Category: Weird

Vernor Vinge’s 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep is a treat for fans of galaxy-spanning adventure. Science fiction author Mercurio D. Rivera was particularly…

Silence those phone notifications! Do you know someone driven absolutely mad by the fact that everything seems to be connected to the internet these days?…

The world is littered with the burnt, abandoned hulks of tech companies that promised big things and delivered nothing. When Framework launched a modular, repairable,…

Why do it? When I wrote about Musk’s tweeting earlier this year, I leaned toward the idea that Twitter itself had led him into this…

Nearly everyone has a flashlight in their pocket these days in the form of a smartphone, but it’s not a very good one. Sure, it…

For all its possibilities, nature tends to replay one particular scene over and over again: the confrontation between matter and light. It stages the scene…

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. On Tuesday…

If you’ve watched The Martian you know how difficult it is to grow food on Mars. Almost nothing about the Red Planet makes it a…

Of course, that kind of loss would be immeasurable. “Black Twitter has reflected a fuller scope of Blackness, and a rejection of respectability,” says Sarah…

Chances are your phone’s camera roll is filled with tons of screenshots. Most captured intentionally, some conceived by the soft fumbling of your fingers on…