What Is Lyocell Fabric, and Is It Eco-Friendly?
I sleep on a lot of bedding. It comes with the territory when you test bed sheets and comforters for a living. I’ve slept on everything from bamboo and silk…
Spotify Will Brick Every ‘Car Thing’ It Ever Sold
Owners of Spotify’s soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open source the gadgets to save some the landfill. Spotify hasn’t responded to pleas to salvage the hardware,…
Man Charged After Trying to Body Slam an Orca in New Zealand
It turns out that killer wales do not like boats. They really don’t like them, in fact, and have made it their mission to sink them all to the bottom…
Taylor Swift’s Private Jet Will Be Harder to Track While Info About UFOs Might Be Easier to Get
Photo: Kevin Mazur (Getty Images), oby Sessions/T3 Magazine/Future (Getty Images), Win McNamee (Getty Images), Mark Peterson – Pool (Getty Images), Gregorio Borgia (AP), Manuel Balce Ceneta (AP), Screenshot: FOX5 /…
Only the Hardiest Trees Can Survive Today’s Urban Inferno
The rules for Toronto’s ravines are based on the idea that a species will develop traits specific to a location as they grow over many generations. As a result, trees…
Who’s Going to Buy Humane for a Billion Dollars?
Did you want AI? Microsoft is serving it to you with both hands.Photo: Microsoft Microsoft smells blood in the water, and it seems to be exclusively gunning for Apple’s latest…
Microsoft’s New Recall AI Tool May Be a ‘Privacy Nightmare’
Sex, drugs, and … Eventbrite? A WIRED investigation published this week uncovered a network of spammers and scammers pushing the illegal sale of controlled substances like Xanax and oxycodone, escort…
Spin of Supermassive Black Hole Measured at a Quarter the Speed of Light
An artist’s impression of Gilese 12 b in orbit around its red dwarf host star.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) A newly discovered exoplanet, with its surface temperature estimated to be remarkably…
Mexico Is So Hot, Monkeys Are Falling to Their Death From Trees
Since the 2000s, cacao production has declined, due to plant diseases and falling local prices, causing many people to turn their cacao farms into pasture. Valenzuela explains that this means…
Windows 11’s Recall feature is already running on unsupported CPUs – and it shows why this is a bad idea
Windows 11 enthusiasts are already playing with the new – and controversial – Recall feature the OS now has in preview (for 24H2), and have got it running on current…