Forgive baristas. You’d be a little emo, too, if the irreducible unit of your job involved juggling variables including not only the choice of coffee bean and how long it was roasted, but also water pressure, water temperature, total coffee mass, size of individual coffee grains (ranging from 100 to 200 μm—that’s grind setting), and…

Love Island—the reality show stuffed with six-packs, sunscreen, fake tans, and pearly white teeth—is back!Wired UKThis story originally appeared on WIRED UK.The series, which returned to screens for a winter edition last Sunday, has been a smash hit, crossing international borders and being referenced on other shows including Orange is the New Black and Euphoria.But…

I'm terrified of my body. The fat buildup on my abdomen. My tiny arms. I've always hated having to focus on it and especially hated interrogating its internal functions. Doctors scare me for this reason. I assume my body is trying to kill me; looking inside seems like excessive punishment. I've long searched for ways…

Whenever Courtney Cirone grabs her iPad, her cat Cooper runs over as though a bag of treats had just been shaken. He wants to watch YouTube, specifically videos of squirrels and tiny birds scurrying about. “His eyes get super big, and he moves his head back and forth following the animals,” Cirone says. “He ducks…

As innovative political tactics go, “Tell your friends” does not sound quite cutting edge. And yet, as the 2020 election lurches into gear, there may be no hotter trend in the campaign tech world than “relational organizing”: apps that help leverage good old-fashioned word of mouth—and the contact list on your smartphone—to drive turnout.These platforms,…

Wednesday, January 22, 2020. By Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, with cartooncollections.com. Sharing a social media account with your spouse might not be as weird or obnoxious as it sounds. Tuesday, January 21, 2020. By Pat Byrnes, with cartooncollections.com. With the entertainment startup Quibi, Hollywood bets on a future of quick clips and tiny screens. Monday, January…

By her mid-20s, Faith Day was out of jail but homeless. She was also addicted to a substance now too legally compromising to name. When she tried to quit, she couldn’t afford the medication to manage the withdrawal symptoms. She looked to the internet for answers. News about a plant called kratom kept popping up…

What began in mid-December as a mysterious cluster of respiratory illnesses in China has now killed nine people, sickened hundreds more, and spread to five other countries, including the US. On Tuesday, American health officials confirmed the nation’s first case of the novel coronavirus: a Washington man hospitalized outside of Seattle last week with pneumonia-like…

International Business Machines is living a case study of a large, established company vying to transform. Over the last decade, the technology elder has struggled to move into areas like…

Startup productivity tools have never been better, but that’s led to employees being more passionate than ever about the tools that they want to use themselves. PMs don’t want to…