It’s been over three years since US regulators greenlit the nation’s first in-human test of Crispr’s disease-fighting potential, more than three years of waiting to find out if the much-hyped gene-editing technique could be safely used to beat back tough-to-treat cancers. Today, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford finally revealed the first published…
A burning meteor is headed for the wide, weird world of online Flash games. Adobe will discontinue support for Flash at the end of 2020, rendering the delightful—and sometimes disturbing—’90s- and aughts-era browser games unplayable. It’s bigger than losing access to classic time-wasters like Desktop Tower Defense and Line Rider. A seminal digital culture is…
When Nuro’s R1 self-driving vehicle started delivering groceries in Arizona in late 2018, it sported a pair of unexpected and unnecessary appendages: side-view mirrors. Unexpected, because the press photos that accompanied its debut showed the toaster-like robot without them. Unnecessary, because there’s nobody inside the R1—neither driver nor passenger—to use them.Its successor, the newly announced…
Election administrators in New Hampshire say they’re confident that the state’s Democratic primary will not be a repeat of this week’s Iowa caucus, which has been beset by tech issues and reporting delays. As of Thursday morning, the results still weren’t entirely reported, and the race was too close to declare a winner. “We fully…
Welcome to a dark day in America’s modern experiment with democracy. Despite becoming the first president ever to receive votes from both parties to convict and remove him from office in an impeachment trial, President Donald Trump today woke up in the White House unbound.Senator Susan Collins justified her vote to acquit the president Tuesday…
Greetings! Welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. What’s happening? A lot, actually—and quite a bit of it has to do with Disney+. Let’s hop to it!Netflix Nabbed the Sundance Hit The 40-Year-Old VersionContinuing its trend of going shopping at film festivals, Netflix announced earlier this week that it has picked…
For the better part of a year, SpaceX has gotten the lion’s share of attention when it comes to “mega-constellations” of internet satellites. Between May and January, the company launched 240 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, with more launches coming, and has talked of offering preliminary commercial service later this year.ARS TECHNICAThis story originally…
When I was a child, I am told on reliable account, I would walk around our housing complex and take my thumb out of my mouth to ask neighbors, “Do you like me?” I had even pudgier cheeks back then, and my question came out as, “Do you dike me?” I’m guessing most everyone gave…
What comes to mind when you think of a special-effects-heavy movie? Likely it’s something set in space, or on a distant planet, full of creatures that could only be rendered by steady hands, meticulous eyes, and a decent-size server farm. Or maybe you imagine something a little more grounded than aliens and orcs, instead picturing…
Making a smaller, less feature-filled product that’s cheaper can often lead to a lot of compromises, but there’s also a chance of making something truly special (see: the Nintendo Switch Lite). DJI has done exactly that with its new Mavic Mini, which packs nearly all of what’s great about the company’s larger, more expensive drones…
