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The CIA released 71 declassified documents related to the 9/11 attacks on Friday, the 25th anniversary of deadly Al Qaeda terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The documents, which were posted on the CIA’s website, cover the period from February 1998 to Sept. 12,…
Follow live coverage of 9/11 memorial ceremonies 25 years later as Americans reflect on the attacks. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro urged Americans to be “active” in the effort to educate people who were either too young to remember the terrorist attacks of 9/11 or were…
Here at WIRED we’ve been trying to make sense of at least two incidents in the AI industry this week: First, the major fight over a million-dollar math problem and whether OpenAI surreptitiously borrowed the work of other researchers to solve the problem first. A…
WASHINGTON — When American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon’s western facade at 9:37 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, FBI agent Jack Hess rushed to the scene. His wife, Sandy Hess, also an FBI agent at the time, ran to pick up their 1-year-old son…
Follow live coverage of 9/11 memorial ceremonies 25 years later as Americans reflect on the attacks. Post-9/11 wars have cost lives around the world and far from the battlefield. According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, more than 940,000 people were killed by U.S.…
[Mina] These cyborg cockroaches could save your life. Small robots and drones are already employed by locating victims in locations that are too hard, or dangerous to send humans, like collapsed buildings. But what sets the so-called Paraborg apart is that it’s also designed to…
In 2006, Donald Trump was firing people on The Apprentice and Dr. Phil was daytime television’s reigning tough-love therapist. Twenty years later, the former is president of the United States, the latter, his informal UFO ambassador—recently trusted with unreleased government files on unidentified anomalous phenomena…
Everyone knows that when you’re at Olive Garden, you’re family. But in the 44 years since the casual Italian-American restaurant chain was founded, few have embraced it with the ardor that Braden Sinclair has. In fact, way back in his Little League days, a coach…
There is something wrong with the tractor. The water-in-fuel sensor, a small device embedded in the John Deere machine that monitors the integrity of its diesel engine, is disconnected. And I’ve got to fix it. I’m not a mechanic or a farmer. I’m poking at…
There are many, many strange things about the stew of conspiracy theories that fall under the umbrella of “9/11 Truth”—the false, often antisemitic worldview purporting that the US government had inside knowledge of or even actively participated in the September 11 attacks. But perhaps the…