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Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark and Chalmers University of Technology have created a superfast optical chip capable of transmitting the entirety of the internet in…

An international team of scientists has set a new data record, by transferring 1.8 petabits in a single second — the equivalent to twice the world’s global internet traffic for that…

China’s powerful cyberspace regulator has taken the first step in a pioneering—and uncertain—government effort to rein in the automated systems that shape the internet.Earlier this month,…

Participants at Ethereum Dubai, a developers conference. Image credit: @ETHDubaiConfl via FacebookSynopsisTech giants like Facebook and Google were born in the second stage of the Internet’s…

On June 6, Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence projects, saw traffic to an AI image-generation tool called DALL-E Mini skyrocket.The outwardly simple app,…

CAPTCHAs are the bane of every internet user. While these security tools can help identify the difference between bots and humans, they can also be incessantly annoying. When iOS 16…

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.For many New Yorkers, the last week has been intense and…

Nostalgia, they say, comes in waves, each one crashing as a new generation learns how their parents lived. In the 1990s, the narrator of Radiohead’s song “The Bends” proclaimed, albeit…

A User Centric Web 3.0SynopsisCalendar 2022 will be the year of Web3, which promises to be decentralised. With the power shifting from Big Tech to users and applications running on…

When it comes to attention-grabbing virality, the team at Boston Dynamics has possessed the Midas touch for a while now. The best example of this came late last year, with a video that…