1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (641+ words) A blow-up chair? Ikea has been here before. It attempted to make inflatable furniture in the mid-1990s, when designer Jan Dranger came to the Swedish company with a revolutionary idea to solve one of its biggest challenges: how to squish sofas…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (775+ words) The Avatar video game is better than the movies. I say this as someone who has dumbly adored James Cameron's Avatar movies for a long time. The original 2009 film was my first ever midnight premiere, which I attended along with…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (250+ words) [Narrator] A library dedicated solely to the Epstein files is opening in New York. Tucked away in a nondescript gallery in the city's Tribeca neighborhood, The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is a massive library of all…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1850+ words) Since the start of the second Trump administration, many people have wondered whether the U. S. is becoming a surveillance state. But is there any truth to that? Today, we'll dig in. This is Incognito Mode. What I think about is a…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (533+ words) Two companies that launched last year with plans to create gene-edited babies have already shut down, citing money issues and internal conflict. "We ran out of money. We had some promising results in the lab but I couldn't get enough…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1005+ words) In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to make them immune to HIV and used…...

12+ hour, 57+ min ago  (1892+ words) WIRED tasks Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Sigourney Weaver (Colonel Ward), Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni from Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu to answer the 50 most searched questions about The Mandalorian and Grogu. I [finger taps] am Pedro [finger taps]…...

10+ hour, 8+ min ago  (79+ words) Find out how to use chatbots like Chat GPT in your professional and personal life. Catch up on AI Unlocked Season 1 here, and then sign up to get the latest season in your inbox! "AI Unlocked: Lets Use Chatbots Ethically…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (100+ words) Also, we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect. But when we make mistake, we'll fix it very quickly. So for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly I think we all want Ebola prevention....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (178+ words) Sign up for the AI Lab newsletter. WIRED's resident AI expert Will Knight takes you to the furthest edges of this fast-changing field, giving you an advanced look at the next big breakthroughs. Delivered on Wednesdays. Huawei's "Chip Queen' Throws…...