They will then use a spectrograph to try and find key molecules such as oxygen or methane. How much they find of each determines what they look for next, such as carbon dioxide or ozone. (Photosynthesis that might occur on other worlds produces oxygen. Oxygen-using organisms typically produce carbon dioxide and water, while some types...

“I doubt that the three unelected technocrats somehow found the right way to think about non-competition and that all previous lawyers who have studied this issue have been wrong,” she writes as an unelected technocrat. The US Chamber of Commerce calls the proposed change “wrongful act” and argues that getting rid of non-competition suppress innovation....

Monitor a weekly column dedicated to everything that happens in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, from TV to Twitter. It’s so stupid it’s perfect for the internet. In early December, someone posted a mirror on TikTok with the caption, “Imagine how good your life would be if you had a 26-year-old...

Not only will artificial intelligence not lead to the death of cinema, it can help film what cannot be filmed and make cinema more collaborative.

2023 will be the year the battle for data ownership takes to the streets. Repeal by the US Supreme Court Rowe vs. Wade politicized women’s bodies – and not only in the United States. As the decision was debated in Westminster, several British MPs took the opportunity to question the woman’s bodily autonomy. The reaction...

These issues come at a time of economic recession and esports hype waning, as investors and sponsors become impatient with a pre-profit growth model. 100 Thieves, the second most important esports team in the world, just fired sixth of its workforce. It’s not that esports is dying; the fact is that investors are struggling with...

Water is Nemesis of urban planners. Because the built environment is so impervious to liquid, thanks to all that asphalt, concrete, and brick, it builds up instead of seeping into the ground. That’s how you get severe flood it’s been haunting California for weeks, so far killing 19 people and possibly calling $30 billion loss....

Machine learning has already proven its usefulness, but its real application is just beginning.

I really love a paperback book that I can bend, touch, smell, and put on my bookshelf when I’m done. But there’s no doubt that e-readers (also called e-readers) make life easier – they might just get you to read more. E-books allow you to store thousands of books or dozens of audio books on...

WIRE investigation This week, the SweepWizard app, which some U.S. law enforcement agencies use to coordinate raids, was found to have publicly disclosed sensitive data from hundreds of police operations until WIRED disclosed the vulnerability. The disclosed data included personal information about hundreds of officers and thousands of suspects, including the geographic coordinates of the...