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Sam Altman shares his optimistic view of our AI future

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has been touring Europe for the past few days, meeting head of governments and startup communities to talk about AI regulation, ChatGPT and beyond. In his latest on-stage appea...

Here's How Much Bad Habits Can Cost You Per Year

It's a sad fact of life that pretty often, the better it feels to do something, the worse it is for you--especially when you repeat it so often it falls under the category of "lifestyle choice." Gorgi...

How to Co-Parent With a Narcissist

How to Co-Parent With a Narcissist

NASA's Artemis program may face a budget crunch as costs continue to rise

The Artemis program to return humans to the Moon has an aura of inevitability now, with broad political support, robust international participation, and a successful first mission--Artemis I--under it...

Is Your Child a Changeling?

Is Your Child a Changeling?

Elvis Director Baz Luhrmann Doesn't Think AI Will Conquer Movies

[photo1]Angela WatercutterThe Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Baz Luhrmann blends in well here. The Austra...

What's AGI, and Why Are AI Experts Skeptical?

[photo1]Reece RogersVishal Misra loves cricket and computer science. Years ago, the Columbia University professor cofounded Cricinfo, a collaborative website for sports fans to stay updated on match s...

Diseases Didn't Just Shape History, They Control the Future

[photo1]Amit KatwalaYou are horribly outnumbered.
Even within your own body, your 30 trillion human cells can't compete with the 40 trillion or so bacteria that live rent-free in your gut, on you...

The Comstock Act Is One of America's Weirdest and Dumbest Laws

The strangest thing to me about the recent court case on mifepristone is not that a Texas judge ordered a hold on FDA approval of a drug that was already approved 23 years ago, nor that a Washington j...

This is what a plant sounds like when it's stressed

New research challenges assumptions that the plant kingdom is silent. Turns out, plants make a lot of noise when they're stressed.Other plants and animals might even be able to interpret those sounds....

The Simple Difference Between a Farm and a Garden

[photo1]Gardening has always been a part of American home life, with tens of millions of homes across the country sporting one. That got an extra boost during the pandemic-era lockdowns, naturally eno...

What You're Forgetting to Clean in Every Room

[photo1]Spring cleaning time is around the corner and while you're prepping your regular to-do list, there are a few things you might be overlooking. That's fine; we all have blind spots. Let's go ove...

When Did the Anthropocene Actually Begin?

Damian Carrington
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This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Exactly where and when did the Anthropocene begin? Scientists are atte...

Man's eyes turn bloody, yellow after plunge into pee-filled canal

It was his yellow, bloody eyes that gave his illness away. The previously healthy 18-year-old showed up at an emergency department in the Netherlands after two days of fever, vomiting, and...

Location pages in Google’s crosshairs after October spam update

Within the last few months, service area business (SAB) websites started to see rank fluctuations aligned with the rollout of Google's helpful content and spam updates around late August through Octob...

Google’s new helpful content update targets sites creating content for search engines first

Google is about to launch a new and large search algorithm update, called the helpful content update.
The helpful content update will target websites that have a relatively high amount of unsatisfy...

Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You

By WIRED ReadersDisclaimer: All #WiredSixWord submissions become the property of WIRED. Submissions will not be acknowledged or returned. Submissions and any other materials, including your name or so...