A Crispr Cow Is Born. It’s Definitely a Boy
They went back and redesigned their Crispr system, using the updated map to steer their edits clear of any essential genes. Then they tried it with embryos again. This time,…
Is It Too Soon for Covid-19 TV Shows?
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. It was bound to happen. Earlier this…
Russia’s GRU Hackers Hit US Government and Energy Targets
Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency has carried out many of the most aggressive acts of hacking in history: destructive worms, blackouts, and—closest to home for Americans—a broad hacking-and-leaking operation designed…
How to Outrun a Dinosaur
The incredibly powerful, long-legged Tyrannosaurus was slow for the same mathematical reason its demise in the mine shaft was so eruptive. Like surface area, bone strength only squares in strength…
New York Times Casually Drops Another Story About How Aliens Are Probably Real
Encounter between a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet and an unidentified flying object off the coast of San Diego, California in 2004.Gif: YouTube/New York Times The New York Times published a…
The Boys season 2 debuts a bloody new clip for Comic-Con, gets season 3 renewal
It’s The Boys versus a superhero who can talk to marine animals in a new clip
More than 1,000 Twitter employees reportedly have complete access to accounts
Some third-party contractors also said to have the same level of access
T-Mobile will soon begin kicking some outdated phones off its network
The transition could go live as soon as early next year
NASA to send a huge balloon into the stratosphere for deep-space research
The high-altitude balloon will be “the size of a football stadium.”
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google CEOs to face antitrust committee that owns $100K+ of those companies’ stocks
Business Insider’s Aaron Holmes reports that three of the lawmakers tasked with leading an antitrust investigation into the operations of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google own more than $100,000 in…