I got to try one of these Futurelight jackets recently, and I can tell you firsthand that they are in fact pretty comfortable. More specifically, it was a jacket from the Flight Series, which is designed for long runs and intense trails. The first thing I noticed when I put it on is how lightweight…

During my very brief hands on time with the Neo and Duo, they both felt like premium devices. Opening and closing them, in particular, was very natural. The screens moved smoothly, but there was also a satisfying amount of resistance, especially when I twisted them into a laptop-like mode. Don't forget that Microsoft has been…

This isn't just an idea in search of customers. Anduril started shipping "dozens" of Interceptors to the US and UK earlier in 2019, Bloomberg noted, with hundreds of further units in the pipeline. Its newest contract will bring Interceptors to conflict areas, although the company declined to say where and with whom.For critics, this won't…

According to CNBC, Kuo suggested in an analyst note that the iPhone SE2 will retain the iPhone 8's 4.7-inch screen. The iPhone 11 has a 6.1-inch display. Many people who bought the iPhone SE did so because it packed the guts of an iPhone 6S into the smaller body of an iPhone 5-style design at…

According to the official spec sheet -- obtained by 9to5Google -- we're looking at a Snapdragon 855 processor, 6GB of RAM and up to a 90Hz display. Marked differences between the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are inevitably the screen size (5.7" vs 6.3") and battery (2800 mAh vs 3700 mAh). Both offer a…

The moon landscape was always the first Destiny game's best trick. While its sequel has moved more in the direction of space opera, the original had a foot firmly planted in retro-futurist space exploration aesthetics and the broad optimism that comes with them. Things might be bad in Destiny's far-flung future, and evil may lurk…

On August 12, an unidentified whistle-blower filed a complaint, addressed to the chairs of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, concerning the behavior of President Donald Trump. Ever since that report became public a week ago, Trump and his defenders have done their best to discredit both its contents and the author. But underneath the…

Facebook, which owns the eponymous social network (for posting text and photos), Instagram (for photo sharing), WhatsApp (for text messages), and Messenger (also text messages), has created yet another way to connect with your friends. It’s called Threads, a camera-first messaging app for chatting with the people in your inner circle.On its face, Threads looks…

Good day, and welcome to a new edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s culture news roundup. This week there’s a lot of attention being paid to the upcoming release of The Joker, but a few other noteworthy bits have happened as well. For one, Will Smith is on TikTok now. For another? Well, read on to…

Shakira Mabika moved to Cape Town, South Africa, from her native Zimbabwe to escape homophobia—the country's late president, Robert Mugabe, considered gay people "worse than dogs and pigs"—only to encounter similar prejudice, compounded by xenophobia, in Cape Town's Delft township. The South African Constitution provides strong protections for transgender people like Mabika, but on the…