EA Sports was scheduled to formally announce Madden NFL 21 on June 1, but the developer has changed plans in response to recent events in the world. Not only that, but Xbox, Bethesda, Riot Games, and Summerfall Studios have responded as well.EA Sports said in a statement on Twitter, “We stand with our African American…
Today, SpaceX successfully launched two astronauts to the International Space Station. WIRED was on site to witness the historic event. Saturday T-4:00It’s Saturday morning and in just four hours astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are expected to become the first humans to ride a Dragon. The veterans of NASA’s space shuttle program are scheduled…
The 16 purported fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Museum of the Bible might be fakes, but at least four such fragments housed at the University of Manchester in the UK are the real deal. For decades, those fragments were presumed to be blank, but a new analysis has revealed the existence of…
In 1977, two spacecraft launched to the edges of the solar system. Their mission was to explore the outer planets and send information to the team back on Earth. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 each had different trajectories planned, which meant they would each see different things along their journeys. Voyager 1’s mission was to…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Fans were divided on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Courtesy of LucasfilmDave Rubin, host of the talk show The Rubin Report, is a lifelong science fiction fan whose favorite films include Contact, The Matrix, and Total Recall. But the Star Wars franchise has always held a…
As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, states around the US are starting to debut contact-tracing apps built on a Bluetooth-based system engineered by Apple and Google. But a coordinated national effort is noticeably missing, creating the potential for an opaque patchwork of state-specific apps that don’t work well together.At the same time, states are also…
On Tuesday, Twitter placed fact-checking labels on a pair of tweets by President Donald Trump, in which he made baseless claims that the use of mail-in ballots in the 2020 general election will enable large-scale fraud. Rebukes from the Trump administration swiftly followed, and Trump took to Twitter with a warning: “Republicans feel that Social…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Fans were divided on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Courtesy of LucasfilmDave Rubin, host of the talk show The Rubin Report, is a lifelong science fiction fan whose favorite films include Contact, The Matrix, and Total Recall. But the Star Wars franchise has always held a…
This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The wide, sunny streets of Miramar, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, give the impression of a peaceful neighborhood. On a midsummer day earlier this year, the pohutukawa trees were abloom in a blaze of red, and kids on vacation zoomed about…
Spoiler alert: I’ve reviewed a lot of electric toothbrushes for WIRED, but never before have I experienced anything approaching the cleaning power of the Brightline Sonic Rechargeable.I certainly had no expectations from the start that this would be the case. At $30—and frequently on sale for less than $25 at Amazon—the Brightline is the cheapest…
