The Quest to Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
Hotta found, to his surprise, that a simple sequence of events could, in fact, induce the quantum vacuum to go…
Bring Back the Seabirds, Save the Climate
This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seabirds evolved about 60…
Shocking Leaked Tesla Documents Hint at Cybertruck Problems | WIRED
Cars crashing into bollards, brakes slamming on to avoid imaginary collisions, and more than 2,400 complaints of cars accelerating out…
The Speedrunners Trying to Break ‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’
For the average player, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will take upwards of 50 hours to beat—that is, complete…
HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+, and the Day Streaming Died
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,…
Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How
I agree with every single one of those points, which can potentially guide us on the actual boundaries we might…
The Physics of ‘Sniping’ for Gold
There are three forces acting on the debris. First, there’s the downward-pulling gravitational force (Fg) due to the interaction with…
HBO’s ‘Succession’ Will Live Forever in Memes
For four seasons now, HBO’s Succession has given people something to tweet about on Sunday nights. Everyone, it seems, is obsessed with…
Antarctic Sea Ice Is at Record Lows. Is It an Alarming Shift?
Even more stunning, it was only in the mid-2010s that Antarctic sea ice was at record highs—at least highs since satellite…
Temu Is Losing Millions of Dollars to Send You Cheap Socks | WIRED
PDD’s push into the US with Temu is costing it a lot, and angering some of its suppliers, but it’s…