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Cash Crunch

Google Filing Reveals It Slashed Spending on Acquisitions in 2023

As interest rates and antitrust pressure climbed in 2023, Alphabet made no major acquisitions for the first time in years. Apple, Amazon, and Meta also curbed dealmaking.

Paresh Dave

Hide and Seek

The One Part of the Vision Pro That Apple Doesn’t Want You to See

Lauren Goode

Fee Fight

Apple Turned Its Epic Defeat Into Another App Store Victory

Paresh Dave

The Holy Grail of Quantum Computing Is Finally Here. Or Is It?

Sophia Chen

Breaking News

Google’s App Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, as a Jury Sides With Epic Games

Paresh Dave

WIRED30

The Rise of AI in Alternative Browsers—and What’s Next

Reece Rogers

Always On

Humane’s Ai Pin is a $700 Smartphone Alternative You Wear All Day

Paresh Dave

Epic Battle

A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly

Paresh Dave

Vital Signs

Families of Hostages Kidnapped by Hamas Turn to Phone Pings for Proof of Life

Morgan Meaker

Chip Crunch

Graphcore Was the UK's AI Champion—Now It’s Scrambling to Survive

Peter Guest

Crime = Money

The Maker of ShotSpotter Is Buying the World’s Most Infamous Predictive Policing Tech

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron

WIRED Podcasts

How to Take Back the Internet

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode

Buzz Kill

The iPhone 15 Opts for Intuitive AI, Not Generative AI

Khari Johnson

U-Turn

Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption

Peter Guest

Post-Docs

The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

Gregory Barber

Forbidden Fruit

Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle

Gabriela Galindo

Stand Out

The Best Websites to Show Off Your Portfolio of Work

David Nield

Blind Eye

Stack Overflow Didn’t Ask How Bad Its Gender Problem Is This Year

Chris Stokel-Walker

Sort Function

Deepmind’s AI Is Learning About the Art of Coding

Gregory Barber

Wartime Hacking

Pegasus Spyware Is Detected in a War Zone for the First Time

Vittoria Elliott

Very Punny

You Can Now Claim a .Dad Domain for Your Site. Cue the Dad Jokes

Reece Rogers

Broken Promises

Microsoft’s New Campus Drove Up Home Prices. Where Are the Jobs?

Anna Kramer

We ❤️ Hardware

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

Charles Platt