Kodak used to be king when it came to cameras and film. In 1976, Kodak had a near monopoly of the U.S. photography market, accounting for 90% of film and 85% of camera sales, according to The Economist.But the move to digital photography in the early 2000s hit the company hard. Ironically, Kodak actually invented the first…
Fortnite Epic Fortnite revealed that it’s doing a grand Marvel crossover for Chapter 2, Season 4, which begins in under a week. We already have a half dozen Marvel skins in the game at this point, but we’re about to at least double that with an all-Marvel battle pass, it seems. Though we may already…
Toward the end of 2016, hackers stole the personal data of more than 57 million Uber drivers and passengers. It took around a year for Uber to disclose the breach, and two more after that before two men pleaded guilty to pulling it off. And the repercussions are still echoing. On Thursday, the Department of…
Not long after the coronavirus shut down life in most parts of the country, Sarah Crawford’s weekend runs took an unusual turn, as mapped out by her Garmin watch. On April 11, her trail spelled the word HOPE in the middle of downtown Zebulon, North Carolina. The next week, she spelled VOTE in Louisburg, 20…
I’m back, and in awe of the great job that my colleagues Louise and Kate did on Plaintext for the past two weeks. By the way, this newsletter, whether written by me or brilliant stand-ins, will soon be limited to subscribers only. Avoid a brownout by subscribing here.The Plain ViewNormally, when your company becomes the…
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Earlier this summer, WIRED’s Jason Parham pointed out, rightly, that “some of the best TV is not on TV anymore.” Instagram Live, TikTok, Quibi—these are now home to the best shows around. Netflix…
Americans have Fantasia. And because every culture must find its own way to torture innocent children, Hungarians have Fehérlófia.Lucky them. Released in 1981, it’s a freaky phatasmagoria about—who the fuck knows. A mythical horse-boy or something. Point is, it’s sublime, like glimpsing the majesty of hell while being spared damnation. For years it has lurked…
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Stream team by Stephen Tailby 2 hours agoUpdate: The Fallen One has been found. In case you missed it, Mediatonic rewarded Fall Guys’ best player (statistically) with early access to an upcoming in-game costume. The problem was that not even the developer knew who this person was. Fast forward to now, and the so-called Fallen…
Modern cybersecurity, done with properly paranoid best practices, requires meeting some tough demands: Carry a physical two-factor key to plug in and authenticate yourself on a new computer, but if you lose or break that tiny piece of plastic you could be locked out of your accounts. Use different, totally unguessable passwords for every website,…
