We should all be intensely grateful to the people who took to the streets exactly 50 years ago on the first Earth Day. The modern environmental movement that crystallized then has given us a cleaner, better planet. The pressure applied to governments and businesses on April 22, 1970 has not let up since, and has…
I consider myself an athlete, but I don’t engage in any particularly impressive physical feats. I am not “cut” or “swole.” My superpower is consistency. Barring the rare knee surgery or birthing the occasional child, I have worked out daily for more than 20 years. If you get discouraged because you’re not meeting specific strength…
Google’s Duo video chatting app is about to get a big bump in call quality, thanks to a new video codec technology the company plans to roll out in the next week. The codec, called AV1, is the product of an industry-wide consortium called the Alliance for Open Media. AV1 is the successor to VP9…
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Image: Valve Valve told ZDNet today that it’s safe to play games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 even after their source code leaked online today on 4chan and torrent sites.The leak has caused panic in the two games’ online communities.For most of the day, gamers have been warning each other that hackers…
We’ve never shown fear of the future at WIRED. Times of great change, of apparent chaos, are just punctuation—the end of one paragraph and the beginning of a new one. Our stories, our design, even our vocabulary has always encrypted a message: Don’t be scared. Be excited. Living in the future is fun. You’re frightened…
For those of us who have been following every possible safety measure—washing our hands until our skin starts to crack, sewing T-shirts into face coverings, redirecting our neighborhood walks as soon we see someone approaching a block away, thereby confusing the hell out of our dogs—scenes of anti-quarantine protests on the news have been surreal.…
Sonos, the Santa Barbara, California-based tech company that has been making network-connected audio hardware for 15 years, is now trying its hand at streaming by launching a new radio service within its mobile app—a free, ad-supported stream that will play exclusively on Sonos speakers.A good portion of the content that’s available through Sonos Radio will…
In 1992, German filmmaker Wim Wenders released an epic, globetrotting cinematic adventure called Until the End of the World. Set in the “near future” of 1999, the film follows the path of a mysterious traveler named Sam Farber (William Hurt) and an assortment of pursuers that include an obsessed French love interest, an Australian-aboriginal bounty…
Jesseca Dupart’s patience was pretty much spent. What her manufacturer had termed “growing pains” were wearing her down. There was the shipment of Miracle Drops that never arrived at a beauty supply store in Chicago; the furious shop in Oakland, California, that received two orders of Edge Control instead of one; damaged deliveries of styling…
