While it’s true that many parents are doing their best to reduce screen time as much as possible, there’s something to be said for the Kindle Kids Edition. The best…

President Trump this morning randomly addressed a recent court ruling on net neutrality, calling it a “great win” that will “lead to many big things including 5G.” Perhaps he didn’t…

It has always been good advice to take what you see on the internet with a pinch of salt, but online video has lately become even less trustworthy. Deepfakes, clips altered or fabricated with an artificial intelligence technique called machine learning, make alternative realities easier to create and disseminate.In the video above, Sam Gregory, a…

A recent paper from Google’s quantum computing lab announced that the company had achieved quantum supremacy. Everyone has been talking about it, but what does it all mean?In 2012, I proposed the term “quantum supremacy” to describe the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers can’t, regardless of whether those tasks are…

It is refreshing to deal with a company that doesn’t find itself beholden to an arbitrary cycle of yearly updates, at least with smartwatches. Six months after Samsung released the Galaxy Active, it is now selling the upgrade, the Galaxy Active2.WIRED senior writer Lauren Goode liked the Galaxy Active; it’s a lightweight, attractive sports watch…

After more than a century of powering their wares with engines that produce hundreds of small, carefully controlled explosions each minute, the auto industry is moving toward a battery-driven future. But that doesn’t mean one without any helpful explosions. Last month, industry supplier Bosch revealed details on what it calls the pyrofuse, a new safety…

There's a certain kind of security threat that catches the headlines—the massive data breach, or the malware that holds your computer to ransom—but it's also important to keep your guard up against some of the lesser-known attacks out there too.These threats may not have the same high-level profile as an unfixable iOS bug, but they…

A recent study found that prehistoric babies drank milk from ceramic sippy cups, including some with cute animal motifs. Lest you be overwhelmed by the cuteness, there's a heartbreaking side to that discovery: Bronze and Iron Age parents buried their dead infants with their clay sippy cups.ARS TECHNICAThis story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a…

In 1972, NASA launched two twin probes, called Pioneer 10 and 11. These predecessors to the Voyager mission were the first to visit Jupiter and Saturn and to achieve the escape velocity required to leave the solar system (which they will both do one day, many thousands of years from now). The Pioneer probes were…

The theme of this week is by now a familiar one: "Things keep getting worse." Starting with the security of countless so-called real time operating systems that all share some variation on the same decades-old code. That makes them all vulnerable to the set of Urgent/11 vulnerabilities we had reported on just the other week.…