The Tech Wardrobe

Teddy Roosevelt Is Basically a Fantasy Character : Erin Lindsey’s Rose Gallagher books are an appealing mix of mystery, romance, history, and the supernatural. A major character in the series is a young adventurer named Teddy Roosevelt, who will go on to become America’s 26th president. “Of all …

13 Piping-Hot Gift Ideas for Coffee Lovers (2020) : I love coffee. I spend more time making coffee each morning than most people do making breakfast. For those of us who’ve become obsessed, it’s no longer a habit. It’s a ritual. It’s a ceremony. It involves fire, water, air, …

The Ascent of Elliot Page : The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. All I want to do this week is write about Elliot Page. It’s also the last thing …

Apple’s Covid Response Was Extremely…Apple : That set a pattern for a dynamic dance of opening and closing, based on a formula the company developed. “When we reopen our stores, we look at the virus rates in each one of the local communities that we operate …

5 Toothbrush Sanitizers Reviewed: LockNLock, Avari, Puresonic, Sarmocare, Seago : I’m going to be blunt. There is airborne feces in your bathroom, and it’s landing on your toothbrush. You are brushing your teeth with poo particles, and the closer your toilet is to your sink, the worse it is. If …

13 Piping-Hot Gift Ideas for Coffee Lovers (2020) : I love coffee. I spend more time making coffee each morning than most people do making breakfast. For those of us who’ve become obsessed, it’s no longer a habit. It’s a ritual. It’s a ceremony. It involves fire, water, air, …

For the Second Time Ever, an Asteroid Sample Returns to Earth : Early on Sunday morning, the skies above a secluded military complex in central Australia will be brightened by a fireball plummeting to Earth. It will be a flamboyant homecoming for the sample return capsule from Hayabusa2, a Japanese spacecraft launched …

How The Tumult of 2020 Will Shape the Future of Ride Sharing : Uber and Lyft had it pretty good in the beginning. The companies could roll out their services to new cities, entice a bunch of drivers and riders to their platform, and “disrupt” transit before regulators were able to stop them. …

A Member of the ‘Squad’ Takes on Cryptocurrency : Last year, when Facebook officials were hauled in front of Congress to defend their plans for a cryptocurrency called Libra, they arrived with a pitch about financial inclusion. With Libra, people anywhere in the world would have access to a …

The Future of Work: ‘Collaborative Configurations of Minds’ by Lettie Prell : “No longer were we merely the created machine called Artificial Intelligence. We became Alternative Intelligence.” www.wired.com