Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Failed African Countries
In November 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Patrick Dorsey tweeted from the airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that he would be moving to “Africa” for up to six months in 2020.…
Ofcom looks at Terahertz spectrum for terabit 6G future
Ofcom is asking for views on how to maximise the long-term value of the Terahertz (THz) spectrum, extremely high frequencies that could provide huge bandwidth for applications of the future…
The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is rumored to cost the same as the S20 FE
The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is expected to finally make its debut next month, and according to the latest rumor, it’s going to go on sale at the same price…
Cheap AMD GPUs could finally arrive from January 2022
AMD is rumored to have a pair of wallet-friendly graphics cards in the pipeline, and the latest speculation has floated release dates for the RX 6500 XT and RX 6400…
A single VPN drop-out exposed breach scandal that cost Ubiquiti $4bn
A brief VPN outage has led to the arrest of a former Ubiquiti developer, who has reportedly been charged with stealing data and trying to extort his employer while pretending…
2021’s Spotify Wrapped Is a Haunting, Hilarious Time Capsule
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Earlier this week, New Yorker writer Amanda…
How to Use Your Smartphone as a Hot Spot
If you are out somewhere and find there’s no Wi-Fi connection for your laptop or you don’t want to run the risk of using a public Wi-Fi network, you can…
Microsoft backtracks on Windows 11’s controversial default browser changes
Microsoft is backtracking on changes it made to Windows 11 that made it more difficult to switch default browsers. A new test build of Windows 11 now allows users of…
Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a non-fungible token (or NFT) based on his first edit of the free encyclopedia. Auction house Christie’s will hold a sale of the token…
Why Buzz Lightyear’s Rocket Launch Looks Better Than Reality
This graph says that the vertical position of the rocket increases by a (nearly) constant amount from one frame to the next. In physics, we call that “constant velocity.” Since…