Best website builders for photographers in 2020 Dunked
Plenty of online tools will help you create a website in just a few minutes with just a few clicks, but they’re not all geared towards helping photographers – those…
If Done Right, AI Could Make Policing Fairer
We work closely with the clinicians, including nurses and doctors. We understood their eagerness to help improve clinical practice, but also to protect and respect privacy. So we chose to…
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journals Don’t Really Do Their Job
Less than a month later, this got me into trouble. Apparently I had upset some Very Important People by “desk-rejecting” their papers, (which means I turned them down on the…
Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health
It’s 11:37 pm and the pattern shows now signs of shifting. At 1:12 am, it’s more of the same. Thumb down, thumb up. Twitter, Instagram, and—if you’re feeling particularly wrought/masochistic—Facebook.…
One of Klipsch’s Google Speakers Is Half Off Right Now
When it comes to smart assistants, we like Google Assistant over Amazon’s Alexa here at WIRED. It’s easier to set up and is just better at answering voice questions, hands-free.…
The 15 Best Cloth Face Masks: Ones We Actually Like to Wear
Adrienne So is a senior writer for WIRED and reviews consumer technology. She graduated from the University of Virginia with bachelor’s degrees in English and Spanish, and she worked as…
Scientists Taught Mice to Smell an Odor That Doesn’t Exist
When neuroscientists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel wanted to figure out how the brain parses its visual environment, they went as simple as they could go. In a Harvard lab…
Why Massive Saharan Dust Plumes Are Blowing Into the US
It doesn’t help matters for any budding hurricanes that the dust in the SAL is absorbing heat from the sun as it travels across the Atlantic, creating still more atmospheric…
How Thousands of Misplaced Emails Took Over This Engineer’s Inbox
Two weeks ago, longtime software engineer Kenton Varda got an email that wasn’t meant for him. It was from AT&T Mexico to a customer named Jorge, whose most recent phone…
Google will now auto-delete new users’ history after 18 months by default
Yesterday, Google announced several changes to how they handle your personal data related to your Google accounts. The company revealed several tweaks ranging from easier access to incognito mode to…