Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. The first Bill & Ted movie in 30 years is a fitting tribute to the series that came before. Photograph: Orion Pictures In Bill & Ted Face the Music, the first new Bill & Ted movie in almost 30 years, Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves play aging…
Almost every site you visit tracks you to try and link your browsing history to your interests and, in turn, show you targeted adverts. One minute you’re searching for a new desk, the next adverts for that furniture website you looked at are stalking you around the web WIRED UKThis story originally appeared on WIRED…
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.If there’s one thing the internet loves, it’s taking a joke too far. It’s hard to remember such things in 2020, but there was a time when trying to one-up the absurdity of…
Hi, all. Plaintext is bracing for the next wave … or, rather, the first wave getting worse. Gimme that flu shot!The Plain ViewTo the best of my knowledge, Donald Trump has never visited a server farm. If he is aware of the amazing journey his rants take as they zip through the airwaves into Jack…
I have strong feelings about unboxing TVs. Before we even start to talk about Sony’s latest and greatest, let’s talk about unboxing. No matter who makes the TV, unboxing and setup is always a nightmare of unwieldy cardboard. Once you’re through that circle of hell, you’re faced with an ouroboros of plastic bags, nested together…
The school year is difficult for both teachers and students, to say the least. Some districts are using a hybrid of remote and in-person learning, while others are on Zoom entirely. And that means teachers are stretched thin and unable to build community with their students, and classmates are unable to get to know their…
In March, scientists in the United Kingdom started to notice an unexpected phenomenon. Alongside a fever, dry cough, and general malaise, Covid-19 patients were also reporting a sudden and alarming symptom: They couldn’t smell anything. Anecdotal evidence shared on medical message boards from physicians in Iran, France, Italy, and the United States all described a…
In August, Trump signed executive orders that labeled both TikTok and another Chinese-owned app, WeChat, as national security threats. Unless they could broker a deal that would transfer majority control of the services over to American tech partners, both apps would be banned from the United States. The scramble that followed involved multiple competing companies…
You’ll soon be able to change the way your app icons look. Angela Lang/CNET The iPhone’s ($699 at Amazon) home screen has looked just about the same since the very first iPhone, with app icons perfectly lined up in rows, all the same size. That’s finally changed with the new iOS 14 update, which lets…
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After the retail packaging was revealed last night, the Chromecast with Google TV has been unboxed. We get a very good and up-close look at the device just under a week before the September 30 announcement. From another source on Reddit, we see the new “Google Chromecast” in a stark “Snow” that encompasses the oval…
