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We’ve come to loathe the gigantic companies and wealthy people that build Big Tech just as deeply as we love the products and services that they’ve built. It’s easy to see why. Over the last decade, child abusers and terrorists have exploited social media. We’ve witnessed the facilitation of fake news, conspiracy theories and electoral…
Rui Vieira/PA Wire/PA Images For any British commuter, it is difficult to square yearly ticket price rises with the fact they can expect to pay up to five times as much rail fare on average as the rest of Europe. The news, then, that rail fares are set to rise yet again, this time by…
It is a well-known fact that people tend to pay attention to the visual elements first which often makes them prefer the form to the content. Email marketing is no exception. It is the structure of an email, illustrations, text formatting, color palette, and mobile optimization that usually determine if users will finish reading your…
Tumblr – once the residence of internet goths, niche sex positive (NSFW) content, and the obscurest memes – is being sold for a reported $3 million (£2.48 million), a paltry fraction of the $1.1 billion (£910.6m) Yahoo paid for the site back in 2013. The social network is being sold by Verizon – the US…
You likely haven’t heard of Cleer or its audio products. The company is a mere three years old and only just started making its wares available in the UK earlier this summer. However, despite the relatively juvenile nature of the company, senior Cleer staff have some audiophile credibility, joining from brands including Sony, Harman and…
Get WIRED’s daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here A Bloomberg investigation has found that Facebook – like Amazon, Google and Apple – has been paying hundreds of external contractors to transcribe voice recordings from its Messenger communications platform. The company says that it paused this programme last week the wake of controversy surrounding…
The banana – or at least the fruit as we know it – is facing an existential crisis. A deadly fungus that has decimated banana plantations in southeast Asia for 30 years has finally done what scientists have long been fearing, and made its way to Latin America – the heart of the global banana…
A Bulava nuclear-capable missile was tested by the Russian Navy in May 2018 TASS/Tass/PA Images Russia’s facing another potential nuclear crisis. Following last week’s explosion at the military base in Nyonoksa, in north-west Russia, residents are preparing for a minor evacuation. At the center of the problem appears to be the nuclear rocket engine 9M730…
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. It has the potential to fuel the economy while emitting little but clean water, and predictions of an impending “hydrogen revolution” have been swirling for decades. So far, the revolution has been elusive, but that could be about to change. Hydrogen is on the upswing. China…
Getty Images / nickylarson974 In May 2015, Google set out a bold vision: it was going to get rid of passwords on Android phones. A year later, under the codename Abacus, it pledged to bring password-free logins to the operating system’s apps by the end of 2016. Fast forward three years and the password is…