Tag: Mathematics

It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.

One of the best things about video games is being able to experience things from a different person’s point of view. Even better is when you are given the opportunity to play out different scenarios from that person’s perspective. It allows you to not only learn about what the world can be like for another person, but to, in a small way, inhabit and experience it because of the agency that games can provide.

One Night, Hot Springs is a visual novel that does just this by having you experience a very specific moment in the…

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I could start this post by trying to write some eloquent thing about how life imitates art, and vice versa, but here’s the truth: what’s happening in 2018 feels increasingly unfathomable, and so I, like many others, have found comfort in drawing parallels to popular culture. Like the #resistance tweeters who tie red string between every new development in the horror show of modern day America and the world of Harry Potter, my new obsession is picking out all the similarities between Elon Musk’s ongoing fight with the SEC and the very good Showtime show Billions.

Spoilers for, let’s say, all three seasons of the very good Showtime show Billions ahead, even though I just started season three.

Billions revolves around two main characters….

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See how Apple’s new 2018 iPhones compare spec-by-spec with last year’s iPhone X.

The streaming space is about to get a lot more crowded. But at what cost?

We look at the latest happenings in the auto-world, and look back at WIRED’s greatest hits from a quarter century of chronicling the ever-molting world of transportation.

Urmila Mahadev became obsessed with a basic question in quantum computing: how do you know when the computer is cheating?

CK Vupleculae was discovered by a French monk in 1670, and it’s been puzzling scientists ever since.

Researchers have examined the youngest-ever specimen of tylosaur ever found. Like orcas, mosasaurs might have used their bony noses to strike prey.

New research shows that a versatile RNA molecule may be a key player in human cells’ frontline defenses against viruses.

Watching the movement of every cell in an adult animal all at once, researchers discovered ultra-fast cellular contractions. This research suggests a new role for cellular contractions in tissue cohesion, which could be the basis of a new material.