Hi, all. There ain’t no cure for the summertime blues—but then again, no one gave Big Pharma billions to find one. I hope they’ll do better with Covid-19.The Plain ViewThis month marks the 20th anniversary of the Power Mac G4 Cube, which debuted July 19, 2000. It also marks the 19th anniversary of Apple’s announcement…
In the coming days, the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee will bring the CEOs of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple to Washington and ask them about their anticompetitive business practices. Except for Apple, there’s only one answer: We are guilty. Though anticompetitive practices were prohibited more than a century ago, deregulation has prevailed since Ronald Reagan…
A global pandemic and social unrest have already made a 2020 a bad year, so Burger King wants it over and done, but not before celebrating Christmas. 2020 has been a difficult year for nearly everyone. It’s been so bad, in fact, that fast food chain Burger King wants it to be over, just like…
Home News (Image credit: EverythingApplePro) Pick a random date in the fall, and there’s a good chance someone’s predicting that the iPhone 12 will launch that day. The confusion’s understandable — after reliably unveiling its new phones in the first couple weeks of September in recent years, Apple faces an uncertain fall thanks to possible…
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Every hour on the hour, a staff member at the Journey Recovery Center in San Angelo, Texas, sends out a “Code 19” to everyone in the building. No matter where the nurses or staff members are in the 72-bed substance abuse recovery center, they stop what they’re doing and sanitize all the surfaces around them,…
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.It was bound to happen. Earlier this week, Grey’s Anatomy executive producer Krista Vernoff was on a (virtual) panel for the Television Academy and revealed that, yes, her show would be tackling Covid-19.…
The calf was late. His due date, March 30, had come and gone. At first, Alison Van Eenennaam chalked it up to male calves tending to arrive a day or two on the tardy side. As the week wore on, the animal geneticist reminded herself that gene-edited embryos—like the one that had been growing inside…
Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency has carried out many of the most aggressive acts of hacking in history: Destructive worms, blackouts, and—closest to home for Americans—a broad hacking-and-leaking operation designed to influence the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election. Now it appears the GRU has been hitting US networks again, in a series of…
If a mouse fell down a 1,000-foot mine shaft, the renowned evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane once proposed, the mouse would rise, shake the dust off itself, and scurry away. Maybe even right back up to do it again. If a rat fell from the same height, however, it would die.A human would break, Haldane writes,…
