We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Christmas is a little more than two weeks away. If you aren’t finished with your holiday shopping yet, these Green Monday sales might be of some assistance.Barely a decade old, Green Monday was first coined by eBay. It’s called Green Monday because, historically, the second…
DetailsIn 2004, a 64-year-old woman in Indiana had a catheter put in to help with dialysis. Soon after the procedure, she came to a local hospital with low blood pressure and what turned out to be a dangerous antibiotic-resistant infection from a bacteria called Enterococcus faecalis. Today, that woman’s blood samples helped solve a long-standing…
DetailsFor the last nine months, Yaniv Erlich has carried a small, white, plastic rabbit wherever he goes—to work at Israel-based DNA testing company MyHeritage, to scientific conferences, through airports, and across international borders. The kumquat-sized bunny, cute as it may be, isn’t a toy or a good luck charm. But if you cut off its…
DetailsGreetings! Welcome to this Monday’s edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s collection of the most explosive news in the world of pop culture. Usually, this roundup covers bits and pieces from all over the spectrum, but last weekend was pretty much dominated by Comic Con Experience (aka CCXP), the massive fan confab in Brazil. If you…
DetailsWelcome, everyone, to the final installment of Cantina Talk before Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker opens. That’s right, it’s the last one of these before the Skywalker saga ends. However, the success of The Mandalorian on Disney+—and by that, what we really mean is that everyone loves Baby Yoda—ensures that, whatever the future of…
Details“I was born in 2000, I have always lived my life with technology, there hasn’t been any moment without it.” So begins the story of Kai Landre, who recently traveled to the United States from Barcelona to explain his decision to become a cyborg.Strictly speaking, a cyborg is any human being who incorporates—imports into one’s…
DetailsOn Friday night in an old newspaper printing plant in Austin, the future of drone automation lifted off, accelerated and flew, nearly fast enough to beat one of the best drone pilots in the world.Gabriel Kocher, known in the professional Drone Racing League as Gab707, sat behind a net, wearing video goggles and steering his…
DetailsYou can also select the emails you want to forward, click on the overflow menu and then choose “Forward as attachment” if you’d rather start with that before typing your message up. There’s no need to create a brand new thread if you’re replying to an email, as well. Just pop out the draft window…
DetailsLast month, Google unveiled plans to bring RCS to all Android phones in the United States, scheduled to roll out over the following weeks. Today, a new update to Carrier Services seems to immediately enable RCS on some Android devices, including Google Pixel phones. Google’s ambitions with the Chat initiative for RCS to replace SMS…
DetailsRedbox has announced that it no longer plans to offer video game rentals at its kiosks, as it will be shifting it’s focus solely to movie rentals in 2020.While video game rentals are no longer available as Redbox kiosks, some locations will still offer discounted games that can be purchased outright before they are removed…
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