Americas News
Apple’s best product ever
- Technology
- David Pierce
- Apr 3, 2026
All week, we've been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company's 50th anniversary. Thanks to everyone who pitched in - we ended up with more than 1.6 mill...
Chatbots are now prescribing psychiatric drugs
- Technology
- Robert Hart
- Apr 3, 2026
Utah is allowing an AI system to prescribe psychiatric drugs without a doctor. It's only the second time the state - and the country - has delegated this kind of clinical authority to AI. State offici...
A Year After DOGE Cuts, GSA Now Plans to Hire Hundreds of Employees
- Technology
- Leah Feiger, Zoë Schiffer
- Apr 3, 2026
The General Services Administration is hiring “approximately 400 positions,” according to an internal email viewed by WIRED. Last year the agency lost thousands of workers as part of DOGE’s rampage.
AO3 is finally out of beta after 17 years
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Apr 2, 2026
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially exiting beta. The Organization for Transformative Works - the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site - announced the update on Thursday, which comes 17 years after...
PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Apr 2, 2026
If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, you might want to double-check your privacy settings. Though Granola says your notes are "private by default," it makes them viewable to anyone with...
Reddit is moving on from r/all
- Technology
- Jay Peters
- Apr 2, 2026
Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform, as part of "ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization." Reddit has offered both r...
This bike rack pioneer is selling Bluetooth suction cups to stick bikes to your car
- Technology
- Sean Hollister
- Apr 2, 2026
Richard Allen didn't invent the automobile bike rack - his 1967 patent application makes it clear that others came before. But after nearly sixty years selling popular and simple mechanical bike carri...
Trump administration sues three states over attempts to regulate prediction markets
- Business
- Bobby Allyn
- Apr 2, 2026
- US
The suits are the most ambitious effort to date that the Trump administration has gone to try to override state laws and set the rules for the fast-growing and increasingly divisive betting industry.
The ABS Challenge System is exposing the worst umpire in baseball
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Apr 2, 2026
During Wednesday's game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers, umpire CB Bucknor took a foul ball to the mask and had to be helped off the field. It was the cap to what has been a parti...
Pinterest said he violated laid-off colleagues’ privacy. Now he’s going public
- Technology
- Lauren Feiner
- Apr 2, 2026
It was late January, and Pinterest engineer Teddy Martin was on edge about recent layoffs at the company. Martin had just survived a round of cuts, but he and other employees were confused about who w...
Trump fires attorney general Pam Bondi.
- Technology
- Richard Lawler
- Apr 2, 2026
Taking a break from calling Bruce Springsteen a boring loser on Thursday, Donald Trump followed that up with another Truth Social post saying "loyal friend" Pam Bondi will transition to a yet-to-be-an...
Five questions for the guys who made a compass that points to the Times Square Olive Garden
- Technology
- TC. Sottek
- Apr 2, 2026
Here's a question almost nobody is asking: how do you get to the Times Square Olive Garden? Well, these beautiful weirdos are answering it - the team that made the Times Square Olive Garden compass. I...