Qi2 Wireless Charging: Everything You Need to Know
It's ironic, but we here at WIRED have long been fans of wireless charging. Not having to fumble with cables is nice! Most wireless...
The Download: producing rare earth minerals, and future AI regulation
Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate change. And access to rare...
These AI-powered apps can hear the cause of a cough
“One of the big limitations is that a lot of these studies have private data sets that are secret,” Bensoussan says. That makes it...
Why cloud architects are paid well
The majority of IT workers earned more in 2023 than in 2022. Indeed, average annual salaries increased in 2023 by nearly $20,000. This is...
The race to produce rare earth materials
Rivalia prefers to work with existing waste products as opposed to coal that has not yet been burned. This approach is risky; extraction from...
Irene T. Cheng, SM ’78
“Thinking big, aiming high, and making a difference were rules of the road embedded during my time at MIT,” says Irene Cheng, SM ’78,...
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not how well it prevents pregnancy. Participants were asked to...
Microsoft in 2024: The year custom silicon transforms Azure
The history of modern software development has been a dance between what hardware can give and what software demands. Over the decades, the steps...
Forget Growth. Optimize for Resilience
Fleming believed that growth has natural limits. Things grow to maturity—kids into adults, saplings into trees, startups into full-fledged companies—but growth beyond that point...
The Download: greener cement, and the biggest tech stories of 2023
+ The worst technology failures of 2023. The Titan submersible, lab-grown chicken, and GM’s wayward Cruise robotaxis all made our annual run-down of the...
