I used to have a security system setup in my apartment that included door and motion sensors but no security cameras. I thought it would make me feel safer, but the motion sensor was frequently triggered by shadows, which activated a loud alarm. It was jarring when I was home, but even more worrisome when…
Schools are reopening in countries around the world in response to a substantial body of evidence that children are largely unaffected by Covid-19 and minimally contagious when they get infected. Experts and policymakers abroad also acknowledge that school closures perpetuate a long list of known harms to children. Yet, oddly, the US is following a…
Even during a normal wildfire season on the West Coast, the life of a wildland firefighter is brutal. They’re digging trenches by hand to create fire breaks, breathing smoke, and baking in unrelenting heat. And now the region prepares to face a fire season like no other, as the Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it…
Early in the morning, the day after Mardi Gras in New Orleans—an explosion of humanity unimaginable today, though it was only two months ago—a FedEx truck pulled up to a loading dock at Tulane University. Two people stood waiting. The driver pulled a cardboard box out from among the orders of shoes and toilet paper,…
Marinder Singh was supposed to be home in Pune, India, by now. The marine engineer set sail on a chemical tanker in mid-September on what was supposed to be a four-month voyage. Early this year, as the Covid-19 pandemic began its spread, he extended his contract to mid-March, when the ship was set to dock…
Monday, May 11, 2020. By Shannon Wheeler, with cartooncollections.com. Zoom is the new office. Follow these tips to become a videoconferencing power user. Every weekday, WIRED publishes a new cartoon about the worlds of science and technology. Check back here for more laughs throughout the week. And if that’s still not enough, you can find…
Image: CallawayIf you’re a Chevrolet Camaro fan with a hankering for horsepower, Chevy tuner Callaway will deliver it to you. The new Callaway SC630 is based on the bargain LT1 Camaro, which is the cheapest way to get a V8 Camaro without all of the fancy stuff that comes with the SS package like LED…
Published on May 11, 2020We’re all chomping at the bit for Elder Scrolls 6 news, but Bethesda’s Pete Hines has tempered expectations by saying the game will be coming out after Starfield, and we still don’t really know that much about that either. Needless to say, it’ll be a long while before Elder Scrolls fans…
Slack announced a redesigned iPhone app with a new navigation bar at the bottom of the app in update notes today. However, it seems the redesign is still rolling out, even if you’ve updated to the latest version of the app — myself and another Verge colleague don’t have it yet, for example. The new…
It started while I was on a Hawaiian vacation in May. I thought I’d just tweaked my back lifting a poolside lounge chair. Back home, my back pain became severe, and I started noticing nerve pain in my legs. For eight days I could barely crawl around the house. My wife and two daughters nicknamed…
