The Mobi Fold is an $80 Bluetooth mouse with a silicone-wrapped hinge. I see it often. Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored. They would…
The US military struck Iran again after an Iranian drone’s lucky midair strike. A US Army helicopter gunship was apparently struck by an Iranian Shahed drone before going down near the Strait of Hormuz—but it’s unclear whether the one-way attack drone was deliberately aimed or achieved more of a…
Move also cuts off a massive market of legit users who buy cards with physical cash. For years, Valve’s physical Steam gift cards have been the closest you could come to buying a Steam game at a brick-and-mortar store. Now, Valve says it is phasing out the production of…
Honda’s $42,000 hybrid coupe looks great, handles well, and gets 44 mpg. You can tell Honda was trying to manage expectations when it emailed me to stress that “the Prelude is not a sports car.” And I can understand why. On paper, the specs make the sleek coupe—technically a…
There are more than a quarter of a million V2G-capable GM EVs on the roads already. Electric vehicle sales might be better now than the end of last year when demand fell off a cliff following the surge of purchases ahead of the end of the federal financial incentives,…
A separate zero-day also disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse appears to be patched as well. Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two high-severity zero-days that were disclosed by a researcher who has been locked in a testy beef with the software giant. Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym the researcher goes by,…
Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a “spiky,” cyclical, and asynchronous process. People often speak metaphorically of the heartbeat or pulse of a city, but according to the authors of a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, cities do indeed…
Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output. The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control fusion in a tokamak-style reactor using the currently under construction ITER reactor, and then using that knowledge to…
Netflix’s response: “Absurd.” Paramount Skydance is accusing Netflix of maintaining a campaign against its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). In a June 5 letter (PDF) addressed to Jared A. Hughes, acting section chief of the Media, Entertainment, and Communications Section of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s)…
Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back. One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code. The most…
