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A team of astronomers discovered a strange polygonal atmospheric structure on Saturn near the planet’s south pole. This 10-sided shape, known as a decagon, joins one of the gas giant’s most famous features: a hexagon near the north pole that was first observed 44 years…

Since the dawn of Silicon Valley, there’s been a widespread perception that San Francisco is, put gently, not exactly a dating mecca. The city famously has a skewed male-to-female ratio (per census data, there are about 105 men for every 100 women), and there’s a…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday named Adam Telle, a civilian leader in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as the acting Army secretary following the departure of Dan Driscoll amid widespread reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Telle is currently the…

POKHARA, Nepal — Two workers in Nepal were pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel on Friday, some nine days after devastating floods swept the Himalayan region and left thousands of people dead or missing. In a rare glimmer of hope, emergency teams rescued two…

A Tesla launch event tends to cause a hoopla. Fans crowd into an event space; loud electronic beats are the warm up act. Finally, the star himself, the ringmaster of this electric circus, CEO Elon Musk, emerges to a roar. There are demos, powerful verbs,…

New York City and Los Angeles school districts have launched moratoriums on AI in schools — in NYC through eighth grade, in L.A. including high school. WNYC education reporter Jessica Gould explains what’s in the New York ban and how it fits into a wider…

PHILADELPHIA — Former Philadelphia union leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty could soon get out of prison after President Donald Trump signed a commutation ending his six-year sentence Thursday, his attorney, George Bochetto, told NBC10. Dougherty was convicted in 2023 of bribing a City Council member…

More than 200 staffers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the encyclopedia Wikipedia, have voted 158-14 to join the Communications Workers of America labor union. The US National Labor Relations Board counted ballots on Thursday. Three Wikimedia employees tell WIRED they will now have…

This Guy Made Two Bots Talk to Each Other Because He Was So Fed Up With AI InterviewsMaybe the logical end point of AI job interviews is two bots talking to each other. Christopher—who asked that WIRED use his first name as his job hunt…