Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. There’s been a lot happening in national and international news lately, so you’d be forgiven for missing the latest in the world of pop culture. Let’s get you caught up.Billie Eilish Pretty Much Swept the GrammysLast night, during a telecast that was…
DetailsMagali Chesnel suffers from vertigo; she also loves taking pictures from very high heights. The former hasn’t precluded the latter. In 2016, she was bicycling through the colorful salt marshes in the Camargue region of her native France when she saw a flyer advertising a 45-minute ride in a two-seat ultralight airplane—a hang-glider-like craft that…
DetailsDyson has an enormous product line-up of vacuums, often in four different configurations, and it keeps older models in production as newer ones dethrone them. Padded with discounts, the vacuums move closer down the ladder to entry-level models until they eventually go out of production. Even after Dyson stops making them, you can still find…
DetailsOn Tinder, an opening line can go south pretty quickly. Conversations can easily devolve into negging, harassment, cruelty—or worse. And while there are plenty of Instagram accounts dedicated to exposing these “Tinder nightmares,” when the company looked at its numbers, it found that users reported only a fraction of behavior that violated its community standards.Now,…
DetailsThe town of Rotterdam, New York, has only 45 police officers, but technology extends their reach. Each day a department computer logs the license plates of around 10,000 vehicles moving through and around town, using software plugged into a network of cameras at major intersections and commercial areas.“Let’s say for instance you had a bank…
DetailsThis story is part of a series on parenting—from surveilling our teens to helping our kids navigate fake news and misinformation.I’m a father of two teenagers, 13 and 17. I don’t want your pity, but I do want your understanding. It’s true what they say about the hazards of parenting teenagers. It is indeed more…
DetailsThis story is part of a series on parenting—from surveilling our teens to helping our kids navigate fake news and misinformation.What does it mean for a kid to be media literate? It sounds generally positive and important, like a good dental checkup or a flawless report card. The field is broad and definitions vary, but…
DetailsMonday, January 27, 2020. By Ellis Rosen, with cartooncollections.com. You might not even need a baby monitor, but they can come in handy. Here are WIRED’s picks. (And if you use an internet-connected camera to watch your kids, here’s how you can keep it more secure.) This week WIRED is publishing a series on parenting—from…
DetailsApple fans, you’re in for a treat. Right now, there are large savings available on AirPods, iPhones, iPads, MacBooks and more but prices are fluctuating. As such, this is your best regular guide to the top Apple deals you can find each day. Tip: this article receives daily updates (updated 01/27), so you may want…
DetailsSteve Jobs stepped onstage 10 years ago today to introduce the world to the iPad. It was, by his own admission, a third category of device that sits somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop. Jobs unveiled the iPad just days after the annual Consumer Electronics Show ended in Las Vegas and at a time…
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