High-Tech Cars Are Killing the Auto Repair Shop
That investment can be worth it for a business that intends to stay open for a while, but many auto shop owners are nearing retirement. A...
I Uncovered an Army of Fake Men on Hinge
Whaling also said that many of the company’s apps ask users to take profile photos within the app itself, so that automated tools can compare the...
Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update...
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...
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...
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...