Joe Kiniry, a security expert specializing in elections, was attending an annual conference on voting technology in Washington, DC, when a woman approached him with an unusual offer. She said she represented a wealthy client interested in funding voting systems that would encourage bigger turnouts. Did he have any ideas? “I told her you should stay away from internet voting, because it’s really, really hard,” he says.Later he learned who had sent her. It was Bradley Tusk, a New York City political consultant and fixer for companies like Uber fending off regulation. He’d made a fortune doing that (early Uber…
It’s Wordle Wednesday, which means I have an extra challenge for you fine Wordlers to solve. Every Wednesday I post a riddle, brain-teaser or logic puzzle to keep things spicy, though lately I’ve also been posting custom Bonus Wordles so I guess we’re just turning the spice up to 11.…
Another day, another Pips puzzle to solve. Well, I suppose we actually have three to solve: Easy, Medium and Hard. I’m still waiting for the New York Times Games department to add a Mega Super-Duper-Extra Challenging tier. A boy can dream.In any case, the numbers just keep coming, with no…
On Thursday, Tesla shareholders approved an unprecedented $1 trillion pay package for CEO Elon Musk. The full compensation plan will go into effect by 2035—assuming Musk and the company successfully hit ambitious financial and production targets. If that happens, Musk will also get control of some 25 percent of the…
It’s rainy and cold here in the mountains. You can almost taste winter, even if it’s still officially a few weeks away. Christmas is coming, but Thanksgiving will get here first. Turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing and green bean casserole and all the good things. In any…
Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from the App Store after receiving an order from China’s main internet regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes as reports of Blued and Finka disappearing from the iOS App Store and several Android…
You know what the NYT Pips game needs? Some kind of extra challenge. Sure, the Hard Pips can be challenging but I want more. The New York Times Games bosses can have both these ideas for free. Either, or both, could be implemented. First, an easy way to make an…
Some US tech giants are abandoning their decade-long practice of publishing statistics about the gender and racial makeup of their workforce. Google, which helped pioneer the release of annual diversity, equity, and inclusion reports, has no plans to disclose the information this year, according to four employees familiar with the…
In thinking about applied AI in the business world, we have a lot of different aspects of approach to choose from. We can inspect markets to see where the opportunity lies, or solve a customer’s pain points. We can engineer something that will make stakeholders, or consumers, say “wow.” We…
One day a couple months ago, in the middle of lunch, I glanced at my phone and was puzzled to see my colleague Ash Roy calling. In and of itself it might not have seemed strange to get a call from Ash: He’s the CTO and chief product officer of…
It’s 2XP Friday for those of us who play Competitive Wordle. That means you double your points, whether positive or negative, and let the chips fall where they may. We’ve had some especially tricky Wordles lately. Let’s solve this one and get ready for the weekend!Looking for Thursday’s Wordle? Check…
It’s Thor’s Day and as always, we have a Wordle to solve. Before we do that, we have a riddle to solve from yesterday’s Wordle Wednesday challenge. This was the riddle:The answer: Headlights! Alright, with that out of the way, let’s knock out this Wordle . . . .Looking for…
TfL, to its credit, has made many efforts over the years to try to deal with the problem of hot tunnels, including attaching cooling panels to tunnel walls. The panels, which circulate water to remove heat from the air, were deployed in a trial in 2022, though they are not…
The day is nearly upon us, and KPop Demon Hunter dolls from Mattel are about to go on sale. Well, pre-sale, at least. The dolls were announced late last week, and now they are set to go live on Wednesday, November 12, which is tomorrow at the time of this…
Changpeng Zhao, the multibillionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, spent four months last year locked in a federal prison. After US president Donald Trump pardoned Zhao in October, the government has recast him as a martyr.Zhao, who goes by CZ, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to failing to maintain an…
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