One possibility is a Nest Mini smart speaker that would replace the Home Mini. It's believed to be visually similar to the outgoing model, but would pack requested features like an audio output jack and a wall mount. Other device updates are less certain, although we'd note that the original Home speaker is nearly three…

At its best, Apple Arcade will encourage developers to cut loose and get weird. Take Sneaky Sasquatch from RAC7: You play as the aforementioned Bigfoot wandering around a forest and stealing food from campers picnic baskets. All the while, you're avoiding the nefarious park ranger, Yogi Bear-style. While it looks like an Animal Crossing-inspired title…

There's hardly any surprise with the NEX 3 5G's appearance, as Vivo had already been showing it off since late August. The idea behind that 6.89-inch "Waterfall FullView Display" is to push the screen-to-body ratio up to 99.6 percent, thus further reducing the bezel. Indeed, if you're facing the screen directly, the bezel on the…

All three sites might also be linked to one man, David Azzato. While the Swiss businessman has denied running any sites in the US and claimed to have cut ties with Eros and Rubmaps, investigators believe he's still involved based on evidence. While Rubmaps changed from a .com address to .ch after the Backpage shutdown,…

Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED's collection of all things pop culture. Today we’re celebrating J.J. Abrams' huge deal with WarnerMedia and mourning the death of MoviePass. Join us, won’t you?The Cast for The Suicide Squad Is Insane—NaturallyDirector James Gunn tweeted the cast for his forthcoming movie The Suicide Squad…

Fall television isn't what it used to be. In the olden days, couch potatoes would eagerly await the autumn because it meant tons of new shows hitting the airwaves, along with the return of old faves. Now, with streaming services popping up everywhere, that doesn't happen so much any more. Every season is a new…

It’s been clear for some time now that smartphone manufacturers don’t care much for the venerable 3.5-mm headphone jack. The iPhone ditched it in 2016, with other flagship phones gradually following suit. In some ways it makes sense; removing the headphone jack makes room for a bigger battery or new components, and the world has…

Edward Snowden, arguably the world’s most famous whistle-blower, is a man who lived behind plenty of pseudonyms before putting his true name to his truth-telling: When he was first communicating with the journalists who would reveal his top-secret NSA leaks, he used the names Citizenfour, Cincinnatus, and Verax—Latin for “truthful” and a knowing allusion to…

A few years ago, Joelle Pineau, a computer science professor at McGill, was helping her students design a new algorithm when they fell into a rut. Her lab studies reinforcement learning, a type of artificial intelligence that’s used, among other things, to help virtual characters (“half cheetah” and “ant” are popular) teach themselves how to…

Every good love story has a moment in which the precious ingénue, blind to the complexities of the world, misinterprets the lover's move. Sally mistakes Harry's interest for friendship. Romeo, believing Juliet to be dead, poisons himself. The folly of love is not so much about what we do when we are flooded with feelings,…