Category: Technology

When you buy something new—a new piece of apparel, some home decor, a set of speakers for your desk—you’re making several decisions at once about what your needs are and how the purchase is going to meet them. One thing that you’re hopefully thinking about more these days is what your purchase is doing to…

WIRED A faucet for Amazon content: If you subscribe to Amazon’s Prime service, you can consume all the included movies, music, TV, and books, shop for all the items you can get with its free two-day shipping, and browse your free Amazon photo storage. You can do most of the same things from an Android…

Now, Cognixion is bringing its AI communication app to the Vision Pro, which Forsland says has more functionality than the purpose-built Axon-R. “The Vision Pro gives you all of your apps, the app store, everything you want to do,” he says. Apple opened the door to BCI integration in May, when it announced a new…

Each of the new Nest cameras comes with six hours of event history in 10-second video clips for free, but if you want to unlock the AI capabilities, you’ll have to stump up for one of the new Google Home Premium subscription plans. Google is also partnering with third parties on more Gemini for Home-compatible…

Yeti Tundra Haul Durable. Multi-day ice melt time. Wheeled and handled. Heavy. 82 cans or 64 pounds of ice (55 quarts) 37 pounds 18.63″ D x 28.25″ W x 19.5″ H 5 (plus more limited-edition) Rotomolded Wheels, handle, drain plug, tie-down slots, replaceable parts. Bear-resistant (and bear-proof with the right locks) 5 years TBD TBD…

My home coffee setup is a complicated manual process, with a hand grinder, and a giant lever with a steampunk-like gauge on it. If you’re not like me, and don’t want to spend 15 minutes every day making your morning latte by hand, you might consider the De’Longhi Rivelia (7/10, WIRED Review) which is currently…

Regulation of dark patterns has been proposed and is being discussed in both the US and Europe. De Freitas says regulators also should look at whether AI tools introduce more subtle—and potentially more powerful—new kinds of dark patterns. Even regular chatbots, which tend to avoid presenting themselves as companions, can elicit emotional responses from users…

Thinking Machines Lab, a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product—a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models. “We believe [Tinker] will help empower researchers and developers to experiment with models, and will make frontier capabilities much more accessible to all people,” says…

Hi. it turns out Prime Day is only really a suggestion on the calendar. A lot of brands like to kick out early Prime Day deals before getting lost in the big din of Prime Big Deal Days on October 7-8. (See here for early Prime Day deals on laptops, earbuds, and more.) The two…

On Tuesday, OpenAI released an AI video app called Sora. The platform is powered by OpenAI’s latest video generation model, Sora 2, and revolves around a TikTok-like For You page of user-generated clips. This is the first product release from OpenAI that adds AI-generated sounds to videos. For now, it’s available only on iOS and…