Author: Wired Magazine

The disinformation wars are only just getting started, warns a new report on Russian social media interference released by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Published Tuesday, the report offers the most comprehensive look at the efforts of the now-infamous Russian propaganda factory known as the Internet Research Agency to divide Americans, undermine public faith… Continue reading Russia’s Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started

On Wednesday and Thursday, high seasonal winds will tear through California, drying out vegetation and fanning wildfires. The conditions could easily spell a devastating, deadly conflagration. In preparation, early Wednesday morning the utility PG&E—whose equipment sparked last year’s Camp Fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed the town of Paradise—will begin preemptively shutting off power… Continue reading PG&E’s Power Shutoffs Can’t Save California From Wildfire Hell

The renowned film photographer Ralph Gibson was lying in his shrink’s office in lower Manhattan a few years back brooding. FedEx had knocked on his door that morning, delivering a digital camera the company Leica asked him to try out. But Gibson, in his mid-seventies, wasn’t sure he wanted to: He’d been shooting analog for… Continue reading Why Master Photographer Ralph Gibson Went Digital After Decades

Before Lyft was Lyft, it was a struggling California startup called Zimride. Cofounder and CEO Logan Green launched it in 2007 (the name was an ode to Zimbabwe’s carpooling culture), aiming to connect college kids who needed rides with those who had cars. John Zimmer, now Lyft’s president, signed on with the idea that putting… Continue reading Lyft Redesigns Its App—and Strategy—for the Age of Sharing

For more than a year, Tesla has defended its semiautonomous Autopilot as a vital, life-saving feature. CEO Elon Musk has lambasted journalists who write about crashes involving the system. “It’s really incredibly irresponsible of any journalists with integrity to write an article that would lead people to believe that autonomy is less safe,” he said… Continue reading Tesla’s Favorite Autopilot Safety Statistic Doesn’t Hold Up

After a tumultuous year in stormy seas, Tesla is making progress toward a safe harbor. In a report to investors today, the automaker revealed that it built more than 2,000 Model 3 sedans for three consecutive weeks in April, an encouraging number for a company that has lagged badly on its production targets for this… Continue reading Tesla Ramps Up Model 3 Production and Predicts Profitability

The future of the auto industry is China. It’s the world’s largest auto market, it’s growing quickly, and its emissions regulations—among the strictest on the planet—are even pushing the world’s automakers to abandon the internal combustion engine. Chinese customer preferences have also led designers to increase rear seat legroom and offer in-car perfume systems. And… Continue reading Mercedes’ Electric Maybach SUV Has a Built-In Tea Kettle

Self-driving cars are nearly ready for primetime, and so are the laser sensors that help them see the world. Lidar, which builds a 3-D map of a car’s surroundings by firing millions of laser points a second and measuring how long they take to bounce back, has been in development since 2005, when a guy… Continue reading Luminar’s New Lidar Could Dominate the Self-Driving Car Market

The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there’s no panacea for what ails this internet we’ve built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that’s been there all along but has often… Continue reading RSS Readers Are Due for a Comeback: Feedly, The Old Reader, Inoreader

Much of driving a Porsche, or any sports car, is about confidence—the reassurance that you’re sitting in a work of art that can also fling you away from a red light, putting the proletariat in their place: the rearview mirror. The rule holds for the automaker’s upcoming Mission E, the all-electric sedan aiming to replace… Continue reading Porsche’s Electric Mission E Gets Its Own Superchargers