It’s that time again. Amazon Prime Day is back. Among thousands of discounted items, from the necessary to the wacky, are the steep discounts on Amazon’s own broad lineup of hardware, including Prime Day Kindle deals you won’t see surpassed the rest of the year. Savvy shoppers know Amazon Prime Day is usually the best… Continue reading The Top 5 Prime Day Kindle Deals—Plus More Amazon Devices (2024)
Author: Wired Magazine
Lab-Grown Meat for Pets Was Just Approved in the UK
In a laboratory in west London, Helder Cruz reaches into a fridge and takes out a small plastic tub. The container holds 280 grams of an off-white paste with the consistency of pâté. These are real chicken cells, taken from a fertilized chicken egg and painstakingly grown in the bioreactors opposite. The paste does not… Continue reading Lab-Grown Meat for Pets Was Just Approved in the UK
Best Amazon Prime Day Apple Watch Deals (2024)
if you completed a workout but didn’t track it with a wearable, does it still count? Yes, it does. But if you’re trying to optimize your exercise routine and up the ante on your progress, then a smartwatch is an excellent gadget to use. If you’re an iPhone user, the Apple Watch Series 9, Apple… Continue reading Best Amazon Prime Day Apple Watch Deals (2024)
Silicon Valley Heavyweights, Including Elon Musk, Rally Behind J.D. Vance VP Pick
Republican figureheads from Silicon Valley are rallying behind former president Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. Top Silicon Valley leaders like Elon Musk came out in support of Vance as Trump’s vice presidential pick in the hours after the official announcement was made on Monday. Musk said that the… Continue reading Silicon Valley Heavyweights, Including Elon Musk, Rally Behind J.D. Vance VP Pick
Prime Day Has Brought the Google Pixel 7A to an Incredibly Low Price (2024)
Amazon Prime Day is here (and it’s officially two days long). We’re here to highlight the very best deals among the thousands on the mega-retailer’s storefront, especially products we’ve tested and recommend. Well, if you’re on the hunt for a new phone, you’re in luck. One of the best Prime Day deals right now is… Continue reading Prime Day Has Brought the Google Pixel 7A to an Incredibly Low Price (2024)
Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
A group calling itself “NullBulge” published a 1.1-TB trove of data late last week that it claims is a dump of Disney’s internal Slack archive. The data allegedly includes every message and file from nearly 10,000 channels, including unreleased projects, code, images, login credentials, and links to internal websites and APIs. The hackers claim they… Continue reading Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
Militias Are Recruiting Off of the Trump Shooting
Militia and anti-government groups across the United States are using the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump as an opportunity to organize, recruit, and train. “An attack on President Trump was an attack on us, people like us—like-minded American patriots,” says Scot Seddon, the Pennsylvania-based founder of the American Patriots Three Percenters (APIII), in… Continue reading Militias Are Recruiting Off of the Trump Shooting
The Right Is Blaming Women and DEI for the Secret Service’s Failure in Trump Shooting
As conspiracies and threats of violence flooded online spaces in the hours after former president Donald Trump was shot during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, one narrative emerged from the right: Women and DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion, are to blame. The sexist claims are based on deceptively edited videos and images being… Continue reading The Right Is Blaming Women and DEI for the Secret Service’s Failure in Trump Shooting
Far-Right Extremists Call for Violence and War After Trump Shooting
Far-right communities online lit up on Saturday night with calls for violence, retribution, and civil war in the wake of the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. “I guess they really do want war,” a member of the pro-Trump message board known as The Donald wrote on Saturday evening in a post that has… Continue reading Far-Right Extremists Call for Violence and War After Trump Shooting
AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records
Despite the payment and deletion, some AT&T customers and those who communicated with them may still be at risk, given that others may have samples of the data that were not deleted. The hacker who spoke with WIRED obtained payment from AT&T instead of Binns because, he says, in an odd twist to the case,… Continue reading AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records