Category: Weird

As Covid-19 made its grim march around the country in March, Seattle became the first American city to close down. It was the first, too,…

As far as we had determined, it took another few centuries, until around 350 BCE, for those early Maya villages to coalesce into the large…

Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel Dune, first published in 1965, is still extremely influential. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel recently re-read Dune for the…

The world’s cybersecurity woes can feel like a sideshow when physical violence is being inflicted on protestors in most major US cities. But those conflicts…

Adrienne So is a senior writer for WIRED and reviews consumer technology. She graduated from the University of Virginia with bachelor’s degrees in English and…

“When a battery becomes old, the lead comes out in the form of lead sulfate and corrodes,” said Amod Pokhrel, a lecturer at the University…

The last time I saw a Sony Xperia phone in the wild was when I visited Japan in 2018. A sea of Xperias, iPhones, and…

As police-brutality protests continue throughout the United States, people have increasingly turned to the encrypted messaging app Signal, and for good reason. As law enforcement…

America is in a crisis. Protests have been sweeping the nation, calling for an end to police brutality. Then there’s the coronavirus pandemic, which has…

As police-brutality protests continue throughout the United States, people have increasingly turned to the encrypted messaging app Signal, and for good reason. As law enforcement…