Last week, independent production company Magic City Films announced that it would be bringing James Dean back from the dead. Not literally, but digitally, using full-body CGI and existing footage and photos. The Rebel Without a Cause actor will become… Continue Reading
Once every 20 to 100 years or so, a US president gets impeached. This is the formal federal process wherein Congress investigates claims of wrongdoing against the sitting leader of the free world. Now it’s Donald Trump in the hot… Continue Reading
The Apple credit card, launched in August, ran into major problems last week, when users noticed that it seemed to offer smaller lines of credit to women than to men. The scandal spread on Twitter, with influential techies branding the… Continue Reading
Users increasingly encounter moments when a website asks for permission to gather some personal data or access to their device hardware: “Can we access your GPS position? Your microphone or camera? Your Bluetooth? Can we send you push notifications about… Continue Reading
Before Stanley Kubrick melted everyone’s brains with the unprecedented scientific realism of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hollywood directors had a lot more creative leeway in their space adventure films. Francis Ford Coppola wants to make a movie about giant genitals… Continue Reading
It’s increasingly common for the data that passes between your browser and a website’s server to be encrypted with HTTPS, which makes it impossible for outside snoops to read. But you don’t get that protection if the URL drops that… Continue Reading
Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email blast to his 100,000 or so employees, cutting back the company’s defining all-hands meeting known as TGIF. The famous free-for-alls had epitomized the company’s egalitarian ethos, a place where employees and… Continue Reading
Tuesday, November 19, 2019. By Jeremy Nguyen, with cartooncollections.com. A search engine is trying to slow climate change by funneling profits into organizations that plant trees in deforested areas. Monday, November 18, 2019. By Ellis Rosen, with cartooncollections.com. The days… Continue Reading
The economics of knockoffs is simple: The rich buy Prada bags, while the not so rich opt for fakes, which telegraph to the world they’re just as shallow as the rich, but on a budget. Prada doesn’t like knockoffs because… Continue Reading
Burger King was sued on Monday by a vegan customer who accused the fast-food chain of contaminating its meatless “Impossible” Whoppers by cooking them on the same grills as its traditional meat burgers. In a proposed class action, Phillip Williams… Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — The Taliban has freed two Western hostages, American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks, after holding them in captivity for more than three years, an American official and the prime minister of neighboring Pakistan said Tuesday. A U.S.… Continue Reading
HONG KONG — Hong Kong police continued to lay siege to one of the city’s universities Tuesday as the former British colony’s embattled leader urged around 100 protesters holed up inside to leave the campus “as soon as possible.” Some… Continue Reading
Last year, Jibo—“the world’s first social robot for the home”—began to lose its mind. First came memory problems. The bot started to spend less time swiveling its head like the animated Pixar lamp and more time staring blankly at the… Continue Reading
LUKE, I AM YOUR GREAT-GRANDSON. —@uniquetoybox via Twitter HONORABLE MENTIONS: FAMILY PROBLEMS CONTINUE TO RUIN GALAXY. @JOHNBORANJR VIA INSTAGRAM // SKYWALKER DESCENDANTS DISCOVER SITH ON EARTH. PAUL HADDEN VIA FACEBOOK // SELF-DRIVING DEATH STAR TERRORIZES GALAXY. @MICHAEL_LOUIS VIA INSTAGRAM //… Continue Reading
Surprise! I have nightmares. In my latest, I was stumbling through an eternal field in the dead of night, fog so thick I couldn’t see two inches. Then, out of the mist, a carousel materialized. Carnival music jangled as the… Continue Reading
Normally, when you open Facebook, you see pictures of your friends’ awesome vacations or links to maddening political stories your dad is sharing—your basic emotional goulash of FOMO and TMI. But last year, the nerds at Microsoft Research tried something… Continue Reading
When the US Air Force launched the F-16 Fighting Falcon in 1979, it had something no other military jet did: a computer. Four, actually. Their electrical signals commanded the aircraft instead of gears and pulleys, ushering aerial combat into the… Continue Reading
One of the best things about working at WIRED is that we get to touch all of the latest gadgets—everything from headphones to ebikes to cameras to blenders—before anyone else. We test each of those things thoroughly, then write considered… Continue Reading
To seal their in-group status and steer clear of Muggles who might not get it, Janeites today still use code, handles, jargon, masquerade, memes. Generally speaking, a “Willoughby” is a cad, and a “Darcy” is a catch (though maybe also… Continue Reading
Stacey Abrams won’t be on the debate stage when the Democratic presidential candidates face off in Atlanta on Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean she won’t be playing a role in the 2020 elections. Since Abrams’ loss to Republican Brian Kemp… Continue Reading
A New York man pleaded guilty on Monday to threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar in March, prosecutors said. Patrick W. Carlineo, Jr., 55, of Addison, a village southwest of Ithaca, pleaded guilty to threatening to assault and murder… Continue Reading
Authorities have found human remains thought to be those of a missing St. Louis-area woman who disappeared last week and whose husband has been charged in her murder, police said. Authorities still need a ” total confirmation,” but investigators believe… Continue Reading
Nov. 18 (UPI) — The United States on Monday revoked recently renewed sanction waivers for Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility after Tehran said it had begun enriching uranium at the site, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. “The right amount of… Continue Reading
A group of physicians, alarmed that the Trump administration is denying flu vaccines to immigrants in custody, is urging the Department of Homeland Security to accept its offer to provide free flu shots to California detainees. In a Nov. 5… Continue Reading
Nov. 19 (UPI) — On this date in history: In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on a Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. In 1932, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow carried out the first of their series… Continue Reading