The Galaxy Chromebook looks so good it actually rivals some Windows laptops I've seen recently. In addition to the eye-grabbing screen, the laptop's 9.9mm profile and super thin 3.9mm bezels give it a clean, minimal aesthetic that you'll also find on Samsung's Galaxy Book S, Flex and Ion. I'm pleased that the company has been…

Monday, January 6, 2020. By Tom Chitty, with cartooncollections.com. Resolve to surf the web more securely in 2020: Switch to a privacy browser. Every weekday, WIRED publishes a new cartoon about the worlds of science and technology. Check back here for more laughs throughout the rest of the week. And if that's still not enough,…

In December 2018, Canada and France announced plans for a new international body to study and steer the effects of artificial intelligence on the world’s people and economies.Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said the International Panel on Artificial Intelligence would be established by the Group of Seven leading western economies and play a role in…

Forget everything you think you know about inbox zero: it's completely and utterly wrong.Wired UKThis story originally appeared on WIRED UK.Merlin Mann, the lifestyle "guru" who invented the concept of inbox zero in the early noughts, claims people took his idea far too literally. They advocated treating work emails like a never-ending task to be…

The Wildwoods is the collective name for a cluster of small shore towns spread across a five-mile-long barrier island in southern New Jersey. The area first developed into a major summer tourism destination in the 1950s when brothers Lou and Will Morey, inspired by a visit to Miami’s South Beach, started building motels on the…

Internet shutdowns are an increasingly popular tool for digital repression. It’s what many in wealthy, liberal democratic countries can’t ever imagine happening—authorities blocking access to social media or services like WhatsApp, or even cutting internet access altogether, in the wake of mass assemblies, protests, or unrest.These shutdowns have happened in Egypt, Zimbabwe, Iraq, and many…

On the one hand, it’s a shiny, new decade (unless you’re a pedant), with all the excitement, tabulae rasae, and perspective that brings. The roundness of the zeroes in 2020 feel very open from here: What’s next for transportation in this strange, surprising world?On the other, it’s business as usual, with Tesla reporting this week…

In case anyone wondered if 2020—just days old as you read this, as fresh as the blessed Baby Yoda himself—would bring with it a bright new future or the promise of dystopia, we have some news for you: As of this writing, Twitter's top trending topics include “#WWIII” and “#WorldWarThree.” So, yeah, it's looking like…

Dark energy, mysterious as it sounds, has become part of the furniture in cosmology. The evidence that this repulsive energy infuses space has stacked up since 1998. That was the year astronomers first discovered that the expansion of the universe has been speeding up over time, with dark energy acting as the accelerator. As space…

Happy New Year! Well, it was for a day or two, anyway. But after the US assassinated Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike, experts warned that the likely retaliation could include disruptive cyberattacks, along with more traditional strikes. It's an alarming start to the year, especially as tensions continue to escalate.Elsewhere in…