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The Music Industry’s ’90s Hard Drives Are Dying
One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seei ...
The $129 AirPods 4 Have Features the $549 AirPods Max Don’t
Better sound, better ANC, better features? That sounds like a very tempting package indeed. But when it came to H1-packing AirPods Max, Apple quickly swept a ...
The Best Tested and Reviewed Mesh Wi-Fi Routers of 2024
Currently, there are four Eero systems on the market worth considering, offering a broadly similar experience. The first two are dual-band systems (2.4 GHz a ...
Beautiful 1.7-Liter Electric Kettle Review: When Form and Function Make Sense
my childhood was spent watching a lot of TV. Drew Barrymore’s films, specifically, played a crucial role in shaping who I am today—from Never Been Kissed and ...
Lockly Visage Zeno Series Smart Lock Review: Infrared Sensors for Face Detection
Do you wish your front door could see you coming? I certainly do, since I'm usually either wrangling a toddler (often in a swimsuit these days, and dragging ...
Yes, You Can Now Bet on Elections in the US
A federal judge has cleared the way for betting on election results in the US for the first time in the modern era, overturning a prohibition imposed on gamb ...
OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step
OpenAI made the last big breakthrough in artificial intelligence by increasing the size of its models to dizzying proportions, when it introduced GPT-4 last ...
27 Gifts Teens May Actually Like (2024)
Teenagers are intimidating. They speak their own language, blurt out confusing jokes, and somehow have always already seen the TikToks you send them. It can ...
How to Set Up Your New TV
Samsung S90D QD-OLED Photograph: Ryan WaniataTV Brightness (AKA Backlighting)Here, we’re talking about adjusting your TV’s lighting system for overall “lumin ...
How Useful Will Apple Intelligence Be? The Next iPhone Will Tell Us
On Monday, Apple held one of its splashy media events. This one was used to show off its next round of iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches. These are three o ...
Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You
THIS MONTH’S PROMPTIn six words, write a story about a new flavor.Disclaimer: All #WiredSixWord submissions become the property of WIRED. Submissions will no ...
An AI Bot Named James Has My Old Local News Job
It always seemed difficult for the newspaper where I used to work, The Garden Island on the rural Hawaiian island of Kauai, to hire reporters. If someone lef ...