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A couple of minor upgrades are the backbone for this new hearing aid from Jabra, which replaces its Enhance Select 500.

WIRED has tested 100-plus bed-in-a-box mattresses for a week each. Our top pick, the Helix Midnight Luxe hybrid, is the best bed you can buy online.

Many will assume that OpenAI’s Sora app represents a new era of social media. But that’s wrong—all it does is reanimate our current one.

The software-driven approach pioneered by a new Kentucky distillery runs counter to the low-tech methods of whiskey's old guard. Its mix of data and automation might help pave a way forward.

Meta on Friday previewed its upcoming parental control features for teens’ conversations with AI characters on its platforms. The features, which will be rolled out next year, include the ability to block certain characters and monitor conversation topics. Starting in the coming months, parents will be able to turn off chats with AI characters entirely […]

ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia.

This long-duration comet will make its closest approach to Earth this fall, before disappearing into the outer solar system for another 1,000 years.

A dual-ended vibrator means double the fun.

Reddit announced Thursday that it is expanding its AI-powered search experience to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. With this expansion, the feature is now available in countries like Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and Italy. Users who have set one of these languages as their default, instead of English, can now […]

OpenAI is pausing AI video generations of Martin Luther King at the request of the late civil rights activists' estate.

Archer prevailed in a competitive bidding process that included Ambitious Air Mobility Group and U.S. based Joby Aviation.

Ron Conway has been on the board of the Salesforce's philanthropic organization for 10 years.

Networking software company F5 disclosed a long-term breach of its systems this week. The fallout could be severe.

Sony has dismissed Tencent's latest filing over its Horizon Zero Dawn copyright lawsuit as "nonsense," insisting "the damage is done – and it continues."

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Waymo has spent the past several years scaling up its robotaxi business. The partnership with DoorDash could mark a return to delivery.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court, alleges the Trump administration is monitoring and punishing non-citizens who express social media views that the government disfavors.

Nintendo has announced hackers did not take any development or business information when they accessed its systems last week.

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Kayak is bringing AI directly to its main platform with a new “AI Mode” that lets travelers research, plan, and book trips through a built-in chatbot.

Where training sets were once scraped freely from the web or collected from low-paid annotators, companies are looking to proprietary training data as a competitive advantage.

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."