As some US sports leagues return to play, a few athletes will be trying out ring-finger health trackers or new helmet-plus-mask designs that sports officials hope will keep them from suffering the same Covid-catching fates as Florida beachgoers or Texas bar-hoppers. Soccer and basketball games this July will be played in empty stadiums and arenas…
The best part of vinyl isn’t the sound. It’s the entire experience: big fragile records, real liner notes, covers you want to frame and hang on your wall, and, of course, the magical way the stylus spins across the jagged surface, reproducing your favorite bands’ music as if by magic.Maybe you’re like WIRED associate editor…
In April 2018, as Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress amid the Cambridge Analytica scandal, photojournalists captured a fascinating line of argument in the Facebook founder’s typed notes: “Breakup strengthens Chinese companies,” it read. This defense, which the company’s executives have wielded repeatedly in the past two years, argues that concerns over Facebook’s monopoly power voiced…
A tablet is a great way to wind down at the end of a busy day. Before bed, I’ve been using Samsung’s new slate—the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite—to cram in an episode or two of Dark before I doomscroll through Twitter and Reddit, and wake up groggy with the device somewhere under the pile of…
Building a self-driving car was never going to be easy. But Karl Iagnemma says he didn’t expect it to be this hard. “Vehicles are these massively complex systems, and to [build self-driving cars], we need to integrate them with another very complex system and do it in a way that’s reliable and cost-optimized. It’s really,…
Adam Kucharski didn’t expect to publish a book about contagion in the middle of a global pandemic. But consider him less surprised than the rest of us. “In my field we always have the next pandemic on the radar,” he says. Kucharski, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is a…
This month, advertising giant WPP will send unusual corporate training videos to tens of thousands of employees worldwide. A presenter will speak in the recipient’s language and address them by name, while explaining some basic concepts in artificial intelligence. The videos themselves will be powerful demonstrations of what AI can do: The face, and the…
Coronavirus: 11,495,412 (and counting). Humans: 0. As much as we’d like to ignore corona, it’s not ignoring us.We’ve had reason enough for distraction: a great global reckoning over race and inequality, crashing economies, and weirdly successful smoke-and-mirrors magic that makes the virus as invisible (to some) as Houdini’s disappearing elephant.But the climb in global cases…
The Ubisoft Forward showcase that’s taking place this Sunday will offer more details on the likes of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Hyper Scape, as well as some other upcoming Ubisoft titles. While you might be content to catch up with all of the news after the fact, Ubisoft is sweetening the pot for those who…
Published: July 7, 2020 at 10:58 p.m. ET Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -1.86% is rolling out a new feature for its Prime Video users, offering user profiles for the first time. The feature, which rivals such as Netflix Inc. NFLX, -0.13% and Walt Disney Co. DIS, -0.69% -controlled Hulu have had for years, allows for separate…
