This also offers a first peek at the Move's docking station, and reveals just how you'll charge after your audio adventures are over. In addition to the USB-C connection for on-the-go power, there will be dedicated contacts to hook into the charging station itself. You'll just have to click the Move into place to recover.Earlier…

You aren't about to see Starman drifting through the night sky, unfortunately. Earth is currently on the opposite side of the Sun, and the EV won't get vaguely close to Earth again until November 5th, 2020, when it'll be about 0.346AU (just under 32.2 million miles) away. It'll get much closer to Mars before then…

Now, to be clear, I'm not new to the world of synths. I own a few (including a couple of Volcas) and understand the principles at work. But I'm far more familiar with East Coast, or subtractive synthesis. This is the style of synthesis popularized by instrument makers like Moog, where a harmonically rich sound…

WUNCHANA SEUBWAI/Getty ImagesThe banana—or at least the fruit as we know it—is facing an existential crisis. A deadly fungus that has decimated banana plantations in southeast Asia for 30 years has finally done what scientists have long been fearing, and made its way to Latin America—the heart of the global banana export market.Wired UKThis story…

In the last few weeks a video of salmon being sent through a tube has become a viral meme.Deniz Toprak/Getty ImagesThe people of Twitter long to be salmon. They ache to join the migrating fish on a speedy, effortless journey over hills and through valleys. They yearn for the frictionless embrace of a soft, pressurized…

A person sitting at a computer—it was a mystical sight, once. Here was someone who could manipulate the magicbox, who could speak fluent machine. In that jewel of '82, the original Tron, one sentient bit of software says to another: “That's Tron. He fights for the users.” The users, we humans, were the almighty creator-gods…

In 2016, when he was 22 years old, Clément Castelli was cast in Les Marseillais, “the most famous TV show” in France, he tells me. The reality dating series drops a group of attractive young people in various cities, where they participate in an opulent pleasure riot once advertised as “pool parties, beaches, evenings in…

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Earlier this year, Carla Engelbrecht flew to Phoenix, sat on the couch in a stranger's living room, and observed the stranger watching—or possibly playing or experiencing—a movie-length installment of Black Mirror. In the film, called Bandersnatch, a young English programmer named Stefan tries to adapt a nonlinear fantasy novel into a nonlinear videogame, and the…

Pay attention to the structure. That's one of the first things they teach you when you start writing for television. If you want to tell a decent story, you have to be sure of its shape. You have to be deft and dexterous enough to thread together all the “beats” of the narrative, weaving character…