We’re in the home stretch to the TC Hackathon going down at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. If you have what it takes to compete against some of the best hackers,…

Unfortunately, that huge battery pack also translates into exceedingly long charging times. Even with a Level 2 (240V) charger, you're looking at a good 8 - 10 hours to fully replenish the system. However if you can get access to a Level 3 commercial charger, you can completely refill the Bollinger's batteries in just 75…

It wouldn't be Valve if there wasn't some sort of catch, though. As many predicted, Alyx doesn't pick up where Episode Two left off. Instead, it's a Half-Life 2 prequel, which means there's still no end in sight to the story that Valve was telling between 2004 and 2007.Like anyone who's been following this franchise…

The hub sits in the top nav on our homepage. It's design is pretty self-explanatory: You'll see featured deals up top, with a reverse-chronological feed after that showing the most recent posts first. What needs more explanation, I think, is our approach to curating these deals. Our team homes in on products we've reviewed or…

This week, we discuss the problematic launch of Google's Stadia cloud-based games service. Our senior editor and resident games expert Jessica Conditt joins us to share what she thought of the service, how it fares against Microsoft's Xcloud and what she thinks of streaming games in general. Also, as we head into Thanksgiving, it's time…

A few hours (yes, hours) after Musk left the stage, I was able to sit, very briefly, in the giant metal series of trapezoids cobbled together, known as the Cybertruck. It's a very early pre-production vehicle, but my first reaction was, "this is a very comfortable back seat." It was more comfortable than the pre-production…

I don't know what to think about Elon Musk anymore. I mean the SpaceX stuff is awesome, and the Tesla car has been pretty cool. But now we have the Tesla pickup truck, unveiled on Thursday. (Simone Giertz did it first!) The Tesla Cybertruck looks odd—one person likened it to a futuristic doorstop—but that's fine…

The protesters who gathered outside Google's San Francisco office on Friday had a single, simple demand: give two employees their jobs back, immediately. But the group of 200 Googlers made clear more was at stake. It was, as one software engineer put it, "a struggle for the future of tech."The two employees at the center…

A long time ago, in a small town far, far away, a young man named George Lucas had an idea for a story:A simple young farmboy gets a magic sword from an old wizard so he can defeat an evil knight, rescue a princess, and save the world.Actually Lucas wasn't the first person to have…

Happy Friday and welcome to this week's edition of Replay, WIRED's videogame news roundup. The week's biggest news is clearly the forthcoming reincarnation of gaming's biggest, most dead franchise. That's not all, though. Let's get to it.That Half-Life You Like Is Coming Back in Style in Valve's New VR ExclusiveRemember Half-Life? You probably do; the…