The new cooling system combines two nickel-titanium foils: a heat-responsive foil generates motion, which a second foil uses to produce cooling. Credit: Concept by Yi-Ting Hsiau and Jingyuan Xu, KIT; visual design by Ella Maru…
After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool from code that the company sends to a police officer’s…
Some in-game spending systems may encourage repeated purchases in ways that extend well beyond loot boxes. Credit: Shutterstock A game may be free to download, but for a small group of players, the spending can…
Leah Feiger: All right. Do you guys remember George Santos? Brian Barrett: How could I forget? Zoë Schiffer: Absolutely do, but wow, did not expect we would be talking about him again this soon, I…
Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company, said on Thursday afternoon that the issues with Grok resulted…
Did you buy a beanie from REI recently? The Department of Homeland Security might be looking for you. New court filings allege that Homeland Security Investigations agents subpoenaed the outdoor retailer in March, requesting the…
The OpenAI outage occurred around 11 a.m. ET on Thursday and impacted a slew of services, including search, file uploads, agents, GPTs, voice mode, image generation, ChatGPT work, Compliance API, Deep Research, ChatGPT Atlas, and…
Flock tells WIRED that officers cannot run searches using prohibited attributes including religion and nationality, and that an attempt to search prohibited terms “will be blocked.” Asked what circumstances produce a warning in those two…
TSMC, meanwhile, has a corporate commitment to trust, a promise recognized across the industry — even by Nvidia founder Jensen Huang. That trust extends into tomorrow, which is why TSMC invests vast sums in developing process technology…
This week, the US Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the US-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were “posing a physical threat to US military personnel and CBP partners,”…
