I was recently waiting for my nails to dry and didn’t want to smudge the paint, when it dawned on me that this would be the perfect opportunity to test some voice-only artificial intelligence features. Silicon Valley car owners are having long conversations with ChatGPT as they drive around, and …
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It seems as though we’ve arrived at the moment in the AI hype cycle where no idea is too bonkers to launch. This week’s eyebrow-raising AI project is a new twist on the romantic chatbot—a mobile app called AngryGF, which offers its users the uniquely unpleasant experience of getting yelled …
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Silicon Valley tech types love their edgy new social media startups. The latest is Airchat, an audio-first social app that lets its users express their every thought by posting short snippets of audio. All of these snippets are served in a never-ending feed, à la Twitter. There are replies, there …
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At some point this weekend, Airchat cofounder Naval Ravikant had to close off new sign-ups to his app. After releasing a new version Friday, Airchat was quickly overloaded with people thirsting for a glimpse—or an audio snippet—of Silicon Valley’s newest fad. Ravikant had given a small number of users unlimited …
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I started journaling in 2019. It's not that I love keeping a journal, exactly. It's more that I find my brain works better if I spend a little time dumping its contents onto paper every morning. This practice got me through 2020, an extremely difficult year, and I've kept it …
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Late last year the messaging app Beeper raised the ire of Apple when it found a way to recreate Apple’s infamous “blue bubble” messaging on Android. Apple later hobbled Beeper, but it’s not an entirely unhappy ending: The startup has been acquired in a deal valued at $125 million. Founded …
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Picture it. The year is 2013. Something called a “cronut” keeps popping up in your Instagram feed. You went on a trip with your best friend, so you made an album on Facebook, tagged her, and geotagged the restaurant. Then you wrote a Yelp review. Maybe you publicly disagreed with …
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Never in my life did I think I'd own a home, but I was fortunate enough to close on my first house last fall. Yet as I moved into my new space—after nearly a decade of renting in New York City—I was overwhelmed with anxiety. Anything and everything that went …
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Like many people, I signed up for Mint because it was free. After all, that's what people who are good at money do—use things because they're free. And, by many standards, I am decent at managing money. I pay my mortgage monthly. I put aside money for vacations and savings, …
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After nearly a year offline, Parler, the “censorship free” social media network, is under new ownership and staging a comeback ahead of the 2024 presidential election. And this time, the new owners tell WIRED that the site will no longer host the violent, controversial content previously associated with Parler. For …
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