Hard to say when my brain became cyborg. I noticed it during the pandemic. We were, around the globe, flipping out. I was in the middle of changing legs. My old leg, an Ottobock C-Leg, began to make whirring noises. I could hear my leg thinking, or whatever the word is for when our machine […]

The problem with luxury smartwatches is that they won’t last forever—a point WIRED’s reviews editor Julian Chokkattu raised as Tag Heuer launched its Connected watch back in 2020. High-end brands are asking you to pony up well north of $1,000 for a watch with a battery that cannot be replaced and will eventually degrade. But […]

If you’re switching from an iPhone, install the Google Drive app. In the Google Drive app on your iPhone, go to Settings, Backup, and choose everything you want to save and move across to your new phone. You should also go to your iPhone Settings and turn off iMessage and FaceTime, otherwise, you might miss […]

Phylogeny can only tell scientists so much, though. The team wondered if differences might come down to the animals’ neurophysiology. But they weren’t sure which aspect of the brain to measure. In the past, researchers often used an animal’s total brain volume as a proxy for cognitive power. Basically, the bigger the better. But when […]

Appointment Slots, the corporate offering, looks dated compared to Appointment Schedule. It’s also much less configurable—you can’t add custom question fields, for example, and there’s no way to automatically add a video call. So, to review: Individual Google users, basically anyone with an @gmail.com email address, can pay to upgrade to Google Workspace Individual. This […]

When the pandemic hit the US in March 2020, public health officials told people to stay home. But many couldn’t. Essential workers—grocery store cashiers, health care workers, cooks, drivers, and chefs—continued to punch in every day. Others went out for groceries, or doctors’ appointments, or to take kids to school. So all over the US, […]

The race is on to cash in on the metaverse hype. Last week, Microsoft described its $68.7 billion takeover of gaming studio Activision Blizzard—a move that would have usually been interpreted as the Xbox maker simply expanding in the gaming sector—as a way to create the “building blocks for the metaverse.” Meta—which rebranded from Facebook […]

Big Tech as we know it was built on the ethos of subverting sanctity. Ideas, institutions, service delivery, how I make my chai—nothing could be beyond the reach of technological disruption. In this vision, the tech company was the lean, scrappy, innovative underdog taking on the powerful, entrenched status quo, freeing the consumer from the […]

“There could also be wider ramifications,” he continues. “For example, pheromones are airborne odors produced by one insect to attract a mate of the same species, and, if pheromone communication is disrupted in a similar way, it could result in insects struggling to find mates, which could have ramifications for insect biodiversity.” In fact, a […]

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