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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S12A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military - The Atlantic (No paywall)   Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got unusually testy over the failure of the United States to deliver anti-missile and anti-drone systems. On March 2, a strike in Odesa had killed 12 people, five of them children. “The world has enough missile-defense systems,” he said. Debates over funding have kept those systems from being delivered. “Delaying the supply of weapons to Ukraine, missile-defense systems to protect our people, leads, unfortunately, to such losses.”Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence. But the suspicious cases have added up, and because many satellite-imagery companies offer a backlist of archived images, marked with dates and coordinates, it’s possible to browse tens of thousands of images taken of Ukraine and notice suggestive patterns. In the week before April 2, 2022, about a month after Russia’s initial invasion, images of a remote airfield outside Myrhorod, Ukraine, were requested from American companies at least nine times. Myrhorod is not a particularly interesting place, apart from that airfield. On April 2, missiles landed there. In the week that followed, someone asked for images of the airfield again. Satellite imaging has preceded strikes in urban areas as well: In Lviv, just before March 26, 2022, someone tasked a satellite with looking at a factory used for military-armor production. It, too, was struck. In late January of this year, someone commissioned a commercial-satellite company to take fresh images of Kyiv, just before the city was hit by a missile barrage.
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S10Facing a TikTok Ban, Entrepreneurs Are Finding Alternatives - Inc.com (No paywall)  "As a business owner, I have to be prepared for anything," says Lisa Guerrera, who founded her New York City-based skincare beauty startup Experiment in the pandemic. She said she is confident her team will find success on other platforms too, and in a way, they already have. The company has more followers - which Guerrera affectionately calls "lab rats" - on Instagram (13,200) than on TikTok (over 7,000). "I'll mostly just be sad as a person because I love TikTok." Small businesses interviewed by Inc. say they are trying to cushion the blow of a TikTok ban by having a presence on multiple social media platforms. They all pointed to Instagram as their backup plan. "The narrative that 'Instagram is dead' is just not the reality on the ground," Guerrera says. "I do think that's gonna be the natural first place [that people will go to if TikTok gets banned]."But time is running out to look for fallback options. According to a report by Politico, Rep. Mike Gallagher has reportedly said that a forced sale, or a ban, can "absolutely" happen before the elections this November. In the meantime, small businesses that Inc. interviewed agree that TikTok is better for getting discovered. In a nation with more than 33 million small businesses, it helps to find any way to be seen. For example, Guerrera's personal TikTok (61,300), where she also posts about Experiment's products, has more followers than her Instagram and TikTok corporate accounts have combined.
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S11Has Putinâs Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia? - The New Yorker (No paywall)  Still, the latest election, which concludes on Sunday, provides an occasion to assess the state of Putin's rule and how it has weathered two years of war. For much of its existence, the Putin system depended upon a disengaged citizenry. People stayed out of politics, and, unless you were one of the few people foolish enough to challenge the state directly, politics stayed out of your life. The war, in theory, could have been a pretext to galvanize Russian society. According to Western estimates, around three hundred and fifty thousand Russian troops have been killed or wounded in Ukraine. In September, 2022, Putin launched what he called "partial mobilization"âa military draft that, so far, has called up some three hundred thousand Russian men. Meanwhile, a series of repressive laws criminalized not only publicly criticizing the war but speaking truthfully about the invasion. Sanctions left the Russian economy isolated. In the wake of the invasion, the ruble crashed, inflation spiked, and real wages fell.Yet, two years into the war, Russia's position in Ukraine looks as advantageous as it's ever been, and Putin's hold on power feels, at least for the moment, entirely assured. A member of the country's political élite told me that, during the Ukrainian Army's counter-offensive last year, Putin was worried. "He couldn't be sure that the front wouldn't collapse like it did in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions," the person said, referring to Ukraine's retaking of its territory in the summer and early fall of 2022. But, in 2023, the Russian lines largely held, and Putin came to the conclusion that, given wobbly Western support, Ukraine was unlikely to achieve more on the battlefield in the near future. "He's in a great mood," the member of the élite said of Putin. "He's waiting for the moment when the West says, 'That's enough, let's stop this war,' but he believes there's no rush. Every month, the situation will get worse for Ukraine."
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S17How can democracies respond to rigged elections? - The Economist (No paywall)  THE RESULT of Russia’s presidential election was entirely predictable. Long before the first ballot was cast, it was clear that Vladimir Putin, the country’s dictator since 1999, would win by a predetermined, overwhelming majority. Russia’s electoral commission claims that Mr Putin won 87% of the vote on a record turnout of 77.5%. Voting, which took place between March 15th and 17th, was strictly supervised. In illegally occupied parts of Ukraine, voters cast their ballots at gunpoint. Mr Putin faced no credible opponents: most of Russia’s opposition is in exile, in jail or dead.
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S9The big idea: should we worry about trillionaires?  At the beginning of each year, the world’s corporate and political elite gather in the Swiss ski resort of Davos to pat each other on the back, attend seminars on “the fourth Industrial Revolution” – whatever that might be – and generally mull over the state of the world. Rarely is so much wealth to be found in so few conference rooms. And each year, Oxfam, the global development charity, takes the opportunity to run the numbers on the state of global inequality. Oxfam’s findings are often eye-catching, but this year especially so.The wealth of the five richest people in the world, they found, has more than doubled, from $405bn (£320bn) in 2020 to $869bn in late 2023. That’s an increase of about $14m an hour, which is not bad going by anyone’s reckoning. Perhaps more strikingly, Oxfam calculates that on current trends the world is due to welcome its first dollar trillionaire within a decade. Elon Musk, the richest person at the time of writing, is worth about a fifth of that, at $210bn.
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S13DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest - The Atlantic (No paywall)  When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about his birth. Headlines like this: “Mother Deserts Son, Flees From Hospital,” Winston-Salem Journal, December 30, 1973.The mother in question was 14 years old, “5 feet 6 with reddish brown hair,” and she had come to the hospital early one morning with her own parents. They gave names that all turned out to be fake. And by 8 o’clock that evening, just hours after she gave birth, they were gone. In a black-and-white drawing of the mother, based on nurses’ recollections, she has round glasses and sideswept bangs. Her mouth is grimly set.
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S24Daniella Pierson Shares the 4 Essential Lessons That Helped Her Become a Multimillionaire  Today, Daniella Pierson is seen as an undisputably successful entrepreneur: At 28, she not only leads New York City-based media company The Newsette (a 2022 Inc. 5000 honoree), but also serves as the co-founder of Wondermind, a NYC-based mental health startup launched alongside singer and actress Selena Gomez and fellow entrepreneur Mandy Teefey. In 2022, Forbes recognized her as "one of the wealthiest women of color in the U.S."But in college, Pierson considered herself to be the last person anyone would ever invest in. "My teachers literally said, 'You should probably not become an entrepreneur, and your little newsletter thing is never going to work,'" she says.
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S7The quest to legitimize longevity medicine - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)  For too long, modern medicine has focused on treating disease rather than preventing it, they say. They believe that it’s time to move from reactive healthcare to proactive healthcare. And to do so in a credible way—by setting “gold standards” and medical guidelines for the field. These scientists and clinicians see themselves spearheading a revolution in medicine.Eric Verdin directs the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, which hosted the meeting. “We will look back in 20 years at this meeting as really the beginning of a whole new field of medicine,” Verdin told attendees. Referring to the movement as a “revolution” would be an understatement, he said. “We can write new rules on how we treat patients.”
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S14S20What today's hunter-gatherers can teach us about modern life  What do you imagine life was like for hunter-gatherers throughout human history? You might guess that daily life for them was a constant struggle between eating and being eaten in a world where surviving was a full-time job.But anthropological research suggests that probably wasn’t the case. When the anthropologist James Suzman went to the Kalahari Desert to study the Ju/’hoansi hunter-gathers, for example, he found that they worked only 15 hours per week, and that much of that time was spent on activities that many people in the modern West consider leisure, like hiking and fishing.
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S22Does dream inception work?  Will Dowd lost his ability to read over a decade ago. He has a condition called binocular vision disorder, which makes it difficult to coordinate his eyes. Words drift across the page, getting tangled up in one another, and the pain of trying to extract meaning from the resulting quagmire gives him debilitating migraines. Dowd had been an obsessive, devoted reader—a poet and MIT-trained science writer who lived mostly in the world of paper and ink—so the condition left him feeling exiled from himself. The act of dreaming was the only other time Dowd felt the readerly combination of total absorption and flight, and so he wondered: Could there be a connection between the two? Could reading be a kind of lucid dream? He recalled hearing about a device called the Dormio, a targeted dream inception device developed at the MIT Media Lab, and wondered if it could help him simulate the reading experience. A grant from the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University enabled him to test this theory out on himself over the 2022-2023 academic year. The resulting project is called Dreamfall.
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S23How to Incorporate Gifts Into your Sales Strategy  As a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the gifting industry (I guess I can call myself a professional gifter by now), I've witnessed the transformative power of meaningful gestures in enabling lasting connections. Throughout my journey, I've explored the intricate dynamics between intention, emotion, and the pivotal role of thoughtful actions within the fabric of business and personal relationships. This exploration led to a revelation: Gifting can be a potent sales tool, challenging conventional strategies with proven effectiveness.Research indicates that receiving a gift can elicit feelings of gratitude. These emotions activate areas in the brain linked to both reward processing and social cognition. This creates a positive feedback loop, strengthening social bonds and promoting additional behaviors such as reciprocating a gesture of goodwill.
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S15S26Why Humility Is so Important to Startup Success, According to This Accelerator Hub  Embarc Collective, a Tampa-based nonprofit accelerator network for technology startups, is celebrating five-year anniversaries for 96 percent of its startup community. CEO Lakshmi Shenoy founded the organization in 2018, but officially launched in 2019, with an initial cohort of 25 businesses in need of incubating and business development services.  While small businesses grew at record-breaking rates last year-25 percent more businesses launched during the first half of 2023 than they did in 2022, according to a Yelp report--barely 50 percent of startups make it to a fifth year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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S18How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties - The Economist (No paywall)  Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, and Ebrahim Raisi, his Iranian counterpart, have several things in common. Both belong to a tiny group of leaders personally targeted by American sanctions. Even though neither travels much, both have been to China in recent years. And both seem increasingly fond of one another. In December they met in the Kremlin to discuss the war in Gaza. On March 18th Mr Raisi was quick to congratulate Mr Putin for his “decisive” election victory.
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S19S21Don't buy the hype on new "breakthrough" Alzheimer's treatments  The quest to find effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease has historically been a lost cause — a field littered with failed drugs and dashed hopes. According to a recent systematic review, between 2003 and 2022, researchers tested 100 compounds against the devastating cognitive disease in phase II and III trials. Only two drugs made it through the rigorous gambit of pharmaceutical science. Their beneficial effects were too small to make a meaningful difference to patients.Then, like beacons of light in the dark, two drugs emerged over the past two years from phase III clinical trials as the first “disease-modifying” treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. Biogen’s lecanemab burst onto the scene first, with data suggesting that it slowed cognitive decline by 27%. Eli Lilly’s donanemab followed with more impressive results, slowing decline by 35%. Scientists and journalists used words like “breakthrough” and “revolutionary” to describe the findings. Both drugs were given to older adults in the very early stages of Alzheimer’s, in trials lasting 18 months.
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S29Sustainable Shopping: What Consumers Really Want  Consumers want sustainability, but you need to meet them halfway. That's the big takeaway from Blue Yonder's annual sustainability survey. The supply chain company's report found that consumers are eager for sustainability measures that prioritize reducing waste and saving money. It also found key hurdles to adopting sustainable solutions among consumers. Here's what it means for business owners. Of the more than 1,000 U.S.-based adult consumers surveyed in February, 78 percent of respondents say sustainability considerations are important when choosing where to shop for and buy products. That number goes up to 85 percent for Gen Z and 84 percent for Millennials. Young consumers want more sustainable products and brands. They're also willing to pay more for them. Nearly half of respondents said they would pay more for greener shipping options such as lower carbon footprint delivery and sustainable packaging, and 65 percent are willing to spend more on sustainable products.Â
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S16S35The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation  In too many companies, an innovation team is allowed to pursue its own agenda and imagine itself to be a separate island from the rest of the company. The results are always disappointing: a lot of creative ideas, but a failure to deliver meaningful growth. The root problem is the disconnect between strategy and innovation. To succeed, corporate innovation needs to be bounded by a clear set of strategic priorities that matter to the business. And it needs to play to the strengths of the firm — whether data, customer relationships, or supply chains — that will enable it to outcompete others attempting the same idea. The author offers five steps to help embed strategy into the innovation process.
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S36The Essentials: Setting and Maintaining Boundaries  We all need to set boundaries, even in the most structured jobs, because work has its way of encroaching on the rest of our life. Ashley, a senior analyst for the federal government, recently shifted to a schedule that helps her do her most important work and have some alone time before her family gets home. Now she’s trying to figure out how to further minimize interruptions, deal with slow and busy stretches, and get out of unproductive meetings.
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S38Pay to work: Rappi now charges delivery drivers in Brazil a weekly fee  On January 1, Breno de Souza, a Rappi delivery worker in São Paulo, was met with an unpleasant surprise when he logged on to the app to start his first shift of the year: an unexplained debt of 12 reais ($2.40) on his account. He then found out that it was Rappi’s new service fee for workers.“I was working in December normally and this didn’t exist,” de Souza told Rest of World. “When we came back to work in January, they were charging us.” The charge, which now appears on his account every Monday, is automatically deducted from his earnings.
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S40Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good? ![]() The first time someone invited me to a Slack Huddleâan audio call that happens inside the appâI didn't know that I had to hang up at the end of it. I heard a series of descending bloops after my coworker signed off, so I assumed the huddle was over and moused away into the sad forest of a thousand open browser tabs on my computer.Then, after about 15 seconds, I started to hear something waft up from my MacBook speakers. A very gradual fade-in. Jazz guitar and a vibraphoneâmaybe a fake vibraphone?âwith a saxophone improvising between phrases. Sampled drums, vaguely Latin. Synth strings. Such comically blatant muzak that I laughed out loud.
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S30Supreme Court Takes Up High Stakes Free Speech Social Media Case  The Supreme Court on Monday seemed poised to side with the Biden administration's argument that the government should be able to liaise with social media companies to weigh in on removing certain posts that can fuel misinformation.In the case of Murthy v. Missouri brought by Republican attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana, the government faces claims that it coerced social media companies--like Facebook and Twitter, the latter now known as X--to censor their platforms after federal agencies requested them to remove posts that allegedly spread misinformation. The "Murthy" noted in the filing is a reference to Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General. He is among the plaintiffs in the case.
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S8Why Stephanie Cohen is leaving Goldman Sachs: The Wall Street veteran opens up about her new move to help 'build a better internet' - Business Insider (No paywall)  Stephanie Cohen, one of the few women in Goldman's history to run a major division at the firm, went on a personal leave last June to focus on her family. During her sabbatical, she said, she considered her career — she'd increasingly been drawn toward the most tech-oriented parts of the organization, most recently serving as the head of platform solutions.Cohen, 46, will join Cloudflare, a San Francisco technology company aimed at helping businesses improve their internet security and performance. Cohen will be its first chief strategy officer, based in Utah. It will be a familiar role, as she served as Goldman's strategy chief from 2018 to 2020.
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S25How CPGs Can Innovate Like Startups  The large CPG clients we work with at Mission Field often look to nascent brands with a mix of curiosity, amazement, wonder, and jealousy. Because startups are able to innovate quickly, they are proving to be fierce competitors to our clients--some of the largest and most iconic food and beverage brands in the industry. Big CPGs have powerful teams, systems, and capital to back innovations, so what gives startups the advantage? And what can big CPGs do to capture some of that magic? Here are some answers: the rise of co-manufacturing, communication democratization, increased venture capital funding, direct-to-consumer sales, and a power shift toward retailers. Â
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S27Dell Won't Promote Remote Workers, According to a New Report  Dell, the multinational technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, announced a new return-to-office policy in February requiring most workers to be in the office three days per week. But new details, first reported by Business Insider, stipulate the company's even firmer stance:Â "For remote team members, it is important to understand the trade-offs: Career advancement, including applying to new roles in the company, will require a team member to reclassify as hybrid onsite," a company memo stated, according to BI. Â
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S468 Best TV Streaming Devices for 4K, HD (2024): Roku, Chromecast, Fire TV ![]() If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDYou probably stream most, if not all, of your content. A good streaming device makes that process easier. If you've purchased a new TV recently, it likely has its own streaming interface. Some of these are fine, but a stand-alone streaming device can offer a better experience. We've tried them allâfrom Roku, Apple, Google, Amazon, and even a cheap Walmart-owned brandâso you don't have to, and we've separated each of our favorites by what they do best.
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S48Fisker Suspends Its EV Production ![]() Following recent reports that Fisker has been preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing, today the embattled automaker announced that it is suspending all manufacture of its electric vehicles."Fisker will pause production for six weeks starting the week of March 18, 2024, to align inventory levels and progress strategic and financing initiatives," the company said in a statement.
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S6Harvard has halted its long-planned atmospheric geoengineering experiment - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)  The plan for the Harvard experiments was to launch a high-altitude balloon, equipped with propellers and sensors, that could release a few kilograms of calcium carbonate, sulfuric acid or other materials high above the planet. It would then turn around and fly through the plume to measure how widely the particles disperse, how much sunlight they reflect and other variables. The aircraft will now be repurposed for stratospheric research unrelated to solar geoengineering, according to the statement.The vast majority of solar geoengineering research to date has been carried out in labs or computer models. The so-called stratospheric controlled perturbation experiment (SCoPEx) was expected to be the first such scientific effort conducted in the stratosphere. But it proved controversial from the start and, in the end, others may have beaten them across the line of deliberately releasing reflective materials into that layer of the atmosphere. (The stratosphere stretches from approximately 10 to 50 kilometers above the ground.)
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S37After dating app murders spike in Colombia, Match Group offers to help the police  With his Tinder date due to arrive at his Airbnb any minute, BK locked his laptop, phone, wallet, and U.S. passport in the guest bedroom. He hid the key inside a sock on the drying rack, eager to avoid making the same mistake twice.BK, an investment banker from the U.S., had done his homework before setting up the date with a 40-year-old woman named Cateryn. After she told him she worked as a doctor at a major hospital and sent him pictures of her in uniform, BK ran her ID through a police database. The security guard at BK’s building took down her information when she arrived.
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S42Bonavita 5-Cup One-Touch Thermal Carafe Review: Simple and Excellent ![]() If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDAfter years of trial and error, my coffee setup is nicely streamlined. I have an Oxo 8-Cup for a full pot or quick single cup, an AeroPress for a higher-end mugful, and a French press for when I'm feeling nostalgic. Thanks to a tiny, bare-bones new machine, though, I'm considering changing up my countertop lineup.
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S31MrBeast and Amazon MGM Studios Just Announced a New Record-Breaking Game Show  Amazon announced Monday that it officially ordered the production of a reality show, Beast Games, to be hosted and produced by social media phenomenon and YouTuber James "Jimmy" Donaldson, perhaps best known as MrBeast.The show is set to make history as having the highest-ever number of contestants--1,000--and the single largest cash prize in television and streaming, a $5 million payout, according to the press release. Details of what games and challenges the show will entail are yet to come, but the series will stream exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries.Â
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S32Ads in Chatbots Are Inevitable, Says This Marketing Professor  That's the opinion of Chuck Byers, a marketing professor at the University of Santa Clara. He told Inc. that chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Google's Gemini--which have surged as major commercial technologies in the last year--could wind up mirroring the trajectory of programmatic advertising, which often clogs social media and search feeds based on a user's engagement and queries. Of course, the typical chatbot conversation won't yield a procession of sponsored posts at this point. Though some of the biggest names in the area are actively grappling with how to monetize their highly popular tools, many of which offer subscription services at both individual and enterprise tiers.Â
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S39Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company's Hopes--and Fears ![]() RedditâÂÂs stock market debut expected on Thursday has been a long time coming. The ad-supported home of over 100,000 forums first announced its intention to go public in December 2021. Over the course of the unusual years-long delay, Reddit revised its initial investor pitch 10 times, leaving a trail of edits that provide a look at the companyâÂÂs past struggles, current vulnerabilities, and future ambitions.The many drafts show how CEO Steve Huffman dialed back warnings that too much content moderation can be âÂÂautocratic,â and that he and other Reddit leaders culled priorities for the company as pandemic-fueled growth waned. Here are seven takeaways from a close reading of the submissions.
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S28How Shark Tank's Daymond John Scored a More Than 40X Return on His Investment in Scholly  Nearly a decade after splitting a $40,0000 investmentâ with fellow shark Lori Greiner for a 15 percent stake in the scholarship app, John revealed during an episode of Shark Tank on Friday that the deal has generated a return of between 40x and 60x. Scholly connects students with scholarships for higher education, and had about $90,000 in revenue at the time of the investment. The company has since generated $30 million in total revenue, and was acquired by private student loan provider Sallie Mae in August 2023.Founder Christopher Gray was inspired to found the company as a student at Drexel University after winning $1.3 million in combined scholarships. He said at the time that the process of finding and applying to scholarships was so complicated that it took him about seven months. He founded Scholly to simplify the process.
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S459 Best Baby Monitors (2024): Wi-Fi, Radio (No Internet), and More ![]() If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDNew parents, here's a tip: You might not need a baby monitor, since a healthy, hungry baby can shriek in tones piercing enough to bend metal. Nevertheless, baby monitors can provide high-quality audio and crystal-clear videostreams from the camera directly to a separate device like a smartphone or tablet. This means you can move freely around the house while keeping a close eye on the baby as they sleep or play contentedly in their crib.
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S495 Ways New Leaders (Accidentally) Erode Trust on Their Teams  Here are five common ways new leaders unwittingly erode trust, and how to avoid them: Using your expertise to coach or “help.” It can be hard to let go of the expertise and work that set you apart as an individual contributor. But micromanaging or handholding your direct reports won’t help build trust. Instead, make an effort to help your direct reports master their tasks and projects in their own way. Trying to build rapport and a sense of “egalitarianism.” Once you become a leader, the relational boundaries with your former peers must shift. Instead of pretending like nothing has changed, have a conversation with each person on your team to clarify what they can expect from you as their leader. Trying to build confidence by looking confident. Overconfidence can actually dilute trust by making you come across as overly self-reliant, inauthentic, and out of touch. Instead, you must balance confidence with humility, authenticity, and vulnerability Checking in to make sure everyone is “ok.” In excess, check-ins can begin to erode trust on your team, particularly if you get defensive or don’t act on your direct reports’ feedback. Before seeking feedback from your team members, ask yourself if you’re motivated by an actual desire to learn and adjust, or an unconscious need for validation and reassurance. Building credibility through past successes. Overly relying on your past usually backfires. A better source of credibility, and therefore trust, is your curiosity. Ask your team questions about what they’ve tried to address current challenges, or what ideas they’ve felt haven’t been heard before.
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S50Too Much Trust in AI Poses Unexpected Threats to the Scientific Process  It’s vital to “keep humans in the loop” to avoid humanizing machine-learning models in researchMachine-learning models are quickly becoming common tools in scientific research. These artificial intelligence systems are helping bioengineers discover new potential antibiotics, veterinarians interpret animals’ facial expressions, papyrologists read words on ancient scrolls, mathematicians solve baffling problems and climatologists predict sea-ice movements. Some scientists are even probing large language models’ potential as proxies or replacements for human participants in psychology and behavioral research. In one recent example, computer scientists ran ChatGPT through the conditions of the Milgram shock experiment—the famous study on obedience in which people gave what they believed were increasingly painful electric shocks to an unseen person when told to do so by an authority figure—and other well-known psychology studies. The artificial intelligence model responded in a similar way as humans did—75 percent of simulated participants administered shocks of 300 volts and above.
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S47Jabra Enhance Select 300 Hearing Aids Review: Some of the Best We've Tested ![]() If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDI've been covering hearing aids for WIRED for nearly three years now, and I regularly talk to users and prospects about them when I wear them in public. Regardless of what I'm testing, one brand name has consistently and repeatedly popped up during that time: Jabra.
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