Greetings, earthlings. Welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. This time around we have news about a Labyrinth sequel (nearly 35 years later, but we’ll take it), a new pandemic-ready movie that was shot on an iPhone, and Tom Cruise’s plans to film in space. Here, let us explain.So, Tom Cruise…
Gina was draped in a drab hospital gown, sitting on the papered exam bench at her doctor’s office when she saw the news on her phone: San Francisco had issued a shelter-in-place order. It was March 16, just three days after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Gina was waiting…
Your phone is a computing marvel—until you need to type anything longer than a sentence on it. Typing with your thumbs (or even swipe typing) for long stretches becomes a screen-slipping nightmare, because tryping on a scrn is not a gr8 exprnce.This pain can be lessened by adding a small keyboard to your mobile kit.…
In tech industry mythology, the San Francisco Bay Area is the unmatched crucible of ideas and execution. Companies like Facebook offer generous salaries and stock awards to lure staff in Silicon Valley’s overheated job market. They pay for some of the nation’s most expensive office space and perks that ensure workers spend a lot of…
To really understand how the disease Covid-19 spreads, you have to see the world the way a virus moves through it. It’s just a fleck of protein and genes, a little bit of code in a package with no to-do list beyond hijacking the biology of living things to make copies of itself and spread…
In Dreamfeel’s stunning If Found …, the only way to uncover the story is to erase it. Growth and loss are the same thing, and, through a brilliant trick of interactivity, the player feels the pain and glory of both of them in every moment.Recently released on PC and iOS, If Found … is a…
The past five years haven’t been kind to Apple’s laptops. The trouble all began with the butterfly keyboard switch that debuted in 2015. It was an attempt on Apple’s part to slim the MacBook even further and make the machine that much more portable, but the mechanism was so fragile that a single mote of…
Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs looks to pass against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium on February 02, 2020 in Miami, Florida.Focus On Sport | Getty ImagesIt was business as usual on Thursday for the National Football League.League owners approved a series of proposals, including the…
After several delays, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Remastered Edition is now slated to be released August 27th, 2020, publisher Square Enix announced. The game will be available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS and Android.The game is an updated version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, an action RPG that was first released in 2003 on…
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