Amazon VP quits after ‘chickenshit’ management fires employee activists
Amazon‘s PR nightmare today intensified as one of the company’s VPs abruptly resigned after several employees were fired for questioning work policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim Bray, a…
Best MacBooks (2020): Which Model Should You Buy?
If the new MacBook Air isn’t powerful enough and the 16-inch MacBook Pro seems too much, consider the 13-inch MacBook Pro. It might be just right. We haven’t had a…
Westworld Season 3 Gave Us Too Many Familiar Twists
Westworld is a show that lives to surprise us. The first season of the sci-fi series gave us some mind-bending plot reveals, spawning wild theories and an online community dedicated…
How to Build a Functional Mandalorian Tracking Fob to Find Your Smartphone Instead of Baby Yodas
The tracking fobs used by bounty hunters in The Mandalorian to find their targets make the dangerous profession seem kind of easy. So the engineers at design studio MVRK wondered…
For Jeffrey Epstein, MIT Was Just a Safety School
Harvard University has some good news about its former ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and alleged sex trafficker who died in his jail cell last August. According to an…
A Trip to the Movies May Soon Feel Like Going to the Airport
Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s culture news roundup. Today we have some updates on a new HBO series, Sia singles, and the future of the…
The Sea Ice Arctic Communities Rely on Could Disappear Three Weeks Earlier
Let’s not walk on this ice, yeah? Here we see shorefast ice beginning to break up near Uummannaq, Greenland.Photo: Sarah Cooley (Brown University) Sea ice near the shore is crucial…
Taika Waititi’s Star Wars Movie Is Real
Waititi on the set of The Mandalorian.Image: Lucasfilm Two recent rumblings about the cinematic and televisual futures of Star Wars have just been confirmed by Lucasfilm as, well, true, all…
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Google and Apple Reveal How Covid-19 Alert Apps Might Look
Finding out that you’ve been exposed to a serious disease through a push notification may still seem like something out of dystopian science fiction. But the ingredients for that exact…