I’m a tall, leaky man. If it’s more than 65 degrees outside when I test running socks, workout headphones, or electric bikes, I emit what can only be described as a staggering amount of liquid.Whether its my Nordic heritage or the fact that I was raised in Portland, Oregon—a town with hardly a drop of…
For Armin Raznahan, publishing research on sex differences is a fraught proposition. Now chief of the section on developmental neurogenomics at the National Institutes of Health, Raznahan learned early that searching for dissimilarities between men’s and women’s brains can have unintended effects. “I got my fingers burned when I first started,” Raznahan says. As a…
You know how the 5G-enabled OnePlus Nord sounded a little too good to be true in the lead-up to its official announcement last week? Well, while the budget-friendly handset did unsurprisingly prove to be true (and truly amazing in terms of the theoretical value offered at an essentially unbeatable price), it turns out that certain…
Despite being almost 25 years old, it looks like Super Mario 64 still has some secrets up its sleeve. After a Nintendo leak spilled the Mario 64 source code, fans have found some surprising things hidden in the game–first Luigi, and now a previously unseen enemy.The new enemy is called “motos” in the game files,…
This year’s online-only Pokémon Go Fest took place over the weekend, and since it was the first one open to all players regardless of their physical location, it’s perhaps not surprising to hear that it was the biggest one yet. Niantic says “a record number of millions of trainers” took part from 124 countries and…
Later this week, NASA plans to launch its fourth Mars rover, Perseverance, on a six-month journey to the Red Planet. Perseverance will boot up a mission to collect samples of Martian dirt that might have traces of ancient life, so that they can be returned to Earth by another mission later this decade. It will…
When Simone Browne wrote her book Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness in 2015, her goal was to position the invention of contemporary surveillance technologies “as not being outside of that of the social and historical formation of slavery.” Browne’s book helped inform our next episode of the Get WIRED podcast: Senior writer Sidney…
Instagram encourages its billion or so users to add filters to their photos to make them more shareable. In February 2019, some Instagram users began editing their photos with a different audience in mind: Facebook’s automated porn filters.Facebook depends heavily on moderation powered by artificial intelligence, and it says the tech is particularly good at…
As school officials try to figure out whether to open classrooms this fall, the science they need to make these tough choices is still evolving. A few things are clear: That most kids don’t become as seriously ill from Covid-19 as adults, and have much lower fatality rates. That’s according to data from the US…
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more.In 2015, fledgling brand OnePlus unveiled the OnePlus X, an affordable phone with mid-range specifications. It didn’t sell well.Its fanatical and tech-savvy customers clamored for flagship specs, or at least that’s what OnePlus cofounder Carl Pei tells me. “I think…
