Category: Technology

Enlarge / The OpenAI logo superimposed over the Microsoft logo. Ars Technica On Monday, AI tech darling OpenAI announced that it received a “multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment” from Microsoft, following previous investments in 2019 and 2021. While the two companies have not officially announced a dollar amount on the deal, the news follows rumors of […]

Have you ever planned to read for an exam at night only to sleep and wake up two hours before the examination? Or perhaps you postponed reading a topic and found it in the test, yet you didn’t even look at it before entering the examination room. A lot of this happens to us when […]

Dive Brief: Almost half of all critical manufacturing across the globe faces a significant risk of a data breach, according to a report released at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland by SecurityScorecard last week.  The report indicates 48% of critical manufacturing providers in the key sectors as designated by the U.S. government, were […]

As writers and testers in WIRED’s Gadget Lab, we spend all day immersed in personal technology of all kinds. It’s probably no surprise that if we work on a computer during the day and enjoy gaming in our downtime, our kids do, too. I (Adrienne) have a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old that attended school remotely […]

A security lapse in an app operated by India’s Education Ministry exposed the personally identifying information of millions of students and teachers for over a year.  The data was stored by the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing app, or Diksha, a public education app launched in 2017. At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when […]

Multitasking on an iPad isn’t the most intuitive experience. Even with features like Split View and Slide Over, where you can work with multiple apps simultaneously, it’s not immediately clear how to trigger these tools, let alone how to maximize their capabilities. It’s partially why Apple introduced Stage Manager last year in iPadOS 16—a new […]

While people’s feelings about their own gear and what it does can often affect the way they play psychologically, that doesn’t mean the gear is doing exactly what they think it’s doing. Lill jokes about a friend—whose playing, for the record, Lill insists he loves and has learned a lot from—that uses a Two Rock […]

Muji has made vehicles before: The Muji Car 1000 from 2001 was the product of a collaboration with Nissan. The limited release of 1,000 badgeless Nissan Marches was spartanly equipped, offered solely in “marble white” and available only online as an exercise to test the company’s web marketing systems. Muji has a history of creating […]

Few people enjoy waiting around for the repairperson and shelling out more money in labor cost than the price of the parts themselves. Yet so many people do, because the idea of home repair seems murky and intimidating. Here’s a trade secret: If you’re reading this, it’s entirely within your abilities to handle many small […]

Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only to you.  So while someone could get at your files if they know your password (the decryption key), they won’t be […]