After the horrifying 2019 shooting at New Zealand’s Christchurch mosques, over 100 profiles on the gaming platform Steam paid tribute to the shooter.A digital videogame storefront with some social networking features, Steam isn’t the most obvious home for charged political content. But just hours after the shooting, 66 Steam profiles took on the shooter’s name.…
DetailsIn the absence of clear federal oversight, state and local officials have led public health responses to the novel coronavirus. Over the past two months, officials across the nation have shuttered bars and restaurants, imposed curfews, and prohibited large gatherings in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus, which has infected more than…
DetailsOff the coasts of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea swirls an omnipresent yet vanishingly small menace: microplastics. By this point, it comes as no surprise to scientists that they would find the tiny bits of plastic in seafloor sediments—last year researchers found them in samples off the coast of Southern California. But in…
DetailsIn late January and early February, as the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 began to spread outside of China, Andre Kalil was spending more and more time inside his office at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, on the phone and emailing with researchers at the National Institutes of Health. With no known…
DetailsWhen avian influenza broke out in Indonesia in 2005, American scientists were the first to confirm human cases on the ground. That’s because, years earlier, an outpost of the US Naval Medical Research Center had established a close relationship with Indonesia’s version of the National Institutes of Health. So close, in fact, that their buildings…
DetailsGreetings, and welcome to a fresh new edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. This time around we have some news about a dust-up between AMC Theatres and Universal Pictures, and some good news for—and from—Netflix. Let’s get going.AMC Theatres Axes Universal After It Releases Trolls World Tour on DemandIf you’ve been anywhere near…
DetailsSince launching in Paris in 2011, the Circulation(s) Festival of Young European Photography has grown into one of the world’s leading photography festivals, drawing curators and collectors from around the world to view cutting-edge work by emerging artists, many of whom have gone on to successful careers. The festival was supposed to celebrate its 10th…
DetailsAdapting to the coronavirus lockdown and the move en masse to working from home has been easier for some professions than others. We’ve been doing it since day one here at Ars, because typing at a computer is just as easy to do at home as it is in a crowded office. That’s less easy…
DetailsNothing illustrates the mixed-up politics of vote-by-mail better than the world’s most famous absentee voter declaring the practice corrupt. “Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country, because they’re cheaters,” Donald Trump told reporters in early April, a few weeks after casting an absentee ballot in Florida’s primary. “They’re fraudulent in many cases.”…
DetailsBack in 2016, and before Apple made it trendy, Motorola yanked the headphone jack from its phones. The following year was the last time it made a high-end Android phone. And in 2020, it’s hoping for a comeback. The Moto Edge Plus is its first honest attempt to compete with the wave of $1,000+ devices…
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