Category: Weird
Today’s Startups Are Flush With Cash—and Watching Every Penny
Liz Giorgi expected she would raise more money for her startup, Soona, in April. But when she saw how much money was sloshing around the…
The Weirdest Product at MWC 2022 Is a Sleep-Aid Gas Dispenser
Gosleep says it knows the optimal setup for getting you off to the land of nod as it uses sound-tracking to monitor your total sleep…
Ukraine Is in an Environmental Crisis Too
In the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the ground has been behaving strangely. In some places, it is sinking; elsewhere it “heaves”—bulging upward, according to…
5 Great Sex Tech Deals on Vibrators and Suction Toys
It’s a weird time of year if you’re hunting for deals. Sure, there’s March Madness and St. Patrick’s Day, but they’re not really big sale…
The 20 Best Comic Book Movies You Can Stream Right Now
After a couple of Covid-related delays, Robert Pattinson is scheduled to make his superhero debut Friday, when Matt Reeves’s hotly anticipated The Batman finally arrives…
The Internet Is Not as New as You Think
When Kant proclaimed in the Critique of the Power of Judgment that there will never be a “Newton for the blade of grass”—that is, that…
Volodymyr Zelensky Is Not a Meme
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s family photo keeps appearing in my social media feeds. Perhaps you’ve seen it, too. The picture shows the politician alongside his…
How to Help Victims of the War in Ukraine
Each day that Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, the number of people impacted by the war grows. WIRED’s coverage of the conflict has highlighted…
Hackers Find a New Way to Deliver Devastating DDoS Attacks
Kevin Bock, the lead researcher behind last August’s paper, said DDoS attackers had plenty of incentives to reproduce the attacks his team had theorized. “Unfortunately,…
Biden Puts Surveillance Advertising on Notice
If the leaders of Big Tech platforms thought geopolitics would take the heat off their companies during Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address,…