This year, our readers remained obsessed with self-driving and electric cars—and one of the most famous men making them. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c10101a58e5b62d2b29ef0a/master/pass/Web%20Social%20Art%20-%20Cars%20Elon%20Musk.jpg
Tag: Stories
War Stories: Serious Sam almost didn’t happen—until crates saved the day
Video shot by Nikola Mosettig and edited by Lee Manansala. Click here for transcript. Ars would also like to extend special thanks to Croteam members Davor Hunski and Damjan Mravunac, who were instrumental in helping this video project come together. Welcome to another edition of “War Stories,” where we coerce developers into talking about problems that […]
From rabid dog saliva to ‘Dr. Lipjob,’ these are the top B.C. health stories of 2018
The devastating overdose crisis remains the biggest and most important health story in B.C., but this has been a year that saw several major problems and controversies, as well as signs of progress, in the fields of health and medicine.
The Most-Read WIRED Science Stories of 2018
Feast your mind on stories about brain-eating amoebas, the science of wildfires, and a criminal twist to the genetics revolution. https://media.wired.com/photos/5be3712d72ce4c601115b2f8/master/pass/Karl_Friston_24349.jpg
The Most-Read WIRED Ideas Stories of 2018
Readers dived into a feminist reading of Elizabeth Holmes’ downfall, a story about Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system, and the perplexing case of a deadly yeast. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bae64ca6278de2d21234797/master/pass/kava_nah_1.jpg
New Blu-ray Releases: ‘Venom’, ‘2001’, ‘The Predator’, ‘Starman’, ‘True Stories’
(Welcome to Not Dead Yet, a feature dedicated to new Blu-ray releases and what special features you should be excited about. Because yes, some of us still like to own physical copies of our movies.) Welcome to the last Blu-ray review round-up of 2018. We did it, everyone! Congratulations! As we close out this hell-year, some […]
The Most-Read WIRED Gear Stories of 2018
A review of the Air Fryer, a three-month sojourn in Bing, and a user’s guide to how to disable throttling on an iPhone all topped this year’s list. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a74f8de3b11122906cc24fe/master/pass/TakeBackNewsfeed.jpg
Game of deception: How a fraudster who faked his stories for years got to be Germany’s top reporter
Germany has been rocked by a scandal involving one of the top reporters writing for the reputable Der Spiegel magazine, who turned out to be a fraudster. What made a fabulst into a star? Let’s look at some of his stories. Claas Relotius, the ‘brilliant reporter’-turned-fabricator, carved his way to pages of some of the […]
War Stories: Thief’s intuitive stealth system wasn’t intuitive to design
Video shot by Justin Wolfson, edited by Lee Manansala. Click here for transcript. Update: On November 30, 1998, gamers began to learn that being stealthy could be a viable strategy, too—that’s because game developers at Looking Glass released the landmark first-person sneaker, Thief: The Dark Project. As writer Richard Moss outlined in his history of […]
The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘True Stories,’ ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’
It’s one of those weeks where the new releases are more than a little dire, but that’s okay; you can catch up on some catalogue titles, including a pair of last minute views before FilmStruck slips away. ON NETFLIX The Game: Netflix’s regular top-of-the-month movie purge is surprisingly light in December – unless you’ve got […]
