When most consumers think of Dyson, they think of things that suck—in a good way. The UK company has been making bagless vacuum cleaners for more than three decades. In 2009 it started shipping bladeless fans for the home. But for a newer generation of consumers, particularly those who aren’t buying homes at the same…
DetailsMy hair is curly, coarse, and thick. Some days that feels like a blessing; other days it’s a curse.Taming it by flat ironing isn’t fun. It’s tiring and can hurt. Cheap designs—which don’t always have a cheap price—pull strands of my hair as I pass the iron through. I can’t count how many times I’ve…
DetailsWe were promised avatars.It seems silly, I know, as we sit here contemplating how many systems are failing us during this deadly epidemic, to focus on the failures of virtual reality.But here in the San Francisco Bay Area, office lights are winking out one by one as businesses send their employees home to work, and…
DetailsWashington state has seen one of the largest outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in the country so far. It’s also one of six states voting in the Democratic primary today. An election plus a budding epidemic could be an equation for disaster: thousands of people crowded together in polling places, waiting in lines, touching the…
DetailsBy now the message should be clear: Your hands are not your friends. Public health officials have told us repeatedly that putting your fingers near your eyes and mouth offers easy access to the new coronavirus. But they know it isn’t easy to follow this advice. (They can’t even follow it themselves.) One small study…
DetailsA new flaw in Intel chips threatens to allow attackers to not just view privileged information passing through the system but potentially also insert new data. The flaw isn’t something the average user has to worry about, but it is a sign of the times as far as the shape of threats to our information’s…
DetailsDestiny 2: Season of the Worthy is here, and it comes with a host of changes to the wider Destiny experience. There are nerfed weapons to deal with, new armor systems, and the glorious return of the Trials of Osiris pinnacle PvP game mode. Here’s a look at some of the major features in this…
Detailsnot so private — Sensor Tower, the firm behind the apps, apparently helped itself to the data. Kate Cox – Mar 10, 2020 4:49 pm UTC Enlarge / It’s not actually quite this stylish when your personal data is unwittingly siphoned from your phone. Generally, if someone is installing a VPN or ad-blocker on their…
DetailsThis is a story about something that could have gone wrong on the internet this week but instead turned out mostly OK. How often can you say that?Around 9 o’clock on the East Coast on Friday, February 28, bad news arrived on the doorstep of Let’s Encrypt. An arm of the nonprofit Internet Security Research…
DetailsGreetings, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. Today, we have more updates about how the novel coronavirus is impacting the world of culture. There’s also a new Black Widow trailer. Oh, and James Wan is reportedly working on a monster movie and Taika Waititi is bringing Roald Dahl to…
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