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Apr 19, 2019 • 2min
Foldable Phones Are Here, Microsoft Emails Got Hacked, and More News
Tech news you can use, in two minutes or less: The first foldable phone is here OK, so it might look like twin beds in a hotel room, but Samsung has actually come out with a phone that fully bends: the aptly-named Galaxy Fold. It goes on sale April 26, and while it's not the first foldable phone concept, you can actually get your hands on this one. Get ready to blow your friends' minds—if you have $1,980 to spend.

Apr 18, 2019 • 2min
Wired’s Most Interesting Thing in Tech 4/18/19

Apr 18, 2019 • 4min
Fortnite Now Has Reboot Vans to Respawn Your Dead Teammates
Greetings, and welcome to another installment of Replay, WIRED's look at everything happening in the world of videogames. This week we've got news about Fortnite, PlayStation IDs, and the coolest fighting game moment ever. Let's get going! You Can Finally Change Your PlayStation Network ID, But You May Not Want To PlayStation has finally, after much ado, launched a feature allowing players to change their online ID in the PlayStation Network service.

Apr 17, 2019 • 2min
Wired’s Most Interesting Thing in Tech 4/17/19

Apr 17, 2019 • 7min
Review: Somnox
Let’s get this out of the way: I am sleeping with a robot. (No, not like that, you sicko.) I hold it in my arms each night and feel its chest rise and fall against mine. Without arms to hold me back, it is forever my little spoon. Without a voice to bid me sweet dreams, it simply sits there, purring against me. The robot with which I sleep is called the Somnox.

Apr 16, 2019 • 2min
Game of Thrones Returns, a New Star Wars Trailer, and More
Tech news you can use, in two minutes or less: Winter is coming It's true: The final season of Game of Thrones begins this Sunday. We collected the biggest GoT fans in the office to chat about their hopes and dreams for the future of Westeros. Haven't caught up on the show? We recommend binge-watching it backward. Disney+ is ready to take over the world Disney's long-discussed streaming service, Disney+, will launch November 12. What's the deal, you ask? It will be $6.

Apr 12, 2019 • 3min
Wired’s Most Interesting Thing in Tech 4/12/19

Apr 12, 2019 • 8min
The Perplexing Physics of Imaging a Black Hole
It's a big day for astronomy (and all humans, really). The first image of a black hole has been released. It was created using the Event Horizon Telescope—a collaboration of radio telescopes around the world. This image shows the material around a super massive blackhole in the center of a galaxy some 55 million light-years away. Yes, there is a ton of cool physics here, involving the crazy gravitational things that happen in extreme cases like a black hole.

Apr 11, 2019 • 3min
Wired’s Most Interesting Thing in Tech 4/11/19

Apr 9, 2019 • 2min