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US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other narcotics.

A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.

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Celebrate National Handwriting Day (I did not make that up) with new notebooks, a journal, or sketchbooks.

I tested an array of alternative sleep aids, from gummies to wearable patches, to see if they would help my chronic insomnia.

It’s rare to find a gaming laptop under $1,000 without any major compromises, but the Lenovo LOQ 15 surprises.

Roborock hasn’t updated its popular, affordable Qrevo Curv line of robovacs for years. Finally, it’s happening!

Freecash will actually pay money out to users but not for watching videos. This misleading marketing coincides with the app’s rising popularity.

We Are Rewind’s speaker/cassette player combo is an imperfect but satisfying reissue of a bygone audio era.

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware.

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From Black vampires gobbling up Oscar nominations to gay pro hockey players dominating the culture, diverse stories broke through in an environment that’s increasingly hostile to them.

A pair of bills in Massachusetts would require manufacturers to tell consumers when their connected gadgets are going dark. It should be a boon for cybersecurity as connected devices grow obsolete.

Humanoid robots, space travel, the science of aging—Musk weighed in on all of it at this week’s World Economic Forum. But his predictions rarely work out the way he says they will.

Chinese firms are building battery plants from Europe to North America, promising jobs while prompting local concerns about the environment, politics, and who really benefits.

F1: The Movie, CODA, and Highest 2 Lowest are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Apple TV this month.

Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.

WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.

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