Since childhood, Fernand Okouo has been a fashion enthusiast, but for years her love remained restricted to selling and buying vintage clothing at markets in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo. The country’s famed, cultlike sapeurism fashion, rooted in its French colonial history, had remained closed to women for 90 years. Then, […]
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Sleep no more: Threads is coming to Blu-ray
Enlarge / It’s grim up north. (credit: BBC) If life feels a little too joyful, if you’re looking to spend a couple of hours drenched in unrelenting misery, and if you want a film experience that will haunt you for literally years to come, I have some great news. The 1984 BBC telemovie Threads is […]
Twitter’s Newest Feature: Multi-Tweet Threads
You can now compose your tweetstorms all at once, and send them out into the world as one contained screed. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a2f2da581cb141366fdcd83/master/pass/twitter-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
Bolt Threads’ New Hat Shows the Promise of Synthetic Spider Silk
The $ 198 Cap of Courage weaves together ultra-soft Rambouillet wool and synthetic spider silk. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a287c409b5b795064480f21/master/pass/spidersilk-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
Intel unveils X-series platform: up to 18 cores and 36 threads, from $242 to $2,000
Intel AMD announced its new high-end desktop (HEDT) platform, the 16 core 32 thread ThreadRipper a couple of weeks ago. At Computex in Taipei, it’s Intel’s turn to update its HEDT platform, and it’s one-upping AMD in the process. The Intel platform, consisting of the new X299 chipset and new X-series processors, will go all […]
AMD’s Zen goes mainstream with Ryzen 5: 4 cores, 8 threads, from $169
The first chips with AMD’s new Zen architecture were the high-end, enthusiast-oriented Ryzen 7 parts. It’s now the mainstream’s turn, with AMD announcing Ryzen 5. There are four Ryzen 5 parts launching on April 11. At the top end is the R5 1600X: 6 cores, 12 threads, with a base of 3.6GHz and a turbo […]
#DressLikeAWoman: Internet threads holes in Trump’s ‘sexist’ comments
Men and women across the internet have fired back at reports that US President Donald Trump prefers his female colleagues to “dress like women,” giving the former beauty contest owner a lesson in exactly how women dress. From army vets to heart surgeons and scientists, social media has hit back at the president’s out-of-touch comments. […]