Whether it’s producing a knockoff Louis Vuitton purse or a pair of Sennheiser CX300s, counterfeiters are taking advantage of this perfect storm. A decade ago, you had to visit Canal Street — or at the very least a flea market — to reliably hunt down such fakes, but in the age of e-commerce, they’re literally…
Month: December 2017
My Favorite Is Probably The Castle
2000Updating the original Myst with the latest technology, realMyst was released featuring realtime 3D graphics. This is the version of Myst that Cyan and the world-famous Miller brothers always wanted to make, but the technology wasn’t available at the time. Myst fans could now experience a fully immersive, dynamic world that they could wander through…
In Another Experiment, The Researchers Looked At Whether Ads Are Less Effective When Companies Disclose They’re Making Inferences About Their Users
Apple’s results this year will depend on the success of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, which were introduced in September last year. In a call with analysts in October, Mr. Cook said demand was outpacing supply, as features like new cameras and longer battery life made them the “best iPhones [Apple] ever made.” Disney…
If You Can’t Handle Real Blood Wine, PataQ, Try This One Out
https://twitter.com/mocowan66/status/644120571140247552 *Any submissions, photos, videos, or other material you share may be published on WIRED.com or WIRED’s social media feeds, and may be cropped or edited. The yield on 10-year German government bonds edged up to around minus-0.06%, according to Tradeweb. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.616% from 1.539% Wednesday. Yields…
You’ll See Guy Pearce As Aldrich Killian, From The “Extremis” Storyline By The Awesome Warren Ellis, And Ben Kingsley As The Mandarin
<a title="The Church Versus Vampires in Shadowlaw” href=”https://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/10/the-church-versus-vampires-in-shadowlaw/”>When I interviewed television and comic writer Brandon Easton in October about his upcoming graphic novel Shadowlaw, I was intrigued by his description of an alternate history where the Catholic Church has taken over control of the world, supposedly to bring everyone into the faith and protect it…
Stephenson Said There Is Also The Fear That Larger Organizations, Even Oil Companies, Could Enter The Market With Alternative Energy Technologies, Which Makes It More Difficult To Find Investors Who Are Gung-ho For Small Venture Startups
Powells‘ e-mail newsletter announced that 20 percent of the purchase price of any book bought at its online store before Sunday will be donated to East Coast disaster relief efforts. The Steve Jobs for U.S. President campaign didn’t fail because of a lack of interest. In fact, so many people rushed to the campaign website,…
Diapering Is Arguably The Most Important Decision Parents Could Make For The Environment And Their Young Children, Who Are In Diapers Around The Clock For Upward Of Two Years
But the Church of Scientology hired Prolexic, a company that specializes in protecting websites from DDOS attacks. Prolexic’s protection works by publicly substituting a Prolexic server for the attacked server, filtering out the bad traffic and passing the good traffic to the site’s real server. “You create a console game, you charge 50 or 60…
Google Has Added A New “Social Bar” To Its Repertoire Of Friend Connect Social Widgets For Your Website
According to VoxTec, the Phraselator is a “cost-effective means of bridging the cross-cultural communications divide.” Girl Model Sites Crossing Line? In his TED talk, Christian singled out collective learning as the thing that separates us from other species. Collective learning is the ability to share our knowledge beyond the life spans of any given human…
“We’ve Taken A Number Of Steps Which Should Be Pretty Effective” At Stemming The Attack, He Said
The idea behind Desktop Dungeons is simple – quick quests. But even when you can play a single quest in 15 minutes or less, you’re likely to find yourself saying Just one more. The dungeons are fun, the user interface allows for many variances in how a game is generated (and completed), and the leveling…
During The Trial, Prosecutor Mark Ellison Said Zainulabidin Told Police He Was Merely Offering To Train People Who Wanted To Work As Bodyguards
At UCSF, newly minted department head Anatol Kreitzer is trying to revamp the curriculum for neuroscience grad students. “Our curriculum is 30, 40 years old,” he says—it requires some statistics and lots of speciality neurobiology, but no coding. One of Kreitzer’s first actions as department head was to assemble a committee to figure out the…