This haptic shirt shocked me at CES and I’m not sure I hated it
Audio player loading… You and technology are the only reasons I’d endure being shocked by a haptic shirt at CES 2023. I visited OWO on the floor of CES to…
Backseat TVs That Roll Up Into the Roof of a Car Are My Childhood Dream Come True
CES is a mixed bag of technologies you’ll actually be able to buy in the coming year, and technologies you probably won’t see realized for another decade. LG’s display division…
The Cancellation of ‘1899’ Marks the End of Netflix’s Weird Era
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Earlier this week, Baran bo Odar and…
‘M3GAN’ Will Out-Earn ‘Avatar’ if There Is Any Justice in This World
There’s a movie genre I tend to find moderately amusing but cannot in good conscience respect: the meme flick. You know what I’m talking about. Snakes on a Plane. The Grumpy Cat…
Welcome to the Wet Hot AI Chatbot Summer
Late last year, I attended an event hosted by Google to celebrate its AI advances. The company’s domain in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood now extends literally onto the Hudson River, and about…
Algorithms Need Management Training, Too
The European Union is expected to finalize the Platform Work Directive, its new legislation to regulate digital labor platforms, this month. This is the first law proposed at the European Union…
Twitter Data Leak: What the Exposure of 200 Million User Emails Means for You
After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked…
The Best of CES 2023: Cars, PCs, Hearing Aids, and Wireless TVs
If you made the switch to an electric bike during the pandemic, then you want—nay, need and deserve—a bike that’s as safe and effective as your car. This week, Bosch introduced a new…
Smart Home, Health Tech, and Everything Else We Saw at CES
Michael Calore: Fantastic. Julian Chokkattu: Smart. Adrienne So: Because by God, I will not be standing in a line for terrible coffee for 20 minutes when I have to get…
Europe’s Plan to Become the First Climate-Neutral Continent
The European Union is sick of talking about climate change; now it wants to act. The world’s second-largest economy is attempting to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050…