What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
Novelist Ning Ken’s history of Beijing’s Zhongguancun district shows how two generations of professors and tech entrepreneurs helped make the country more open.
What China’s Covid Crisis Means for the Rest of the World
The country’s surge in cases is a human tragedy but isn’t showing signs of changing the Covid picture in the West—where the virus is already running free.
A Bayesian machine based on memristors
Over the past few decades, the performance of machine learning models on various real-world tasks has improved significantly. Training and implementing most of these models, however, still requires vast amounts of energy and computational power.
It’s Time to Teach AI How to Be Forgetful
By emulating the human ability to forget some of the data, psychological AIs will transform algorithmic accuracy.
10 Browser Add-Ons to Make Downloading Videos Easy
Need to grab a clip from Twitter or remix that YouTube meme compilation? These tools can help.
10 Best Xbox Game Pass Games (January 2023)
Microsoft’s subscription service includes captivating titles like Potion Craft, Metal: Hellsinger, and Pentiment.
How Your Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions
The neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New research shows how and why they are different.
How Often Should You Update Your Profile Photos?
Depending on who you are, this can be much more complicated than “whenever I feel like it.”
The Madness of CES 2023 in Photos
WIRED photographer Roger Kisby captures the glory, madness, and optimism of the consumer tech extravaganza.
Top 5 stories of the week: AI buzz and CES unveils a self-driving — baby stroller?
This first week of 2023 has already been a whirlwind of AI and excitement from CES 2023, the annual Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.Read More