When the blockbuster twin security exploits known as Meltdown and Spectre appeared in early 2018, Mozilla was among the first to respond, retroactively changing several behaviors of Firefox to help prevent them. Both attacks rely on using high-speed timing measurements […]
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Why Are There Few Women in Tech? Watch a Recruiting Session
EACH AUTUMN, BUSINESSES flock to elite universities like Harvard and Stanford to recruit engineers for their first post-university jobs. Curious students pile into classrooms to hear recruiters deliver their best pitches. These are the first moments when prospective employees size up […]
The WIRED Guide to Bitcoin
The cryptocurrency represents amazing technological advances. Bitcoin has a way to go before it’s a a true replacement for, or even adjunct to, the global financial system. BITCOIN IS A digital currency. Like other currencies, you can use it to buy […]
Everyone Hates Silicon Valley, Except Its Imitators
DO NOT LET their names fool you. The silicon places—Silicon Slopes, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Beach, Silicon Peach, Silicon Bayou, Silicon Shire, Silicon Desert, Silicon Holler, Silicon Hill and, separately, Silicon Hills—do not aspire to become “the next Silicon Valley.” Sure, the country’s burgeoning tech enclaves in Utah and Kentucky […]
Should Data Scientists Adhere to a Hippocratic Oath?
THE TECH INDUSTRY is having a moment of reflection. Even Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are talking openly about the downsides of software and algorithms mediating our lives. And while calls for regulation have been met with increased lobbying to […]
Why Tether’s Collapse Would Be Bad for Cryptocurrencies
THE CRYPTOCURRENCY WORLD, with its volatility, is all about FUD—fear, uncertainty, doubt. And nothing is generating more FUD right now than an unusual currency called tether. Unlike bitcoin and its many siblings, tether is what is called a stablecoin, an entity […]
How Petroleum-Based Products are Transforming Prosthetics
MOST OF US never think twice about how effortlessly our brain communicates with our limbs. You look, you reach, you grab or step. For many amputees, however, prosthetics are slow and cumbersome, a faint shadow of a healthy arm or leg. […]
This Scientist Wants to Bring ‘Star Trek’ Values to Congress
Vulcanologist Jess Phoenix never expected to be involved in politics. Until recently her life revolved around science—traveling the world to study different volcanoes and running an educational nonprofit. But the environmental record of the Trump administration has motivated her to […]
When Robots Invade the Kitchen
BURGER FLIPPERS, PIZZA tossers, and latte frothers, watch your backs: Gordon, Sally, and Kona are coming for you. (And they never need to take a sick day.) Over the last few years, a growing army of efficient cost-cutting robots has […]
The Robocall Nightmare Is Only Getting Worse—But Help Is Here
YOU PROBABLY GET robocalls all the time. Some pretend to be from the IRS, others come from a phone number very similar to yours. And then there’s the rash of free airline tickets/problem with your credit card/complete this short survey […]
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