1 hour ago Yang Tianand Hafsa Khalil Watch: Explosions rock Kyiv after overnight Russian strikes Russia and Ukraine launched overnight drone strikes against each other as the US confirmed American officials were set to meet Russian representatives in Abu Dhabi as part of efforts to end the war. Officials in Kyiv said at least six…
Photograph: Pete Cottell Others Tested Four Sigmatic Organic Coffee for $20: Four Sigmatic was founded about a decade ago by Finnish-American bohos who had the prescience to market mushroom coffee to woo-woo Angelenos who are rich enough to disregard science. Its catalog is expansive and includes a whole constellation of mushroom-infused ingestibles, with bagged, preground…
Michael Calore: OK. There’s a lot of lingo. Boone Ashworth: I had a lot of coffee today, and that actually really helped. Manisha Krishnan: It did calm me down a little bit, but, yeah, I was honestly struggling to follow his instruction because of the jargon he was using. Michael Calore: Yeah. So the lift-out…
We’ve long been sweet on the Swedes at Teenage Engineering, who make all manner of synthesizers, rhythm boxes, and other wizardly audio trinkets, all with a drool-inducing design aesthetic. This latest entry pays homage to the classic sounds of roots reggae and dancehall music from 1970s and ’80s Jamaica. The Riddim comes loaded with hundreds…
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Cereal farming produced excess food that could be stored and taxed LUIS MONTANYA/MARTA MONTANYA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The cultivation of cereal grains probably led to the emergence of the first states – which operated mafia-like protection rackets − and to the adoption of writing for the purposes of recording taxes. There is wide debate over how…
The wiring of our neurons changes with the passing decades Alexa Mousley, University of Cambridge Our brain function is far from static throughout our lives. We already know that our capacity to learn, and our risk of cognitive decline, varies from when we are a newborn through to our 90s. Now, scientists may have uncovered…
“It’s a PR campaign, obviously,” claims Joshua Naftalis, a former prosecutor, now a partner at law firm Pallas Partners. “It’s a no stone left unturned strategy.” To date, Bankman-Fried has not filed a formal pardon application, a White House spokesperson tells WIRED. “We do not discuss speculation about sensitive issues, such as pardons, on-record,” the…
Tanzania has cancelled next month’s independence day celebrations, with the funds to be instead spent on rebuilding infrastructure damaged in recent election unrest, Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has said. His announcement comes as the opposition and others have been calling for people to gather on independence day – 9 December – to demonstrate about killings…
LG makes some of the best TVs you can buy. Its OLED TVs in particular are perennial favorites at WIRED, with C-series models like the C4 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) providing among the best performance for your dollars on the market. LG is about way more than TVs of course. The Korean brand offers multiple products…