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After two weeks of living here, I realized we were going to have to do something about the mosquitoes. In the 25 years I’d been gone, they seemed to have grown larger, more intelligent, and much thirstier. My skin had…
Google builds Gemini. And Google still won't let Gemini press send on its own. Well, Anthropic will. Its August 2026 update to the connector lets Claude read an incoming email, write the reply, and send it to someone…
As a freelancer, I had to get my phone on a business contract, which started oddly and soon turned into a farce, and now it’s impossible to manage my account online. In this age of advanced AI, super-fast mobile networks…
“And there are people who are going to be like, yeah, that was me last Tuesday.” Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Just past 6 pm on a recent Wednesday night, half a dozen pet owners logged into a Zoom…
It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information. Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty Images I saw Meta’s latest app, Muse , cross-promoted on another Meta-owned platform, Instagram , and…
His base is running in the opposite direction. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Welcome back to Power Play ! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue…
It doesn't only provide a giant list of emojis. I can combine emojis into new stickers, so I can create reactions that feel more specific than anything in the standard emoji picker. Now, whenever a regular emoji doesn't…
A four-seat, five-door Ferrari? Just don't call it an SUV. Credit: Jonathan Gitlin Ferrari’s two-seat sports cars might be the brand’s identity, but the Italian automaker has always catered to customers who want to bring…
Here’s what it means for you. Photograph: Future Publishing/Getty Images In March, the Federal Communications Commission banned new consumer internet routers manufactured outside the US, citing national security…
He’s an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, and has spent more than a decade researching AI-driven interactions between humans and robots. But he found himself typing “…