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The Weird World of an AI Clickbait King
Domain names have value, even when the websites that were once hosted there are shut down or abandoned. Prospectors will often swoop in and snatch up…
2 years ago
Everyone's Pumped About Heat Pumps
People everywhere are hot for heat pumps. These electric appliances—which perform the same heating and cooling tasks as traditional HVAC systems, jus…
2 years, 1 month ago
The End of Google Search As We Know It
Google held its annual I/O developer event this week. The company gathered software developers, business partners, and folks from the technology pres…
2 years, 1 month ago
How Black Twitter Defined Culture
For all the influence Twitter has had on our culture, no community there has made quite as much impact as Black Twitter. The virtual community grew f…
2 years, 1 month ago
Thinking About Buying a Hybrid Car? Listen Up
Back in March, the US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a long in the works rule requiring automakers here to dramatically increase the numbe…
2 years, 1 month ago
We Demystify the Internet's Acronyms
Do you know what TCP/IP means? (Hint: you’re using it right now.) What about CDMA? Or GPT? While the concepts and the execution of these technologies…
2 years, 2 months ago
A Chat About Airchat
Silicon Valley tech types love their edgy new social media startups. The latest is Airchat, an audio-first social app that lets its users express the…
2 years, 2 months ago
From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November
Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hy…
2 years, 2 months ago
Shopping for a New Social Feed
Hey, did you see the ad for that Bluetooth-enabled Shiatsu foot massager? How about the one for the organic mushroom supplement powder? They're proba…
2 years, 2 months ago
DOJ Calls Out Apple in the Group Chat
Apple has gotten used to being a favorite target of rivals and government agencies. The company has been repeatedly scrutinized by regulators, and ot…
2 years, 2 months ago