Need a cheap slate or ebook reader? These prices are some of the best we've seen outside of Prime Day.
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-kindle-fire-tablet-deals-september-2021

Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing
https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia

Developing AI is costly and time-consuming. Custom silicon can give companies an edge.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-tesla-designing-chips-train-self-driving-tech

TVs, smart bulbs, running socks, and more WIRED-Recommended products are discounted this weekend.
https://www.wired.com/story/best-labor-day-sales-2021-2

A new study shows how the Vietnam War–era initiative shaped a generation of star physician-researchers—and offers lessons that can be applie
https://www.wired.com/story/what-medical-researcher-training-can-learn-from-the-yellow-berets

TVs, smart bulbs, running socks, and more WIRED-Recommended products are discounted this weekend.
https://www.wired.com/story/best-labor-day-sales-2021-1

Need a new bed? Holidays are the best times to get a decent price. Here are our recommendations in all price ranges.
https://www.wired.com/story/best-labor-day-mattress-sales-deals-2021-1

Want to access Twitter and Google Chat in a single click? Here’s how to think outside the browser.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-turn-web-apps-into-desktop-apps-pwa

From everyday canvas sacks to rainstorm-ready sling packs, these one-strap wonders shoulder the burden.
https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-messenger-bags

DNA double-strand breaks are associated with cancer and aging. A new study shows neurons can use them to quickly express genes related to le
https://www.wired.com/story/to-learn-more-quickly-brain-cells-break-their-dna

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.
https://www.wired.com/story/misinformation-protests-pediatric-cases-coronavirus-news

The female characters who survive until the end of the film are the antidote to the movie's cycle of violence.
https://www.wired.com/2021/09/geeks-guide-final-girls

A sustained backlash against a new system to look for child sexual abuse materials on user devices has led the company to hit pause.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-icloud-photo-scan-csam-pause-backlash

#ADayOffTwitch and dozens of subreddit blackouts were organized separately, but together they show the potential power of collective action
https://www.wired.com/story/twitch-reddit-protests-may-only-be-beginning

Urban areas soak up the sun’s energy, dramatically raising temperatures. In the hurricane’s aftermath, Louisiana is sweltering without AC.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-orleans-was-already-a-heat-island-then-ida-cut-the-power

After a first attempt brought up an empty tube, the rover finally cored a sample.
https://www.wired.com/story/second-trys-a-charm-nasas-perseverance-drills-a-mars-rock

Hurricane Ida and California wildfires are two sides of the same coin: On a warmer planet, it’s getting harder to evacuate from extreme even
https://www.wired.com/story/fleeing-disaster-is-hard-climate-change-is-making-it-harder

We're working with TCL and CBS Sports to give away our top WIRED-recommended TV. (Open to the US only. See rules for details.)
https://www.wired.com/story/tcl-6-series-giveaway-2021

A new study finds that small groups of laypeople can match or surpass the work of professional fact checkers—and they can do it at scale.
https://www.wired.com/story/could-wisdom-of-crowds-help-fix-social-media-trust-problem

The Funimation-Crunchyroll deal represents a big shift for the industry and the latest twist in the streaming wars.
https://www.wired.com/story/funimation-crunchyroll-big-anime-era-is-here

The company’s new approach to political content acknowledges that engagement isn’t always the best way to measure what users value.
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-quietly-makes-big-admission-political-content

It could take weeks to get the lights on in parts of Louisiana, but the playbook on how to do it is clear.
https://www.wired.com/story/hurricane-ida-new-orleans-power-outage

A wild thought experiment by Jaron Lanier and physicist Stephon Alexander concerning gravitons, virtual reality, and Incan khipu.
https://www.wired.com/story/so-what-if-aliens-quantum-computers-explain-dark-energy

Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pi
https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel

The CDC and FDA are begging docs not to jump the gun on giving children the shot before clinical trials can establish the risk of side effec
https://www.wired.com/story/are-off-label-prescriptions-a-backdoor-to-giving-kids-covid-vaccines

Children and teens have been spared the worst of the pandemic, but without vaccines they’re sitting ducks as the virus rages. What risks are
https://www.wired.com/story/the-delta-variant-is-making-covid-a-pandemic-of-the-young

ASML’s next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can k
https://www.wired.com/story/asml-extreme-ultraviolet-lithography-chips-moores-law

Whether your company wants you back sooner or later, these tips will help you make the adjustment smoothly.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-prepare-return-to-office

There's always something you can do to improve your connection at home.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-make-your-wifi-better-faster

You don't have to be tied down to multiple costly services month after month.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-save-money-subscriptions-spotify-netflix-hulu-youtube

Plus: The T-Mobile hacker, another big bad Microsoft bug, and more of the week's top security news.
https://www.wired.com/story/icloud-photo-theft-nudes-t-mobile-security-news

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.
https://www.wired.com/story/vaccine-approval-boosters-mandates-coronavirus-news

More people in the hospital means more people need oxygen. But treatment plants also need the gas to purify water.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-floridas-covid-surge-is-screwing-with-the-water-supply

New figures from Google show a tenfold increase in the requests from law enforcement, which target anyone who happened to be in a given loca
https://www.wired.com/story/geofence-warrants-google

The undersea cables that connect much of the world would be hit especially hard by a coronal mass ejection.
https://www.wired.com/story/solar-storm-internet-apocalypse-undersea-cables

Requiring people to get their shots can stop Covid-19, but those rules have to be doable and equitable.
https://www.wired.com/story/vaccine-mandates-work-but-only-if-theyre-done-right

The 25-year-old Twitch star has built her life into the optimal internet content machine. Now she just wants to enjoy it.
https://www.wired.com/story/pokimane-has-done-enough-and-has-so-much-left-to-do

Researchers are coming around to the idea that there isn't a one-size-fits-all diet. Some companies are going further to find out what fits
https://www.wired.com/story/gut-health-personalized-nutrition

After another “zero-click” attack, security experts say it's time for more extreme measures to keep iMessage users safe.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-imessage-zero-click-hacks

Performers of sexually explicit content are relieved but still worried about their futures on the subscription site.
https://www.wired.com/story/onlyfans-reverse-porn-ban-creators

It’s a heart-stopping moment for health officials, who reported only a single case this year—and whose campaigns may end up paused.
https://www.wired.com/story/afghanistan-almost-beat-polio-now-the-future-is-uncertain

Cerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what's achievable today.
https://www.wired.com/story/cerebras-chip-cluster-neural-networks-ai

How the tech world’s unique brand of politics is shaping the fight over who governs California.
https://www.wired.com/story/gavin-newsom-recall-election-silicon-valley-elite

Perhaps, if we put bots together the right way, consciousness will simply emerge.
https://www.wired.com/story/can-robots-evolve-into-machines-of-loving-grace

The paste sticks onto wet tissue firmly by repelling blood. Surgeons hope it can save time—and lives.
https://www.wired.com/story/this-barnacle-inspired-glue-seals-bleeding-organs-in-seconds

Last week, Texas health care policymakers discussed taking vaccination status into account for Covid triage. It’s a larger conversation ethi
https://www.wired.com/story/would-it-be-fair-to-treat-vaccinated-covid-patients-first

Startups in Germany, China, Israel, and elsewhere are following the path blazed by GPT-3—with local twists.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-write-english-learning-other-languages

Pindrop, which makes software to identify synthetic audio, found three clips totaling 50 seconds in the nearly 2-hour movie.
https://www.wired.com/story/these-hidden-deepfakes-anthony-bourdain-movie

An experimental textile called metafabric is designed to cool down the wearer and reduce the need for air-conditioning.
https://www.wired.com/story/can-this-sun-reflecting-fabric-help-fight-climate-change

Researchers are turning to the mathematics of higher-order interactions to better model the complex connections within their data.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-big-data-carried-graph-theory-into-new-dimensions