Business / National Affairs

Business, Business / National Affairs, Encryption, security

How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information

Smartphone security measures have grown increasingly sophisticated in recent years, evolving from passcodes to thumbprints to face recognition and advanced…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Outbreak, Science

Testing Alone Won’t Stop Covid. Just Look at the White House

“Testing alone is not actually protective of anybody without a contact tracing and isolation program, and without use of masks…

big tech, Business, Business / National Affairs

The 14 Juiciest Quotes From the House Antitrust Report

The subcommittee report accuses Google of unfairly using its dominance in search to give its other business offerings—like Froogle, now…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Election 2020

College Going Virtual Means Reaching Young Voters Online. Good

In an ordinary election year, college campuses would be brimming with political energy by October. Civic nonprofits like Campus Vote…

Antitrust, Business, Business / National Affairs

Congress Unveils Its Plan to Curb Big Tech’s Power

Anyone who’s paid even slight attention to a Congressional investigation of the power wielded by tech giants won’t be surprised…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Journalism

One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack – October 2020

In May 2019, WIRED joined the One Free Press Coalition, a united group of preeminent editors and publishers using their…

Business, Business / National Affairs, carbon neutral

Activists at Amazon Say Its Climate Efforts Still Fall Short

As over a thousand Amazon employees prepared to walk off the job last September, CEO Jeff Bezos announced a series…

Business, Business / National Affairs, National Affairs

Trump’s TikTok Circus Will Have Lasting Consequences

It’s been one hell of a week for TikTok. The company is scrambling to get the White House to approve…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Science

Covid Hits Minorities Hardest, but Data Often Doesn’t Show It

Transit stations have been quiet lately, but on six days earlier this month people lined up outside a subway station…

Business, Business / National Affairs

Police Want Your Smart Speaker—Here’s Why

Amazon doesn’t provide granular data on what police are seeking, but Douglas Orr, head of the criminal justice department at…