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wired.com — 22+ hour, 30+ min ago
Everything You Need to Know About Getting Your Genome ...
wired.com > story...In a disused town hall building in Stratford, East London, a familiar sight awaits those who enter.... ...It follows a public outreach call by Genomics England, the UK government’s special health care arm set up to run mass genetic data-gathering initiatives... ...As Arnab Chowdry, vice president of product R&D at 23andMe points out, whole-genome data is “largely uninterpretable and kind of impractical for... ...England is marching ahead on this front....
wired.com — 9+ hour, 8+ min ago
11 Best Early Prime Day Laptop Deals (October 2023)
wired.com > story...More than a decade ago, Steve Jobs likened the computer to a truck, suitable for the heavy lifting of serious work and intensive tasks.... ...Amazon has a new shopping event for Prime members coming on October 10 and 11.... ...WIRED reviews editor Julian Chokkattu used it in both a Mac and Windows setup and says it worked great in both.... ...We tested the similar LG Gram SuperSlim (7/10, WIRED Recommends) with the 2.2-GHz Intel Core i7-1360P processor, a step up from the 1260P process...
wired.com — 14+ hour, 20+ min ago
The Great Unbundling of Rupert Murdoch
wired.com > story...Angela Watercutter Amanda Hoover In a move that surely made the Succession theme play in the heads of all who got the push notification, Rupert Murdoch... ...announced today that the “time is right” for him to step down as chair of Fox Corporation and News Corp, ending his seven-decade reign as mastermind... ...As WIRED reporters Vittoria Elliott and Peter Guest noted earlier this year, Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson “helped bring often dangerous misinformation... ...at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey....
wired.com — 10+ hour, 46+ min ago
Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz André Barroso Who Invented ...
wired.com > story...Luiz André Barroso had never designed a data center before Google asked him to do it in the early 2000s.... ...By the time he finished his first, he had overturned many conventions of the computing industry, laying the foundations for Silicon Valley’s development... ...bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.... ...The cause of death could take weeks to determine, according to the medical examiner’s office of Santa Clara County, in Silicon Valley....
wired.com — 16+ hour, 20+ min ago
Everything Microsoft Announced at Its 2023 Hardware Event ...
wired.com > story...Brenda Stolyar Julian Chokkattu Microsoft held a media event in New York City this morning.... ...Internally, it packs last year’s 12th-gen Intel processor with an Intel Core i5 processor, though there's a bump in RAM on the base model (you"ll... ...It uses an Intel Processor N200 CPU--an upgrade from last year’s Intel Core i3 processor--to give it what Microsoft claims is an 80 percent performance...
wired.com — 21+ hour, 30+ min ago
Alexa Just Got an AI Makeover
wired.com > story...The company reserved the spot at center stage for Alexa, the voice assistant powering all of Amazon’s smart home ambitions.... ...This week, Amazon held its annual media event where it debuted a slate of new hardware, software, and services.... ...Will Knight can be found on Twitter @willknight. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight.... ...Lauren recommends the episode of WIRED’s Have a Nice Future Podcast where journalist Paul Tough talks about college in the US and the future of higher...
wired.com — 20+ hour, 30+ min ago
I Failed Two Captcha Tests This Week. Am I Still Human?
wired.com > story...The comedian John Mulaney has a bit about the self-reflexive absurdity of captchas.... ...The computer scientist Sayash Kapoor recently posted a screenshot of Bing correctly identifying the blurred words “overlooks” and “inquiry.”... ...In a personal essay for n+1, Laura Preston describes her experience working as “human fallback” for a real estate chatbot called Brenda, a job that...
wired.com — 22+ hour, 30+ min ago
How Elon Musk and Tesla Helped Spark the Auto Strikes
wired.com > story...Elon Musk hasn’t been sighted at the picket lines in Missouri, Ohio, or Michigan, where autoworkers are striking against the Big Three US carmakers... ...Yet the influence of Musk and his non-unionized company Tesla have been everywhere since the United Auto Workers called the strike last week.... ...“This strike is about electrification,” says Mark Barrott, an automotive analyst at the Michigan-based consultancy Plante Moran.... ...studies labor and workplace issues at Wayne State University's School of Business....
wired.com — 18+ hour, 30+ min ago
The Dumb Alien Mummy Story Takes an Entirely Predictable Turn
wired.com > story...On September 12, ufologist and journalist Jaime Maussan presented what he claimed to be evidence of alien life to the Congress of Mexico.... ...If Maussan had shocked Mexico and the world with his outlandish claims, this was Mexico’s scientific community fighting back.... ...Toward the end of the conference, Alejandro Frank, a professor of mathematical physics at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the... ...Following the alien debacle, Frank had called on Mexico’s Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, or National Council on Science and Technology...
wired.com — 22+ hour, 30+ min ago
Everything You Need to Know About Getting Your Genome ...
wired.com > story...In a disused town hall building in Stratford, East London, a familiar sight awaits those who enter.... ...It follows a public outreach call by Genomics England, the UK government’s special health care arm set up to run mass genetic data-gathering initiatives... ...As Arnab Chowdry, vice president of product R&D at 23andMe points out, whole-genome data is “largely uninterpretable and kind of impractical for... ...England is marching ahead on this front....