A man in Denmark was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for using fake accounts to trick music streaming services into paying him 2 million Danish kroner ($290,000) in royalties. The unusual case reveals a weak spot in the business model behind the world’s biggest music platforms. The 53-year-old consultant, who had pleaded not… Continue reading One Man’s Army of Streaming Bots Reveals a Whole Industry’s Problem
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Reddit Surges on Its First Day of Trading
Reddit’s IPO is a test of investor appetite for tech IPOs, which have been a rarity in recent years. Low interest rates had made raising and borrowing cash on private markets easy and economic effects from the war in Ukraine and a slumping stock market had made it too risky to plunge into the stock… Continue reading Reddit Surges on Its First Day of Trading
The Feds Are Trying to Get Plants to Mine Metal Through Their Roots
“Just like we do research with corn, wheat, soybean, getting these plants to be more efficient in taking up nutrients—nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium—well, there needs to be this research that goes into understanding the mechanisms of metal hyperaccumulation,” says McNear. “And then enhancing that, whether it be through gene editing or whatever.” ARPA-E is eying a… Continue reading The Feds Are Trying to Get Plants to Mine Metal Through Their Roots
The Swatch x Omega Snoopy MoonSwatch Has Landed
The connection between Snoopy and Omega is long established, and it’s likely this iteration of the wildly successful Swatch collaboration will be its most popular model, especially as it is a proper new iteration and not a version of the Moonshine Gold MoonSwatches. “There seems to be an increasingly sonorous groan echoing throughout the enthusiast… Continue reading The Swatch x Omega Snoopy MoonSwatch Has Landed
There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year Than All of 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association sent out separate but similar pleas on Monday for unvaccinated Americans to get vaccinated against the extremely contagious measles virus as vaccination rates have slipped, cases are rising globally and nationally, and the spring-break travel period is beginning. In the first 12 weeks… Continue reading There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year Than All of 2023
Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies
Everywhere you go online, you’re being tracked. Almost every time you visit a website, trackers gather data about your browsing and funnel it back into targeted advertising systems, which build up detailed profiles about your interests and make big profits in the process. In some places, you’re tracked more than others. In a little-noticed change… Continue reading Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies
Parler’s New Owners Swear This Time Will Be Different
Rhodes said the new version of Parler will include a native video player and messaging service, in a bid to differentiate the company from its former iterations and competing platforms like Truth Social and X. One key distinction it makes from X, Rhodes says, is a ban on pornography, according to Rhodes and Parler’s community… Continue reading Parler’s New Owners Swear This Time Will Be Different
Fisker Suspends Its EV Production
Following recent reports that Fisker has been preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing, today the embattled automaker announced that it is suspending all manufacture of its electric vehicles. “Fisker will pause production for six weeks starting the week of March 18, 2024, to align inventory levels and progress strategic and financing initiatives,” the company said… Continue reading Fisker Suspends Its EV Production
Jabra Enhance Select 300 Hearing Aids Review: Some of the Best We’ve Tested
I’ve been covering hearing aids for WIRED for nearly three years now, and I regularly talk to users and prospects about them when I wear them in public. Regardless of what I’m testing, one brand name has consistently and repeatedly popped up during that time: Jabra. The Danish brand has a long history making a… Continue reading Jabra Enhance Select 300 Hearing Aids Review: Some of the Best We’ve Tested
Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to store quantum information. His encoding had two key properties. First, it could tolerate errors that only affected individual qubits. Second, it came with a procedure for correcting errors as they occurred, preventing them… Continue reading Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information