Innovation
The Success of ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Is Already Influencing HBO’s Other ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Plans
Ever since Game of Thrones came to its controversial end, HBO has had grandiose plans, in scope and scale, for what it wants to get out of telling more stories...
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I Let Google’s ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn’t Quite Click
When I was finally able to experiment with Auto Browse (for real this time), I took Google’s suggestions of digital chores as my starting point and picked online tasks...
Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands | TechCrunch
Bluesky released its first transparency report this week documenting the actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results of other initiatives, like age-assurance compliance, monitoring of...
The Best Gadgets of January 2026
In the world of consumer tech, Christmas comes in January. Not literally, but CES, which takes place just after the New Year, tends to precipitate gadgets in volumes that...
We Found Two Theaters With Sold-Out ‘Melania’ Opening Day Screenings
Friday is the general release of the documentary Melania, a film about President Donald Trump’s third wife and first lady of the United States. A WIRED analysis shows that...
India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale | TechCrunch
As AI races into classrooms worldwide, Google is finding that the toughest lessons on how the tech can actually scale are emerging not from Silicon Valley, but from India’s...
Elon Musk Made Tesla Fans Think Unsupervised Robotaxis Had Arrived. They Can’t Find Them
“Just started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car,” Elon Musk wrote on X last Thursday. That post embedded a second post from the...
Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better | TechCrunch
Earlier this month, Meta laid off 10% of the staff for Reality Labs, its virtual reality unit, reportedly cutting as many as 1,000 employees. Now, in a development that...
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third...
How Winter Storm Fern Slowed Down the Bitcoin Network
The Bitcoin network hashrate, which is the amount of computing power that is pointed at the crypto network, saw a massive decline over the weekend, falling from just over...
