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Enlarge / Wired for science! Boglárka Morvai Needle, a cheerful miniature schnauzer I had as a kid, turned into a ball of unspeakable noise and fury each time she saw a dog called Puma. She hated Puma so much she…

On March 11, a fizzy startup announced that it had raised $67 million at a $1.4 billion valuation and reached $263 million in sales in 2023. Did you guess that this startup is Liquid Death, a canned water company? Liquid…

Enlarge / “Notepad.exe but with spellcheck” looks pretty much exactly like you’d expect it to. Microsoft Whatever else you can say about Windows 11—and whatever you think about its pushy tendencies and the Copilot feature that has been rolled out…

Every week seems to bring with it a new AI model, and the technology has unfortunately outpaced anyone’s ability to evaluate it comprehensively. Here’s why it’s pretty much impossible to review something like ChatGPT or Gemini, why it’s important to…

Enlarge / BMW’s M2 might be the last M car it builds with three pedals and a stick shift. Peter Nelson We’re at an interesting crossroads in the high-performance enthusiast car market. Running east to west is the adoption of…

Enlarge / Steve Huffman, u/spez on Reddit, sold 500,000 of his shares in Reddit’s IPO on Thursday AFP via Getty Images In an interview on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor ahead of Reddit’s market debut on Thursday, chief…

The DOJ is accusing Apple of operating like a monopoly, and the implications of the case stretch far beyond iOS and iPhones themselves Apple’s antitrust scrutiny has reached a fever pitch. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it…

Enlarge / The Enterprise-D bridge recreation, seen in London in 2002. Peter Bischoff/Getty Images More than a decade has gone by since three Star Trek: The Next Generation fans first decided to restore the bridge from the Enterprise-D. Plans for…

On home turf, Apple has enjoyed many years of relatively light regulatory scrutiny compared to Big Tech peers. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a monopoly case against Google back in October 2020, for instance. It followed with a…

Instagram users have started complaining on X (formerly Twitter) after discovering that Meta has begun limiting recommended political content by default. “Did [y’all] know Instagram was actively limiting the reach of political content like this?!” an X user named Olayemi…