Five years ago, experts thought the phone would be the interface to everything. That's not the case anymore. The post All That New Google Hardware? It's a Trojan Horse for AI appeared first on WIRED.
A month ago, Bethesda announced that it was abandoning plans to add mod support to the PS4 versions of Fallout 4 and the upcoming remastered version of Skyrim. Today, however, the developer says that both games will be getting support for mods on Sony’s console.
If the control method for all your smart home technology has to be constantly charged or plugged in, it's going to limit your flexibility when it comes to setting things up. Panasonic, however, is looking to improve on that with its new wireless and batteryless switch technology that the company unveiled at CEATEC 2016.
Yesterday, a very aggressive and very secret surveillance operation was abruptly made public. According to an exclusive Reuters report, Yahoo complied with a government order last year asking the company to scan all incoming emails for a specific string of characters — effectively surveilling hundreds of millions of users in search of a single phrase or snippet of code. In a statement this morning, Yahoo
It isn’t quite as lovable as the spherical droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but this robot from Carnegie Mellon University has the benefit of being more than a special effect (however cool). And believe it or not, it basically has no moving parts. Read More
There are a number of ways to save links from the web for later access, whether that’s marking articles to read later via apps like Instapaper or Pocket, pinning shopping inspiration to Pinterest, creating playlists on YouTube, or even just using a browser’s bookmarking feature. But a new app called Stash, available for both iOS and Android, wants to offer a better link-saving… Read More
Great success! The post Blue Origin’s Escape Pod Worked, and, Bonus! The Rocket Didn’t Go Kaboom appeared first on WIRED.
The hacking group OurMine defaced or removed multiple BuzzFeed articles including one published yesterday, which presented evidence that it is not a group but a single teenage hacker. The post Hack Brief: Hackers Breach BuzzFeed in Retaliation for Exposé appeared first on WIRED.
People who used Fitbits cost their employer nearly 25 percent less in health care costs, according to a new study from Fitbit. At first blush this appears to be a tantalizing result for companies looking to save money, but a closer look shows that gains aren’t as dramatic as they appear.
Competition breeds progress, so it’s a bit thrilling to hear Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg say that he’s going to beat SpaceX to Mars in terms of delivering real humans to the surface of the red planet. Muilenburg said that he’s “convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing rocket,” speaking at a conference in Chicago… Read More
