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See at Hulu Carries ABC, ESPN and TNT for $83 per month Hulu Plus Live TV The 12-team College Football Playoff is now an eight-team playoff. The first round concluded without any upsets, which set up some big quarterfinal matchups, starting with No. 3 Boise State and No. 6 Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl … Read more

Technology has always been a funny thing in the world of Wallace & Gromit—where Wallace’s wacky inventions, from literal spaceships to remote-controlled robo-trousers, sit alongside a classically low-fi vision of Britain. That’s also been the case for making Wallace & Gromit at Aardman too, as the studio’s triumphed traditional hand-animated features even as it’s dipped its … Read more

From Keith Rabois to Matt Miller, a lot of VCs have switched firms or spun out of storied VC institutions this year. These employment changes are surprising because unlike in many other fields, venture capitalists don’t traditionally move around very much — especially those who reach the partner or general partner level. VC funds have … Read more

On a gloomy November day, I drove from Boston to a large corporate development in Beverly, Massachusetts. I walked down a long, narrow hallway and entered a clinical-feeling, medium-sized white room full of robot kiosks. I was there to visit SmartSKN Labs, and these robots were going to make me a hyper-personalized, fully AI-created line … Read more

New Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse just dropped: According to the Financial Times, major defense technology companies Palantir and Palmer Luckey’s Anduril are in conversations with SpaceX and OpenAI (among other tech players) to form a consortium to bid for US government defense contracts. The goal of the group, which reportedly plans to announce its … Read more

Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has pretty much the biggest everything nowadays. The chip giant is sporting a $3.4+ trillion market cap, due largely to its foundational position in the ongoing AI boom. Companies like OpenAI and Meta have purchased Nvidia processors by the boatload, and that’s … Read more

Move over, Ring: Apple is reportedly working on a smart doorbell — one that unlocks for household members it recognizes. Apple’s doorbell would have advanced facial recognition technology that wirelessly connects to a deadbolt lock, according to a Bloomberg report. The doorbell would unlock the door for people it recognizes, functioning similarly to Face ID … Read more

NASA put its Orion spacecraft to the test ahead of its planned journey to the Moon. The space agency simulated the extreme conditions the capsule may experience during a launch abort scenario when it would need to push itself, and its crew, away from the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. NASA recently completed an 11-month … Read more

‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas, and a certain somebody still has shopping to do. Fear not. We’ve managed to rustle up some super last-minute discounts on WIRED-approved gadgets and gizmos that you can purchase on sale and pick up in time to save the holidays. Everything listed below has stock available for … Read more

A Wired investigation found that Google Maps can be near impossible to use in the West Bank, especially since the start of the war. Users told the publication that the navigation app would direct them into walls, fail to account for time-consuming checkpoints, or steer them onto restricted roads leading to Israeli settlements, which can … Read more