This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.From 2011 to 2016, California experienced five years of extreme drought, during which numerous high temperature records were broken. These hot, dry years were followed by the extremely wet winter of 2016 -2017, when, from October to March, an average…
Most people standing at the shore of Lake Constance in southern Germany look up to admire the snow-blanketed Swiss Alps across the water. But while skating along its frozen northwest edge three Januaries ago, photographer Tom Hegen discovered an equally awesome sight looking down.“The structures in the ice fascinated me and the patterns changed all…
If you could press a button to merge your mind with an artificial intelligence computer—expanding your brain power, your memory, and your creative capacity—would you take the leap?“I would press it in a microsecond,” says Sebastian Thrun, who previously led Stanford University’s AI Lab.Turning yourself into a cyborg might sound like pure sci-fi, but recent…
On July 11, 2013, everything changed. A sneak attack hit the world’s living rooms (and dorms, and laptops, and basements). It was midnight on a Thursday, and Netflix released Orange Is the New Black—all 13 episodes of it. At first, the reception was warm, gentle. But by the end of the following weekend, it was…
My dog has an Instagram account. It’s managed by my girlfriend and yours truly, and while it doesn’t have millions of followers (you’re welcome to follow it!), we try to publish a photo each day. One day it’s my turn to hunt through my camera roll for derpy shots of my 16-pound pup, and on…
Monday, December 30, 2019. By Ivan Ehlers, with cartooncollections.com. Researchers are poised to bring gene editing tech out of the lab. But just how far do we want Crispr to go? Every weekday, WIRED publishes a new cartoon about the worlds of science and technology. Check back here for more laughs throughout the rest of…
It was 2010 and techno-optimism was surging. A whopping 75 percent of American adults were online—a big jump from the 46 percent that were logging on a decade prior—cruising through the information age largely from the comfort of their own homes for the first time en masse. Social media was relatively new and gaining traction—especially…
AMD has been cooking up a kick-ass successor to Navi with a 2020 flagship GPU that is being referred to as Navi 21, with the second-generation RDNA family coming on the new 7nm+ process node.Navi 21 will be a large GPU with new rumors pointing to it packing somewhere between 15-16 billion transistors, which makes…
With only a few days left until Ninja’s “TIME IN” Night Joggers are released worldwide, the famous streamer took to Twitter to promote the release of the shoes to his fans. Although the streamer was trying to garnish positive attention for his product, one of the promotional tweets shocked fans and was quickly removed by…
There are plenty of ways to die in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but nobody ever suspects the office chair.A few days back, a Reddit user discovered that they could melee the two chairs inside the hotel of the St. Petrograd map, spinning the office chairs until the furniture struck back. It seems that either…
