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 S63Soon You'll Be Zooming in Roblox   Right around the time Meta started making a feverish pitch for the headset-powered metaverse, executives at other tech companies began piping up to point out that the metaverse could already be accessed through hugely popular mobile apps like Fortnite and Roblox. People love these appsâespecially kids and teens. Who needs a full-face computer when you can easily spend hours chatting with friends using the screens you already have?Now Roblox, which isn't just a game but an entire platform of user-generated video games, is adding more power to its metaverse punch. Starting in November, Roblox plans to launch an immersive video-chat option for gamers, Roblox chief executive David Baszucki said in an exclusive interview with WIRED ahead of the company's developers conference this week.
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S59The Best Tea Accessories for Sipping Steamy Beverages  If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDTea is the world's most popular beverage. Well, after water. Whether you like to brew from a bag or only sip rare yellow tea smuggled out of China by yak, there's something for everyone. However, if you're new to drinking tea, the different gadgets and styles can be overwhelming. To get you started, we put together a roundup of some of the tools and teas you might want to try on your journey to finding the perfect cup.
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S58Our creative relationship with AI is just beginning  K Allado-McDowell has co-written three books with AI, so they speak from experience when they say that nurturing a creative relationship with these systems can open minds and make new worlds possible. Before giving the stage over to a performance of "Song of the Ambassadors" -- their otherworldly opera, also co-created with AI -- Allado-McDowell presents three principles for a future where machines preserve and even enhance what it means to be human.
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S65Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'  Senior United States intelligence officials met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties groups to field concerns about domestic surveillance operations that have drawn intense scrutiny this summer among an unlikely coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the US Congress.The closed-door session, convened at the Liberty Crossing Intelligence Campus—a sprawling complex housing the bulk of the nation’s counterterrorism infrastructure—comes amid a backdrop of political furor over past misuses of a powerful surveillance tool by, principally, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Republican lawmakers, who remain aggrieved over the FBI’s botched operation to surveil a former Trump campaign aide amid its 2016 Russia investigation, have formed an extraordinary alliance with Democratic rivals who’ve long been critical of the FBI’s power to warrantlessly access information about Americans “incidentally” collected by spies in the process of monitoring foreign threats.
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S70Martha's rule: second-opinion law can work - but only if organisational shortcomings are addressed  As things stand, hospital patients in England have no legal right to a second medical opinion. But that could soon change, as a campaign to give patients formal entitlement to an urgent second opinion is gathering momentum and gaining support from key figures, including those in government as well as the NHS England Ombudsman. The proposal, called Martha’s rule, is named after a young girl whose life might have been saved by it. In 2021, 13-year-old Martha Mills died following an injury she sustained while on holiday with her family. Martha was treated at King’s College Hospital in London, where she developed life-threatening sepsis. The inquest following Martha’s death found it was avoidable, and that she would have survived were it not for tragic failures in the medical care she received. These failures included doctors withholding important information about Martha’s condition from her parents and ignoring their concerns.
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S3850 Years Later, Star Trek Finally Addresses Its Laziest Alien Tradition  Throughout the history of Star Trek, most “new life and new civilizations” have had two arms, two legs, and a head. A variety of sculpted ears and bumpy foreheads differentiate the aliens that populate the Final Frontier, but it’s rare to see truly far-out Arrival-style aliens in Trek. But as Star Trek celebrates its 57th birthday, a special episode has poked some fun at the fact that all these aliens are basically human-ish. For Star Trek Day 2023, “Skin a Cat” elevates Trek’s silliest alien trope into an absurd hyperbole.
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S4050 Weird Things That Are So Freaking Cool on Amazon  A silicone fish that helps you separate eggs, a pair of pizza scissors, and a stone bath mat that absorbs water in seconds all sound like a joke but anything is possible on Amazon. There are plenty of other tools and accessories that seem a bit strange at first but become an absolute necessity after just one use. This list contains ways to keep your bedroom organized, your kitchen clean, and everything in between thanks to highly rated products that are as functional as they are affordable.This dishwasher-safe salad spinner can be used as a colander and by shifting the handle, it can be used right in your sink to spin out excess water in lettuce, pasta, and more. The silicone foot keeps it firmly in place, and unlike salad spinners with a two-part lid, it’s easy to clean.
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S68The Roman Empire in 40 minutes, with Cambridge scholar Mary Beard  Did you know that despite their militaristic culture, soldiers weren’t allowed inside the city of Rome? Don’t worry — we didn’t either. We all have our ideas of what life in ancient Rome was really like, including sex, violence, food, and culture. But popular portrayals of the empire belie just how normal — and often kind of gross — life really was.
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S64Axon's Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker  This article was copublished with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. Sign up for its newsletters here.Less than 10 days after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022, Axon Enterprises CEO Rick Smith announced the company had formally started developing Taser-equipped drones. The technology, Smith argued, could potentially save lives during mass shootings by incapacitating active shooters within seconds.
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S52Carbon in the Oceans Is Altering the Micro-Fabric of Life  Humans are feeding the invisible world of ocean microbes a punishing diet of pollutants, boosting the impact of climate change and hastening the destruction of life as we know itWhen the waters south of Miami turned Jacuzzi hot this summer, topping out at 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit in Manatee Bay, scientists agonized over the impact on parrotfish, grunts, spiny lobsters and coral reefs. But what about the invisible world of the ocean’s microbiome that we can’t see—one of bacteria, fungi, algae and viruses?
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S42'Ahsoka' Theory Reveals A Shocking Alternate Star Wars Timeline  In Ahsoka Episode 4, “Fallen Jedi,” Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) is pushed from the Nightsister henge by Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) into the turbulent Seatos sea below. She awakes in a familiar yet impossible place: the World Between Worlds. Even stranger is the appearance of her former Master, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen). First off, The World Between Worlds is a puzzling location for her to be; it’s not the “heaven” of Star Wars, nor has it ever been accessible by near-death experience. So why has Ahsoka creator Dave Filoni placed her there? The inspiration for this could be found in America’s most iconic Christmas movie, the 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life.Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is ingrained into the public consciousness of America. Iconic on a level few films have ever reached, the 1946 film follows a hopeless George Bailey (James Stewart), contemplating suicide on a bridge on Christmas Eve. Disillusioned with a life of constantly giving up on his own personal dreams to put others first, he mourns the life that he could have had, believing he never fulfilled his true purpose and potential.
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S66SpaceX Must Fix 63 Issues Before Its Starship Can Fly Again  As the dust settled following SpaceX’s brief, explosive test launch of Starship in April, both the company and the Federal Aviation Administration dug into investigating the aftermath. The gigantic rocket’s flight lasted just four minutes before it blew up near SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch site on the Texas coast. Images and news reports posted in the days afterward showed boulders of concrete and rebar blasting into the air during liftoff, and there were accounts of particulates raining down on nearby Port Isabel.Today, both SpaceX and the FAA released statements on their joint “mishap investigation,” which was led by the company and overseen by the FAA, with NASA and the National Transportation Safety Board acting as observers. The results had to be evaluated and approved by FAA officials, but neither the agency nor SpaceX has released a full report, which would include proprietary data and US Export Control information. Despite SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s claim on X (formerly Twitter) on September 5 that “Starship is ready to launch,” the FAA’s statement makes clear that SpaceX has more work to do. “The closure of the mishap investigation does not signal an immediate resumption of Starship launches at Boca Chica. SpaceX must implement all [63] corrective actions that impact public safety and apply for and receive a license modification from the FAA that addresses all safety, environmental and other applicable regulatory requirements prior to the next Starship launch,” the statement reads.
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S57Heat Waves May Be Slow, but They Are Just as Destructive as Faster Disasters  Earlier this summer, as a brutal heat dome settled over Texas, the large pecan tree in my front yard started dropping limbs. Not twigs, mind you, but big, heavy limbs that would fall straight down with a thunk and a shoosh of dead leaves onto my front lawn. Every week or so, it would happen again. And every week, I’d haul a giant piece of an old, glorious tree, slowly dying of thirst, to the curb. Most of Texas has recently broken a heat-related record in one way or another. Dallas reached a record high of 110 degrees Fahrenheit amid weeks of unrelenting 100 or near 100 degrees days. Austin made history with 45 consecutive days of temperatures more than 100 degrees; El Paso hit 44 days. Houston hit 109 degrees just as kids were getting back to school. Coastal areas of the state are in the National Weather Service’s highest category for drought.
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S342023's Most Potent Religious Thriller Reveals the Flaws of the MCU Franchise Model  The Conjuring Universe is a pretty strange one in terms of consistency. For each series high, you get an equally passionate low, and 2018’s The Nun was one of those lows. There are a few different reasons why this is, but perhaps its biggest sin is that it was just dull. Mostly reliant on jump scares to keep viewers invested, it was certainly a movie that came out, and that’s all one could really say about it.You can call its sequel, The Nun II, many things, but dull won’t be one of them. The Michael Chaves-directed sequel is a messy but entertaining one that finally seems to justify this sub-franchise’s existence.
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S62The 15 Best Electric Bikes for Every Kind of Ride  If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDFor years, electric bicycles were bulky, inconvenient, expensive machines with limited battery life. Slowly, that has changed. Ebikes are now lighter, more attractive, and more powerful than ever. You don't need to be physically fit to ride one. They get you outside, reduce traffic congestion, and shrink your carbon footprint. I ride one daily to take my kids to school. They're just fun.
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S41What Does Anxiety Actually Do To Us? A Psychiatrist Explains How It Invades The Body  Research confirms that while emotions do originate in your brain, it’s your body that carries out the orders.Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach. Bad gut feeling. These are all phrases many people use to describe fear and anxiety. You have likely felt anxiety inside your chest or stomach, and your brain usually doesn’t hurt when you’re scared. Many cultures tie cowardice and bravery more to the heart or the guts than to the brain.
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S43What can we learn from John Rawls's critique of capitalism? | Aeon Essays  is a philosopher and legal scholar. He is completing a PhD in philosophy at Princeton University, and is a Furman Academic Fellow at New York University School of Law.Completed in 1910, the renaissance revivalist Mahoning County Courthouse in Youngstown, Ohio would make any city proud. Its Honduran mahogany, terracotta, 12 marble columns and 40-foot diameter stained-glass dome stand testament to the region’s turn-of-the-century success as a moderate industrial power. Across Market Street, the humbler federal courthouse completed in 1995 invokes a then-au courant corporate office-building style: concrete and panelised stone relieved by blue-black glass, with decorative squares and circles scattered here and there.
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S53What Does It 'Feel' Like to Be a Chatbot?  Generative AI has made giant strides toward machine intelligence. Can machine consciousness be far behind?The questions of what subjective experience is, who has it and how it relates to the physical world around us have preoccupied philosophers for most of recorded history. Yet the emergence of scientific theories of consciousness that are quantifiable and empirically testable is of much more recent vintage, occurring within the past several decades. Many of these theories focus on the footprints left behind by the subtle cellular networks of the brain from which consciousness emerges.
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S395 Things We Just Learned About Tesla's Upcoming $25,000 EV  We already know about the Cybertruck and the Roadster but everyone is eager to hear more about an actually affordable EV from Tesla that would sell for around $25,000. Now we have a better idea, thanks to an Axios report and Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson.The report reveals a lot about the messy inner workings of Tesla but also confirms that Tesla is making a $25,000 EV that features a futuristic design like the Cybertruck. Along with the affordable EV, we’ll also see a fully autonomous EV that will be built on the same platform as the $25,000 option.
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S353 Years Ago, an Impeccably Stylish Mystery Reinvented the Detective Genre  For how often games cast you as a detective or focus on solving mysteries, it’s strange how banal the process usually feels. In recent years, games like Return of the Obra Dinn and The Case of the Golden Idol have put a far more satisfying spin on detective work by requiring thought and investigation rather than just following onscreen prompts. One game celebrating its third anniversary this September did the same — and added sex, demonic cults, an incredible soundtrack, and style to spare.In Paradise Killer, the first and so far only game from Kaizen Game Works, you play as Lady Love Dies, a detective who’s called out of retirement to investigate a particularly grisly murder. Pretty typical detective stuff, except that “retirement” was an eternal exile of which Lady Love Dies has served 3 million days (or 8,213 years) and the victims are a group of misanthropic immortals who rule over a paradise resort in an alternate dimension that reconfigures itself every few thousand years.
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S70Mini-personalities: Why Carl Jung believed your "complexes" lead their own inner lives  “Wow, that’s probably been there for years,” once said a physical therapist as he ran a thumb over a hardened knot in my back. I was surprised. I had noticed muscle tension but never the particular knot that was contributing to it. The physical therapist said it could be causing tightness and mobility problems across my body in subtle yet significant ways. A psychological complex — at least as the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung understood it — is a similar phenomenon. It is defined as a cluster of feelings, memories, and thoughts centered around a specific emotional theme that manifests like a knot in your psyche, often escaping your awareness such that it “behaves like an animated foreign body in the sphere of consciousness,” as Jung wrote in his Collected Works.
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S60The Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Lee Is a Warning .jpg) Just a week after Hurricane Idalia “rapidly intensified” and slammed the Florida coast with monster storm surges, Tropical Storm Lee has grown into a massive hurricane in the Atlantic. By feeding on exceptionally warm waters, it has undergone rapid intensification, a transformation that scientists define as an increase in sustained wind speeds of 30 knots (35 miles per hour) or more within 24 hours. Lee boosted from 70 knots to 116 knots over just 12 hours yesterday. It’s now at 146 knots—a Category 5 hurricane—and is expected to intensify still more. In the Pacific, Jova rapidly intensified earlier this week from a 60-knot tropical storm to a 140-knot Category 5, which prompted one hurricane scientist to tweet: “Wait, what???” Such rapidly intensifying hurricanes are supposed to be exceptional. “Those are really rare,” says Jason Dunion, hurricane field program director at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. “If you remember growing up, the biggest kid in your class might be in the 90th percentile for height. The rapid intensifiers are in the 95th percentile of storms, as far as how quickly they intensify. They’re that rare. They really stand apart.”
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S33How to Increase Your Ship Storage and Carrying Capacity in 'Starfield'  Starfield has dozens upon dozens of weapons, items, and resources you’ll need to collect on your lengthy adventure through the galaxy. Because Bethesda’s new game has a focus on crafting and building outposts, on top of all your unusual items, it’s extremely easy to become over-encumbered preventing you from fast travel. One of the first things you’ll want to do is increase your personal storage and carrying capacity, as well as the amount of storage you have available. Here’s everything you need to know about increasing your storage in Starfield. The simplest way of increasing your storage is to invest in the Weight Lifting skill. You’ll need four skill points to upgrade the skill completely, and the first level only grants 10kg of extra carrying capacity. Once you unlock the skill you’ll need to spend a certain amount of time running with at least 70 percent of your carrying capacity full, in order to unlock the next tier. Once you have every tier unlocked, you’ll be able to carry a total of 100kg extra, which will absolutely help.
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S54'Weird' Dinosaur Prompts Rethink of Bird Evolution  A newly described fossil is as old as the “first bird,” Archaeopteryx, and represents a birdlike dinosaur that might have specialized in running or wading instead of flyingOne hundred and fifty million years ago, a young, bantam-sized, bird-like dinosaur became mired in a swamp in what is now southeastern China, and succumbed. Its fossilized remains, unearthed in 2022 and named Fujianvenator prodigiosus, show it to be one of the earliest bird-like dinosaurs to date from the Jurassic period. The researchers describe their discovery in a paper published today in Nature.
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S36'Monarch: Legacy of Monsters' Trailer Reveals the Origins of the MonsterVerse  While the DC and Marvel Cinematic Universes have been churning out movie after movie, Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse has focused on quality over quantity. From Gareth Roberts’ Godzilla back in 2014, to the upcoming Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire in April 2024, the kaiju movie franchise with the flavor of modern Hollywood is doing its best to prove itself worthy of your time. Now, like all the best cinematic universes of the 2010s, the MonsterVerse is moving from theaters to streaming. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is an ambitious, star-studded series that will expand the MonsterVerse to somewhere it’s never been: the past. Check out the trailer for the upcoming Apple TV+ series, stomping into households everywhere starting November 17.
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S67Ask Ethan: Could gravity operate in extra dimensions?  There’s a problem with gravity that no one is comfortable with and that even physicists rarely talk about. If you take any two particles with a mass to them — like two electrons, two of the quarks within a proton or neutron, or even composite particles like two protons — you’ll be able to calculate the strength of all four of the fundamental forces between them. When you do those calculations for the strong and weak nuclear forces, the electromagnetic force, and gravity, you’ll discover something that may puzzle you: the force of gravity, particularly at small distances, is far, far weaker than any of the other forces. Inside a neutron, for example, the force of gravity is more than 30 orders of magnitude (a factor of ~1030) weaker than each of the other three fundamental forces.Why is that? Although nobody knows, one remarkable proposal put forth back in 1998 suggested that, perhaps, gravity is so weak because it, unlike the other forces, may be “bleeding” into extra dimensions at very small distances. That’s the scenario that Curtis “Ovid” Poe wants us to consider this week, asking:
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S55How Hurricanes Jova and Lee Rapidly Exploded into Category 5 Storms  Within days of each other, Hurricane Jova in the Pacific and Hurricane Lee in the Atlantic rapidly ballooned into Category 5 stormsOn Wednesday Tropical Storm Jova exploded into a major Category 5 hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Then, from Thursday to Friday, Hurricane Lee similarly rapidly grew in strength some 3,000 miles away, in the Atlantic.
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S37Look Up! A Newly Discovered Comet Could Be Visible to the Naked Eye This Week  Wake up, step outside in the predawn hours, and take your chance on seeing newly-discovered Comet Nishimura. You might witness something spectacularly fleeting.Nishimura is named after amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura, who discovered it just last month while taking 30-second exposures of the night sky with a digital camera. Comet Nishimura is a visitor from the Oort Cloud, a distant and frigid region of the Solar System. If Comet Nishimura ever traveled towards the Sun in the past, that would have been hundreds of years ago. But what makes the vibrant comet’s arrival even more special is that there’s always the risk this could be its last. Its cradle far away from the Sun means it’s made of icy material that could easily break apart as it approaches the star.
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