Today, at its annual Galaxy Unpacked hardware event in San Francisco, Samsung announced its flagship (read: very expensive!) line of Galaxy phones, as well as a few more affordable alternatives and a smattering of other accessories.The company also unveiled the Galaxy Z Flip, its second stab at a folding phone after the much-maligned Galaxy Fold.…
DetailsHere’s a good piece of trivia for you: What’s the fastest commercial airliner in operation? As of Sunday, the answer might be “the Boeing 747″—not bad for an airliner that first entered service 50 years ago. On Saturday evening at 6:47 pm ET, British Airways 747-400, tail number G-CIVP, took off from John F. Kennedy…
DetailsIt’s obvious, but I’ll say it: Rockets are cool. Sending stuff into space with a chemical reaction is just stupid-awesome. But clearly, we can’t keep using chemical rockets to put satellites in orbit. They’re too expensive, and the fuel is heavy—which means you need even more fuel to carry the fuel.So I’m excited about this…
DetailsIn an age of hyper-partisanship, Americans increasingly get their news from sites that align with their political beliefs. But more separates those right- and left-leaning sides of the web than their opposite ideologies. According to a new study, the right end of the fractured online news industry also tracks its audience far more aggressively than…
DetailsLast week Antarctica outdid itself, and not in a good way, setting a high for its warmest temperature ever recorded: 65 degrees Fahrenheit. If the first thought that popped into your head is that balmy weather certainly can’t be good for the continent’s ice, you’d be right. But the heat is also a problem for…
DetailsPart of the reason why Microsoft revealed the Xbox Series X in December during The Game Awards was because Xbox lost considerable ground to Sony in the current console generation, and the company wanted to start doing things differently to win back its market position for next-gen. Xbox boss Phil Spencer spoke about Microsoft’s plans…
DetailsFire Emblem: Three Houses will add its Cindered Shadows DLC on Thursday, February 13, bringing a new story about a band of outcast basement-dwellers who consider themselves the unofficial fourth house. The previous announcement trailer didn’t make it entirely clear how these new characters would work, but with the big date approaching Nintendo has explained…
DetailsSamsung just unveiled the Galaxy Z Flip, its second folding phone. This phone’s big improvement over foldables to date is the use of a glass screen, and it definitely feels a whole lot nicer. It feels like glass, and it can’t be easily marked up by a fingernail like the plastic screens used to date.…
DetailsIn September 2017, credit reporting giant Equifax came clean: It had been hacked, and the sensitive personal information of 143 million US citizens had been compromised—a number the company later revised up to 147.9 million. Names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, all gone in an unprecedented heist. On Monday, the Department of Justice identified the…
DetailsHello, and welcome to The Monitor, WIRED’s pop culture news roundup. How are you doing this fine post-Oscars day? No matter how great you feel, you’re likely not feeling any better than director Bong Joon Ho, whose movie Parasite won three Oscars last night, including Best Picture—the first foreign language film to win the award…
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