Category: Technology

The day before the July release of Renaissance, Beyoncé’s seventh studio album, her management team announced in a press statement that the record would not include visuals as part of its rollout. “It is a chance again to be listeners and not viewers,” it read. The choice was odd, if a little disappointing, for the sole fact […]

All creative industries are bound by trends. Hollywood has its superhero blockbuster. The fashion world its seasonal wunderkind. Silicon Valley loves a disruptor. Before streaming’s age of excess, prestige dramas were all the rage in television. Increasingly, the machinations that help drive success in the music business—beyond sheer talent, of course—are determined by digital launching […]

To make similar changes to Google Assistant go to Settings > Google > Settings for Google Apps > Search, Assistant and Voice, and choose Google Assistant. You may want to tap Lock Screen and toggle on Assistant Reponses on Lock Screen. If you scroll down, you can also adjust the sensitivity, toggle on Continued Conversation, […]

Technologies enabled by quantum science will help researchers better understand the natural world and harness quantum phenomena to benefit society. They will transform health care, transportation, and communications, and enhance resilience to cyber threats and climate catastrophes. For example, quantum magnetic field sensors will enable functional brain imaging; quantum optical communications will permit encrypted communications; […]

For the past ten years, the biggest companies in the tech industry have effectively been allowed to mark their own homework. They’ve protected their power through extensive lobbying while hiding behind the infamous tech industry adage, “Move fast and break things.”  Food and beverage companies, the automotive industry, and financial services are all subject to […]

During its brutal war in Ukraine, Russian troops have burnt cities to the ground, raped and tortured civilians, and committed scores of potential war crimes. On November 23, lawmakers across Europe overwhelmingly labeled Russia a “state sponsor” of terrorism and called for ties with the country to be reduced further. The response to the declaration was instant. The European […]

There’s a hilarious illustration from Paris in late 1839, mere months after an early type of photograph called a daguerreotype was announced to the world, that warned what this tiny picture portended. In Théodore Maurisset’s imagination, the daguerreotype would bring about a collective hysteria, La Daguerréotypomanie, in which crazed masses arrive from the ends of the earth […]

A.I. ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALVARO DOMINGUEZ + OPEN AI/DALL-E 2 WIRED Issue: 28.09 PHOTOGRAPH: JESSICA PETTWAY Jessica Pettway, Photographer“The visual archive DALL-E is pulling from feels like one of the worst archives I’ve ever seen in terms of diversity in visual language and culture. When trying to make my piece, certain words and phrases weren’t returning […]

Whether you received some gift cards over the holidays or you’re still shopping for gifts for folks you’ll see later in the year, post-Christmas sales offer lots of opportunities to stretch your dollars. We’ve rounded up our favorite discounts below. Many of these sales will be extended for a few days, but shopping earlier generally […]

During the Covid-19 pandemic, digital health technologies transformed the way that many of us received health care, supercharging the uptake of digital tools such as telehealth platforms, mobile symptom trackers, and remote monitoring. However, the whole-scale adoption and impact of digital health technology in national health systems around the world has still not yet fully […]