When a new presidential administration comes in, it is responsible for filling around 4,000 jobs sprinkled across the federal government’s vast bureaucracy. These political appointees help carry out the president’s agenda, and, at least in theory, make government agencies responsive to elected officials. Some of these roles—the secretary of state, for example—are well-known. Others, such

Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day. In 2012, Sharp brought the first 8K TV prototype to the CES trade show in Las Vegas. In 2015, the first 8K TVs started selling in Japan for 16 million yen (about $133,034 at the

About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and Silicon Valley biohacking: microdosing, or the practice of taking a small amount of a psychedelic drug seeking not full-blown hallucinatory revels but gentler, more stable effects. Typically using psilocybin mushrooms or LSD, the

Google has added Conversational Analytics to its BigQuery data warehouse, which it says will allow enterprise data teams and business users to ask questions about data in natural language, in turn speeding up data analytics for AI use cases. The agent, currently in preview, can be found under the Conversations tab in the new Agents

There’s a lot of hype about AI coding tools and the gains developers are seeing when it comes to speed and accuracy. But are developers also offloading some of their thinking to AI when they use them as copilots? Anthropic researchers recently put this to the test, examining how quickly software developers picked up a

We may live in an increasingly digital world, but sometimes — love it or hate it — good old-fashioned pulp-based paper is still a necessity. No matter what type of work you do, you’re bound to encounter the occasional page that needs to be printed or document that needs to be scanned. With your Android

Apple covered a lot of ground Thursday when it announced record Q1 results, but perhaps what mattered most were the insights into how the company now thinks about artificial intelligence, Siri, and Google Gemini. Apple’s forthcoming, existentially significant and much smarter Siri will be powered by Apple’s collaboration with Google Gemini and the company told us a

It’s easy to fall down the rabbit hole that is the hype surrounding Anthropic’s code agent Claude Code, a hype that really took off during the Christmas holidays and — at least in tech circles — is reminiscent of ChatGPT’s arrival three years ago. Claude Code, already being called both “the new ChatGPT” and “the

Windows developers are now focusing on improving the core experience in Windows 11, with Microsoft reportedly redirecting resources to address the operating system’s performance and reliability issues, according to The Verge. The move follows criticism of Windows 11 over recurring bugs and performance issues. Many users have also reacted to what they perceive as intrusive

The artificial intelligence industry’s pivot toward agentic AI – systems capable of autonomously executing multi-step tasks – has dominated technology discussions in recent months. But while Western firms focus on foundational models and cross-platform interoperability, China’s technology giants are racing to dominate through commerce integration, a divergence that could reshape how enterprises deploy autonomous systems