Wish List 2020: 45 Gift Ideas for Your Social Bubble and Beyond
One of the best things about working at WIRED is that we get to touch all of the latest gadgets—everything from headphones to curling irons to cameras to skateboards—before anyone…
The Art That Defied the Last Four, Terrible Years
A neck-snapping backward fall down a set of stairs becomes a reproof to anyone who was in this thing for the offbeat laughs at South Korean folkways. And then it’s…
Love the USPS? Join the Infrastructure Appreciation Society!
Oh, so there’s a pandemic and suddenly you all want to protect the Post Office that brings you medicine and socks? Suddenly you’re America’s number one Census fan and think…
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
While you’re surfing the web, you ought to thank Jacob Thornton for making it so pretty. He’s a programmer who, along with web designer Mark Otto, created Bootstrap, free software…
Happy Little Instagram Feeds Don’t Work in 2020
Something has happened to my Instagram feed. By which I mean, nothing has happened to my Instagram feed. It remains as artsy and overfiltered as ever, an infinite grid of…
Airbnb lost millions in revenue due to the coronavirus, IPO filing reveals
Airbnb filed for an initial public offering on Monday, released its prospectus, and indicated it will trade on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol ABNB. The prospectus gives a…
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon docks crew of four to the International Space Station
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station this evening, more than a day after launching to space from Florida. The vehicle’s arrival marks the beginning of…
Oppo shows off concept rolling phone and AR glasses
Oppo has held its second annual “Inno Day,” an event where it shows off products in concept form and sets out its vision for the future. Headlining this year is…
Adobe releases Arm beta version of Photoshop for Windows and macOS
Adobe is releasing Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS today. The beta releases will allow owners of a Surface Pro X or Apple’s new M1-powered MacBook Pro, MacBook…
GitHub restores popular YouTube downloader three weeks after its takedown
Finally some good news in this hellish year. GitHub has restored popular video downloader tool, YouTube-dl, after the company banned it in October. The code hosting platform said that new…