow guns guzzle water, are energy-intensive, and need cool temperatures to opera…
3 years, 9 months ago