by crissly | Aug 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
However, as shooter veterans know, playing with a keyboard and mouse provides a considerable advantage in terms of aiming. So if you’re on a console, you can choose to turn off crossplay and stick to players on your own platform. PC players, on the other hand,...
by crissly | Aug 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Aeon magazine, Hales wrote, “Luck might not be a genuine quality of the world at all.” Fine. But neither is beauty or justice. At the same time, the Bloomsburg researchers discovered “a significant positive correlation” between people’s temperaments and how lucky...
by crissly | Aug 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Samsung officially introduced its repair kit program in the US this week. Now, anyone who owns one of the handful of Galaxy phones covered by the program can order the parts, tools, and instructions needed to fix their devices themselves.The company first announced...
by crissly | Aug 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Maybe Batgirl was always cursed. Joss Whedon abandoned the movie in 2018, a year after he took the helm, saying he “really didn’t have a...
by crissly | Aug 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
On its ascent to the coveted top spot in app store charts, BeReal—the French photo-sharing app launched in 2020—has been heralded as the antidote to social media fakery. Staving off canny staging and slick curation, BeReal gives users just two minutes following a...
by crissly | Aug 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
When news broke that Alex Jones’ attorney had royally, cartoonishly, breathtakingly crapped the bed, sending a copy of his phone and two years of text messages to the Sandy Hook families who are suing him, it put smiles on many faces. What better fate than to see the...
by crissly | Aug 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
On a particularly clear day, I ascended Lion’s Rock, an iconic peak in Kowloon which offers stunning vistas of Hong Kong to the intrepid hiker. In 2019, the grandiose cliff face was regularly draped in protest signs. Steadying myself against a tree trunk, I feel my...
by crissly | Aug 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the US government’s ongoing campaign to protect data in the age of quantum computers, a new and powerful attack that used a single traditional computer to completely break a fourth-round candidate highlights the risks involved in standardizing the next...
by crissly | Aug 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
I used to co-run a software company. My cofounder is Lebanese, so we built a team in Beirut with an office right on the Levantine Sea. Great software engineers over there, excellent front-end talent. But Lebanon has been going through it. And not just in the normal...
by crissly | Aug 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
The tendency of authoritarian regimes to learn from one another is of particular concern when combined with the prior threats from Libya. Libya, long a preferred jumping-off point for refugees and other migrants seeking to reach Europe from the Middle East and...
