People are struggling to use Tesla’s Smart Summon feature safely

CleanTechnica posted an article this week showcasing 10 videos of Tesla owners testing out the feature, all of which included relatively successful outcomes accompanied by amused amazement. Elon Musk himself retweeted the post. Elsewhere, however, things haven't gone so smoothly. One Twitter user shared a video showing a near miss at an intersection, where the…

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TiVo Edge DVR adds Dolby Vision to become the ultimate binge box

Both of them have Dolby Atmos capabilities for three-dimensional sounds and -- for the first time in TiVo boxes' history -- Dolby Vision HDR for rich and sharp pictures. They also have access to TiVo's OnePass, which can line up all the episodes for a title regardless of the source. Say, only the show's first…

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Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk

In early August, the enterprise security firm Armis got a confusing call from a hospital that uses the company's security monitoring platform. One of its infusion pumps contained a type of networking vulnerability that the researchers had discovered in a few weeks prior. But that vulnerability had been found in an operating system called VxWorks—which…

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UPS Now Runs the First Official Drone Airline

America’s newest airline will never cram you into a too-tight seat. It won’t charge too much money for too-terrible food. It won’t strand you on the tarmac without explanation. Actually, it won’t carry you anywhere at all—but it might someday carry your stuff. Today, UPS announced that its drone service is the first of its…

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Whoa! Is That Death Star Wreckage on That Planet?

Near the end of the teaser for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, there’s something very interesting—towering chunks of a Death Star, rising like mountains from a blustery sea. Oh, there's no doubt. It's a Death Star. We can argue about which Death Star, the one from Episode IV or the one from Episode VI,…

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One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack

In May 2019, WIRED joined the One Free Press Coalition, a united group of preeminent editors and publishers using their global reach and social platforms to spotlight journalists under attack worldwide. Today, the coalition is issuing its eighth monthly “10 Most Urgent” list of journalists whose press freedoms are being suppressed or whose cases demand…

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Netflix, Save Yourself and Give Me Something Random to Watch

This story is part of a series on how we watch stuff—from the emotional tug of Facebook video series to crappy captions on YouTube.In the language of interface design, the row of TV shows and movies chasing across a streaming service’s home screen—Netflix, Amazon Prime, Crunchyroll, whatever—is called a carousel. I’m not sure whether, in…

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Everything You Need to Enjoy One Tech-Free Day a Week

I’ve often wished there were a remote control for real life that let you fast forward through the unpleasant parts and pause on the good stuff. There’s not, but there is a practice that will put you back in control of your time. To explain, I need to hit rewind.Ten years ago, everything in my…

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The Timeless Futurism of Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Frankissstein’

Jeanette Winterson is a timeless writer. It's not that her work transcends the ages—though it easily could—but rather that her novels are rarely bound by setting. Written on the Body feels fairly modern but, aside from its queer themes and learned discussion of cancer, is a love story that could have happened in any time.…

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The Problem With YouTube’s Terrible Closed ‘Craptions’

This story is part of a series on how we watch stuff—from the emotional tug of Facebook video series to the delight of Netflix randomness.If you rely on YouTube’s captions, good luck. In a recent random sample, the common phrase “You’re on your own” was captioned “You won you’re wrong.” “Ethan has to leave” came…

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