Author: Wired Magazine

Sam Bankman-Fried Made Reasonable Business Decisions, Lawyers Claim

Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX may have lost at least $8 billion in customer money, but he “didn’t intend to defraud anyone,” his defense team said Wednesday during the opening arguments of his highly anticipated trial. Though legal experts had long speculated that Bankman-Fried, or SBF for short, would take a “blame the lawyers” approach,… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried Made Reasonable Business Decisions, Lawyers Claim

The New AI Photo Tricks on the Pixel 8 Are Blowing My Mind

I watched as the spokesperson selected a person’s face and cycled through other versions of the face from recent images and other frames. Just choose the face you want (a weird sentence to write) to complete your perfect group photo. Google assured me it is not generating any facial expressions but is instead using an… Continue reading The New AI Photo Tricks on the Pixel 8 Are Blowing My Mind

Google Assistant Finally Gets a Generative AI Glow-Up

David Ferrucci, CEO of AI company Elemental Cognition and previously the lead on IBM’s Watson project, says language models have removed a great deal of the complexity from building useful assistants. Parsing complex commands previously required a huge amount of hand-coding to cover the different variations of language, and the final systems were often annoyingly… Continue reading Google Assistant Finally Gets a Generative AI Glow-Up

Samsung Galaxy S23 FE, Tab S9 FE, Buds FE (2023): Features, Specs, Price

If you heard the words Fan Edition, chances are you’d expect something extraordinary. Perhaps a limited edition design or a feature that takes a product to a level that only true fans can appreciate. This is not the case with the deluge of hardware Samsung just announced: the Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy Tab S9 FE,… Continue reading Samsung Galaxy S23 FE, Tab S9 FE, Buds FE (2023): Features, Specs, Price

MysteryVibe Tenuto Mini Review: Set and Forget Vibrator (Sort Of)

A few years ago, I tried out MysteryVibe’s unique Tenuto vibrator and found it somewhat wanting. Creating a vibrator that helps its user maintain an erection, stimulates neglected parts of the body, and is mutually beneficial for both the user and their partner was a noble goal, but one the company struggled to achieve. The… Continue reading MysteryVibe Tenuto Mini Review: Set and Forget Vibrator (Sort Of)

Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

It was meant to be a week for women in tech—but this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration was swamped by men who gate-crashed the event in search of lucrative tech jobs. The annual conference and career fair aimed at women and non-binary tech workers, which takes its name from a pioneering computer scientist, took place last… Continue reading Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of a Vaccine Revolution

No one expected the first Covid-19 vaccine to be as good as it was. “We were hoping for around 70 percent, that’s a success,” says Dr Ann Falsey, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, New York, who ran a 150-person trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 2020. Even Uğur Şahin, the… Continue reading Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of a Vaccine Revolution

The 15-Minute City Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream

Back in February, when a Conservative Party lawmaker in the UK’s House of Commons voiced support for the 15-minute city conspiracy, he was laughed at by his fellow members of Parliament. Now, eight months later, the British government is fully embracing the fringe conspiracy and placing it at the heart of government policy. “Right across… Continue reading The 15-Minute City Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream