Someone Has to Deliver Your Packages in This Scorching Heat
On the day that Salem, Oregon, smashed the record for the highest known temperature west of the Cascade Mountains two summers ago, FedEx driver Austin Trent...
This Is the Era of Zombie Twitter
The bird is dead, but zombie Twitter is not. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, the platform has survived rate-limiting, massive staff cuts, suspensions of journalists, hemorrhaging...
Uber’s Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison
While Vasquez and Uber may find some closure in the plea deal, self-driving expert Bryant Walker Smith says the NTSB should revisit the Slack issue to...
Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I...
I Looked Into Sam Altman’s Orb and All I Got Was This Lousy Crypto
“We don’t take ID or anything. So long as you look over 18, we scan your iris,” said Ana Howard, the contractor hired to lead onboarding...
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’ billions of...
Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
“I think there are unanswered questions about whether these effects would hold outside of the election environment, whether they would hold in an election where Donald...
More Battlefield AI Will Make the Fog of War More Deadly
The United States military is not the unrivaled force it once was, but Alexandr Wang, CEO of startup Scale AI, told a congressional committee last week...
Israel’s Tech Companies Are Fighting Netanyahu—or Leaving the Startup Nation
Wix says it’s staying. “We’ll stay here and fight for what’s right,” Nir Zohar, co-founder and chief operations officer, told WIRED in an interview in May....