The Best Pizza Ovens to Make the Perfect Slice
As anxiety about a Covid-19 resurgence soars, we turn to baked goods to comfort ourselves. No, I’m not talking about sourdough starters—I’m hoarding yeast and flour for another reason. With…
Among Us Was Hit With Pro-Trump Spam
Hello, and welcome once again to Replay, WIRED’s twice-monthly column about everything happening in the world of video games. The weather’s starting to get colder, but the news over the…
Watch Dogs: Legion has millions of playable characters — but I’d rather have one good one
The Watch Dogs franchise always held a weird little spot in Ubisoft’s vast stable of open world games. The series was first introduced back in 2012, during Ubisoft’s annual E3…
These are the world’s most ‘walkable’ cities
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest…
Voter registration websites are crashing, locking out would-be voters
Earlier this month, the calls, many from swing states, started coming in to the Election Protection hotline, a service administered by the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for…
We keep looking for aliens — but are aliens looking for us?
Could extraterrestrials find life on Earth? The question of whether or not life exists on other worlds suggests pondering if extraterrestrial beings might be able to find life on our…
The Most Glorious Video Game Music to Level Up Your Workday
After 10 years working from home, I’ve noticed some strange correlations in my productivity. In particular, I am far more sluggish and unmotivated when I forget to put on some…
22 Face Masks We Actually Like to Wear
In April, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all citizens wear nonmedical face masks to slow the spread of Covid-19. Earlier this year, we wrote about…
Why The Queen’s Gambit Is the No. 1 Netflix Show Right Now
In the new limited series The Queen’s Gambit, the only thing that’s real is the chess. Child prodigy Beth Harmon is fictional. The orphanage she went to, the addiction to…
The AI Company Helping the Pentagon Assess Disinfo Campaigns
In September, Azerbaijan and Armenia renewed fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory in the Caucasus mountains. By then, an information warfare campaign over the region had been underway for several…