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“Dude. Is that an ebike?” The call came from a man on the sidewalk with a pierced septum and a tattoo of a bike chain. He wasn’t the only one who asked. The Ride1Up Roadster V3 doesn’t look like an ebike, which is precisely why it drew notice from former bike shop repairmen and fitness-obsessed schoolteachers.Ride1Up’s city commuter Roadster, released last year and out of stock through much of 2025, is at the vanguard of a new generation of smartly integrated ebikes that look and feel like a bike without motor assist. Like the Aventon Soltera 3 we rated this…
James Murdoch to Acquire New York Magazine, Vox Media Podcast Network, and Vox James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems is acquiring the Vox Media Podcast Network, Vox.com, and New York Magazine. Cannes Lions is where the biggest ideas take center stage. Join ADWEEK for must-see conversations, top industry leaders, and the moments everyone will be talking about. Vox Media is breaking itself in two.On Wednesday, the digital publisher announced that James Murdoch’s media and technology holding company, Lupa Systems, has agreed to acquire three of its divisions—New York Magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network, and Vox—and is folding…
GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said in a series of posts on X that it has “no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories,” but noted its investigation was ongoing. GitHub said it “detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension,” referring to a plugin for Visual Studio Code, a popular code editor that developers use for programming. Hackers are increasingly targeting popular open-source…
As an Ebola outbreak rages in central and East Africa, public health workers say that the response has been stymied by the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid and global health organizations.“We are no longer able to get some supplies,” Amadou Bocoum, Democratic Republic of Congo country director for the anti-poverty nonprofit CARE, tells WIRED. “Because of that, we are not able to react immediately.”Bocoum says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers, as well as components necessary for testing, are in short supply due to funding cuts.WIRED spoke to more than half a dozen global health experts…
How Condé Nast Grew Its Events Revenue 40% Last Year Condé Nast, Getty Images Cannes Lions is where the biggest ideas take center stage. Join ADWEEK for must-see conversations, top industry leaders, and the moments everyone will be talking about. The digital media company Condé Nast grew revenue from its events business by 40% in 2025, and the publisher is projecting another 22% growth in 2026, according to chief revenue officer Elizabeth Herbst-Brady. The dramatic uptick comes as the parent company of brands including Vogue, GQ, and The New Yorker leans into cultural tentpoles to offset pressure…
In addition to serving up its own flavor of vibe-coding tools for building on Android, Google announced it will also offer tools that allow AI agents, like Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, or its own Antigravity or Gemini in Android Studio, to accelerate Android app development. Google shared on Tuesday at its annual Google I/O developer conference that its Android CLI (command line interface) is now stable at version 1.0 and can be used by those who are leveraging AI agents to build for them — no matter what their preferred coding platform may be. The move acknowledges that many people…
Because each part attaches wirelessly, the whole package is pretty flexible. ChefsTemp advertises bundles for Primo grills, every version of Kamado Joe, Big Green Egg, Akorn, Vision, Old Country Smoker, and a Weber Smokey Mountain. If you’re willing to drill a hole or two, you could even install the ProTemp into any classic kettle.But what I had to play with was the big red egg of a Kamado Joe ceramic grill, known for building heat slowly and holding that heat for a long time. I rarely use ceramics, and so it turned out I was bad at getting the temperature…
Ford’s global chief marketing officer (CMO), Lisa Materazzo, is leaving the business on June 1 after three years in the role. Dean Stoneley, who is currently global product marketing exec director, has been named interim global CMO while Ford searches for a successor.Since joining Ford from Toyota in 2023, Materazzo has modernized Ford’s global marketing function. She most recently spearheaded the launch of the automaker’s new global brand platform “Ready, Set, Ford,” created with Wieden+Kennedy. “Working alongside talented colleagues across Ford, Lincoln, and Ford Pro, partnering with amazing dealers, and collaborating with outstanding agency partners to help evolve one of…
At Google I/O on Tuesday, Google introduced Universal Cart, its agentic hub for managing shopping in one place. The tech giant also announced updates to its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and teased that it would bring the technology to Google products in the coming months, enabling users to authorize agents to make payments on their behalf. The announcements signal Google’s push to turn AI assistants from passive recommendation tools into active participants in online commerce. By launching a centralized shopping system and building infrastructure that lets software agents complete purchases autonomously, the company is positioning itself to control more of…
For some people, however, it might be helpful to think through what software you need to run, and which operating systems it runs best on, which will help you determine the hardware you need. And let’s not forget: ChromeOS and Linux are still alternative options. So, here’s how the four available operating systems break down.WindowsWindows is the stalwart default OS. Windows is the broadest and most widely used operating system, supporting the largest number of applications and hardware. Your workplace may require it, or maybe you need it to run a specific app. Every new Windows laptop released in the…
In the race to build compelling personal AI agents, Google may have an underrated advantage: It already has all your emails. At its Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark that was built from Gemini base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai described Spark as the next evolution of smart digital assistants, using agentic AI to take on long-horizon tasks with minimal oversight. “It’s your personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf and under your direction,”…
A week later, during the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting, now acting attorney general Todd Blanche endorsed the idea of ICE at the polls and repeated the conspiracy theory about noncitizens voting as an excuse to deploy ICE. “Why is there objection to sending ICE officers to polling places?” he asked. “Illegals can’t vote. It doesn’t make any sense.”When asked for comment regarding ICE being deployed to the polls, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said, “President Trump has been clear: Securing our elections and ensuring only American citizens vote in American elections is a top priority.”Similarly, a DHS spokesperson referred…
At the Google I/O developer conference, Google announced it’s bringing a voice-based prompting feature to Workspace apps such as Docs, Keep, and Gmail. These features can help you create drafts, take notes, and search for emails. In Docs, you can create a draft document using your voice. For instance, in a demo, Google showed that a user can fetch résumé details from Drive, add event logistics from an email on top of the document, and even include some humorous anecdotes. Image Credits:Google Previously, users would have to type all this out, and it’s possible that, while typing, they might write…
At Google IO 2026, the company unveiled a new version of its agentic coding app, Google Antigravity 2.0, with an updated desktop app, a CLI tool, and an SDK for custom workflows. The company launched its Antigravity tool last year as a response to agentic coding software such as Cursor. The company said that with the new desktop app, users can orchestrate multiple agents and execute tasks simultaneously. Plus, you can design custom subagent workflows and schedule tasks that can automatically run in the background. The new app also easily lets you integrate projects with Google AI Studio, Android, and…
When Google launched Gemini three years ago, the goal was to build a multimodal large language model — a single neural network that was trained on text, image, audio, and video and could generate content in any of those formats. Today, at its Google I/O developer conference, the company took a concrete step toward that goal with Gemini Omni, a new family of multimodal models that Google CEO Sundar Pichai says will be able to “create anything from any input.” Omni will start with video. Users can now combine images, audio, video, and text, and rather than simply stitching those…
If you’re looking for home and office furniture that will be part of your life for the long haul, Herman Miller is a go-to for well-designed, long-lasting furniture. Whether it’s upgrading your work-from-home setup with a better office chair or amping up your curb appeal with stylish new house numbers, Herman Miller can help. There are several pieces from Herman Miller that we love here at WIRED: the Herman Miller Embody is our “buy it for life” office chair, while Herman Miller’s Spout Sit-to-Stand standing desk is where I’m currently writing from. The brand is known for its thoughtful, high-quality…