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One day after his controversial, Oscars-centric interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin Hart is going on the defensive. In an Instagram post on Saturday, the embattled comedian addressed the backlash that has stemmed from his Q&A with DeGeneres, in which DeGeneres revealed that she personally contacted the Academy and recommended that Hart be reinstated as Oscars […]
Doug Engelbart didn’t just want to show off new technology. He wanted to demonstrate a system for improving humanity. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c0acc0895dd99446fa3bc92/master/pass/Douglas-Engelhart-89869212.jpg
Venezuelans are suffering. Yet other countries have had it far worse
Loose change IN 1946 Gyorgy Faludy, a Hungarian poet, received 300bn pengo for a new edition of his works. The sum would have been worth $ 60bn before the second world war. But after the Nazis departed with Hungary’s gold reserves and the Russians occupied its territory, the country’s currency was not what it was—and […]
Decades ago, Section 230 gave tech companies sweeping power to police content on their platforms. Now some lawmakers want that power back. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b4e38a5774f6c0b5552bc51/master/pass/Section230Hearing-Biz-1000694576.jpg
US law enforcers aren’t trained to detect Islamic radicals, which enabled a suspected Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist to remain off the radar in America for seven years, attorney Jennifer Breedon told RT. Saudi national, Naif Abdulaziz Alfallaj, who trained at the Al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan together with some of the 9/11 plane hijackers, was detained in Oklahoma […]
Artificial intelligence-generated video, photos, and audio that mimic the real world are already here. Now we get to live among them. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a2eb8b77ddf3c6b8cc4157d/master/pass/AI_VideoFinal.jpg Feed: All Latest
I anticipated that Electronic Arts’ purchase of Titanfall studio Respawn Entertainment wasn’t going to go over well with fans. And from what I’ve seen, the reaction has been mostly negative. But should we really be so quick to judge this will be the death knell for creativity at Respawn? I don’t think so. I think […]
Kylie Masse will be staring at a world record in the 100-metre backstroke later this week in Budapest, Hungary, two years after failing to make the Canadian squad for the Toronto Pan American Games. That one “blip” on the rising swimmer’s career, says coach Byron MacDonald, could turn out to be the best thing to […]
