WIREDTransportation Audi Recall, Shifting Alliances, and More Car News This WeekWIRED - Aarian Marshall If you’re not making adjustments, you’re not learning, right? Isn’t that the reason every tech conference echoes with the word “iteration”? This …
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WIREDTechnology 23 Last-Minute Father's Day Gifts on Sale NowWIRED - Adrienne So So you forgot that Father's Day is this Sunday, June 16. You have two options: First, you can cross your fingers and hope that your dad has forgotten …
WIREDNew York State New York City Flexes Again, Extending Cap on Uber and LyftWIRED - Aarian Marshall In many ways, New York stands apart from other American cities. It’s got yellow cabs and Broadway and these goofy things called boroughs. It has a …
WIREDGear & Gadgets Cloud Gaming, Halo, Keanu, and the Biggest News From E3WIRED - WIRED Staff This week was E3, the trade show where the biggest names in gaming debut their latest shiny products and software. On this week’s Gadget Lab podcast, …
WIREDCybersecurity Cellebrite Now Says It Can Unlock Any iPhone for CopsWIRED - Andy Greenberg Not so long ago, companies that cracked personal devices on behalf of governments did so in secret, closely guarding even the descriptions of their …
WIREDGabriele Grunewald Hackers Target US Power, Amazon Clones a Neighborhood, and More NewsWIRED - Alex Baker-Whitcomb Amazon cloned an entire neighborhood, a dangerous hacker group takes aim at the US electrical grid, and the world remembers a running great. Here's …
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WIREDGabriele Grunewald Remembering Gabriele Grunewald, Who Ran For Herself and OthersWIRED - Nicholas Thompson The image is hard to look at now without crying: a thick red scar, carved across Gabriele Grunewald’s midriff as she flies around the track. At first …
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WIREDCulture Female Representation in Videogames Isn't Getting Any BetterWIRED - Anita Sarkeesian and Carolyn Petit Four years ago, when the videogame industry gathered in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo of 2015, many felt as if change was in the …
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WIREDScience YouTube Testimonials Lure Patients to Shady Stem Cell ClinicsWIRED - Megan Molteni Punch “stem cells” into YouTube and your first hit looks like something from a seventh-grade biology textbook. Number two features a Duke sports …
WIREDNorthern California Blame Utilities for Wildfires. But Blame Everyone Else TooWIRED - Matt Simon It’s hard to feel sorry for the California utility PG&E, considering that officials blamed its equipment for starting nearly every major fire in the …
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WIREDNintendo Switch The Best E3 Game Sales and PreordersWIRED - Jess Grey E3 is ending. It's burning down to its embers. The big announcements, press conferences, trailers, and hands-on gameplay previews have come and gone. …
WIREDCybersecurity The Highly Dangerous 'Triton' Hackers Have Probed the US GridWIRED - Andy Greenberg On the scale of security threats, hackers scanning potential targets for vulnerabilities might seem to rank rather low. But when it's the same …
WIREDCulture Why You Can't Look Away From #CursedImagesWIRED - Emma Grey Ellis A baby grinning at a meat grinder as pulverized flesh extrudes into a bowl. A slice of pizza in a pot of boiling water. A toilet, barely visible, …
WIREDKevin Durant How Kevin Durant Got Hurt, Why Coffee May Soon Be Gone, and More NewsWIRED - Alex Baker-Whitcomb We talked to medical experts about what really happened with Kevin Durant's Achilles tendon, we learned what foods you can kiss goodbye thanks to …
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