If you know anything about The Fast and the Furious movies, you know that when it comes to cars, they don’t exactly value realism. (The importance of family, though, they get spot-on.) Vin Diesel’s Plymouth GTX shouldn’t be able to yank two cars into each other so hard that they flatten into pancakes—but it does.…
DetailsGood morrow, cousin. Welcome to this Monday’s edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s pop culture news roundup. What’s happening in the news today? For starters, Disney might have finally learned how to mint money. Also, Fortnite debuted some exclusive Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker footage this weekend. Here we go.Fortnite Debuted an Exclusive Star Wars:…
DetailsLast June, a California college student named Matty Roberts created a Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.” It called for people to converge on the secretive Air Force test facility in Nevada on September 20. “Let’s see them aliens,” Roberts wrote. The event quickly went viral; within days, hundreds…
DetailsThe new flu season is up and running—and so far, it’s off to a weird start.Influenza activity has been elevated since the start of November and is only expected to continue climbing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its latest flu update. That’s a few weeks earlier than in past years.ARS TECHNICAThis…
Details12.7M Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Sign in Like this video? Sign in to make your opinion count. Sign in Don’t like this video? Sign in to make your opinion count. Sign in Published on Dec 16, 2019In today’s Daily Fix: we speculate on the…
DetailsOver the last month, Telegram messenger launched an account-removal campaign against its most notorious user base: ISIS. The company’s newly found initiative was profoundly wide-reaching and effective, shaking a long-settled snow globe and scattering ISIS users across scores of different platforms.WIRED OPINIONABOUTRita Katz (@Rita_Katz) is the executive director and founder of the SITE Intelligence Group,…
DetailsWe’re officially in the final weeks of the decade, and App Annie is celebrating with a look back at the biggest apps of the 2010s. According to the App Annie data, there were a few surprises, but some of it is just as you would expect. Ecobee HomeKit Thermostat App Annie’s charts are based on…
DetailsIf your budget is tight and you want the most bang for your buck, or you just want to keep something out of the landfill, the used laptop market it worth considering. I’m not going to link to or endorse any specific vendors, but I’ve had great luck buying used laptops on eBay from all…
DetailsPhoto: Patrick George/JalopnikComment Of The DayYour good comments.Alfa Romeo is undeniably making some pretty great cars right now. Everyone everywhere has been praising the Giulia, and someone who used to work at this very website once said “The 4C is a junior Ferrari for a fifth of the price. Except not a modern Ferrari —…
DetailsWally Kankowski owns a pool repair business in Florida and likes 12 creams in his McDonald’s coffee each morning. What he doesn’t like is the way the company is pushing him to place his order via a touchscreen kiosk instead of talking with counter staff, some of whom he has known for years. “The thing…
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