Category: Tech news

Olympians make things look easy when they’re not. But the hardest parts of their jobs aren’t always what you think.

 If you want to read a lot of words about the Apple HomePod, you can do so here and here. Obviously, I’d recommend you do so before plunking down $350 of your hard earned cash on a first generation product, but the long and short of it is actually pretty straight forward. Apple made a very nice speaker — arguably the best on the market in its class. But there are caveats. As is… Read More

If we can’t understand our own brains, maybe the machines can do it for us.

Also, fantasy basketball teams have nothing on the “Sore Lugers.”

The nonprofit Crisis Text Line is launching a spin-off company that uses AI to help teach people how to talk to each other

WIRED columnist Felix Salmon on the problem with disappearing-messaging apps.

All those computers and sensors can hurt fuel economy and range, practical problems for commercial systems.

A new generation of space scientists is using high tech materials to resurrect the long-neglected supersonic parachute.

And low-balling isn’t limited to toxic chemicals.

As the blockbuster legal fight goes to trial, Waymo makes clear who it wants to paint as the big baddie.

We speak about the “Mueller probe” as a single entity, but it’s important to understand that there are no fewer than five separate investigations under the broad umbrella of the special counsel’s office.

The Chinese automaker and the star-studded self-driving startup have joined forces.

Nintendo’s latest set of Switch peripherals bring the whimsy back into gaming.

The numbers we have are a little jumbly, but they’re the best we’ve got—and they do tell an interesting story.

After months of lurking unused in Google’s flagship Pixel 2 smartphone, the company’s first homegrown, consumer-focused processor springs to life.