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Phones can adopt bigger batteries and better cameras, but laptops are still a thing. And in some months time, millions of users across the globe will have one more computer to consider: the just-announced Googlebook. It’s been 15 years since the start of the Chromebook era. Google says 2026 is the right time to revolutionize the genre again and move from the standard OS (operating system) to an intelligence system (I guess this one will be called IS).”We see an opportunity to rethink laptops again”, Google says.The company promises big things, mainly: the possibility to seamlessly hook up your Android…
The odds that the Trump family will launch a full-fledged prediction market product this year just plummeted.Last year, the Trump Media and Technology Group announced Truth Predict, a partnership with the cryptocurrency company Crypto.com. The initial announcement touted Truth Predict as a “new product” that would allow Truth Social users to make trades on sports, inflation, elections, and more through an “embedded” prediction market service. “For too long, global elites have closely controlled these markets—with Truth Predict, we’re democratizing information and empowering everyday Americans to harness the wisdom of the crowd, turning free speech into actionable foresight,” then-CEO Devin Nunes…
One does not simply walk into a boss fight with The Compiler in Cryo Archive. Marathon‘s end-game raid map requires multiple successful runs of collecting batteries, key cards, and hacking vaults before even attempting the final encounter. And players have to do all of this while also fighting off other human teams. It is a whole, very cool, very tense ordeal. So you can imagine how much it would suck to successfully complete it only to get killed by a random player exploiting an out-of-bounds trick to cause tragedy and chaos. Over the weekend, a streamer who goes by NAPainter loaded…
Secure messaging has long existed on both Android and iPhone, but conversations between the two platforms remained unprotected. This finally changes, as both Google and Apple start adopting encryption from May 11.End-to-end encryption for RCS messaging is hereBoth Apple and Android now support the updated RCS standard with end-to-end encryption. This move aims to finally retire legacy SMS, creating a private, secure way to communicate between devices. Although iMessage already uses end-to-end encryption and Google Messages supports it for RCS chats, cross-platform messages between Android phones and iPhones previously lacked this level of privacy. RCS chats are becoming encrypted. | Image…
Now that more than 100 passengers aboard a hantavirus-stricken luxury cruise ship have been evacuated, with 18 Americans in biocontainment units in Nebraska and Georgia, health officials around the world are working to monitor more than two dozen individuals who left the cruise and anyone with whom they might have come in close contact.So far, all of the 11 reported hantavirus cases are among passengers or crew on the ship, the World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Madrid on Tuesday. That includes three deaths resulting from the virus.Typically, hantaviruses are spread when contaminated…
It’s only Tuesday, and we’ve already seen multiple high-profile games leak before their release dates, including Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight and Forza Horizon 6. Well, you can add a third big-name game to that list, as multiple corners of the internet are reporting that Unknown Worlds Subnautica 2 has now also leaked online, a mere two days before its early-access release on May 14. It’s been a tumultuous year for Subnautica fans, as developer Unknown Worlds and publisher Krafton have been battling it out in the courts following reports that the developers of Subnautica 2 were denied…
The Apple Watch Series 11 is among the best smartwatches on the market, and you can currently snag one for a whole $100 off its price on Amazon. This lets you upgrade your wrist game with a brand-new 46mm GPS model for just south of $330.Keep in mind that this deal has been available for quite some time now. I don’t expect it to expire soon, but I still encourage you to save while you can. After all, no one knows how long this promo will last. The Apple Watch Series 11 definitely offers a ton of value and is…
Adam Strauss is standing in his New York City apartment, holding the limp cord of his headphones, trying to choose between the two MP3 players on his desk: the iPod and the iRiver, its Korean counterpart. He cues up the same song on each, toggling the silver plug of his headphones back and forth like a 1930s switchboard operator.He tries different songs, different genres, different instruments. The iRiver tends to sound better overall, but the iPod offers a little more nuance in the midrange. The iPod has a better battery life, but the iRiver still lasts eight hours—longer than he’s…
In the summer of 2003, college student Mara Whitefish and her friends venture outside the city to a party at the home of a successful young writer, one of many seizing the advent of online blogs to make a name for himself. Among the guests are people Mara knows well, people she’s only loosely connected to, and people she doesn’t know at all. During the day, a family can be seen in the yard, including two young children running and playing with boundless energy. By evening, the family has left, but playing as Mara, I noticed a new detail had…
If you’re a WIRED reader who uses AI in any creative context, I’d suggest staying far, far away from anyone involved in the TV show Hacks. In an interview earlier this year, actor Hannah Einbinder (who plays young comedy writer Ava Daniels on the show) described AI creators as “losers,” “not artists,” and “not special.”The show’s cocreators couldn’t agree more. In a wide-ranging conversation for The Big Interview ahead of the Hacks series finale on HBO Max, Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello were resolute about the value of human creativity—and what can be lost when AI enters the picture.If…