Amid the chaotic chains of events that ensue when protons smash together at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, one particle has popped up that appears to go to pieces in a peculiar way. All eyes are on the B meson, a yoked pair of quark particles. Having caught whiffs of unexpected B meson behavior…
Buying used earbuds is something we just can’t get behind. Angela Lang/CNET The market for used tech and gadgets is enormous, and with good reason. Phones, wearables, gaming consoles and other gently owned tech products are a quick and easy way to make money, if you’re selling, or save money, if you’re buying. A peer-to-peer exchange or through…
“Our partnership with OnePlus, which came to its scheduled conclusion recently, has been a highly successful collaboration between two iconic and innovative brands. Since the start of this partnership in 2018, OnePlus has been a supportive, valued partner and we wish them well and hope to see them in the future.” The rep didn’t explain…
Apple has quietly adjusted the pricing for RAM upgrades in the entry-level $1299 MacBook Pro. Until today, Apple had charged $100 to upgrade from 8GB of RAM to 16GB of RAM, but now that upgrade costs $200 in the United States. As first noted by MacRumors, the change also applies to other countries; in Germany,…
The feud between Twitter and Donald Trump keeps escalating. Days after Twitter drew the president’s ire by applying a fact-checking label to one of his tweets—prompting a retaliatory executive order from Trump—the platform went even further. On Friday morning, it flagged a Trump tweet for violating its rules and implemented measures to keep it from…
Greetings, and once again welcome to Replay, WIRED’s rundown of all of the week’s big videogame news. This week we have tidbits about Kingdom Hearts, Fortnite delays, and Half-Life: Alyx. Let’s hop right in.There Are Rumors Kingdom Hearts Is Getting a Disney+ Show, Which Is WildWe all knew Disney was pulling out all the stops…
On Wednesday, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were supposed to launch to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. It would have been the first crewed launch from the US in nearly 9 years and the first time that a company launched NASA astronauts on its own rocket. The event was…
Images place us in time, gluing unremarkable and historically urgent moments in a fixed setting or context, but mostly they thrill our senses in other varied ways. They challenge us with questions and ferry nostalgia. Images set our faces electric at the sight of something truly wonderful. The primary function of a photograph is not…
In the 1990s, before hitting at infinitely repeatable success with the action-adventure formula of the Lego Star Wars games, Lego used to put out a lot of videogames. Under the Lego Interactive banner, the company released a diverse slate of PC and console titles, in a variety of genres. Cart racers, building simulators, first-person exploration…
In the spring of last year, while strolling the miles of aisles at my favorite kitchen trade show (remember trade shows?), I came across an appliance that looked like the child of an electric kettle and an old-school frappe machine. This was the Philips Soup Maker, and there was a practicality to it that struck…
