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This New Designer Kitchen Tool Is Just a Stick. So Why Are We Obsessed With It?

Stir with it, flip with it, cook with it—a Danish kitchenware studio has reinvented man’s OG tool.

Wired - 7h

Can an App Replace a Personal Trainer? I Tested Nearly a Dozen to Find Out

Apps can add flexibility and freshness to your routine. Just try not to get injured.

The Wall Street Journal - 7h

How to Use Stolen Device Protection on Apple’s iPhone

Whether you’re worried about a new iPhone or the Apple smartphone you’ve had for ages, activating Stolen Device Protection can limit what thieves can access.

Wired - 8h

‘Reflecting New York’ Holds a Mirror Up to NYC

A series from photographer Sefan Falke captures iconic views of New York City's boroughs both coming and going.

Wired - 8h

The Lush Bath Bot Is a Vegan, Recyclable Floating Speaker That's Out to Make a Point

When the cosmetics brand decided to make a Bluetooth speaker, it didn’t know how hard it would be to make it sustainably. The next challenge: Will anyone actually buy it?

Wired - 10h

Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.

Wired - 14h

Silicon Valley Is Raving About a Made-in-China AI Model

DeepSeek is called “amazing and impressive” despite working with less-advanced chips.

The Wall Street Journal - 16h

DeepSeek R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost

DeepSeek R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. This story focuses on exactly how ...

VentureBeat - 18h

Last 4 escaped monkeys are captured in South Carolina after months on the loose

Officials say they have recaptured the final four monkeys who escaped two months ago from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research

ABC News - 18h

CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab, but agency has low confidence in its own finding

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a laboratory

ABC News - 1d

Why ‘prosocial AI’ must be the framework for designing, deploying and governing AI

Prosocial AI supports a hybrid future where human and machine intelligences co-evolve, guided by shared principles and grounded in truth.

VentureBeat - 1d

How the New York Times Website Got Its URL

The Times wanted to go online in 1996 with nytimes.com. But the domain was already owned — by a Times reporter.

The New York Times - 1d

Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it's not fair

Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals that would let them plug directly into power plants

ABC News - 1d

George R.R. Martin Coauthored a Scientific Paper

OK, cool, now finish The Winds of Winter.

Wired - 1d

Protect Your Phone With Android’s Theft Detection Features

Enable these three anti-theft features on your Android phone right now. They’ll keep your sensitive info private if attackers steal your device while it’s unlocked.

Wired - 1d

The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It

You might assume that tech-savvy people are the most open to using AI, but research suggests it's actually those who are least familiar with it.

Wired - 1d

Nikon Z6 III Review: A Hybrid Camera for the Masses

Nikon’s latest midrange full-frame mirrorless camera offers pro-level features without the pro price.

Wired - 1d

The 25 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now (February 2025)

Citadel: Diana, The Rig, and Fallout are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

Wired - 1d

The Cause of the LA Fires Might Never Be Known—but AI Is Hunting for Clues

The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with computer scientists to create tools that can find answers.

Wired - 1d

The 22 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (January 2024)

Challengers, My Old Ass, and Killer Heat are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

Wired - 1d

The 40 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (February 2025)

The Babadook, Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain, and Emilia Pérez are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.

Wired - 1d

The 40 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (February 2025)

Squid Game, Castlevania: Nocturne, and Sakamoto Days are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.

Wired - 1d

US Privacy Snags a Win as Judge Limits Warrantless FBI Searches

Plus: A hacker finds an issue with Cloudflare’s systems that could reveal app users’ rough locations, and the Trump administration puts a wrench in a key cybersecurity investigation.

Wired - 1d

Taylor Swift Triggered a Tsunami of Sports Bets. Then She Stopped Turning Up

The singer generated millions in prop bets for the Kansas City Chiefs just by showing up to watch her boyfriend play. Now that she’s busy, gamblers are losing interest.

Wired - 1d

Tom Green, Former Provocateur, Is Building Something New

A Y2K-era phenomenon most famous for his MTV prank show and surreal brand of comedy, Green pioneered ideas that thrive today.

The New York Times - 1d

How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI

When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.

Wired - 1d

Bill Gates on His Meeting With Trump, Musk's DOGE, His Childhood

The billionaire spoke with The Wall Street Journal ahead of his coming book, “Source Code.”

The Wall Street Journal - 1d

Gaming comedy Mythic Quest Season 4 debuts on January 29 on Apple TV+

Season 4 of a TV show is not something I write about very often, given my focus is video games. But Season 4 of Mythic Quest is another matter.

VentureBeat - 1d

Meta to Increase Spending to $65 Billion This Year in A.I. Push

Much of the capital investment, a big jump from 2024, will fund expansion of Meta’s data centers, which provide the computing power needed by A.I. products and algorithms.

The New York Times - 1d

Tech leaders respond to the rapid rise of DeepSeek

Marc Andreessen, Yann LeCunn and Mark Zuckerberg have all penned what appear to be responses to the Chinese open source model's ascent.

VentureBeat - 2d

Y Combinator’s hottest startup, Origami Agents, secures $2M seed round to supercharge sales teams with AI

Y Combinator's fastest-growing startup Origami Agents raised $2M to build AI research tools that help sales teams find perfect customers.

VentureBeat - 2d

OpenAI: Extending model ‘thinking time’ helps combat emerging cyber vulnerabilities

OpenAI used its own o1-preview and o1-mini models to test whether additional inference time compute protected against various attacks.

VentureBeat - 2d

This Man Eats So Much Butter, Cheese, and Beef That Cholesterol Oozes From His Skin

High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man’s was over 1,000 mg/dL.

Wired - 2d

AI chat firm GameOn couple arrested for defrauding investors of over $60M to finance wedding and more

Authorities arrested GameOn Technology founder Alex Beckman and attorney Valerie Lau Beckman (a married couple) for allegedly defrauding investors of $60 million.

VentureBeat - 2d

A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight

ABC News - 2d

Will the bluster and thought leadership of the game industry go quiet? | The DeanBeat

I'm a fan of transparency. Because, as the big newspaper says, "Democracy dies in darkness."

VentureBeat - 2d

Meta Spending to Soar on AI, Massive Data Center

The social-media giant plans to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion, the latest sign of tech companies’ accelerating investments into artificial intelligence.

The Wall Street Journal - 2d

Esports company G2 launches new media house agency called 62

G2 Esports announced the launch of a new media agency called 62, which aims to connect brands with gamers.

VentureBeat - 2d

Quantum TikTok + Memecoin Mania + Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars

“We are starting to see how Silicon Valley wants to do business during the Trump administration.”

The New York Times - 2d

DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside

A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every ...

Wired - 2d

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