WIRED and Architectural Digest collaborate on understanding current living situations and future housing trends, covering unaffordability, climate adaptation, and innovative home design.
Amazon's new Sleep Studio feature for Echo and Echo Kids devices aims to ease bedtime for children with stories, sounds, and meditations. Available with Amazon Kids Plus, it offers customizable schedules and automated routines, with content from partners like Headspace, Moshi, and Calm.
Fukui Prefectural Police arrested Kenji Nanba, 26, on suspicion of indecent assault for touching a teenage woman during a Zen meditation training session at Eiheiji Temple in Fukui Prefecture. Nanba, a former trainee monk, has reportedly admitted to the charges.
What began as an awkward pose for the Archibald Prize became a meditation on why portrait painting still matters in the age of the iPhone.
What began as an awkward pose for the Archibald Prize became a meditation on why portrait painting still matters in the age of the iPhone.
A writer experiencing insomnia embarks on a quest to determine the speed at which a match must be struck to ignite, contacting Swedish Match and two professors. While never receiving a definitive answer, the author uses this minor mystery as a springboard to critique Silicon Valley's pursuit of frictionlessness through AI, arguing that the space between input and output—reflection, consciousness, meaning—cannot be collapsed by pattern-matching algorithms. The essay draws on Clarice Lispector and references Marc Andreessen and Sam Altman to warn of an emerging spiritual crisis.
A personal exploration of using the AI journaling app Mindsera, detailing the psychological comfort of its feedback, the concerns regarding emotional quantification, and the eventual realization of the app's transactional nature.
