Porn Sites Still Won’t Take Down Nonconsensual Deepfakes
Hundreds of explicit deepfake videos featuring female celebrities, actresses, and musicians are being uploaded to the world’s biggest pornography websites…
6 Kids School Supplies for Online Distance Learning
Every school has its own tech requirements, which makes it difficult to make specific PC recommendations. Be sure to check…
Can Australia Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News?
That just price is intended to result from negotiations between the online platforms and media companies. Should they fail to…
California Lawmakers Push for More Diversity in the Boardroom
AB979 is a robust approach to a long-standing problem but raises a complicated question: Who counts as an underrepresented minority?…
The 10 Best Portable Coffee Makers (2020): All-in-Ones, French Presses, and More
There are three basic, vital coffee brewing tips I’ll impart. Find good, fresh beans: Great coffee starts with high-quality beans.…
The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California
In their model, 25 days of relentless rains overwhelm the Central Valley’s flood-control infrastructure. Then large swaths of the northern…
The Excellent Evolution of ‘Bill and Ted Face the Music’
Time travel becomes a family affair in Bill and Ted Face the Music, the long-awaited third film in the popular…
A Spate of Arrests Sends the Piracy World Reeling
Gather ’round, all, and hear the tale of the alleged Russian ransomware crook who tried and failed to recruit a…
14 Best Weekend Deals: Video Games, Headphones, and More
Labor Day hasn’t arrived just yet, but various retailers are already kick-starting their sales. Planning a last-minute camping or road…
Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI
Companies pay cloud computing providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google big money to avoid operating their own digital infrastructure. Google’s…
How Many of Maria Ressa’s Warnings Will We Ignore?
Eventually, Facebook acted to take down the accounts, but not quickly enough for her. “If Facebook had taken action in…
Can People Without Symptoms Get Tested for Covid? Who Knows
Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US’s testing strategy has failed over and over again to provide an…
The ‘Double Dragon’ Movie Should Be a Cult Classic
The 1994 action movie Double Dragon, based on the 1987 beat-em-up arcade game, is a surprisingly enjoyable low-budget romp. Science…
Turns Out Late Night Talk Show Hosts Are Just Like Us
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,…
Elon Musk Is About to Show Off His Neuralink Brain Implant
In the mind of Elon Musk, the world’s thorniest problems become shockingly, wonderfully simple. Traffic in LA got you down?…
A Tesla Employee Thwarted an Alleged Ransomware Plot
Earlier this month, according to a recently unsealed criminal complaint, a 27-year-old Russian man named Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov met an…
It’s Time to Revisit the Games That Gave Rise to ‘Halo’
See if this premise sounds familiar: You’re a soldier aboard a far-flung space installation, forced into combat against a confederation…
How WeChat Censored the Coronavirus Pandemic
When the novel coronavirus was first discovered in China last winter, the country responded aggressively, placing tens of millions of…
How to Vote by Mail and Make Sure It Counts
The FBI confirmed as much on Wednesday. “We have not seen, to date, a coordinated national voter fraud effort during…
Covid-19 Proves It’s Time to Abolish ‘Predictive’ Policing Algorithms
As summer comes to a close, local governments are returning to their council chambers and facing massive pressures. Municipal budgets…
