Was This Poker Player's Luck Too Good to Be True?

On this week’s Get WIRED podcast, features editor Mark Robinson talks to writer Brendan Koerner about an unconventional poker player and the woman who called him out.

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Ride-Hail Companies Are Making Life Harder for Scooters

Officials in many cities feel they couldn't rein in Uber and Lyft. Now, they're being stricter with other innovative forms of transportation.

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All the Social Media Giants Are Becoming the Same

Which major platform has a news feed, disappearing posts, private messaging, and a live broadcasting feature? That would be … all of them.

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The Race To Crack Battery Recycling—Before It’s Too Late

Millions of EVs will soon hit the road, but the world isn’t ready for their old batteries. A crop of startups wants to crack this billion-dollar problem.

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The Future of Work: ‘The Long Tail’ by Aliette de Bodard

“Everyone onboard the scavenging habitat knew there was no correlation between the unreality and what lay underneath.”

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This Great Electric Bike Is $200 Off for Cyber Monday

You can get a discount on some great electric bikes right now—plus accessories!

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The Best Black Friday Deals If You Work From Home

Standing desks, monitors, keyboards—pad out your home office with this discounted gear.

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The Best Cyber Monday Phone, Tablet, and Watch Deals

We found discounts on Samsung Galaxy phones, Google Pixels, Apple Watches, iPads, and some great accessories.

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VCs Are Pouring Money Into the Wrong Education Startups

The pandemic has proven the need for new technologies that can radically change online learning models. But investors are more interested in existing platforms.

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Geometry Reveals How the World Is Made of Cubes

An exercise in pure mathematics has led to a wide-ranging theory that unites Plato with geophysics.

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The 7 Best Cyber Monday Deals on Camera Gear and Accessories

Mirrorless cameras, smartphone lenses, SD cards—it might be time to update your photo kit with these discounts.

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What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?

As the Signal protocol becomes the industry standard, it's worth understanding what sets it apart from other forms of end-to-end encrypted messaging.

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Early Cyber Monday Deals on Pandemic Supplies

Months of quarantining and social distancing have meant shortages of essentials. If you need a mask or air purifier, we found discounts for you.

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It’s Time to Stop Sharing Your Passwords With Your Partner

Go ahead, give them the keys to your heart—but anything more could make a cybersecurity mess.

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11 Early Cyber Monday Weekend Deals on Earth-Friendly Gear

Conserve water, save our national parks, and offset carbon emissions a bit with these sustainable picks.

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Endangered Vancouver Island Marmots Are Making a Comeback

Canada’s most endangered mammal is back from the brink of extinction—and offers hope as an “ambassador” for the conservation of less adorable species.

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These Are Our Favorite Small Businesses and Shops

For Small Business Saturday—or any day—remember to shop local! Here are some stores we think you'll like too.

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Black Holes Aren't as Bad as You Think

Physicist Janna Levin is hoping to improve the reputation of the strange phenomena with her new book The Black Hole Survival Guide.

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Your TV Sounds Awful. Upgrade It With One of These Soundbars

Every TV deserves a soundbar to call its own, and these are our favorites.

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Is This the Gayest Yuletide Yet?

Streaming services are giving LGBTQ fans a tidy package of content this holiday season.

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What's a Semi-Log Plot and How Can You Use It for Covid Data?

It is very useful for showing data that spans different orders of magnitude—like case numbers in South Korea compared to the numbers in the United States.

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As Cities Curb Surveillance, Baltimore Police Took to the Air

In a program that overcame three court challenges this year, planes with high-tech cameras circled the city up to 40 hours a week.

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Our Favorite Black Friday Deals for $50 or Less

No, you don't need to drop a boatload of money just because it's the biggest shopping day of the year. These picks won't empty out your wallet.

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Trump’s Election Attack Ends December 14—Whether He Knows It or Not

Despite the Trump campaign’s fight to overturn the election, the wheels of American democracy keep turning.

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The Best Black Friday Deals on Health, Beauty, and Sex Tech

Do you need some extra soothing? Possibly with LED lights? We found the best discounts on vibrators, skincare tools, and more.

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The Best Black Friday Deals if You Work From Home

Standing desks, monitors, keyboards—pad out your home office with this discounted gear.

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Burn Off That Turkey With These Black Friday Fitness Deals

These picks will help you get your sweat on, whether you're in a home gym, jogging down the road, or roughing it in the wilderness.

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Our 29 Favorite Black Friday Smart Home and Kitchen Deals

We're spending more time in our houses than ever. Let us help you out with robot vacuums, smart dog collars, and more.

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The Absolute Best Black Friday Deals Online

Stay at home this weekend! Here are the very best discounts we’ve found in every category and at all the major retailers.

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You Really Should Peek at These Black Friday TV Deals

From gorgeous OLEDs to 4K projectors to soundbars, here are the best discounts to improve your home theater this holiday weekend.

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Our Fave Headphone and Speaker Deals for Black Friday

These are our favorite audio deals this holiday weekend, from a pair of Beats to a smart speaker for your kitchen.

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The Ethics of Rebooting the Dead

The notion of resurrecting people as digital entities is becoming less hypothetical. But just because something can be done, doesn’t always mean it should.

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The 9 Best Smart Speakers With Alexa or Google Assistant

Chatty assistants from Google, Amazon, and Apple are popular. But which one is right for you?

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These Are the Very Best Laptop Deals for Black Friday

We scoured the web to find the best deals on notebooks, Chromebooks, external monitors, and more.

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Can I Save Money by Buying a ‘Dumb’ TV?

Every Black Friday we get the same question: “Do I have to buy a smart TV?” Well, the short answer is yes, if you want an HDTV that's worth the money.

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The Quest to Unearth One of America's Oldest Black Churches

First Baptist Church was founded in secret in 1776. It’s been hidden under a parking lot in Colonial Williamsburg for decades—a metaphor for the failures of archaeology and American history.

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Our Favorite Dyson Stick Vacuum Is $150 Off Now

The wireless Cyclone V10 is light, beautiful, and modular, and it helps me clean everything from carpets to couches to the trunk of my car.

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The Best Black Friday Deals on Kindle, Fire, and Echo Devices

Get your Prime on with our favorite deals on Amazon’s ebook readers, tablets, speakers, and more.

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Every Great Black Friday Deal on Google Devices

Google has discounted its new Pixel phones this weekend, along with Nest speakers and other Google smart home devices.

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A 4K OLED TV for $900? This Vizio Deal Is a Steal

Vizio has finally broken the $1,000 mark with its gorgeous new 55 incher. This is the best Black Friday TV markdown around.

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Stay In and Get Cozy With These Black Friday Video Game Deals

We need to stay indoors and not travel for the rest of the year. Why not stockpile on Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox titles?

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Does the AstraZeneca Vaccine Also Stop Covid Transmission?

Vaccines can prevent symptoms, but some can also keep people from spreading infection. That’s critical, and no one knows if the new vaccines do it.

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The Last of Us Is Getting a TV Show, Which Seems Redundant

HBO is turning the wildly popular game into a series.

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Biden Must Repair—and Reinvigorate—Tech Diplomacy

The administration’s nomination of Antony Blinken is a good start. But mending the damage of the past four years will require a complete reorientation.

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The AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn't Up to Snuff

There's been even more good news this week, this time from the Oxford-AstraZeneca trials. But a closer look reveals some very shaky science.

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Considering a MacBook? Here are Our Favorites

Apple's laptops are expensive, and you'll have to make some hard choices to pick the right one. Let us help.

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The 13 Best Holiday Movies to Stream This Season

This year, everyone is stuck inside even more than before. Here's what you need to watch to pass the time—and get in the spirit.

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Meet the Microbes Living on Da Vinci’s Iconic Sketches

Think you’ve got an interesting microbiome? Your body ain’t got nothing on what’s accumulated on Leonardo’s drawings over 500 years.

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AI Can Run Your Work Meetings Now

A new wave of startups is trying to optimize meetings, from automated scheduling tools to facial recognition that measures who’s paying attention.

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The New Demon's Souls Remake Tries Too Hard to Be Realistic

The PlayStation 5 reboot, like Shadow of the Colossus before it, loses the visual language of the original, undoing its magic.

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‘No Thoughts Head Empty’ Is 2020’s Most Enduring Meme

In a year of chaos, a series of internet tropes has sought to offer escape from the turmoil.

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Which Microsoft Surface Device Should You Buy?

If you're having trouble figuring out whether to get the 2-in-1 Windows tablet hybrid or a traditional laptop, we're here to help.

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From Podcasts to Book Deals, Friendship Is Big Business

Across the internet, pairs of best friends are parlaying their friendships into creative—and lucrative—business partnerships.

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The Best Black Friday Phone, Tablet, and Watch Deals

We found discounts on Samsung Galaxy phones, Google Pixels, Apple Watches, iPads, and some great accessories.

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How to Have Productive Conversations About Election Misinfo

A holiday guide to navigating the deep swamp of polluted information.

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How to Make Multiple Smart Speakers Work Together

Have a bunch of Amazon Echo speakers (or Google or Apple devices) around your house? Here's how to organize and control them all easily.

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Facebook Can Be a Boon to Nonprofits—If They Get Verified

Organizations say they struggle with the social media giant's registration system and inability to reach a live person.

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A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’

How do humans perceive color? An NIH experiment finds a way to measure what happens after light hits the eye—using brain scans.

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Our Favorite Mattress Deals for Black Friday

You should never buy a mattress online unless it’s discounted. Luckily, there are some modest holiday deals going on our favorite models.

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Yes, Chef: Here Are the Year’s Best Cookbooks

We’re all cooking more than ever in 2020. These six selections offer some new kitchen adventures.

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This Squishy 3D-Printed Human Heart Feels Like the Real Thing

A clever technique allows scientists to scan a heart and reconstruct it in a soup of gelatin. It's like making jello, only way more useful for surgeons.

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25 Amazing Gift Ideas Under $25

Just because these gifts are cheap doesn't mean they're not totally awesome.

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This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes

The company is rolling out a patch today for the vulnerabilities, which allowed one researcher to break into one in 90 seconds and drive away.

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The Surface Laptop Go Is Great—If You Can Get Past Its Screen

Microsoft's most affordable laptop is a great machine for simple tasks, but it skimps out on the thing you'll stare at the most.

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Congress Is Eyeing Face Recognition, and Companies Want a Say

Amazon and Microsoft have hired lobbyists. So too have airlines, retailers, wireless carriers, and cruise operators.

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The Glitched-Out Sound and Spontaneous Rise of 100 Gecs

On this week’s episode of Get WIRED, we’re lending our feed to The Pitchfork Review for a conversation with the figureheads of hyperpop.

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The Last, ‘Ultra-Cold’ Mile for Covid-19 Vaccines

Two vaccines are nearly here—but their unusual storage requirements could deprive the rural areas that need them most. A tech fix might be coming.

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The 13 Best Gifts for the PC Gamer in Your Life

It's dangerous to go alone, take this.

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Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages

For now, the security measure will be available only to people using the beta version of the app.

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Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction After the Big Bang

The newly measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process that forged the first atomic nuclei matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.

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Here's Every Good Black Friday Deal on Amazon Devices—So Far

Get your Prime on with our favorite deals on Fire tablets, Echo speakers, Kindles, and more.

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Nintendo Has One Decent Switch Deal for Black Friday

The sometimes elusive console is back in stock and bundled with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and three months of Switch Online.

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Secret Service Investigates 700 Cases of Covid Relief Fraud

Ransomware as a service, exposed SMS photos, and more of the week's top security news.

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13 Smart STEM Toys for the Techie Kids in Your Life

We found more than a dozen math-filled and science-rich toys for tiny nerds to disassemble, set on fire, and then rebuild.

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Overcoming Vaccine Skepticism Starts in the Community

Many of the communities most vulnerable to Covid-19 are the ones least willing to get a vaccine. Convincing them may require a peer-to-peer approach.

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This Lower-Cost Roomba Needs Some Navigation Help

This is iRobot’s cheapest robot vacuum with automatic dirt disposal. But it also sacrifices some key navigational features.

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Climate Change Is Intensifying the Tsunami Threat in Alaska

As glaciers retreat and permafrost thaws, massive landslides threaten coastal communities. Those, in turn, could trigger giant sea waves.

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Masks Help, but We May Never Know How Much

The impact of face coverings is not just unknown, it’s unknowable. Still, uncertainty should be no impediment to action.

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What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust

European regulators focus on how Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google use—and abuse–their vast stores of data to maintain advantages over rivals.

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Pfizer Seeks Approval, the CDC Urges Restraint, and More News

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

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Why Aren't There More Sci-Fi Movies About Dreams?

Classics like Inception and The Cell are at least a decade old.

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How Video Game Historians Resurrected Sega's Lost VR Headset

In 1993, the console maker's big plans for virtual reality fizzled. Now a team of preservationists is using emulation to bring them back.

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The Tenuous Promise of the Substack Dream

Plus: The threat of blogs, the balkanization of social media, and a new record for America’s mayor.

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In Defense of Rockefeller Center’s Ugly, Perfect Tree

The internet called it a metaphor for 2020. If that’s true, then maybe it should be a beacon of hope for everyone.

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Pokémon Go Is Finally Raising Its Level Cap

The upcoming “Beyond” update will bring 10 additional levels plus new Pokémon and a seasons system.

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The Best iPhone 12 Deals (and Which Model to Pick)

From the Mini to the Pro, we explain how Apple’s latest phones differ, and where you can score the best deals.

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A Solar-Powered Rocket Might Be Our Interstellar Ticket

The idea for solar thermal propulsion has been around for decades, but researchers tapped by NASA just conducted a first test.

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Google Photos Storage Is Changing. Here Are Your Best Options

Google's unlimited free storage is going away, but that doesn't mean you're stuck. Here are alternatives for fast, flexible photo storage on all of your devices.

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Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy

The company wants to shut down an academic study of political ad targeting, just as it prepares to reinstate targeted political ads.

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All Hail the Electric Bicycle

This week, we talk about ebikes' recent upgrades, and we offer tips for those curious about riding one.

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This Pandemic Must Be Seen

If we could watch what’s really going on in hospitals, there would be no more complacency.

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Iowa’s Covid Wave and the Limits of Personal Responsibility

Until Monday, the governor urged Iowans to “do the right thing” but kept businesses open and masks optional. Now cases are surging and hospitals are filling up.

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Robots Invade the Construction Site

Boosted by advances in sensors and artificial intelligence, a new generation of machines is automating a tech-averse industry.

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The Future of Work: ‘Remembrance,’ by Lexi Pandell

“Having no consciousness at all, surrendering to the dark nothingness of death, was better than existing with a partial one.”

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The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones

Carrier lock-in was recently prohibited in the UK. If it finally happens here next year too, consumer advocates say the move would give users more flexibility and choice.

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The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones

Carrier lock-in was recently prohibited in the UK. If it finally happens here next year too, consumer advocates say the move would give users more flexibility and choice.

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Putting 'Wonder Woman 1984' on HBO Max Is a Smart Move

It'll be a while before US theaters are back to full capacity. Offering the 'Wonder Woman' sequel on its streaming service is Warner Bros.' best option.

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What Will Happen to the Far-Right After Trump?

As president-elect Biden's inauguration approaches, experts are keeping an eye on extremist groups.

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A Facebook Messenger Flaw Could Have Let Hackers Listen In

The vulnerability was found through the company's bug bounty program, now in its tenth year.

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These Are the 10 Best Android Phones

Shopping for a new phone can be an ordeal. Let us take some of the pain out of it with these picks and tips.

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