A new renewable technology promises, hope in overcoming the energy crisis. Renewable energy has until now relied on 3 key options, Hydro, wind turbines and Solar panels. Adopting new methods to generate electricity has become a critical topic as governments attempt to mitigate the impacts of climate change caused...

Armed with a belief in technology’s generative potential, a growing faction of researchers and companies aims to solve the problem of bias in AI by creating artificial images of people of color. Proponents argue that AI-powered generators can rectify the diversity gaps in existing image databases by supplementing them...

Ten years ago, I went to a therapist for the first time. I was writing a cookbook with an esteemed chef and needed help figuring out how to work with him. The chef in question was an alumni of Copenhagen’s vaunted restaurant Noma, and I needed to push through...

Technology in various forms today affect our lives in a way that was unimaginable in the past 20 years. The younger generation has had no other experience than an increasingly technological society. The majority of people spend their time online, whether that’s using a computer or mobile phone. Everything...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Mesh routers promise dependable Wi-Fi throughout your home, and most of them follow through, so it’s not surprising to see them growing...

I shrug and put the phone back in my pocket. “No, it’s not.” After a pause, she demands, “Let me see that again.” The second time around, her eyes travel across the screen, taking time to study the image. She notes my angular brows. The sheen of silver on...

If you have an Eero mesh system, you can extend your Wi-Fi network with select Echo devices. Amazon acquired Eero in 2019, and the company has continued to turn out some of the best mesh Wi-Fi routers around. The Eero range is especially good for Alexa-based smart homes, offering tight integration...

Studying human conversations isn’t a simple challenge. For instance, when humans start to talk to one another in a conversation, they coordinate their speech very tightly—people very rarely talk over one another, and they rarely leave long, unspoken, silent gaps. A conversation is like a dance with no choreography...

One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the first time. Since antiquity, artists and geometers have wondered how shapes can tile the entire plane without gaps or overlaps. And yet, “not a lot has been known until fairly recent times,”...

Amazon’s Fire tablets are some of the only high-profile, ultra-affordable tablets around. The prices seem too good to be true—and in some ways, they are—but Fire tablets are also completely functional, reasonably capable devices. To help you decide if one of these slates is right for you, we reviewed...