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Amazon leaks tiny Mac Mini with M4 Pro

The one tiny image of the new silver Mac Mini shows what appear to be a headphone jack and two front-facing USB-C ports, presumably with at least Thunderbolt 4 support. It’s available with a base or Pro version of the new M4 chipset, with up to 14 CPU cores, 20 GPU cores, 64GB of memory,…

Apple is turning The Oregon Trail into a movie

Apple is turning The Oregon Trail into a movie

Apple will adapt the classic educational game The Oregon Trail into a big-budget movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR). The film is in early development, having just been pitched to Apple and approved. Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory, Office Christmas Party) will direct and produce. Given that pedigree (zany comedies), it’s clear…

Booking.com Promo Code: Save With 50% Off Travel Deals

Booking.com Promo Code: Save With 50% Off Travel Deals

Like other online travel agencies, Booking.com helps you find discount rates for airline tickets, cruises, hotel stays, car rentals, and packages. We at WIRED regularly post updates with the newest Booking.com promo codes for discounts on car rentals, last-minute hotel bookings, and other travel-related expenses, including this promo code for 50% off stays and free…

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Infraspeak raises $19.5M to bring collaboration to facilities management

It might not be the sexiest of subjects, but facilities management is central to any business that has a physical premises — the bigger that footprint becomes, the more complex it gets. Portuguese startup Infraspeak has set out to address that with an all-in-one platform that gives facility managers and associated service providers insights and…

MIT affiliates receive 2024-25 awards and honors from the American Physical Society | MIT News

MIT affiliates receive 2024-25 awards and honors from the American Physical Society | MIT News

A number of individuals with MIT ties have received honors from the American Physical Society (APS) for 2024 and 2025. Awardees include Professor Frances Ross; Professor Vladan Vuletić, graduate student Jiliang Hu ’19, PhD ’24; as well as 10 alumni. New APS Fellows include Professor Joseph Checkelsky, Senior Researcher John Chiaverini, Associate Professor Areg Danagoulian, Professor Ruben Juanes, and…

From fish to clean water, the ocean matters—how to quantify the benefits

From fish to clean water, the ocean matters—how to quantify the benefits

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nature protection, conservation and restoration is “not a trivial matter but key to human survival,” according to scientists quoted in a 2005 UN report. To demonstrate this, they developed the concept of “ecosystem services”—the benefits that people derive from nature. Over the next 20 years, this concept has been in constant…

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Neil Lawrence interview: The AI expert who says artificial general intelligence is nonsense

What sets humans apart from the rest of life, or indeed inert matter? Many people would respond that it is our intelligence. Yet the rise of seemingly intelligent machines challenges this way of thinking. The companies behind these new artificial intelligence technologies, in the form of ChatGPT and its rivals, speak of achieving artificial general…

Nerve fibres in the brain could generate quantum entanglement

Nerve fibres in the brain could generate quantum entanglement

Do quantum interactions help brain cells stay in sync? Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Nerve fibres in the brain could produce pairs of particles linked by quantum entanglement. If backed by experimental observations, this phenomenon could explain how millions of cells in the brain synchronise their activity to make it function. “When a brain is active, millions…