It was quite a week for indictments. The Department of Justice charged former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon in connection with an allegedly fraudulent nonprofit that raised over $25 million to help build the border wall with Mexico. A former Uber executive faces up to eight years in prison for allegedly covering up a data…
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Solar panels are an increasingly important source of renewable power that will play an essential role in fighting climate change. They are also complex pieces of technology that become big, bulky sheets of electronic waste at the end of their lives—and right…
Does your back ache? Ever get shooting pains in your arms? For me, the answer to those questions, and any others involving nagging back pain, is yes. I’ve seen doctors, tried exercises from physiotherapists, paid for massages, and guzzled painkillers to dull the persistent aches in my lower spine. I’ve had more than my fair…
The months of endless, locked-down monotony are wearing on, but here at WIRED, we’re looking for bright spots wherever we can. A lot of great earbuds are on sale this weekend, just right for puttering around the yard or blocking out your spouse. Also, we may not be making grand travel plans for Labor Day,…
Executives at Facebook are reportedly considering the option of a “kill switch” that would turn off all political advertising in the wake of a disputed presidential election.Put more simply: Executives at Facebook are reportedly admitting they were wrong.As recently as mid-August, Facebook leaders were on a press junket touting the site’s new Voting Information Center,…
From a couple thousand feet up in Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator 2020, real-world mapping data from Bing Maps unfurls from the horizon. Giza’s pyramids are hourglass piles of sand. Hong Kong is a strip of urbanity snaking around the coast. A baseball field outside Yokohama, Japan, forms a chalk pastel smudge. As I fly, my…
California is, once again, burning. A freak summer thunderstorm last weekend swept through the northern part of the state, sparking nearly 400 wildfires, many of which have turned into conflagrations of stunning scale. As of Friday morning, two groups of wildfires, the SCU Lightning Complex near San Jose and the LNU Lightning Complex near Napa,…
Hollywood movies usually depict the suburbs as a place of conformity and dark secrets. Horror author Grady Hendrix says this is particularly true of 1980s films like Poltergeist and A Nightmare on Elm Street, which critique the idea of the suburbs as being clean and new. “I think Poltergeist and Nightmare on Elm Street are…
Destiny 2 Bungie Now that we have the full list of everything Destiny 2 is “vaulting” ie. deleting from the game with Beyond Light, I find myself pondering a question that has plagued the game since the content vault was announced. What are the ethical or potentially legal implications of deleting previously paid-for content from…
Kodak used to be king when it came to cameras and film. In 1976, Kodak had a near monopoly of the U.S. photography market, accounting for 90% of film and 85% of camera sales, according to The Economist.But the move to digital photography in the early 2000s hit the company hard. Ironically, Kodak actually invented the first…
