How We’re Fighting Back Against Doomscrolling
MC: Nice. LG: One of the more popular suggestions came from some guy named Walt Mossberg. Does anyone know movies? AW: Hmm. MC: (Laughs) Don’t be coy. LG: Yes. Walt…
Thunderbolt 4: Everything you need to know about Intel’s new standard
Thunderbolt 4 will have to compete with USB 4 for all our data transfer needs. The question is can it keep up?
A new MacBook Air with Apple’s own chips may be coming later this year
A new Arm-based MacBook Pro could also arrive in that same period
NASA’s Perseverance rover is attached to Atlas V rocket ahead of launch
Launch is scheduled for late July to early August
Klipsch’s McLaren Edition buds have a wireless charging pad for easy pit-stops
Klipsch also offers waterproof case and memory foam tips, but is missing ANC
An Algorithm Set Students’ Grades—and Altered Their Futures
Eighteen-year-old Anahita Nagpal’s plans to start training this fall to be a doctor are in ruins. She blames a statistical model. Nagpal, who lives in Göttingen, Germany, had been offered…
Meet the Secret Algorithm That’s Keeping Students Out of College
Eighteen-year-old Anahita Nagpal’s plans to start training this fall to be a doctor are in ruins. She blames a statistical model. Nagpal, who lives in Göttingen, Germany, had been offered…
The Triumphant, Complicated Return of ‘Hamilton’
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Last weekend was the Fourth of July,…
How a ‘Heat Dome’ Forms—and Why This One Is So Perilous
For many vulnerable Americans, that climactic hellscape isn’t approaching—it’s already here, and it’s colliding with the Covid-19 pandemic. Cooling centers, where folks without air-conditioning can go to chill, are shuttered.…
13 YouTube Channels We Geek Out Over in Quarantine
Each video tears into a specific subject to explain in-depth how it works, such as how tailwinds affect the angle of approach on a short, difficult runway and what all…