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The Opposite of Slop Politics
Zohran Mamdani ran an online campaign based on real people and a real message. There are many fair questions following Zohran Mamdani's decisive victory. Will his campaign be a template for others? Will he be able or allowed to follow through on his campaign promises? Will the Democratic establishment accept that its future could look something like this proud 34-year-old democratic socialist?
The 15-Inch MacBook Air Is 200 Off
Save hundreds on our preferred MacBook for most people. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. You're in luck, as the 15-inch MacBook Air with the M4 CPU is currently marked down by $200 on Amazon in a variety of configurations and colors, including the new Sky Blue finish. It's a great fit for work or play, and only serious power users will need to consider upgrading to the MacBook Pro.
Meet Blue and Gold: NASA's first twin satellites bound for Mars
Science Space Solar System Mars Meet Blue and Gold: NASA's first twin satellites bound for Mars The ESCAPADE mission will help predict space weather for future crewed missions to the Red Planet. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. NASA is readying the first dual-satellite mission to another planet. Currently scheduled to launch no earlier than Sunday November 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) are a pair of identical spacecraft tasked with traveling to Mars . Once in the Red Planet's orbit, the spacecraft will create three-dimensional maps of our cosmic neighbor's upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetic fields.
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to 'a language white men understand'
The site, a few kilometers from her own hut in Ipatsรฉ, a Kuikuro village in the Xingu Indigenous territory, was once the backyard of her great-grandparents' house. As she scrapes the brown earth with a trowel, she soon spots a black ceramic shard. It is only about the size of her palm, and this is her first day ever on an archaeological excavation. But she immediately recognizes what the object once was. "It's an alato," she says, showing the piece to a group of archaeologists and other Kuikuro who have gathered to watch the excavation in the village of Anitahagu. An alato, Yamรกna explains, is a large pan used to cook beiju, a white flatbread made with yucca flour that's eaten almost every day in her village. Her grandmother still has one in the backyard fire pit where she prepares most meals, just as countless Kuikuro women did before her. This alato likely belonged to her great-grandmother on her mother's side.
Lego's 3,600-Piece Star Trek Enterprise Is the Holiday Gift to Buy This Year
This $400 set comes with minifigures of the Next Gen crew, including Picard, Riker, and Wesley Crusher's portable tractor beam. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. It is impossible to overstate just how big an impact had on an entire generation of kids growing up in the 1990s. I watched every episode with my mom.
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself? Lonely and homesick for a country suffering through war, Viktoria began sharing her worries with ChatGPT. Six months later and in poor mental health, she began discussing suicide - asking the AI bot about a specific place and method to kill herself. Let's assess the place as you asked, ChatGPT told her, without unnecessary sentimentality.
'Memories will win': Qualcomm partnership unveils superpowered AI photo search
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. 'Memories will win': Qualcomm partnership unveils superpowered AI photo search Memories.ai is working with Qualcomm on smart photo/video search for phones. But like Qualcomm's Snapdragon, PCs may be in the cards, too. A partnership between Qualcomm and an AI startup promises lightning-quick AI where it's really needed: searching through and using your photos and videos as a source of information stored locally on your device. Right now, the partnership is a foundational one, predicated for the future.
Travel ancient Rome's 186,000 miles of roads in new online atlas
Itiner-e suggests the empire's routes were almost double previous estimates. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The Roman Empire paved the way for many modern advancements--including streets themselves. At its apex during the second century CE, the vast empire encompassed more than 55 million citizens living between present-day Britain to the west and as far east as Syria. But after almost 2,000 years, today's historians still lack a complete understanding of the empire's myriad routes.
Unesco adopts global standards on 'wild west' field of neurotechnology
The Unesco standards define a new category of data, 'neural data', and suggest guidelines governing its protection. The Unesco standards define a new category of data, 'neural data', and suggest guidelines governing its protection. Unesco adopts global standards on'wild west' field of neurotechnology UN body's recommendations driven by AI advances and proliferation of consumer-oriented neurotech devices It is the latest move in a growing international effort to put guardrails around a burgeoning frontier - technologies that harness data from the brain and nervous system. Unesco has adopted a set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology, a field that has been described as "a bit of a wild west". "There is no control," said Unesco's chief of bioethics, Dafna Feinholz.