Have you ever wished that you could wear your keyboard or mouse on one hand like a glove? Me neither, but that’s what the Tap Strap 2 does. It’s a wearable you slip over your preferred hand’s fingers and thumb, and through a series of taps or by sliding your hand on a flat surface,…
We’ll get to the rest of this week’s security news in just a second, but before all that you need to carve out a little chunk of your day to read WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg’s profile of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who stopped the berserking WannaCry ransomware three years ago. No spoilers! But you’ll…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Would actual space battles in the future need skilled pilots? Not if artificial intelligence can take the controls.20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett CollectionIn Max Barry’s new novel Providence, a four-person crew sets out into deep space to battle aliens. It’s a scenario that recalls many classic science fiction…
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Intolerable bouts of extreme humidity and heat that could threaten human survival are on the rise across the world, suggesting that worst-case-scenario warnings about the consequences of global heating are already occurring, a new study has revealed.Scientists have identified thousands of…
The story about the chorus landed like a punch. On March 10, 55 singers, none of whom had any symptoms of Covid-19, crowded into a Presbyterian church in Mount Vernon, Washington, for their weekly rehearsal. By the end of the month, more than three-quarters of the group had tested positive for coronavirus, and two were…
Wherever we go on the web, we’re asked to sign up for new accounts—for streaming platforms, app trials, delivery services, and so on—and that puts a strain on the email accounts and cell numbers we use every day.Even when these services you sign up for are legit, you don’t necessarily want a deluge of promotional…
Juan Garzon/CNET Last year, if you told me about all the things that would happen in 2020, I’d shake my head with disbelief. This includes the fact that I’d like the Galaxy Z Flip foldable phone. When it launched in February I was skeptical because just a year before, Galaxy Fold reviewer units had a…
Doom Eternal got its first big update this week with id Software doing a lot of things right as they did with the game itself. Included in the update was a huge DLC, some new content, a new game mode (Empowered Demons), and much more. The devs, however, embedded something else in the update- an…
The recent launch of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro from Apple completes this round of updates for its MacOS laptops. Hardware wise there’s very little difference between the MacBooks and the equivalent Windows 10 laptops. So why have the new machines been met with resounding critical acclaim? The keyboard. 12 November 2019, US, New York:…
Facebook announced Friday it was acquiring Giphy, a leading service for making and sharing GIFs that will now be part of Instagram, a leading service for making and sharing photos. Even if you’ve never visited Giphy’s website, you’ve likely seen its footprint on social media, dating apps, maybe even in your workplace on Slack. Founded…
