9 Best Speakers for Kids: Smart, Bluetooth, and Offline Speakers
Play music, audiobooks, and more for your children with one of these WIRED-tested gadgets.
ChatGPT and ethical decision making: It’s not what can be done, but what should
Why we must address the many potential ethical and regulatory considerations of ChatGPT and other advanced AI tools.Read More
‘Cocaine Bear’ Is a Buzz Kill
The movie seems destined for internet infamy but doesn’t live up to the promise of its viral trailer.
Wearable in-sensor reservoir computing for multitask learning via material-algorithm co-design strategy
The human retina not only senses light signals, but also processes them simultaneously by capturing their rich dynamics, thus accelerating the task-dependent learning in the down-stream visual cortex. This synergy of both the retina and the visual cortex has inspired in-sensor multi-task learning.
The Marvel Movies From Worst to Best—and Where to Stream Them
Here’s our definitive ranking of all 31 films (and counting) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
How generative AI is changing game development (and UGC)
Generative AI is iterating on existing uses of AI in game development and content creation. But how much should it be used for?Read More
Alternate framework for distributed computing tames Big Data’s ever growing costs
The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a new computational framework based on random sampling looks set to finally tame Big Data’s ever-growing communication, memory and energy costs into something more manageable.
Nvidia Q4 revenue dips 21% to $6.05B as downturn takes its toll
Nvidia reported its quarter revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter ended January 29 was $6.05 billion, down 21% as the downturn took its toll on the AI and gaming chip maker.Read More
Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables.
AI experts suggest 39% of time currently spent on chores could be automated within the next decade
On average, 39% of time currently spent on unpaid domestic work could be automated within the next decade, suggest AI experts from the UK and Japan. The findings are published in PLOS ONE by a team led by Ekaterina Hertog at the University Oxford, UK, and colleagues in Japan.