The Expanse is back! Season 4 of the sci-fi thriller launched on Amazon Prime last week, and I’m already deep into it. The story is set in a future where humans have colonized the solar system and split into three groups, based on Earth, on Mars, and in the asteroid belt. And of course, whenever…
For many of us, winter, with its chilly days and long nights, brings with it a general sense of malaise. It’s harder to peel ourselves out of bed in the half-light of morning, and hunched over our desks at work, we can feel our productivity draining away with the remnants of the afternoon sun.Wired UKThis…
And now, it’s over. Not the year, not yet—although this is the final Cantina Talk of 2019—but the Skywalker Saga, which ended with last week’s release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, a movie we don’t doubt everyone reading this has seen by now. (We liked it quite a bit, for what little it’s…
The couch beckons, and the brain yearns for that perfect book: the lyrical, binge-able tome that also dispenses heaps of knowledge. The writers of these top titles from 2019 have produced just that. They’ve made it easy to set aside the remote, bow out of the attention economy, and season the soul with perfect prose.…
In the late 1970s, Robert Hazard had a problem. He’d been tooling around Philadelphia’s music scene for more than a decade, trying out any sound that might put him on the map, to no avail. Then, in 1981, he finally recorded a demo of catchy new wave songs, which his manager passed along to an…
The practice of science is about progress: Crafting knowledge out of hunches and experiments, finding life-saving remedies, informing sound policies. It doesn’t always go as planned.Scientists would have struggled to predict, for example, that the Human Genome Project would decades later yield powerful tools for badge-wearing detectives, or that the 19th-century search for a sustainable…
In a world where two-day shipping abounds, somehow you ran out of time. It’s OK, you’re not alone. Whether you forgot about your second cousin, or you succumbed to choice paralysis and waited too long, there’s still hope. If you’re in a crunch, these gifts can be delivered in minutes.Along with some quick thinking, you…
Over the last decade, hacking became less of a novelty and more of a fact of life for billions of people around the world. Regular people lost control of their data, faced invasive surveillance from repressive regimes, had their identities stolen, realized a stranger was lurking on their Netflix account, dealt with government-imposed internet blackouts,…
Monday, December 23, 2019. By Drew Panckeri, with cartooncollections.com. Toys “R” Us got into some hot water this holiday season over how it tracks shoppers inside its stores—and whether it was spying on children. Every weekday, WIRED publishes a new cartoon about the worlds of science and technology. Check back here for more laughs throughout…
Home News Mobile phones (Image credit: Shutterstock.com) Apple and Google have both taken down messaging services ToTok from their app stores following accusations of government surveillance.According to the New York Times, the messaging app has been accused of being a spying tool for the United Arab Emirates government.Although only a few months old, ToTok has…
