Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Kyle MacLachlan and a bunch of Fremen in David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune. Universal Pictures/AlamySteven Kotler’s novel Last Tango in Cyberspace is set in the near future and draws on his 30-year career as a tech journalist. The story is also full of references to some…
DetailsThis story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In early March, when Covid-19 cases began popping up across the U.S., the Philadelphia-based company Solar States was having a really good year, with at least six months’ worth of contracts already lined up. The 30-person company installs solar panels on homes…
DetailsPreface: I read a lot. I always have. Take any picture of a teenager today, PhotoShop out their smartphone and replace it with a book, and you’ll have an image of my entire childhood. I read all day, all night; I read at dinner, sometimes sneaking a book to the table under my shirt. I…
DetailsMany of us are sheltering in place, which probably means forgoing that morning trip to the coffee shop. Fear not though, it’s possible to make coffee house quality coffee in your own kitchen. Engineering a better cup of coffee isn’t difficult. First though, you need to figure out what “better” means to you. There is…
DetailsEven if you’re safe and healthy while sheltering in place, weeks and weeks of social distancing can begin to wear you down. We’ve been working overtime to find ways to reestablish a few small routines that coronavirus quarantines may have disrupted. We have tips on everything from working out at home to working from home,…
DetailsAs the coronavirus began to spread through Japan in March, workers at a warehouse in Sugito that processes millions of personal care products each day were overrun by a spike in demand for masks, gloves, soap, and hand sanitizer. To prevent workers from spreading the deadly virus, the company that operates the center, PalTac, introduced…
DetailsApple may be preparing to update the 13-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro machines to Intel’s tenth-generation processors, but its longstanding project to bring ARM power to its MacOS platform gathers pace, with reports today that a release in 2021 is on the cards. Update 25 April: One of the biggest obstacles facing an ARM powered…
DetailsAngela Lang/CNET I haven’t always been a fan of the Apple Watch. I bought one as soon as it went on sale in 2015 hoping it would blow me away, but it ended up spending more time in my drawer than on my wrist. It took three more years and the addition of two key…
DetailsHome News (Image credit: Shutterstock) AMD Ryzen 4000 (codenamed Renoir) mobile chips are still very much fresh on the scene – and making a huge impact in terms of competitiveness in the laptop world – but we’ve already seen a leak for next-gen APUs apparently codenamed Cezanne (a name which has been doing the rounds…
DetailsHello, and welcome once again to Replay, WIRED’s weekly roundup of videogame news. This week, we’ve got a hack you should know about, a delay, and some cool new tech. Let’s get to it.Nintendo Confirms a Pretty Major Hacking AttemptEarlier today, Nintendo confirmed that a recent hacking attempt on its system compromised the login IDs…
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