Facebook Freeloads Off Newspapers. This Plan Might Stop It
What happened next, though, was telling: The Australian measure passed—and Google and Facebook did indeed pay up, remunerating Australian news companies for hundreds of millions of...
Why Jann Wenner Let WIRED Start the Rolling Stone of Tech
Rock idols, movie stars, and presidential candidates who quoted Bob Dylan—not tech giants—were Rolling Stone’s stock in trade. Wenner knew Steve Jobs and noted some similarities—when...
It’s Time to Reframe the Story of Climate Inequity
In 2011, DTE Energy Company removed 1,200 streetlights from the city of Highland Park, Michigan. A Black working-class suburb of Detroit that was once a boom...
One Solution to the Food Waste Problem: Eat Your Garbage
The villains of climate change tend be what we put out: carbon-spewing cars, soot-emitting power plants, farting cows. So it follows that we might make a...
How Bots Corrupted Advertising
When Aleksandr Zhukov went on trial last year, he stood accused of defrauding US companies, including The New York Times and pet care brand Purina, out...
Google Borrows From TikTok to Keep Gen Z Searching
In July, the Google executive who oversees the company’s lucrative and dominant search engine made a surprising admission. Younger users were diverting questions that would once...
Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With ‘Ambient Intelligence’
That project is now personified by today’s announcement of Halo Rise, the $140 “no-contact bedside sleep tracker, smart alarm and wake-up light” that picks up signals...
Amazon Wants Its Home Robot to Anticipate Your Every Need
The same approach to teaching Astro with gestures and words could in the future be extended to all kinds of furniture and objects in a home,...
AI Hub AI Hub / Application / Personal assistant AI Hub / Application / Robotics AI Hub / Application / Surveillance AI Hub / End User / Consumer AI Hub / Sector / Consumer services AI Hub / Source Data / Sensors AI Hub / Source Data / Speech AI Hub / Technology / Natural language processing AI Hub / Technology / Robotics Business Business / Artificial Intelligence Game Home Help Science Sports Tech
The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team
I turn my attention to Dublin, where I find Fabian (not his real name), a former moderator who, until earlier this year, worked for Twitter via...
This Student’s Side Project Will Help Decide Musk vs. Twitter
August 5 was not a normal day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court published Elon Musk’s argument on why he should...