wired.comadded August 2026
Wiredby Zoë Schiffer55m ago
Bay Area lettering artist Jesscia Hische knew that when she took a freelance gig to design the M logo for Meta’s new AI assistant Muse, it was bound to make some people angry.
Wiredby Kate Taylor1h ago
The Trump administration will no longer allow Microsoft and other tech companies to participate in a program that allows H-1B visa holders to apply for green cards, one of the most common pathways...
Wiredby Julian Chokkattu7h ago
Is Amazon making a smartphone? A Reuters report from earlier this year revealed details about a device codenamed Transformer under development, with Amazon's Alexa+ AI assistant as the focus of the...
Wiredby Brian Barrett9h ago
On any given day, Elon Musk is worth about a trillion dollars. This does not mean that he has a trillion dollar bills sitting in an old-timey vault in a dusty basement somewhere; his wealth is...
Wiredby Fernanda González9h ago
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai for discovering a solution to the enigma of nature’s chemical asymmetry, a finding that opened up new avenues for...
Wiredby David Gilbert, Vittoria Elliott, Hugo Lowell, Leah Feiger10h ago
The midterm elections are a month away and the candidate pool has never been more WIRED. Races are being run—and likely decided—on Silicon Valley funding, data center debates, AI regulation...
Wiredby Paresh Dave10h ago
The Center for Humane Technology, the online safety group cofounded by former Google product manager Tristan Harris and featured in the hit documentary The Social Dilemma, is laying off about half...
Wiredby Javier Carbajal11h ago
“for some reason, I woke up at 5:30, and the first thing I did was go to the New York Times website to check the headlines,” Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez recalls of the previous morning.
Wiredby Lama Rabah11h ago
The first time we were supposed to meet Anas Hattab, he canceled at the last minute: There was no way to make it from his hometown in Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank, south to Ramallah, where we...
Wiredby Louryn Strampe12h ago
Amazon’s fall Prime Day sale—also known as Big Deal Days 2026—has officially ended. The sale started October 6, and ran through midnight of October 7.
Wiredby Brian Kahn22h ago
The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season has been mercifully dull, but that’s set to change this week. Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to become the season’s first hurricane before making landfall...
Wiredby Lily Hay Newman22h ago
At a promotional event in Times Square on Wednesday for the security company NordVPN, brand ambassador Shaquille O’Neal said he is eager to raise awareness among regular people about the importance...
Wiredby Hugo Lowell23h ago
Elon Musk’s America PAC is focusing its war chest on the most consequential Senate races this midterm cycle—and doing so by financing attack ads on Democrats, as voters nationwide sour on the Trump...
Wiredby Fernanda González23h ago
The Karolinska Institute awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine to researchers Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University in Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the...
Wiredby Molly Higgins1d ago
Amazon Prime Day now happens several times a year, including Prime Big Deal Days, which end tonight.
Wiredby Ej Dickson1d ago
Last weekend, the clothing brand Cherrykitten published an Instagram post promoting T-shirts, crop tops, and sports bras with the slogan “I Am Jane Doe” emblazoned on the front.
Wiredby Luke Larsen1d ago
Laptop prices have risen significantly over the past six months. The memory shortage wreaked havoc on prices, even causing Apple to hike them up in June.
Wiredby Will Knight1d ago
Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, and Tobias Gessler, three AI engineers at a startup called Axiom, recently fancied In-N-Out Burger for lunch. They weren’t about to drive themselves, though.
Wiredby Reece Rogers1d ago
When you ask a chatbot a question, you’ll often get a wall of text back, maybe with an image or two pulled from the web.
Wiredby Molly Higgins1d ago
Amazon Prime Day features thousands of items on sale, with potentially hundreds of dollars in savings.
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