Don’t doomscroll more depressing news, use that phone to lift your mood instead. The best mobile games will bring a little joy to your day, whether you’re killing time on the commute or chilling on the couch. And these games are all addictive slices of gaming pleasure that we have been gorging on for years.… Continue reading 10 Best Mobile Games for iOS and Android
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KitchenAid Design Series Evergreen Review: Beautiful and Useful
The ubiquitous KitchenAid stand mixer—domestic icon, home cook must-have, subject of tattoos and even master’s theses—has rarely been controversial. Content to sleep tucked away within cabinets waiting to make cookies or birthday cakes, this century-old staple has garnered little public criticism for anything other than its price. (The standard 5-quart tilt-head Artisan costs $350; stand… Continue reading KitchenAid Design Series Evergreen Review: Beautiful and Useful
Chinese Hackers Target Trump Campaign via Verizon Breach
The Chinese spy operation adds to the growing sense of a melee of foreign digital interference in the election, which has already included Iranian hackers’ attempt to hack and leak emails from the Trump campaign—with limited success—and Russia-linked disinformation efforts across social media. Ahead of the full launch next week of Apple’s AI platform, Apple… Continue reading Chinese Hackers Target Trump Campaign via Verizon Breach
A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People
One of these, called the Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in the US in 2013. That implant involved larger electrodes that were placed on top of the retina. Its manufacturer, Second Sight, stopped producing the device in 2020 due to financial difficulties. Neuralink and some others, meanwhile, are… Continue reading A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People
OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After the Titan Submersible Implosion
The apparent success of the leaseback arrangement might explain how Rush was able to attract what was OceanGate’s largest ever investment in 2020, at a time when the company was working on the expensive task of replacing the Titan’s first hull that had cracked during testing. The $18 million in equity funding allowed OceanGate to… Continue reading OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After the Titan Submersible Implosion
11 Best Sexy Gifts for Lovers (2024)
Sex toys and accessories can be a huge benefit to most people’s sex lives, but we don’t talk about them openly enough. That’s a shame, because here at WIRED, we have many thoughts on all the gadgets you can use to spice up your romantic relationships or share your joy with others. Whether you’re buying… Continue reading 11 Best Sexy Gifts for Lovers (2024)
Is the Kindle Colorsoft Too Late? Amazon Reveals What Took So Damn Long to Catch Up
“Right now, we’re seeing the highest sales of Kindle in over a decade—20 billion pages are currently read every month,” claims Panay. “And it turns out the majority of this new cohort are millennials and Gen Z, this is the fastest growing segment.” Kevin Keith goes further, explaining that while social media used to be… Continue reading Is the Kindle Colorsoft Too Late? Amazon Reveals What Took So Damn Long to Catch Up
Meet the Far-Right Constitutional Sheriffs Ready to Assert Control if Trump Loses
Tim Marchman: This is rooted as you write in white supremacist beliefs. Can you unpack that a little bit? David Gilbert: It is, and you can trace it back from the late-1960, early-1970s to a movement called Posse Comitatus, which was founded some say by a guy called William Potter Gale. He was at the… Continue reading Meet the Far-Right Constitutional Sheriffs Ready to Assert Control if Trump Loses
Liquid AI Is Redesigning the Neural Network
Artificial intelligence might now be solving advanced math, performing complex reasoning, and even using personal computers, but today’s algorithms could still learn a thing or two from microscopic worms. Liquid AI, a startup spun out of MIT, will today reveal several new AI models based on a novel type of “liquid” neural network that has… Continue reading Liquid AI Is Redesigning the Neural Network
Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions
As November 5 draws closer, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) warned on Wednesday that malicious foreign influence operations launched by Russia, China, and Iran against the US presidential election are continuing to evolve and should not be ignored even though they have come to feel inevitable. In the group’s fifth report, researchers emphasize the… Continue reading Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions