VAIL VR Shares Community Driven Roadmap For 2023
Since the launch of the VAIL Alpha, AEXLAB has developed VAIL VR using the collective intelligence of its players. With VAIL VR’s community providing input every...
Davigo Pits PC Players Against VR With ‘Cross-Reality’ Battles
Flatscreen vs. VR, which side would win? That’s what Davigo hopes to find out. Developed for quite some time now by a three-person team, Davigo is...
This Was the Year That Electric Vehicles Took Off
It might finally be happening. For years now, technologists have promised that the age of the electric vehicle cometh. After false starts in the early 20th...
Amazon Has Conquered Christmas—but Its Reign May Be Ending
The problem with Amazon’s own-brand mince pies is that they’re delicious. For years, the ecommerce giant has stuck its fingers into every pie going—Amazon wind farms...
Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those of us as terminally online as...
The Year the NFT Died and Came Back to Life
The thread connecting most of these applications is the use of NFTs and economic incentive as the foundation for community-building. Even creators originally drawn to NFTs...
Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point
Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk bought Twitter and unleashed one chaotic decision after another, people...
The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from a company called Knack, where a person...
Tired, Filthy, and Overworked: Inside Amazon’s Holiday Rush
Eric Frumin, SOC’s health and safety director, says the data needed to know whether Amazon’s injury rate is worse during peak season is not available. “It’s...