Electrolysis takes that electricity to generate pure, green hydrogen from water, hydrogen that could be used to power a fuel-cell-powered car. However, to make it suitable for use in traditional, internal combustion machines, it requires a little extra work. Carbon is extracted from the air in the form of CO2 and combined with the hydrogen… Continue reading Porsche’s E-Fuel Burns Just Like the Real Thing
Author: Wired Magazine
Trump’s Indictment Marks a Historic Reckoning
The literally unprecedented indictment against Donald Trump marks an outright dangerous—and politically fraught—moment for the United States and serves as a reminder of the unparalleled level of criminality and conspiracy that surrounded the 2016 election. It’s easy to look back at the 2016 election as though its outcome was inevitable—that Hillary Clinton was too weak… Continue reading Trump’s Indictment Marks a Historic Reckoning
12 Best Deals: Phones, Headphones, and Video Games
In the mood for some new hardware? There are quite a few great deals right now on smartphones, headphones, and gaming accessories, and if that wasn’t enough, Sony’s got an excellent sale for PlayStation games, offering up to 75 percent off a wide array of titles. Happy deals hunting! Special offer for Gear readers: Get… Continue reading 12 Best Deals: Phones, Headphones, and Video Games
Let the AI Coding Wars Begin!
The big news this week was a call from tech luminaries to pause development and deployment of AI models more advanced than OpenAI’s GTP-4—the stunningly capable language algorithm behind ChatGPT—until risks including job displacement and misinformation can be better understood. Even if OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and other tech heavyweights were to stop what they’re doing—and they’re not going to stop… Continue reading Let the AI Coding Wars Begin!
Specialized Turbo Tero X Review: Do Everything
Unless you are a road racer cutting weight, your bike should probably have a dropper seat post. You can run a cable from your bike’s seat post to a small lever on your handlebars. With a quick flick of the thumb, you can change your bike’s saddle height without getting off, or even stopping pedaling.… Continue reading Specialized Turbo Tero X Review: Do Everything
The Effort to Harness Animal ‘Supersenses’—and Avert Disaster
Animals are sometimes described as having “supersenses,” and in many instances these relate to natural phenomena. On the morning of December 26, 2004, a huge rupture occurred at the fault along two continental plates between the Indonesian islands of Simeulue and Sumatra. The energy released was, by some estimates, over 20,000 times greater than that… Continue reading The Effort to Harness Animal ‘Supersenses’—and Avert Disaster
The US Is Sending Money to Countries Devastated by Cyberattacks
Last spring, the Costa Rican government suffered a series of ransomware attacks that hobbled critical systems around the country. As imports and exports, health care, and other public services were disrupted, Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves Robles declared a state of emergency, and the recovery has been a months-long ordeal. Almost a year after the… Continue reading The US Is Sending Money to Countries Devastated by Cyberattacks
A Manhunt in India Left 27 Million People Without Mobile Internet
Manish Kumar runs a car rental service in the city of Jalandhar in India’s northern state of Punjab. For the past two weeks, his business has been struggling—starting on March 18, when, for four days, mobile internet was shut down across large areas of the state on the order of the government. Many of his… Continue reading A Manhunt in India Left 27 Million People Without Mobile Internet
In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT
An open letter signed by hundreds of prominent artificial intelligence experts, tech entrepreneurs, and scientists calls for a pause on the development and testing of AI technologies more powerful than OpenAI’s language model GPT-4 so that the risks it may pose can be properly studied. It warns that language models like GPT-4 can already compete with humans at a… Continue reading In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT
Lamborghini Revuelto Is Its First Hybrid
Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann claims that the company is on a path marked by four things: sustainability, digitalization, urbanization, and geopolitics. For the carmaker that has provided so much visual fuel for car-obsessed teenagers the world over this past 60 years, that’s quite the high-speed lane change. Then again, the world that the all-new Revuelto… Continue reading Lamborghini Revuelto Is Its First Hybrid