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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 »
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 …
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 »
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 »
Alycia Weinberger: When I first went there in the early 1990s, there was a bathroom in a heated, comfortable, computer-driven observing room and it did not have any plate on the door to say whether it was for men or women. But I already knew this story about Vera and the bathrooms and so I …
Cosmos, Quickly: Remembering the Genius of Vera Rubin Read More »
Take lead, for example. While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that there is “no safe level” of lead in children’s blood, the organization sets a blood lead reference value (BLRV) to help determine when levels are high enough to require medical intervention . In 2012, this level was set at …
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 »