Very few things in life can make me as happy as a great Pokemon RPG, and Sword and Shield repeatedly left me in a state of pure, child-like joy. The elated surprise of not knowing what’s coming is something this series does extremely well if you can manage to play it relatively unspoiled (fear not,…
Apple’s new 16-inch MacBook Pro launched today, available for pre-order now and in stores later this week. The starting price of $2,399 is the same price as the previous 15-inch MacBook Pro, which this one replaces. It has new processors, better speakers, and (obviously) a larger screen. But I know the most important question you…
Good gifts at good prices — Good tech can get really expensive really quickly—here are some affordable gems. Valentina Palladino and Jeff Dunn – Nov 13, 2019 12:30 pm UTC Valentina PalladinoFinding a gift for your most tech-savvy friends and family can be tough, especially with electronics getting more expensive as the years go by.…
The E key recently broke off WIRED senior writer Lauren Goode’s MacBook Pro. She’s not alone. Other writers on staff have dealt with a litany of other keyboard problems in the last few years. The culprit is almost always Apple’s butterfly keyboard, which was introduced in 2015, changing the design of the keys to have…
What sort of noise would juggling pins make if they fell three stories off a roof onto the pavement below? For a moment, it seems as if the adults and children gathered for the WIRED 25 Festival atop San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club will find out. But Adam Savage, tossing the three blue, white, and silver…
The B-17 Flying Fortress rolled off the drawing board and onto the runway in a mere 12 months, just in time to become the fearsome workhorse of the US Air Force during World War II. Its astounding toughness made pilots adore it: The B-17 could roar through angry squalls of shrapnel and bullets, emerging pockmarked…
The worlds of the fantasy writer N. K. Jemisin are as imaginative as they are intimate. In her Inheritance trilogy, the gods are real and walk the streets. Her Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth books feature a supercontinent called the Stillness that is anything but—the very land is a geologic time bomb, ravaged by earthquakes and…
Disney+ is peaking and Google is sneaking, but first, a cartoon about podcasting while working.Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less.Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here!Today’s HeadlinesDisney+ is here—and it’s a fully formed streaming juggernautDisney’s much-anticipated streaming service has finally launched, and…
Last week, a series of smart home gadgets became dumb again. On November 6, Best Buy pulled the plug on its line of Insignia Connect products, including a convertible freezer/fridge, two kinds of smart plugs, a smart light switch, and a Wi-Fi-connected camera. Best Buy offered people who purchased the gadgets partial gift cards, not…
“I barely slept last night,” Jessica Zahn told me a few weeks ago. In Redmond, Washington, where she was, it was 9 in the morning. In New Zealand, though, it was 5 the following morning, and the moment Zahn and her team at Microsoft had been working toward for nearly two years was finally nigh.…
