For much of the past decade, Airbnb and New York City have been embroiled in a high-profile feud. Airbnb wants legitimacy in its biggest market. City officials want to limit home-sharing platforms, which they argue exacerbate the city’s housing crisis and pose safety risks by allowing people to transform homes into illegal hotels. Paris Martineau Read more about Airbnb and New York City Reach a Truce on Home-Sharing Data[…]
Last week, Mona Lisa smiled. A big, wide smile, followed by what appeared to be a laugh and the silent mouthing of words that could only be an answer to the mystery that had beguiled her viewers for centuries. Click Here: A great many people were unnerved. Gregory Barber covers cryptocurrency, blockchain, and artificial intelligence Read more about Deepfakes Are Getting Better. But They're Still Easy to Spot[…]
The Memorial Day weekend begins on a dire note for constitutional protections. On Thursday, the US government indicted Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for violating the Espionage Act. This is the first time in modern history that the US has charged the publisher of sensitive materials rather than the person who leaked it. The charges stunned Read more about Security News This Week: Snapchat Employees Reportedly Spied on Private Snaps[…]
This week we’re putting galaxies at center stage. There’s plenty of room; by now you may have heard that our universe is expanding, and will continue to move outward for all of time, until there isn’t any more time. But: In its early days, before the universe began expanding, it was much more compact. Massive Read more about Space Photos of the Week: Bumper-Car Galactica[…]
US wireless carriers like T-Mobile and Verizon go out of their way to make expensive smartphones seem affordable. Why not buy a $1,000 Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus if you only have to pay $0 down and $30 a month for it? Whether you pay it at once or in 24 installments, you’re still blowing hundreds Read more about The 7 Best Cheap Phones for (Almost) Every Budget[…]
A little over half a century ago, chaos started spilling out of a famous experiment. It came not from a petri dish, a beaker or an astronomical observatory, but from the vacuum tubes and diodes of a Royal McBee LGP-30. This “desk” computer—it was the size of a desk—weighed some 800 pounds and sounded like Read more about These Hidden Women Helped Invent Chaos Theory[…]
Password managers are the vegetables of the internet. We know they're good for us, but most of us are happier snacking on the password equivalent of junk food. For seven years running that's been "123456" and "password"—the two most commonly used passwords on the web. The problem is, most of us don't know what makes Read more about The 4 Best Password Managers to Secure Your Digital Life[…]
Man, it's been a long week. Does anyone even remember it started with former White House counsel Don McGahn defying a Congressional subpoena at this point? Or that New York State had effectively closed a legal loophole that would allow them to charge people President Trump pardoned on a federal level? Does anyone recall the Read more about While You Were Offline: Trump and Pelosi's War of Words Continues[…]
This week, WIRED Transpo checked out a few bits of tech that might not sound alluring—but oh, magic lives in the details. General Motors’ new electronic platform should unlock a whole new world of in-car software, at exactly the moment when customers begin to expect their vehicles’ gizmos run even more smoothly than their phones. Read more about Elon Musk Gets a Boring Customer and More This Week in Car News[…]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Considering everything that has happened, including a difficult 10-inning loss on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium to the lowly Royals, the Yankees are heading into Memorial Day having weathered a terrific storm of injuries and will be toting an impressive 34-18 record back to Yankee Stadium to play the Padres. Finally, there Read more about Aaron Judge revelation is cure to Yankees’ abrupt anguish[…]