“Physicists like to probe the extreme,” said Garrett Goon, a physicist at Carnegie Mellon University. “The fact that you can’t go further, that something is changing, something is blocking you—something interesting is happening there.” For decades, black holes have played the headlining role in the thought experiments that physicists use to probe nature’s extremes. These…
As Covid-19 made its grim march around the country in March, Seattle became the first American city to close down. It was the first, too, where gig workers began to report that jobs had dried up, or that they had stopped working because they were scared for their health.Last week, the city notched another first.…
Our smartphones are set to play a significant role in helping navigate our way out of the coronavirus pandemic, with countries and companies around the world preparing their own apps as part of a track-and-trace system to keep infection levels low.Google and Apple don’t work together on much, but they’re working together on this: a…
The Mayan culture built city-states across Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize for centuries, but we’re only starting to appreciate how extensive Maya civilization was and how drastically Maya farmers and engineers reworked the Mesoamerican landscape. Over the past few years, lidar surveys have revealed an ancient landscape previously hidden beneath vegetation and features that are too…
The world’s cybersecurity woes can feel like a sideshow when physical violence is being inflicted on protestors in most major US cities.But those conflicts overlap. That’s why we at WIRED published a guide to keeping yourself and your devices safe from digital surveillance while you protest. We also reported on “non-lethal” crowd control weapons pose…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Director David Lynch adapted Frank Herbert’s novel Dune into a 1984 film.Photograph: All Star Picture Library/AlamyFrank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel Dune, first published in 1965, is still extremely influential. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel recently re-read Dune for the first time in more than a decade.…
This story originally appeared in Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At the 2018 United Nations climate meeting in Poland, the European Union and the Indian-led International Solar Alliance (ISA) signed a joint declaration that climate change activists say could help India meet its renewable energy target by 2022. The country is one…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Director David Lynch adapted Frank Herbert’s novel Dune into a 1984 film.Photograph: All Star Picture Library/AlamyFrank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel Dune, first published in 1965, is still extremely influential. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel recently re-read Dune for the first time in more than a decade.…
While there are a plethora of Valorant cosmetics available to purchase, there is currently nothing to mark ‘the grind’ in Future Earth — but according to one Riot dev, that will change.Valorant’s unique take on a traditional Battle Pass system rewards players for ‘grinding’ through each Chapter until the final 50 tiers are complete.Yet unless…
Home News The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 (Image credit: TechRadar) The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 is one of the most highly anticipated phones left to come this year – arguably second only to the iPhone 12.That high status has inevitably meant it’s been extensively leaked, but while we have a good idea about many aspects…
