Despite its familiar looks, the new Mini Cooper has just undergone its biggest update this century. The ionic headlights, white roof, and city-friendly dimensions remain, as they have throughout BMW’s two decades at the helm of the Mini brand. But under that familiar skin, it’s all-new. For starters, the 2024 Mini Cooper sits on a… Continue reading Mini Cooper SE Review: Price, Specs, Availability
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The 12 Games We’re Still Most Looking Forward to in 2024 (and Beyond)
In 2023, it felt like the new hit games were just never going to stop coming. In a way, they didn’t. Midway through 2024 we’re still excited for new titles. From sequels like Hades II to interesting new titles like The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, here are the games we’re most excited about… Continue reading The 12 Games We’re Still Most Looking Forward to in 2024 (and Beyond)
Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win
On August 27, 1960, at the Olympics in Rome, one of the most controversial gold medals was awarded. At the 100-meter freestyle men’s swimming event, Australian swimmer John Devitt and American Lance Larson both recorded the same finish time of 55.2 seconds. Only Devitt walked away with the gold medal. The way swimming was timed… Continue reading Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win
Dyson Has New Headphones That Don’t Cover Your Mouth This Time
Dyson has announced its second pair of over-the-ear headphones—and its first that doesn’t look like a high-tech gimp mask. Dyson calls the new cans OnTrac. which is not to be confused with the shipping company of the same name and spelling. Unlike the Dyson Zone headphones before them, the OnTrac headphones are not connected to… Continue reading Dyson Has New Headphones That Don’t Cover Your Mouth This Time
Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
The security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused mayhem around the world on Friday after deploying a faulty software update to the company’s Falcon monitoring platform that bricked Windows computers running the product. Fallout from the incident will take days to resolve, and the company is warning that, as system administrators and IT staff work on remediation,… Continue reading Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
The Global CrowdStrike Outage Triggered a Surprise Return to Cash
On Friday, when a CrowdStrike update caused millions of Microsoft systems to crash around the world, many businesses were faced with a choice: Go cash-only or close until systems came back online. This quickly caused chaos in Australia, whose government has explicitly encouraged businesses to go cashless. Pictures posted on social media showed card-only self-checkout… Continue reading The Global CrowdStrike Outage Triggered a Surprise Return to Cash
The Global IT Outage Sends Hospitals Reeling
It was half past midnight Eastern Time when Andrew Rosenberg, an anesthesiologist and critical care doctor who works as chief information officer at Michigan Medicine, suddenly noticed that a substantial number of computers across the health care center had ceased to function. In the hospital’s parlance, it counted as a “catastrophic major incident.” “We do… Continue reading The Global IT Outage Sends Hospitals Reeling
The Inevitability of Big Tech Backing Trump
It is true just about everywhere, but especially in America: Real power is having control over the flow of resources. Property. Money. Information. If you command the levers of production—who gets what, when, and how—you dictate what the future holds, and who gets a say in it. Or in this case, you get to decide… Continue reading The Inevitability of Big Tech Backing Trump
Live and Direct: The Best Prime Day Deals of 2024
As the proverb goes, give someone a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach them to fish, and they’ll never have to leave a ball in the drink again (or something like that). This Callaway ball retriever reminds me of my high school golf days when my friends and I would spend hours… Continue reading Live and Direct: The Best Prime Day Deals of 2024
The 5 Best Prime Day 2024 TV Deals Curated By WIRED’s A/V Experts
Summer has arrived in full force and you know what that means: rad deals on some of the best TVs you can buy, of course! We’re seeing Amazon Prime Day deals on TV models across the full spectrum of sets, including major price dives on last year’s best and brightest. Amazon’s two-day sales event ups… Continue reading The 5 Best Prime Day 2024 TV Deals Curated By WIRED’s A/V Experts