COMPUTING & GAMING

Today on WIRED     October 29, 2021 Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data By Matthew Hughes In May, Sean Malseed hauled the latest addition to his computer collection into his Philadelphia home. The bespectacled software developer and YouTuber had acquired a sought-after specimen: the PowerComputing PowerWave 604/150, a Macintosh clone sold over just five months between 1995 and 1996. "I turned it on and the first thing I saw on the desktop was a file called 'infectious diarrhoea'," he says.  Malseed had inadvertently acquired the former workstation of a medical scientist. With its contents fully intact, the hard drive provided a candid insight into the former owner's life. "I poked around a...

Today on WIRED     October 28, 2021 The ultimate WIRED Christmas gift guide for 2021 By Adam Speight and Emily Peck Do your parents start gift shopping in July? Does your grandmother order her turkey a full season before she'll eat it? Well, this year we're bringing you Early Christmas Energy. Between the supply chain issues and stock of salad never mind stocking fillers running out, the consensus is: shop early.    That doesn't mean you should forget to shop smart, though. There's nothing more expensive than bad taste so, just for you, we've picked out the WIRED team's finest, most thoughtful gift ideas from under £50 to a handful of downright extravagant money-no-object selections. We'll be adding t...