1+ hour, 36+ min ago (820+ words) The longevity entrepreneur's five-and-a-half hour livestreamed trip is antithetical to the introspective nature of the drug. But the stunt could reduce stigma around psychedelics. It marked the second act of his stunty new investigation into whether using psilocybin can improve almost 250 wellness biomarkers including various measures of brain connectivity, cortisol levels and testosterone. "There's a potential for psychedelics to play a more important role in all of our lives, and wouldn't it be amazing if it was also a longevity therapy," Johnson proclaimed on the stream. Prior to consuming the shrooms Sunday'which has been legal at licensed facilities in Oregon since 2023'Johnson measured his brain activity with a $50,000 helmet produced by Kernel, a neuroimaging company founded by the 48-year-old. He also took saliva samples and temperature readings. (After his November trip, he shared a lot of information about the state…...

5+ hour, 20+ min ago (1881+ words) Updated December 2, 2025: We've updated these deals to highlight ongoing discounts on the best earbuds for Android, some Bose headphones, a new deal on the best office chair we've tested, our favorite green powders, and more. Microsoft (Snapdragon X Plus) Microsoft's Surface Laptop is the closest thing the Windows world has to a MacBook, and it's never been so cheap. Usually, inexpensive Chromebooks have subpar displays and touchpads, but this Acer model's are just fine'at a killer price. Our favorite gaming laptop has a sleek, thin design and impressive graphics. It doesn't go on sale very often. Best Buy (X Plus) Weighing only 2.16 pounds, it's one of the lightest laptops you can buy, without making any major sacrifices to achieve that weight. The new MacBook Pro is only a month old, and it's already on sale. It wasn't a significant revamp,…...

9+ hour, 27+ min ago (818+ words) The errors in one of the most beautiful shows ever made continue a modern tradition of reformatting things that are better off left alone. As it turned out, there was perhaps too much clarity. Not long after the series went live on HBO Max, a screencap began floating around social media, from a scene in the Season One episode "Red in the Face," where Roger Sterling is vomiting in front of a group of horrified Sterling Cooper clients. When it aired'and in the version still available on AMC+'seven men are on screen, all of them wearing period-appropriate suits and ties. The HBO Max version, on the other hand, features two men who appear very out of place in 1960: crew members lurking in the background, feeding a hose to create the illusion that actor John Slattery is puking: As of…...

11+ hour, 2+ min ago (320+ words) If you're near Rochester, New York, the price for a carton of Target's Good & Gather eggs is listed as $1.99 on its website. If you're in Manhattan's upscale Tribeca neighborhood, that price changes to $2.29. It's unclear why the prices differ, but a new notice on Target's website offers a potential hint: "This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." The law also requires that the disclosure is "clear and conspicuous." Target's disclosure is not the easiest to find'a customer would have to know to click the "i" icon next to the price of an item, then scroll to the bottom of the pop-up. In the past, the courts have held that it's not always reasonable to assume that a customer will click on "more information" links when it's not required. Target didn't respond to questions about the price…...

13+ hour, 43+ min ago (1921+ words) Take it from me: Spending an hour with Melinda French Gates will restore at least an iota of your faith in humanity. The billionaire philanthropist, investor, and longtime advocate for women's and girls' rights is the rare example of an "ber-wealthy American who takes seriously the responsibility that their wealth confers. KATIE DRUMMOND: Melinda French Gates, welcome to The Big Interview. Thank you so much for being here. MELINDA FRENCH GATES: Thanks for having me, Katie. So we always start these conversations with some rapid-fire questions. It's a warmup. Get your brain working, get your muscles working. Are you ready? OK, first thing you do when you wake up in the morning. One tech product you wish you could invent for women's health. I want to hear more about that. What's one myth about philanthropy you wish people would stop…...

14+ hour, 13+ min ago (894+ words) You might think Amazon's biggest swing in the AI race was its $8 billion investment in Anthropic. But AWS has also been building in-house foundation models, new chips, massive data centers, and agents meant to keep enterprise customers locked inside its ecosystem. The company believes these offerings will give it an edge as businesses of all shapes and sizes deploy AI in the real world. WIRED sat down with AWS CEO Matt Garman ahead of the company's annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas to discuss his AI vision, and how he plans to extend Amazon's lead in the cloud market over its fast-rising competitors, Microsoft and Google. Garman is betting that AI is a service that AWS can deliver more cheaply and reliably than its rivals. Through Bedrock, Amazon's platform for building AI apps, he says customers can access a…...

14+ hour, 13+ min ago (695+ words) Amazon has announced a new family of frontier artificial intelligence models'and a new way for customers to build frontier models of their own. The ecommerce giant announced the second generation of its Nova AI models at re:Invent, a company conference held in Las Vegas. The models are nowhere near as popular as those offered by rivals like OpenAI and Google, but Amazon's plan to make them highly customizable could see them gain traction with its cloud users. Amazon detailed two improved large language models, Nova Lite and Nova Pro; a new realtime voice model called Nova Sonic; and a more experimental model called Nova Omni that performs a simulated kind of reasoning using images, audio, and video as well as text. The new models are being made available today to a limited number of customers. More significantly, given the…...

18+ hour, 58+ min ago (573+ words) Hackers poking around in iOS 26 recently uncovered something Apple definitely didn't intend anyone to see: every modern iPhone is running the operating system Apple's upcoming "iPhone Fold" will likely use. Which means these phones are'right now'already capable of running a full, fluid desktop experience. For years, Apple has insisted that iOS and iPadOS are distinct, despite sharing code and habitually borrowing each other's features. But a self-proclaimed "tech geek" on Reddit who got iPad features running on an iPhone claimed they're not merely similar'they're essentially the same: "Turns out iOS has all the iPadOS code (and vice versa; you can for instance enable Dynamic Island on iPad)." TechExpert2910 revealed on Reddit that his hacked iPhone ran iPad OS "incredibly well," making his 17 Pro Max an "insane pocket computer" with more RAM than his M4 iPad Pro. The exploit is already patched in…...

19+ hour, 13+ min ago (399+ words) The DOGE ethos'characterized by cutting contracts and government workers, consolidating data across agencies, and importing private sector practices'remains fully in force. While several media reports have suggested that DOGE has all but fizzled out, DOGE affiliates are scattered across the federal government working as developers, designers, and even leading agencies in powerful roles. "That's absolutely false," one USDA source says of reporting that DOGE has disbanded. "They are in fact burrowed into the agencies like ticks." DOGE has "just transformed," an IRS employee tells WIRED. While DOGE is no longer moving across the government in a move-fast-and-break-things blitz, DOGE affiliates appear to be digging in for the long haul'and Silicon Valley'shaped fingerprints remain all over the way agencies continue to be run. "They want to see IRS as like a tech company, that's the feeling I get," says an IRS…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago (338+ words) If you like gardening or composting supplies, you won't want to miss Vego's Cyber Monday deals. Further, most of Vego's gardening and composting supplies are on discount on Amazon and the brand's website, so this is a perfect time to take a look for either yourself or a giftee. Note that even though the Vego is called a composter, it doesn't actually make compost; it just grinds and dries your food scraps. However, it will reduce the volume of your kitchen waste by up to 90 percent, and the resulting odor-free "Vego meal" (seen below, from Express Mode) can be used to top dress your lawn, be mixed with potting soil as a nutritional amendment, or just be put back in your trash (albeit with much more room). My favorite feature of the Vego is the "Express Mode"; some of these…...