The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/19 6:54A Matt Burgess

The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown.

The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/14 11:00P Emily Mullin

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight.

The More People Say 'Megalopolis' Is Unsellable, the More We Need to See It

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/12 1:30A Angela Watercutter

Sci-fi fiends have a long history of saving their darlings. Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis, 40 years in the making, could be their biggest save yet.

No One Actually Knows How AI Will Affect Jobs

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/11 6:00A Will Knight

Some businesses are replacing people with AI; others are augmenting their workforce or hiring new workers. The long-term impact on labor is murky.

DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/11 2:00A Matt Burgess

Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.

This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/10 12:00A Jason Kehe

Noor Siddiqui founded Orchid so people could “have healthy babies.” Now she’s using the company’s gene technology on herself—and talking about it for the first time.

AI Scam Calls: How to Protect Yourself, How to Detect

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/8 1:30A Reece Rogers

AI tools are getting better at cloning people's voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips.

Inside the Election Denial Groups Planning to Disrupt November

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/8 12:30A David Gilbert

Groups like True the Vote and Michael Flynn’s America Project want to mobilize thousands of Trump supporters by pushing baseless claims about election fraud—and are rolling out new technology to fast-track their efforts.

Science Has Discovered How to Make Perfect Gin

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/3 12:00A Eve Thomas

A fingerprinting technique similar to MRI scanning is finally revealing what makes the ultimate gin. Will it be a blessing or a curse for an unregulated industry drunk on innovation?

This Bag of Cells Could Grow New Livers Inside of People

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/2 3:00A Emily Mullin

Donor livers are in short supply for transplants. A startup is attempting to grow new ones in people instead.

Apple Store Employees Say Coworkers Were Disciplined for Supporting Palestinians

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/2 1:00A Caroline Haskins

A protest is planned Saturday at a Chicago Apple store where workers say managers disciplined staff—and fired an employee—for wearing pins, bracelets, or keffiyeh in support of Palestinian people.

Here’s Proof the AI Boom Is Real: More People Are Tapping ChatGPT at Work

Wired.com (Top Stories) 3/29 4:00A Steven Levy

Despite recent warnings that generative AI is overhyped, new data from Pew Research Center shows a rapid increase in the number of people who have used ChatGPT at work.

Smartphones Do or Don’t Harm Kids! So Which Is It?

Wired.com (Top Stories) 3/29 12:00A Matt Reynolds

Two new books offer radically different approaches to how people should think about smartphones and social media.

The Antitrust Case Against Apple Argues It Has a Stranglehold on the Future

Wired.com (Top Stories) 3/21 11:54A Makena Kelly, Vittoria Elliott

The Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against Apple says the company's grip on iPhone users and developers is blocking future innovation in tech.

Europe Is Struggling to Coexist With Wild Bears

Wired.com (Top Stories) 3/20 8:00P Tristan Kennedy

A fatal bear attack in Slovakia reignited accusations that conservationists are protecting the animals at the expense of human safety. Experts argue it's a people problem, not a bear problem.