Category: Technology

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. The predictions are in. As of this writing, Avatar: The Way of Water is expected to bring in between $150 million and $175 million in North America this weekend. Those are hefty sums, […]

When WIRED asked me to cover this week’s newsletter, my first instinct was to ask ChatGPT—OpenAI’s viral chatbot—to see what it came up with. It’s what I’ve been doing with emails, recipes, and LinkedIn posts all week. Productivity is way down, but sassy limericks about Elon Musk are up 1000 percent. I asked the bot […]

Once it is folded up, it’s not comfortable to carry; the wheels don’t stay closed together (unlike the Montague M-E1) and the grab handle is tiny, so my knuckles bang against the metal frame. Yowch. It’s great that I can fold this ebike up and store it in my living room, but I just wish […]

There are a lot of umbrellas out there, and we’re always testing more. Here are a few others we like that didn’t quite make our list of top picks. Blunt Metro for $89: The Metro is the more compact and slightly lighter-weight version of the Blunt Coupe up above. It automatically opens (and manually closes) […]

Northern Square was not the only account reviving the lo-fi, nostalgic aesthetic from China’s more hopeful and democratic past. Pages like @beijing_silvermine, and @beijing_in_springtime all became popular in the Chinese Instagram community during the early pandemic. It was my first time seeing these gentle, yet refreshing images from a time that was collectively hushed due to complex […]

Image: Ivan Pantic/Getty Images Facebook parent Meta has announced a raft of new security support initiatives, including Instagram’s new account support service that helps users who’ve had their accounts compromised.   Instagram has rolled out the page — instagram.com/hacked — where users can go if they can’t log in to their account. Whatever the cause, be it […]

Pros Elegant design, solid build Flexible screen hinge Excellent 28-inch 3:2 screen Good GPU performance Three Thunderbolt 4 ports Cons 11th-generation rather than 12th-generation CPU Screen bezels could be narrower No SD card reader Launched back in October 2018, Microsoft’s Surface Studio 2, a 28-inch all-in-one (AIO) computer, was well received. However, by 2022 it had […]

When GoPro announced the new Hero 11 Black earlier this year, it also announced a brand new camera as well: the GoPro Hero 11 Mini. Its release was slightly delayed but it’s now finally shipping. Unfortunately, its existence makes buying a GoPro more complicated than it used to be. The GoPro Hero 11 Mini is […]

Browder of DoNotPay is not the only person who sees ChatGPT and the technology behind it as a way to automate persuasion. One doctor posted a video on Twitter showing how the bot might write a letter to help convince an insurer to pay for a certain procedure, even citing scientific literature, albeit with dubious accuracy. […]

Remote work. Competitive salaries. A streamlined hiring process. They’re all perks being offered to prospective tech workers from an unlikely employer: the US government.  Soaring Silicon Valley salaries, perks, and stocks have allowed Big Tech companies to lure the industry’s top employees for years while government jobs sat open. But as companies like Meta, Amazon, […]