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There’s such a thing as too much phone. Use these methods to silence notifications, eliminate distractions, and collar time-wasting apps.

Stanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is unveiling a startup that aims to teach AI systems deep knowledge of physical reality. Investors are throwing money at it.

This is a high price to pay for distraction-free productivity, but perennial notetakers will find it hard not to love the ReMarkable Paper Pro.

Because, according to sources, they’d plead the Fifth, the witness list is missing key executives and staff with knowledge of the fatal Titanic expedition, raising questions about just how much can be learned from this investigation.

This week, Reddit solved the long-running Celebrity Number Six mystery, but it almost got derailed thanks to accusations that the missing piece was made with AI.

The spirit brand has created a whisky bottle 80 percent lighter than a conventional one. Now it's sharing the knowledge for free so that others might follow.

The ChatGPT maker reveals details of what’s officially known as OpenAI-o1, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance.

A US judge has overturned a moratorium that stopped gambling companies from letting people bet on election results.

This smart lock uses infrared sensors to see me coming, recognize my face, and unlock the front door.

A new report attempts to calculate how much damage shipping our Amazon orders is doing to the planet and how badly the company is missing its own targets.

This week, we talk about the new iPhone 16 and its many AI tricks. Some of them are impressive, some of them are meh, all of them are very Apple.

To compete against thousands of crypto meme coins flooding the market, creators are resorting to elaborate and sometimes dangerous stunts for attention.

If you plan to upgrade to one of Apple’s new models, don’t forget to cash in on your old one.

The Vision Pro uses 3D avatars on calls and for streaming. These researchers used eye tracking to work out the passwords and PINs people typed with their avatars.

Billionaire Mark Cuban is done with his hit TV show, but he’s still invested in fighting pharma’s middlemen, being a dad, and needling Elon Musk.

Until new luggage scanners come online at European airports, you’re going to have to go back to taking liquids out of your bags.

Shared exclusively with WIRED, this Image Playground creation is the first that Apple has released outside of marketing materials.

Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple’s Craig Federighi tells WIRED, allows your personal data to be “hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble.”