Over the weekend, DC Comics held what they called FanDome. The latest in a long line of online-only conventions, the presentations basically filled the void created by the fact that there was no big Warner Bros. panel at Comic-Con International this year. During the weekend’s events, DC unleashed a slew of teasers and trailers for…
For a practice that involves bending into various shapes, you’d think it’d be easier to Tetris yourself into the nooks and thin spaces of home, but yoga–like workouts, like meditation–is hard to do when you don’t have room for it. We spoke with Jessamyn Stanley, founder of The Underbelly and author of Every Body Yoga,…
These days, if you stand in the right spot in Whatcom County, Washington, you can almost always catch a faint whiff of orange juice and rice wine. Scattered at regular intervals across the northwesternmost county of the contiguous United States, hundreds of large, plastic bottles filled with a few inches of the mixture hang from…
Heading back to school is a trial, and would be even in a year without a global pandemic. That pandemic has already forced some school districts to close or hurriedly switch their classroom models to incorporate online classes or shorter school days. Whether your children are heading back to class full-time, part-time, or all online,…
About four or five times a week, Emerald—a pseudonym to protect her identity—feels a stabbing pain behind her eyes or at the back of her head. Lights get brighter. Sounds are louder, sometimes so loud that they’ll cause her physical pain or make her start vomiting. Emerald suffers from complex migraine syndrome, and at the…
Transit stations have been quiet lately, but on six days earlier this month people lined up outside a subway station in San Francisco’s largely Hispanic Mission District. They were waiting not for a train but for a coronavirus test, at a white tent staffed by workers from nearby UC San Francisco.The tents were pitched outside…
According to a new report from Taiwanese newspaper, United Daily News, Nintendo could be set to launch a brand new Switch model early next year. Citing a number of hardware manufacturers involved in the production of current Switch models as its source, the newspaper notes that production of this new Switch console will begin as…
Last week’s episode of the Get WIRED podcast introduced listeners to Direct Action Everywhere—one of the most radical animal-rights organizations around—and the group’s leader, Wayne Hsiung. We learned how the group has been utilizing VR cameras to capture footage so immersive, viewers literally can’t escape the sights and sounds of a factory farm.This week, WIRED…
Google’s hidden Dinosaur runner game that pops up in Chrome when people are offline is a treasured Easter egg for Chrome users, but it was arguably in need of an update. Enter a modded version of the game called Dino Swords, created by a partnership between Internet collective MSCHF and 100 Thieves that gives the…
In a hastily-called press conference Sunday evening, President Donald Trump and the heads of the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Health and Human Services announced what the president had touted as a “breakthrough” in treating the pandemic disease Covid-19. That breakthrough turned out to be a change in the bureaucratic status of convalescent…
