A four-in-one charging behemoth. | Image: Zens Zens is releasing a new set of charging stands today, offering a mix of wireless and wired charging for up to four devices. At the top of the list is the Zens 4-in-1 Modular Wireless Charger, which has an official MagSafe stand for charging iPhones at 15W wireless…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew gave a rare public interview at The New York Times’ DealBook conference today, telling host Andrew Ross Sorkin that he is “responsible for all the strategic decisions at TikTok” in response to a question about interference from the Chinese government. The 40-year-old Chew was funny and relaxed for most of…
Superman and Batman in Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons. | Warner Bros. Animation Warner Bros. Discovery’s television-focused production arm is partnering with Amazon Studios to create new animated projects based on DC Comics’ IP, yet another sign of how the company is changing under CEO David Zaslav’s leadership. During a keynote session…
Enlarge (credit: Swedish Coast Guard/Getty Images) The first gas leaks on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea were detected in the early hours of September 26, pouring up to 400,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere. Officials immediately suspected sabotage of the international pipeline. New analysis seen by WIRED shows that two…
Enlarge / A Talon robot, one of the models in the SFPD robot lineup. (credit: QinetiQ) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to allow the San Francisco Police Department to use lethal robots against suspects, ushering the sci-fi dystopia trope into reality. As the AP reports, the robots would be remote-controlled—not autonomous—and would…
Enlarge / Jaguar’s latest factory racing car is the I Type 6, its latest Formula E challenger. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Jaguar provided a flight from DC to London and back and a night in a hotel so we could see its new Formula E car and speak to its engineers. Ars does not accept paid…
Microsoft may have long had OpenAI as its trusty partner (after its sizable investment), but AWS today announced that Stability AI, one of the hottest new upstarts in the generative AI space and the company behind Stable Diffusion, is doubling down on its cloud, making it its “preferred cloud provider to build and scale its…
OpenAI have quietly released text-davinci-003, a brand new entry in the artificially-intelligent GPT-3 language model family, claiming that it can handle more complex prompts to produce longer outputs. However, as reported by Ars Technica, enterprising users using Playground, the free offering of GPT-3, quickly found that the new model is even more adept at producing…
You can make your AirPods louder by using your iPhone or the built-in Siri feature on your AirPods. If your AirPods aren’t loud enough, try cleaning them or calibrating them with your iPhone. The new over-ear AirPods Max have a Digital Crown to turn the volume up or down. Apple’s AirPods helped launch a thousand…
There are many common fixes if iMessage isn’t working. d3sign/Getty Images iMessages are texts, photos, and videos sent between Apple devices using Wi-Fi or cellular data. When iMessages are working properly, texts appear in a blue bubble. You can troubleshoot iMessage issues by toggling your Wi-Fi, cellular, and iMessage on and off. Color means a…