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Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Baidu unveils smart glasses powered by its Ernie LLM that aim to “become a private assistant” by tracking calories, playing music, and more, launching in 2025  —  Launch comes as Chinese internet groups jostle for dominance in hardware  —  Baidu has unveiled artificial intelligence …

There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, they release a soup of […]

As a teenager living in a small village in what was then Yugoslavia, Admir Masic witnessed the collapse of his home country and the outbreak of the Bosnian war. When his childhood home was destroyed by a tank, his family was forced to flee the violence, leaving their remaining possessions to enter a refugee camp […]

Our top office chair and standing desk recommendations are on sale through December 2.

The annual UN climate summit has kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, with lofty goals, but many global leaders missing.

There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $150 to $500—stood up to WIRED’s testing.

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Alameda Research co-CEO Sam Trabucco has agreed to hand over a slew of properties, including his yacht, to FTX creditors as part of a November 3 settlement deal  —  – Former Alameda Research co-CEO reached a settlement deal  —  Sam Trabucco, one of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle …

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: An indictment against two men suspected of hacking Snowflake clients, including AT&T, says the pair and their co-conspirators extorted at least 36 bitcoins  —  The indictment also charges a second hacker that 404 Media previously reported as being linked to the AT&T breach.

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Canadian digital bank Neo Financial raised a CA$360M Series D from Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, and others  —  Shopify, Slack, PointClickCare, Roblox founders back FinTech scaleup’s fast growth.  —  Calgary and Winnipeg-based challenger bank Neo Financial …

Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the words “man” or “men” than “woman” or “women”, raising fears of bias

Learn from women who’ve gone all in.

A study of over 1 million job listings posted before and after the introduction of major gen AI tools reveals the effect they’re having on gig workers.

Three reflective exercises to help you become a more confident, effective public speaker.

New MacBooks are here. Having a hard time choosing which Apple laptop to buy? Let us help.

Last week’s US election will affect the future for all of us. Here’s how we’ll cover it.

The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.

Callan Quinn / CoinDesk: FTX sues crypto trader “Humpy the Whale” alleging margin trading market manipulation from January 2021 to September 2022, leading to FTX and Alameda losing $1B  —  The suit also links him to organized crime in Eastern Europe and terrorist groups.

a16z crypto: a16z says it is “very optimistic” that the US government will “foster innovation” in crypto and there is a “pathway for constructive engagement” with regulators  —  Miles Jennings Michele Korver Brian Quintenz  —  We’ve been flooded with crypto founders asking us …

Bloomberg: How Swiggy beat Amazon to fast grocery deliveries in India by using an army of gig workers, mini-warehouses, and notable investors, ahead of its November 13 IPO  —  It has an army of gig workers, a fleet of mini-warehouses and big-name investors.  But a knockout trading debut isn’t a guarantee.

Whether you’re setting out before dawn for that epic summit or need some light during a power outage, these are the best flashlight and headlamps you can buy.

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find those worth your money.

There are many kinds of mothers, but these are our favorite picks for the WIRED mom in your life.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about Firefox’s 20th birthday, growth due to the EU’s DMA, privacy, the Google search deal, AI, and more  —  Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser.  At the time, you could download it or buy …

Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: Gurman: the second generation Apple Vision Pro may arrive between the fall of 2025 and spring of 2026 and could feature an M5 around when the first Macs get it  —  In the latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reported that the 2nd generation of Apple Vision Pro is […]

Taylor Lorenz / User Mag: Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights the shift toward a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum  —  Over the past several days, Meta’s Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies.

Oral phenylephrine was shown to be ineffective for treating nasal congestion over a year go. This week, the FDA took the first steps toward removing it from pharmacy shelves.

Washington Post: Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters  —  Artificial intelligence was predicted to disrupt the 2024 election.  It ended up shaking people’s faith in truth rather than changing minds.

James Zou / Nature: A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7%-17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs  —  Since the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was released in late 2022, computer scientists have noticed a troubling trend …

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI companies create their own internal benchmarks as new models approach or exceed 90% accuracy on existing public tests  —  Rapidly advancing technology is surpassing current methods of evaluating and comparing large language models

Stay hydrated in style and cut down on single-use plastic with our favorite bottles—now updated with information on lead.

These WIRED-tested slates let you take the world’s library anywhere.

TCL’s midrange TV is a top performer with one major caveat.

The Information: Sources: the jump in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is far smaller than the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4; Orion may not outperform predecessors in tasks like coding  —  The number of people using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products is soaring.  The rate of improvement …

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT’s launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools  —  Chegg’s stock is down 99%, and students looking for homework help are defecting to ChatGPT  —  Most companies are starting to […]

Bloomberg: FTX sues Anthony Scaramucci, Crypto.com, Zuckerberg’s FWD.US, and others to recoup SBF’s “investments” as part of his “campaign of influence-buying” in 2022  —  – Lawsuit says $67 million was invested into Skybridge endeavors  — FTX Says investments conveyed ‘little to no benefit’

Hollywood has been imagining the impact AI might have on our lives for decades, but how accurate are these portrayals?

Zebra mussels, hydrilla, and now a water flea have made their homes in New Croton Reservoir.

Citadel: Diana, The Boys, and Fallout are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

Plus: Hot Topic confirms a customer data breach, Germany arrests a US citizen for allegedly passing military secrets to Chinese intelligence, and more.

Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: The 2024 US election cycle showed how crypto has turned out to be a practically perfect special interest group for an era of unlimited corporate spending  —  The industry made a $135 million bet on the election.  It paid off spectacularly.  —  On Nov. 5, a few dozen Bitcoiners …

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Ethereum Foundation financial report: $970.2M in treasury as of Oct. 31, down from $1.6B in March 2022; ~80% of holdings in ETH, which declined 20%+ since 2022  —  The foundation has spent roughly $240 million since March 2022, and holds most of its treasury in ether, which has slid roughly 22% […]

Nikkei Asia: Tencent partners with Visa to launch a palm biometric authentication payment service at stores and restaurants in Singapore, its first expansion outside China  —  GUANGZHOU — China’s Tencent Holdings announced that it is partnering with Visa to launch a palm biometric authentication payment service …

Swifties say they’re leaving X over Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump’s win.

A judge tossed out a case against OpenAI brought by Alternet and Raw Story, in what could be a significant ruling in the larger battle between AI companies and publishers.

TV brands are taking prices down a notch ahead of Black Friday for some of the best deals of the year.

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: A Michigan man, a member of an online terrorist network called 764, is sentenced to 30 years in prison for preying on kids in Discord servers and chat rooms  —  A Michigan man who ran chat rooms and Discord servers targeting children playing online games and coercing them into self-harm […]

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Google rolls out its Gemini-powered Vids app that lets users create video presentations using a prompt, with full access for Workspace users until at least 2026  —  Google is generally rolling out its Gemini AI-powered Vids app that lets you create video presentations using a prompt.

Liz Young / Wall Street Journal: Amazon is testing grocery formats that pull together fulfillment networks for Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh stores into a common delivery platform  —  The e-commerce giant is testing store formats that more seamlessly align online fulfillment and in-person shopping

Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a possible shortcut for training robots faster and more accurately

Gene Keselman wears a lot of hats. He is a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the executive director of Mission Innovation Experimental (MIx), and managing director of MIT’s venture studio, Proto Ventures. Colonel in the Air Force Reserves at the Pentagon, board director, and startup leader are only a few of the […]