Author: Wired Magazine

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

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

The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Blockbuster Drug

Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is taking action to curb the massively popular compounded semaglutide industry, which provides copies of its blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy to patients—often for much lower prices. The Danish pharmaceutical company is lobbying the US Food and Drug Administration to add semaglutide to the agency’s Demonstrable Difficulties for Compounding (DDC) lists,… Continue reading The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Blockbuster Drug

‘Absolution’ Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Newest Southern Reach Book

But then, too, there was the assurance, the confidence, in the accounts of the biologists as remedy to allay suspicion. Because Sergeant Rocker, too, had then taken to the waters and disappeared, the biologists using their tracking equipment to make sure they could follow the alligators in their new lives. The Tyrant kept to herself,… Continue reading ‘Absolution’ Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Newest Southern Reach Book

Soundpeats’ Capsule3 Pro+ Review: The Best Cheap Earbuds

If you’re willing to spend more than $100, great headphones abound. Once Apple breached the wireless earbud dam with its initial AirPod model, excellent-sounding buds with noise-canceling, great mics, and high-fidelity sound have flooded the market. Put a list of name brands on a board, throw a dart, and buy the pair it makes that’s… Continue reading Soundpeats’ Capsule3 Pro+ Review: The Best Cheap Earbuds

A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations

Perplexity did not respond to requests for comment. In a statement emailed to WIRED, News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson compared Perplexity unfavorably to OpenAI. “We applaud principled companies like OpenAI, which understands that integrity and creativity are essential if we are to realize the potential of Artificial Intelligence,” the statement says. “Perplexity is not… Continue reading A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations