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Last weekend, Katie Santry joked on TikTok that her mysteriously cracked computer screen was the result of a haunting—and if it was connected to the mysterious rug she found buried in her back yard.

Privacy activist Max Schrems has won another legal fight against Meta, this time limiting how the company can use off-platform activity—and public statements—to target ads.

“I was loath to jump into it,” Black List founder Franklin Leonard says of expanding into publishing. “It’s not a great look to be like, ‘I'm from Hollywood and I'm here to save you.’”

Despite opposition from Germany, the European Union will start imposing tariffs as high as 45 percent on Chinese-made electric vehicles. Elon Musk’s marque takes the smallest hit.

Get your pictures off your phone and in front of your friends and family with these connected displays.

Whether you need a travel-friendly slate or something affordable for the kids, we tested every model to find the right one for every occasion.

The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.

Companies keep rolling out AI features that boil down various kinds of text. They're making us dumber.

Have you ever wondered how you can easily create command-line applications in Python? Gather yourself up because that is what I am going to cover today.

WIRED tried 3D-printed steaks that you can’t buy anywhere yet. But reducing food to a technological problem leaves a bitter taste, and delivers all the joy of licking a catering catalog.

After decades of relying on buttons, switches, and toggles, the Pentagon has embraced simple, ergonomic video-game-style controllers already familiar to millions of potential recruits.

This is new—but also very old.

A surveillance system proven during Covid-19 is now being used to track outbreaks of RSV.

Author(s): Michael Schirber

A short-lived combination of an electron and an antielectron has been cooled with lasers to near absolute zero—a step toward tackling fundamental questions about matter and antimatter.

[Physics 17, 145] Published Fri Oct 04, 2024

Neo-Nazis are joining SimpleX Chat, a relatively unknown app that received funding from Jack Dorsey and promises users there is no way for it or law enforcement to track their identity.

New vaccines could help stem the spread of respiratory syncytial virus, but there are already huge inequities in access and uptake.

Ice cream is deceptively simple, but that sweet burst of flavor and soft melt on the tongue is a finicky, frozen science of water, fat, and air delicately held together.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 41, October 2024.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 41, October 2024.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 41, October 2024.