Innovation
Disturbing Cryotherapy Incident Leaves Woman Dead and Another Injured
A malfunctioning cryotherapy machine seems to have led to the tragic death of a 29-year-old woman in Paris, France, this week. The unusual death occurred Monday evening at the...
Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins
The anonymous image board 4chan has survived years of controversy. It weathered user and advertiser boycotts as well as damning accusations that it incubated hate speech that may have...
Lucid’s Gravity, a Fast and Capacious Luxury SUV, Is ‘Tesla Done Right’
So Lucid developed a proprietary “boost” technology—it declined to give WIRED precise details—to raise incoming 500-volt power to match the pack’s 926 volts. It says only that it uses...
Publishing platform Medium says it’s sticking with DEI | TechCrunch
Publishing platform Medium says it’s still committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), even as many other U.S. tech companies have scaled back their efforts in this space to...
A small US city experiments with AI to find out what residents want
The volunteers running the experiment were not completely hands-off. Submitted ideas were screened according to a moderation policy, and redundant ideas were not posted. Ford says that 51% of...
Dutch neobank Bunq advances US expansion, files for new licence
Dutch neobank Bunq, Europe’s second-largest digital bank, is gearing up to expand across the Atlantic. The fintech company has filed for a broker-dealer licence with US regulators, completing the...
Trump White House defies court order, bars Associated Press from Oval Office event
Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from the Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart...
The Download: tracking the evolution of street drugs, and the next wave of military AI
In 2021, the Maryland Department of Health and the state police were confronting a crisis: Fatal drug overdoses in the state were at an all-time high, and authorities didn’t...
LinkedIn’s AI action figure fad is ‘obviously unsustainable,’ warns UK tech mogul
If you’ve been scrolling social media over the past week, you may have noticed miniature action figure versions of friends, family, or colleagues neatly wrapped in a blister pack....
A New Mexico Man Faces Federal Charges for Allegedly Setting Fire to a Tesla Showroom
A New Mexico man is facing federal charges for two separate incidents of alleged arson—one at an Albuquerque Tesla showroom and one at the New Mexico Republican Party’s office—according...
