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What are chemical pollutants doing to our bodies? It’s a timely question given that last week, people in Philadelphia cleared grocery shelves of bottled water after a toxic leak from a chemical plant spilled into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of drinking water for 14 million people. And it was only last …
In a world where unmanned spacecraft have landed on Mars and artificial intelligence can read your mind, one would think someone would have figured out a precise way to measure how much athletes should drink while exercising. Hydrating, or replacing body fluids lost through sweating, exhaling, and eliminating waste, is essential. When 2 or more …
Nix Hydration Biosensor Review: Unlocking the Science of Sweat Read More »
A lesson I learned early in life: never piss off a librarian. Apparently District Court Judge John G. Koetl skipped out on a formative traumatic-shushing experience, because his recent ruling against the Internet Archive, a beloved digital library nonprofit, has riled up the biblio-archivist community. Some brief background: During the early days of Covid lockdowns, …
If you’re running out of storage space on your laptop, or if you need to back up your data and store that backlog of videos you’re going to edit one day (I am, I swear), an external hard drive can solve your problem. The trouble is, there are hundreds of drive options ranging from dirt …
7 Best Portable External Storage Drives (2023): SSDs, Hard Drives, Rugged Read More »
One nice thing about buying a drive for backing up your data is that you don’t need to worry about drive speed. Even a slow 5,400-rpm drive is fine. These slower drives are cheaper, and since the backup software runs in the background, you probably won’t notice the slower speed. Get the largest backup drive …
How to Back Up Your Digital Life (2023): Hard Drives, Cloud-Based Tools, and Tips Read More »
The Monitor is To weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Future generations will acknowledge the vibe shift. It happened last weekend, when all of a sudden social media feeds filled with images of Pope Francis, typically a pious and plain dude, looking …
If there ever was a story about licensing rights that deserved the “based on a true story” treatment, it’s Tetris. Figuring out who can legally distribute a game may sound like a boring legal discrepancy, but when that game was one developed in Russia just before the fall of the Soviet Union, the quest to …
‘Tetris’ Is a Fun Ride, but It’s Got a Few Missing Pieces Read More »
Any time a movie studio tries to adapt a beloved property, it plays a dangerous game: one where they could win millions of dollars from devoted fans, or alienate them entirely. For every Lord of the Ringsthere are a hundred Hobbits. And it’s not always easy to predict which aspects of the original book, show, …
‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Plays Like Your Best D&D Game Read More »
These kinds of tests aren’t available to the public yet, but they are being honed in multiple labs, and researchers are working on ways to test for even more chemicals. That’s especially important because new chemicals are being developed all the time, and companies don’t usually need to put them through rigorous safety tests before …
Meanwhile, researchers at Google’s Project Zero have reported 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Modems made by Samsung. The four most severe—CVE-2023-24033CVE-2023-26496, CVE-2023-26497, and CVE-2023-26498—allow internet-to-baseband remote code execution, the researchers wrote in a blog. “Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that the four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level …
Apple’s iOS 16.4: Security Updates Are Better Than a Goose Emoji Read More »
