LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Talks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson about the future of work, and finding jobs.
Red Bull set up the world’s largest step sequencer outside a Berlin nightclub
As part of Red Bull Music Academy’s 20th edition, the company has built the world’s largest step sequencer, and placed it outside of iconic Berlin club Tresor for anyone to try out.
Called the RBMA-20, the sequencer was designed and built by the Berlin-based creative studio Neulant van Exel, and took 30 technicians five weeks to assemble. Red Bull says it is the largest drum machine ever built and is fully functional. It’s physically massive, at about 33 feet long, 7.2 feet high, and weighs over 1,300 pounds.
Across the interface are 427 knobs and faders, four analog drum machines, a modular synthesizer, and a sampling unit. Red Bull hasn’t said much more abut what powers the RBMA-20, but musician Connor Crowe got a peek at what’s under…
Listen to an excerpt from John Scalzi’s next book, The Consuming Fire
In John Scalzi’s space opera novel The Collapsing Empire, he introduced a world where a vast, planetary empire grew throughout the galaxy by way of the Flow, a faster-than-light network that allows for interstellar trade. At the end of that book, the network was beginning to collapse, setting up a perilous situation for the next book in the series, The Consuming Fire, which is out next week.
The book will be out in hardcover and audio, and as is the case with most of Scalzi’s audiobooks, it’ll be narrated by Wil Wheaton. Audible provided us with an excerpt of the audiobook, in which two of the novel’s characters come face to face with a ghostly presence on a starship, one that highlights just how much a language can change over several…
One Night, Hot Springs uses social anxiety to explain what it’s like to be transgender in Japan
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…
Tracking Elon Musk’s SEC battle through the plot of good TV show Billions
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….
iPhone XS specs vs. XS Max, XR, X: What’s new and different – CNET
See how Apple’s new 2018 iPhones compare spec-by-spec with last year’s iPhone X.
You’re About to Drown in Streaming Subscriptions
The streaming space is about to get a lot more crowded. But at what cost?
This Week in the Future of Cars: Happy Birthday to Us
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.
A Grad Student Solved a Fundamental Quantum Computing Problem
Urmila Mahadev became obsessed with a basic question in quantum computing: how do you know when the computer is cheating?
A Space Mystery Tied Up in a Bow
CK Vupleculae was discovered by a French monk in 1670, and it’s been puzzling scientists ever since.