WildWire: AI by SMS

Ask a question by text. Get an answer back. On one bar of signal, or none at all. WildWire is an assistant you reach by text message rather than through an app connection. Send a question and you get a short answer back. Send coordinates or a place name and you get hour-by-hour conditions for that spot. It works over ordinary texting wherever you have a sliver of service, and over Apple's Messages via satellite where you have none. WHY TEXT A web page needs megabytes. A text needs bytes. One bar of signal is usually enough to send a text long after browsing has stopped working, which is why a text still gets through in a valley, on a lake, down a logging road, or anywhere else the map goes quiet. WHAT YOU CAN ASK Weather for a location. Send "45.42,-76.35" or a place name and get an hour-by-hour readout: temperature, chance of rain, wind. Official alerts from the National Weather…