The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll drop it in water, or your dog will make a chew toy of it, or it’ll reach obsolescence. If you can’t repair it and have to discard it, the device will become e-waste, joining an alarmingly large mountain […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Over a year since Valve pledged to “improve things” in response to fans of its beloved class-based shooter Team Fortress 2 beginning a #SaveTF2 movement on social media, the hashtag is once again trending. Valve has done little to shore up TF2’s security against floods of bot accounts using hacks […]
Read MoreAs terrible as that tradeoff is, it’s worth noting that the risk of death on a commercial airliner to anyone, lap-held infants included, remains vanishingly low—so let the pangs of guilt subside if you’ve flown holding your baby on your lap. “Commercial aircraft accidents are still extremely rare, and the logistics of having infants in […]
Read MoreScientists are running low on words to adequately describe the world’s climate chaos. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could already say earlier this month that there was more than a 99 percent chance that 2023 was the hottest year on record. That followed September’s sky-high temperatures—an average of 0.5 degrees Celsius above the previous […]
Read MoreBewildered, I asked, “You mean, how old am I?” “Yes,” she said. “50.” “You would be joining a young, progressive team, but you look much younger, so I think you’d fit in just fine,” she said. My excitement turned to apprehension as we wrapped up the interview. Driving home, her unsettling words playing in my […]
Read MoreIt’s a perennial question at WIRED: Tech got us into this mess, can it get us out? That’s particularly true when it comes to climate change. As the weather becomes more extreme and unpredictable, there are hopes that artificial intelligence—that other existential threat—might be part of the solution. DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial intelligence lab, has […]
Read MoreAnd even if a dog can sniff the insects out, it can’t get rid of them. This has to be done by humans. Parisian pest control companies are doing a healthy trade too. For Hygiène Premium, which specializes in insect and rat control, traditionally about 40 to 50 percent of people calling them have trouble […]
Read MoreKamal Sonavane knew she’d pass out if she chewed smokeless tobacco one more time. It was a scorching April afternoon in the middle of another of India’s brutal heat waves, and with no job to go to, the farmworker had already chewed tobacco five times that day. “Even an addicted person avoids doing this in […]
Read MoreClimate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and the United States has begun mobilizing an army to fight it: the American Climate Corps. Formerly conceptualized as the Civilian Climate Corps, the new initiative will “put more than 20,000 young people on career pathways in the growing fields of clean energy, conservation and […]
Read MoreBack in July 2022, I previewed a new IP from Capcom called Exoprimal, an online-only competitive multiplayer game where two teams of players are tasked with exterminating hordes of dinosaurs and each other in a never-ending series of PvPvE matches. I had a good first impression of this idiosyncratic game as it was rich with […]
Read MoreNot even the Arctic Ocean is immune to the incessant growth of microplastic pollution. In a new study that analyzed sediment core samples, researchers quantified how many of the particles have been deposited since the early 1930s. As scientists have shown elsewhere, the team found that microplastic contamination in the Arctic has been growing exponentially […]
Read MoreIn addition to reducing production, the report argues, the world must improve recycling systems, which alone could reduce plastic pollution 20 percent by 2040. But recycling in its current form is problematic for a number of reasons. For one, the recycling rate in the United States is now just 5 percent of plastic waste. The US […]
Read MoreI read that OnPoint requires around $4.5 million per year to operate around-the-clock. How difficult or easy has it been to get the funding you need? Very difficult. We’ve been staying afloat by fundraising, having the support of a number of amazing individuals and a few foundations. The part of our work that is looked […]
Read MoreThat’s what makes the disaster in Ohio so alarming. Five rail cars of vinyl chloride burned—some of it done intentionally to reduce building pressure—likely producing toxic compounds called dioxins. Because hot air from a fire rises, the flames from the train sent a black plume high into the air, potentially spreading toxicants far beyond the site […]
Read MoreA report released today by the United Nations says that we’ve neglected a major component of the superbug problem: the environment. It serves as a reservoir for bacterial genes that create antimicrobial resistance, and it receives farm run-off and pharmaceutical effluent that let new resistance emerge. “The same drivers that cause environment degradation are worsening […]
Read MoreWhile that small-scale, low-tech approach may have kept saffron production going over the past few decades, it has also left it on the edge of extinction. “We’re being held back by the idiosyncrasies of the sector itself,” says Fernández. “What we’re trying to do now is bring about a change and a transition so we’re […]
Read MoreAfter weeks of near-constant rain and flooding, California is finally drying out—but hopefully not getting too dry, because the state needs all the rain it can get to pull itself out of a historic drought. This is California at its most frenetic and contradictory: Climate change is making both dry spells and rainstorms more intense, ping-ponging the state’s […]
Read MoreThe fear is that the sudden spread of Covid through a new population with relatively little prior exposure to the virus will lead to the emergence of a new “supervariant”—one that has the potential to change the face of the pandemic like the Alpha, Delta, and Omicron forms of the virus did before. But whether […]
Read MoreÀ la base, Crisis Core est un jeu sorti en 2007 sur la première console portable de Sony, la PSP. Développé à l’époque pour célébrer les 10 ans de Final Fantasy VII, il s’agit d’un préquel qui se passe 7 ans avant l’action du jeu. La version remasterisée est sortie le 13 décembre 2022 sur […]
Read MoreWhen the COVID-19 pandemic started and Samsung’s Walk-In Repair centers in Canada had to shut down temporarily, the company quickly came up with a solution that would allow customers to continue getting support and safe product deliveries. And for these efforts, Samsung Canada has now won silver in the “Best Customer Experience in the Crisis” […]
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