Category: Weird
The 18 Best Weekend Deals: Videogames, Sex Tech, Home Goods, and More
Some parts of the US have started to open up again, but for most of us, staying inside is still the best course of action…
Old Drugs Could Reveal a New Way to Attack the Coronavirus
“It’s a lot more critical to identify where that drug is working, because ultimately you don’t want to go blindly into a human trial or…
Amazon Shakes Up the Race for Self-Driving—and Ride-Hailing
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says his company wants to be the “Amazon for transportation.” Friday, Amazon made clear that it intends to be the Amazon…
Twitch Confronts Its Role in Streaming’s #MeToo Reckoning
A couple of weeks into talking, though, one of his channel moderators, who goes by Snookville, wrote her a message warning her about Earney’s alleged…
It’s Time to Reboot the Violent Videogames Debate
WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. The…
Joel Schumacher and the Non-Crisis of Infinite Batmans
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. It’s the…
What Apple’s Silicon Chips Suggest About Its Future
Not many developers bother to write their applications specifically for the Macintosh computer. But there are hundreds of thousands of iOS apps that can potentially…
The 8 Best Reusable Water Bottles (2020): Insulated and Non-Insulated
Matt Jancer is a staff writer for WIRED who focuses on reviewing outdoor gear. Previously, he spent a decade as a freelance writer covering automobiles,…
Apple’s Virtual WWDC Wasn’t Better Than the Real Thing
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is normally an energetic, bustling affair. This year, of course, things are anything but normal. Instead of live talks in…
The Rocket Motor of the Future Breathes Air Like a Jet Engine
There’s a small airfield about a two-hour drive north of Los Angeles that sits on the edge of a vast expanse of desert and attracts…