Amazon announced new listening features for Alexa, part of a suite of upgrades to the voice…
Author: Tom Simonite
Amazon’s Alexa Upgrades Give the Voice Assistant New Listening Powers
Amazon announced new listening features for Alexa, part of a suite of upgrades to the voice…
How Apple Makes the AI Chip Powering the iPhone’s Fancy Tricks
In a rare interview, Tim Millet, Apple's leading chip architect, describes building artificial intelligence into the…
Apple’s Latest iPhones Are Packed With AI Smarts
Apple's new phones may look similar to last year's models, but they come with a powerful…
Google Has Made The First Multilingual Virtual Assistant
Google's virtual assistant can now listen for, and respond in, two languages. It could make the…
Why You Need a Physical Vault to Secure a Virtual Currency
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase stores its customers' bitcoin offline, using an elaborate process that breaks apart encryption…
Pro-‘Dota 2’ Players Fend off Elon Musk-Backed AI Bots—for Now
Algorithms have conquered backgammon, chess, and Go, but they fall short against the best humans in…
What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide
Everything you ever wanted to know about qubits, superpositioning, and spooky action at a distance.
Schools Are Mining Students’ Social Media Posts for Signs of Trouble
But should they?
AI Is the Future—But Where Are the Women?
Just 12 percent of machine learning researchers are women—a worrying statistic for a field supposedly reshaping…