Ethan Thornton dropped out of MIT at 19 to build weapons. The first one, a hydrogen-powered system he prototyped with parts from Home Depot and Amazon, didn’t work out — “hydrogen was just a bad bet in general,” he told…
Whoop’s bracelet-style trackers deliver exhaustive activity tracking and biometric data compared to standard fitness trackers. The Whoop band is also an excellent tool for monitoring sleep and overall health. Our WIRED testers have been reviewing Whoop trackers since the Whoop…
The fishing port of Kesennuma, Japan, in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake in 2011 Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Around 15 minutes after the magnitude-9 Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011, almost the whole of Japan jumped…
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A widely used sodium-ion battery developed by Chinese manufacturer Hina has achieved performance and manufacturing quality levels comparable to Tesla’s lithium-ion batteries, according to research published in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science. The findings suggest sodium-ion technology…
The Wall Street Journal reviewed 1,105 videos along with guidance given to creators for crafting their posts. Polymarket In case you needed another reason to be wary of those videos showing people winning big on Polymarket, an investigation…
The history books are littered with the corpses of corporate record labels started by companies that had no business being in the music industry. Bose thinks it can be the exception to the rule. It thinks it can be Red…
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of…
The most controversial feature is Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Direction (SOCD) customization. This allows one key to override another rather than registering both simultaneously, which is ideal for strafing in tactical shooters like Counter-Strike 2 and Valorant. The difference in reaction…
HPV vaccines have revolutionised cervical-cancer prevention since the first one became available in 2006 Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images No women in England aged 20 to 24 died of cervical cancer between 2020 and 2024. This is the first time…
BEIRUT — Mourners gathered Sunday in Beirut to pay their respects to a much-loved Lebanese conservationist who died after succumbing to wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on her home on the country’s southern coast. Mona Khalil, who spent more…
OTTAWA — Was Brady Tkachuk asking out of Ottawa to play in Florida with his brother Matthew inevitable? It sure feels like it in retrospect. On Father’s Day, the Senators lost their torchbearer as Brady Tkachuk was sent to the Florida Panthers…
Olvi has acquired Estonian mineral water producer Värska Originaal after a court lifted a legal injunction that had put the deal on hold. The Finland-based drinks major had announced the acquisition in September, noting the deal would “unlock new growth…
