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That can still add up, but luckily, I've spotted a decent unlimited data plan for even less this week. Over at Straight Talk, you can get a brand-new line on the carrier's StraightSAVINGS! plan for just $20 per month…
Boarding pass: check. Water bottle you'll forget to empty until the security gate and will therefore have to drink in one go? Check. But have you remembered to download your Spotify playlists so you can listen while your…
However, the distance between experimentation and enterprise-wide deployment remains substantial. Research from Boston Consulting Group in 2025 found that just 13% of surveyed respondents in Japan and India reported AI…
Researchers can control the movement of these soft robotic arms just with light. Photograph: Studio Oostrum/TU Delft What if a robot could be squishy? Soft, flexible robots could be useful for a wide variety of…
By stripping away artist names, cover art, and any mention of AI, Chaffin hopes to find out what listeners really think when they have nothing but the music to go on. The free 24/7 station asks listeners to rate tracks…
Yet one of the most demanding environments for autonomous technology is somewhere very different: the farm. At first glance, a field might appear easier to navigate. There are no traffic lights, relatively little traffic…
In some digital spaces, it's overwhelming human-made content. But what about your inbox? Just how many of your friends, family members, clients, and colleagues are using AI to compose their emails? Is that store…
The figure shows how HSI has increasingly relied on this warrantless authority to conduct investigations. To put HSI’s estimate into perspective, a previous WIRED analysis found that in the more than six and a half years…
Huang has apologized for his actions in a letter to Nvidia staff, with the company saying it would now look into the incident, but was confident that no internal or national security secrets were compromised. Nvidia…
Chinese authorities have allowed some of the chips to enter the mainland recently, with several major Chinese internet companies each obtaining about 10,000 of the H200 processors in the past few months, the report said…