Category Technology & Innovation

Rostislav Panev, a 51-year-old dual Russian and Israeli national who is accused of being a key developer for the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, has been extradited from Israel to the United States, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday.  Panev…

I wasn’t expecting to write about a smartphone that advertises itself as a tank, but here we are. Unihertz, the Chinese brand you probably know for making networking hardware and some of the most fascinating tiny smartphones, has announced the…

The Electric State is Netflix’s latest big-budget sci-fi adventure film. The movie, which premiered Friday on the streamer, is an adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s dystopian graphic novel. It takes viewers into an alternate version of 1994. It’s set in a very…

A Touch ID fingerprint reader is embedded in the power button; the headphone jack is gone; the iPad branding has been removed from the back; and there’s a USB-C port on the bottom (one benefit of upgrading for me—the old…

Over the past decade, encrypted communication has become the norm for billions of people. Every day, Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp keep billions of messages, photos, videos, and calls private by using end-to-end encryption by default—while Zoom, Discord, and various other…

Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter entirely. According to city records cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations…

So many things about Jar Jar Binks make him unique. That voice. His tongue. His ability to start a war with his stupidity. But more than any of it, it’s those eyes that really jump into your soul and scream…

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Mini Crossword featured one of those repeated…

Even when these AI search tools cited sources, they often directed users to syndicated versions of content on platforms like Yahoo News rather than original publisher sites. This occurred even in cases where publishers had formal licensing agreements with AI…

The SSA did not respond to a request from WIRED about what the DOGE operatives are working on inside the agency. In a Tuesday meeting, United States DOGE Service administrator Amy Gleason told staff that Musk-affiliated engineers and some legacy…