Couple ditches Amazon Alexa — after ‘creepy’ chats with husband
Alexa, stay away from her husband. A TikToker evicted her Amazon home device equipped with Alexa after the female-voiced program started talking to her husband in the middle of the...
WIRED’s 2023 Year-in-Review Quiz | WIRED
2023 has been a year defined by artificial intelligence innovation, with OpenAI at the helm. An AI apocalypse didn’t collapse society into chaos, but everyone in Silicon Valley did try...
CES 2024 Preview: Get Ready for a ‘Tsunami’ of AI
If you’re waiting for the hubbub over generative AI to die down, maybe pull up a chair. The buzz around artificial intelligence shows no signs of quieting—a fact that will...
How machine learning might unlock earthquake prediction
In September 2017, about two minutes before a magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck Mexico City, blaring sirens alerted residents that a quake was coming. Such alerts, which are now available in...
Android users less attractive than iPhone owners, women say
Consider it a judgment call — some women find men who own a Google Android phone instead of an Apple iPhone less attractive. TikToker Travaine Barnett hit the streets in...
The top 10 emojis for 2023 revealed
These emojis got a major digital thumbs-up this year. An Irish emoji expert has revealed the 10 most popular emojis for 2023, which he believes reflect positively on digital discourse...
Google settles $5B lawsuit over tracking ‘incognito mode’ users
Google has agreed to settle a massive $5 billion lawsuit that accused the embattled tech giant of improperly tracking the personal data of millions of people who used its Chrome...
Google, Meta, other tech giants slash DEI-related jobs, resource groups in 2023: report
Tech giants, like Google and Meta, have slashed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in 2023 despite their commitments following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and riots. According to data provided...
iPhone alarm not going off? It could be this hidden setting
Good luck getting your boss to believe this one if you sleep in. iPhone users are lamenting that a subtle setting is causing their important clock alarms to not ring...
