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“It is a very, very challenging and complex problem to try to mitigate the harmful effects of all that disinformation. And I cannot think of a worse time for Elon Musk to cut off Twitter's resources at the knees.” Via
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The names of laptops now look more like complex algebraic equations than product names, but don't worry. We're here to help.
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“Similar to how you might program a computer, we can tinker with the DNA of bacteria and have them do things like produce a drug at the right time and the right place, or in this case, break down a toxic metabolite.”
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What's really going on with the mysterious "No-vid"?
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One man’s battle to reclaim his face shows regulators across the bloc are failing to reprimand the US face search engine. Via
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The world’s richest man is perhaps now its busiest.
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This second installment reveals, among other things, how cryptocurrency tracing techniques created by both the FBI and Chainalysis cracked the case of the biggest dark web drug market ever. For your weekend reading!
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In part 2 of our series, a tip leads investigators hunting the creator of the biggest-ever dark web drug market, AlphaBay, to a Lamborghini-driving eccentric in Bangkok. But confirming that theory requires inventing a new arsenal of crypto-tracing tricks. wired.com/story/alphabay
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This guide covers the best iPads available right now, what’s coming up, the important differences between models, and the old models that exist (including the ones you shouldn’t buy at any price).
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We know you're great, but these services—from fun templates to impressive online hosting—will make sure potential employers know just how great you are, too: wired.com/story/9-apps-s
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No human-made disaster—climate change, hunger, nuclear war—can rival the total destruction of a black hole, but we’re trying our damnedest.
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Elon Musk plans to fast-track a product to monetize adult content on Twitter. But choosing to expand adult content at a moment of heightened scrutiny surrounding sex work and queer people is risky.
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As early as 2010, studies indicated that a quarter of children had an online presence before their birth, curated by expectant parents—and regrettably, the exploitation of child entertainers is far from being a shameful relic of the past:
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Even in today's tech-saturated world of convenience, being able to carry around a whole library in your bag is pretty awesome. Here are our favorite Kindles.
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Bike commuting is a great workout and eco-friendly, but it often means showing up to work sweaty. Ebikes can help solve this age-old commuter's dilemma.
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Do you know how you get internet? Cables thousands of miles long like the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 internet cable that travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor. Cables that can be severed: wired.com/story/submarin
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Comic-Con wouldn't be Comic-Con without cosplay. WIRED asked photographer Daniel Gonçalves to attend the convention and look for cosplayers with some of the most creative masks around. He found some great ones—and a few that didn’t have masks.
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Here's the scoop—the cold war between a startup and a soft-serve machine manufacturer is heating up, thanks to a newly released trove of internal emails. (From 2021)
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Total Candy Haul = Acres × (Residential buildings per acre) × (Families per building) × (Share of candy-giving families) × (Candy pieces per family) (From 2018)
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The true American aphorism isn't, "The harder I work, the luckier I get." Instead, it should be, "The luckier I get the harder I pretend to work."
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“Few technologists show up to work every day thinking about the harms technology may create. This course is an invitation to embrace the agency you already have.”
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WIRED's policy is that staff may not accept gifts of over $30. So how did our writer end up with $1,112,172,834?
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Emotionally meaningful stories are more fun and pleasurable to engage with than objectively true ones. When you start confusing which is which, though, that's when things can get messy.
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We all know that each of Wile E. Coyote's tactics are backed by deep scientific research. So let's nerd out and break down the physics of that massive electromagnet.
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If you rely on Amazon's reviews to know the quality of a product, you may be getting scammed. Seedy networks are using social media campaigns to influence product ratings. They're a headache for shoppers—and tough to crack down on: wired.com/story/fake-ama
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If you're intrigued and have the cash, the long-awaited folding phone can be functional and fun.
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“A new ecosystem such as the one growing in Lisbon is fascinating to experience firsthand.”
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With a little effort, you can finagle a few extra features without paying. Here's how:
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Easy pairing USB-C dongle. Compatible with PC, PlayStation, Switch, and mobile phones. 30-hour battery life.
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Slightly cumbersome cable for USB-A ports. Sonar software adds way too many audio devices. Mic quality is meh.
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Dogs can sleep up to 12 hours a day. So, give them a snazzy place snooze.
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Feelings aren’t just linked to the memory; they are part of it: The brain assigns an emotional “valence” to information as it encodes it, locking in experiences as good or bad memories. And now we know how the brain does it: wired.com/story/this-bra
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These pieces are fashionable and functional, and your cat might like them (or the box they came in).
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Abstinence-only policies don’t work for anything else, and they won’t work for Twitter, but harm reduction is worth seriously considering.
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Here are the ways you can make sure your most important files are stored locally, using any of the popular cloud storage services.
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We asked experimental physicist to explain the concept of quantum sensing to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert.
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