This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The coronavirus pandemic has transformed how Americans get our food. We’re no longer going to restaurants; we’re limiting our trips to the grocery store. Many of us are, for the first time, ordering groceries online. That’s causing huge spikes in demand on…
Last Tuesday, at 10 pm local time, medical workers and patients at the Netherlands’ Erasmus MC hospital—currently the epicenter of the country’s Covid-19 response—flocked to the windows. Outside, above Rotterdam’s inky black Nieuwe Maas river, a swarm of mysterious floating lights were rising in gentle flight. Shimmering, they swirled into a mass both organic and…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Credit: nintendo It is not great timing if you’re in trying to unload your turnips before they rot on Sunday. Nintendo’s online services appear to be experiencing issues right now, meaning that you won’t be able to visit other people’s islands in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Nintendo’s server status page lists…
In a recently published paper and accompanying demonstration video, researchers with Sony showed off their work with incorporating finger-tracking into VR controllers. Gif: UploadVR (YouTube)Thanks to a few patent filings that have surfaced over the last two years, we’ve had an idea that Sony’s been tinkering with finger-tracking technology for a line of new VR…
Apple’s AirPods have been doing better than the company could have ever imagined, Apple’s Vice President of Product Marketing Greg Joswiak said in a new report by Wired. Joswiak notes how the growth of AirPods “was almost like wildfire.” Joswiak touched upon Apple’s vision for a wireless future. Apple crossed a pivotal point in its…
Hello, and welcome once again to Replay, WIRED’s rundown of all of the week’s big videogame news. This time around we’ve got some updates on Microsoft’s Xbox Series X, the Tokyo Game Show, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Let’s get started.Here’s What Games Will Look Like on the New Xbox Series XSlowly but surely, Microsoft…
For years, a simple and elegant inside joke has permeated Defcon, the influential hacking conference. You say it to your friends, you reference it during your talk, you design a fake website to try to trick unsuspecting rubes: Defcon is canceled. On Friday, though, the bit became reality. Organizers announced that the Las Vegas gathering,…
Almost a year ago, I wrote a story about MacKenzie Bezos. The novelist had recently divorced Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and announced she planned to give away the majority of her fortune, estimated at the time to be worth more than $36 billion. I argued that while it was an admirable move on MacKenzie’s part,…
Imagine an alternate reality where guidelines on how to protect yourself from the coronavirus are written in groovy technicolor. Where the situation is still serious, but slightly less weighty, because the reminders to not touch your face are actually fun. Such is the world of Mathery, the name of Brooklyn-based duo Erika Zorzi and Matteo…
In the beginning, coronavirus denialism was easy. When widespread American deaths were still confined to the rising slopes of epidemiological models, skeptics could dismiss them as alarmist predictions. That included the nation’s most prominent coronavirus truther: “Just stay calm,” Donald Trump said on March 10, “it will go away.” Two months later, as the official…
