8 Best Mattresses for Side Sleepers (2024): Budget, Luxe, Tested by Experts

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/24 3:30A Martin Cizmar

The stats say most people prefer to snooze on their sides. If that’s you, then you might want to check out these WIRED-tested beds.

We Stood on Both Sides of the New York–Dublin Portal and It Was Glorious

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/21 11:00P David Gilbert, Amanda Hoover

Hundreds of people and two WIRED reporters gathered at the Portal, which is open again after being closed due to “inappropriate behavior.”

Eventbrite Promoted Illegal Opioid Sales to People Searching for Addiction Recovery Help

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/21 12:30A Matt Burgess, Dhruv Mehrotra

A WIRED investigation found thousands of Eventbrite posts selling escort services and drugs like Xanax and oxycodone—some of which the company’s algorithm recommended alongside addiction recovery events.

I Make AI Models to Sell Real People Clothes

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/20 9:00A Amanda Hoover

Working at an AI modeling agency means teaching pixels to smize—and filtering out the people with three heads.

Freewrite Alpha Review: For People Who Just Want to Get Stuff Done

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/19 2:00A Max Freeman-Mills

We mischievously asked our reviewer to use nothing but this distraction-free keyboard computer with virtually no display for a whole week. Annoyingly, he loved it.

Many People Do Not Like the New Sonos App

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/11 1:30A Boone Ashworth

Plus: Apple crushes artistic dreams, Comcast introduces low-cost internet plans, and Black Twitter will always be Black Twitter.

There's No Undoing Tech's Great Rewiring of Childhood

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/10 3:00A Steven Levy

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns that social media harms children but definitive evidence is hard to find. Whatever your views on kids and technology, digital connectivity is now part of childhood.

A Peek Inside Hulu's New 'Black Twitter' Docuseries

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/9 2:00A Michael Calore, Lauren Goode

This week, the writer, director, and executive producers of the new documentary series Black Twitter: A People's History tell us how they brought the community’s vibrancy to the small screen.

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/8 9:13A Kate Knibbs

OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/8 2:00A Amanda Hoover

People are using AI at work whether their bosses want them to or not, new data shows. But it’s desperation, not innovation, driving the change.

Technology Is Transforming Rap Beef

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/6 7:28A C. Brandon Ogbunu, Lupe Fiasco

For decades, conflict has been a part of hip-hop culture. The ongoing diss-track battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake proves how much digital space has transformed rap beefs into an industry.

Apple’s iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse. Here’s What You Should Know

Wired.com (Top Stories) 5/6 1:30A Kate O'Flaherty

The iPhone maker has detected spyware attacks against people in more than 150 countries. Knowing if your device is infected can be tricky—but there are a few steps you can take to protect yourself.

China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/30 9:13A Emily Mullin

China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.

1 in 3 Americans Live in Areas With Dangerous Air Pollution

Wired.com (Top Stories) 4/27 1:00A

Climate change is increasing the number of days people are exposed to hazardous pollution, affecting already disadvantaged communities the most.

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.