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Welcome to Uncanny Valley—an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. Joi

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The Anti-Bias Bot

2020/2/21

Many companies say they want to diversify their workforce. Far fewer have actually succeeded in doin

On Tuesday of this week Samsung held its annual Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco. It did what

The Virus and the Vote

2020/2/7

This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED digital director Brian Barrett joins us to talk about the app that de

It doesn’t take much to make people nostalgic anymore. With the rapid pace of technological advancem

Open Wide for Mouth Tech

2020/1/24

There's money in your mouth. Figuratively speaking (we hope). A growing number of startups and full-

One Wheel, Zero Buttons

2020/1/17

There’s an old joke about Steve Jobs, that he never wore a suit because he hated buttons. There’s so

Best of CES

2020/1/10

CES, the all-consuming tech trade show, took over Las Vegas this week. Convention halls and hotels w

Next week, we’ll be bound for the largest consumer electronics showcase of the season. CES starts on

2019 was a tumultuous time for technology. While product engineers created hybrid franken-gadgets an

The Case for Cassava

2019/12/13

The cassava plant is one of the most important food sources in the world. In Africa, it sustains 500

Going Places

2019/12/6

In May, Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturer run by billionaire Elon Musk, filed a patent to put

Life After Facebook

2019/11/22

Former Facebook bigwig Chris Cox has been busy. In March, Cox left his position as chief product off

Tech companies say they want to serve their customers, but sometimes they’re curiously resistant to

Given all the criticism, mistrust, and investigations that have been levied at Facebook in the past

Deep Listening

2019/11/1

The way we listen to audio has evolved with technology. Headphones, once bulky skull-huggers that ke

Without video creators, YouTube wouldn’t be one of the world’s biggest social platforms. Without the

Despite a lack of evidence that more technology makes kids safer, facial recognition technology may

How long have you gone without checking your phone in the past week? 10, 15, maybe 20 minutes while

Microsoft surprised just about everyone this week by showing off a pair of new mobile devices with t

For 25 years, Boston Dynamics has been building robots and releasing videos of the terrifying things