The South Korean tech giant sees demand for smartphones "eroding."It's been a rough few days for the tech sector with share prices for most tech stocks plummeting this week. First it was Apple, whose share price is down nearly 7% since announcing on Tuesday it had had the best quarterly results of any public company in the history of the world.Read Full Story

Stacking oranges leads to computer-assisted mathematics. But does it feel like mathematics? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Have you noticed that nobody seems to be talking about the scourge of "used games," anymore? The post Why Nobody’s Complaining About Used Games Anymore appeared first on WIRED.

Pilot programs to repair or recycle furniture show promise but have yet to take hold in the U.S., despite us hitting "peak stuff."Where does an Ikea product go when it approaches the end of its useful life? Maybe Craigslist, or the annual yard sale, or—for the optimistic or guilt-ridden—a storage unit. Probably the worst option of all? The landfill. But Steve Howard, the Scandinavian company's chief sustainability officer, believes in a future where Ikea furniture never really dies at all. Instead, it gets reincarnated.Read Full Story

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: January 22, 1916 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Here is a quick introduction to the superposition of electric fields and visualizing the E-field due to a dipole using VPython. The post Use Code to Create Sweet 3-D Visualizations of Electric Fields appeared first on WIRED.

Security firms think the attacks could become "widespread" this year unless proper measures are taken.As local police departments turn more to digital systems to manage evidence and communicate with the public, they become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks, experts warn.Read Full Story

China is burning less coal due to a changing economy and government action -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The effort to create the smartest AI has truly become a race, and the contestants are among the most powerful and wealthy people on the planet. The post Google’s Go Victory Is Just a Glimpse of How Powerful AI Will Be appeared first on WIRED.

In some cities, at least.Apple is fixing a flaw in its algorithm that had been directing people seeking information about abortions to fertility centers and adoption clinics.Read Full Story

Nintendo's NX platform remains as inscrutable and mysterious as The Witness, but perhaps a solution is imminent. The post Game|Life Podcast: The Witness and Nintendo NX Speculation appeared first on WIRED.

Evidence of this new addition to our solar system is indirect at the moment, but direct evidence could come relatively soon, in the form of a telescope observation, Planet Nine's proposers say -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The ILMxLab expects to make many more VR experiences for "Star Wars" and other films, and for every VR platform.Anyone who's tried virtual reality with other people around knows there's a moment when they have to let go of worrying about how silly they look wearing a big, bulky headset. That was no different for famed Star Wars and Star Trek director J.J. Abrams when he was examining early versions of Jakku Spy, an official Star Wars VR project that Lucasfilm released in the final days before the opening of The Force Awakens.Read Full Story

El Misti might be reawakening after centuries of quiet, but reports of eruption from Chimborazo in Ecuador prove to be false. The post El Misti in Peru May Be Reawakening for the First Time in Centuries appeared first on WIRED.

SnOMG! Much of the eastern U.S. anticipating a cold, snowy weekend -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

What's the future of the second screen during sporting events? The post Gadget Lab Podcast: Facebook May Do Sports Twitter Better Than Twitter appeared first on WIRED.

Invention contradicts Cambridge research saying the web slinger couldn't exist.A few weeks ago, Cambridge University announced research findings saying that Spider-Man could never exist because a human being's hands and feet don't have enough surface area to include the size of the sticky pads they would need to lift a body up on a smooth surface. The Cambridge researchers said any Spider-Man wannabe would need adhesive pads covering at least 40% of their body--making wall crawling impractical.Read Full Story

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The federal government has proposed new guidelines to reduce methane pollution from public lands -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com