Labor Day hasn’t arrived just yet, but various retailers are already kick-starting their sales. Planning a last-minute camping or road trip with your quarantine bubble? Firing up the grill? Holed up in a blanket burrito, binge-watching Netflix? No matter how you’ll be spending the last few weeks of summer, this weekend’s best deals might be…
Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US’ testing strategy has failed over and over again to provide an accurate picture of how fast and how far the disease is spreading. State and city officials are often left flying blind, not knowing how bad things are until hospital beds start filling up. The evidence…
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Transforming classic video game consoles into on-the-go gadget gaming goodness is practically a time-honored tradition — I remember writing about Bacteria’s bulbous portable Nintendo 64 a decade ago. But @GingerOfMods new “Wii Boy Color” (via NintendoLife) is so clean, so compact, I just have to share it with you. OK, it’s a little bit thicker…
PS5: The Controller Knows You – YouTube
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. The 1994 film Double Dragon features Scott Wolf as Billy Lee. Photograph: Gramercy Pictures/Everett CollectionThe 1994 action movie Double Dragon, based on the 1987 beat-em-up arcade game, is a surprisingly enjoyable low-budget romp. Science fiction author Zach Chapman says it reminds him of old favorites such as…
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Nearly everything on network and cable television has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Some shows have resumed production, but for the most part, fears of coronavirus infection shut down scores of half-hour…
Companies pay cloud computing providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google big money to avoid operating their own digital infrastructure. Google’s cloud division will soon invite customers to outsource something less tangible than CPUs and disk drives—the rights and wrongs of using artificial intelligence.The company plans to launch new AI ethics services before the end of…
Hi, folks. Even after a summer as lousy as this one, it’s hard to say goodbye when you are entering an autumn that holds all the promise of Thelma and Louise taking a mountain drive. They had more enthusiasm, though. The Plain ViewEarlier this week, I spoke to Maria Ressa. She is the CEO of…
Want to be first in line to preorder PlayStation 5? In a rare move for a console’s launch, Sony has led the charge by announcing a direct-sales program—one that bypasses typical retail channels—before the upcoming system’s price, release date, or other details have been announced.ARS TECHNICAThis story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source…
