The most challenging part of FMVSS 127 is the night-time Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking (PAEB) test, which, unlike the EU’s new AEB regulation, needs to work in complete darkness. More than 70 percent of pedestrians hit and killed by motorists are struck at night, according to NHTSA. Protecting pedestrians at night is “likely to require […]
Taylor Swift Triggered a Tsunami of Sports Bets. Then She Stopped Turning Up
It’s hard to quantify the Swiftie demographic’s impact on these bets, but preseason, WIRED reached out to several sportsbooks including BetRivers, DraftKings, FanDuel and Rivalry, which said the Taylor Swift effect was real, and expected it would continue to affect their industry this season. Tim Whitehead, sportsbook head at BetRivers, put it succinctly. “So long […]
The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people wondering: Who’s most likely to embrace AI in their daily lives? Many assume it’s the tech-savvy—those who understand how AI works—who are most eager to adopt it. Surprisingly, our new research, published in the Journal […]
The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here
The wheels are already beginning to turn on Donald Trump’s plan to make the US into the “crypto capital of the planet” following his return to the White House. In an executive order signed Thursday, Trump established a “working group on digital asset markets,” which will be responsible for weighing the possibility of the US […]
Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Human Fact-Checkers
This week, we take a look at Meta’s new era of content moderation.
Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison
Those allegations of murders-for-hire, in fact, dissuaded the first Trump administration from granting clemency to Ulbricht. The White House in 2020 considered freeing Ulbricht but ultimately rejected the idea because of the alleged role of violence in the case, according to one former government official involved in the process who spoke to WIRED on condition […]
The Trump Memecoin’s ‘Money-Grab’ Economics
In this sense, claims Jacob Silverman, coauthor of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, the TRUMP coin setup seems to bear some of the hallmarks of a “classic memecoin pump-and-dump”—a manoeuvre whereby an issuer keeps hold of large amounts of their coin, promotes the project, then cashes in their holdings, […]
RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty
As TikTok’s future hangs in the balance, Xiaohonghshu, better known as RedNote in English, is trying to capitalize on its newfound popularity by partnering with US influencers who can help promote the company and bring more Americans onto its platform. The Chinese lifestyle and travel app, which has over 300 million mostly monthly active users, […]
It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too
TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users. Shortly before the federally mandated January 19 deadline, TikTok cut off access to anyone attempting to access the app from the US. “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in […]
Polestar Has a Bold Plan—Get Better at Selling Cars
Polestar makes the Polestar 3 in a South Carolina factory, and last year warned that any sales ban “shuts down the operations of a lawfully organized US company with substantial US investments.” “The US is an important market for us,” Kim Palmer, Polestar head of PR, tells WIRED. Suggesting the speccing of non-Chinese software and […]