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For years, Amazon Go stores stood at the pinnacle of retail store technology, showcasing a massive number of high-resolution digital cameras in each store that could visually track every customer and how that shopper interacted with every product.  The stores showcased Amazon’s technological superiority and brought an eerily human- and friction-free element to convenience store

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through the cracks. January’s list includes a lip-syncing robot; using brewer’s yeast as scaffolding for lab-grown meat;  hunting for

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down. The fight against these insects usually involved noxious insecticides; but now, at least some of them can be eliminated using a certain species of fungus. Infestations of

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