Stripe Discriminates Against Witches
Photo-Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images
Payment processing companies decide who is empowered to buy and sell online—and their policies show a gross misunderstanding of metaphysical practitioners.
When I decided to start offering tarot readings, selling them...
Hasbro Reveals Nerf LMTD Halo Needler Gun
Hasbro has unveiled a Nerf version of the Needler gun from the Halo games franchise, open for preorder now.
If you’re a Halo fan (or not), you will be interested in Hasbro’s latest announcement. After...
‘My Body Is Used to Design Military Tech’
Photo-Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images
The prosthetics industry and military have a long history that doesn’t serve most people with limb differences. It’s time for a justice-oriented approach.
My left arm extends all the way up...
The Future Is Bleak. Pondering Pangaea Gives Me Hope
In 200 million years, our far-flung continents may join up again. It reminds us of humans' tiny place in this intergalactic drama.
Illustration: YUKAI DU
The human passion for gouging burnable stuff out of the earth...
Sony Playstation 5 Overtakes Nintendo Switch As Best-Selling Console
PlayStation 5 sales figures from September have let Sony reclaim its top spot from the Nintendo Switch as the world’s best-selling console.
Earlier this week, NPD analyst, Mat Piscatella, tweeted an analysis of sales volumes...
Apple Finally Remembered What Makes Laptops Great
Welcome back ports and MagSafe; so long Touch Bar.Photograph: Apple
To build a MacBook Pro for the future, the company has gone back to what worked in the past.
For six years, Apple has chiseled features...
Jett: The Far Shore Imagines Conscientious Space Colonization
WIRED spoke with the game's devs, plus a senior NASA astrobiologist, about the game and its vision of interstellar environmentalism.
Courtesy of Superbrothers A/V Inc.
Ahead of you is a vast pink sky and a teeming...
He Charted Marvel’s Massive Story—and Revealed an Epic
Photograph: Anton Ivanov/Alamy
For his new book, Douglas Wolk read more than 27,000 comic books. What he found was one single coherent saga: the Uncanny American Novel.
A longtime comics reader gets good at dealing with...
Is It OK to Torment Non-Player Characters in Video Games?
WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on the Iliad, asteroid mining, and unlikely heroes.
Illustration: Jon Han
SUPPORT REQUEST: I’m playing a sim-style game, and the non-player characters that you deploy have particular skills, weaknesses, likes, and dislikes....
Amazon’s Astro Is a Robot Without a Cause
Photograph: Collin Hughes/Amazon
It’s the company’s first foray into mobile robots for the home, and likely not its last.
What do you get when you mix Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant with an Echo Show tablet, give...
