If You Don’t Already Live in a Sponge City, You Will Soon

Less pavement and more green spaces help absorb water instead of funneling it all away—a win-win for people and urban ecosystems.

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The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles

Custodians of the crowdsourced encyclopedia are charged with protecting it from state-sponsored manipulators. A new study reveals how.

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16 Best Gaming Mice and Mousepads (2022): Wireless, Wired, and Under $50

Whether you’re into esports or casual fragging, these are the greatest gaming mice we’ve tested.

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What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key

Supermassive black holes are engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of our galaxy and its central hole don’t quite match expectations.

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How to Use Passkeys in Google Chrome and Android

Google wants to make your digital life—in its ecosystem, anyway—passwordless and more secure.

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LiveWire S2 Del Mar Review: Fun, Fast, Limited Range

Harley-Davidson’s second all-electric motorcycle seduced WIRED’s editor in chief—but sadly can’t go the distance.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Bails on Starlink Funding for Ukraine

Plus: Hackers hit the Mormon Church, Signal plans to ditch SMS for Android, and a Fat Bear election erupts in scandal.

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What is Wi-Fi 6E, and How Is It Different from Wi-Fi 6? (2022)

There are many ways to make your internet faster, but the specifics depend on what you’re willing to spend right now.

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'The Last of Us' Makes Players Feel Really Bad—And That’s Great

Few other video games manage to make users feel truly awful the way this one does. But its unsettling stories are what makes it so memorable and impactful.

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How to Set Up a Greenscreen on a Budget (2022): Stands, Materials, Lighting

All it takes is a few lights and some fabric to transport yourself anywhere on camera.

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Future Fitness App Review: Virtual Personal Training Sessions

The subscription-based fitness platform winningly combines old-school one-on-one training and modern-day mobile technology.

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A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thought Experiment—in Real Life

Physicists just reconstructed a 19th-century paradox that seems to violate the second law of thermodynamics (but really doesn’t).

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Brian Eno on Why He Wrote a Climate Album With Deepfake Birdsongs

The ambient music pioneer is back with ForeverAndEverNoMore, an album that wants to get you in touch with your climate emergency feelings.

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The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect

The Infowars host now knows the cost of “free speech”—but does the landmark judgment signal a crackdown on disinformation?

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Desis & Dragons Puts South Asians Front and Center in TTRPGs

South Asians in the TTRP community can finally bring their stories and lived experiences to actual play sessions—and now, their own show.

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AI Shouldn’t Compete With Workers—It Should Supercharge Them

The economy could get a boost if machine learning engineers switched from copying human abilities to augmenting them.

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Meta Is Still Betting on a VR Revolution That May Never Come

This week, we discuss Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions for growing virtual reality as a platform, and how the new Quest Pro headset fits into that vision.

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Celsius Exchange Data Dump Is a Gift to Crypto Sleuths—and Thieves

By releasing half a million users’ transactions in a bankruptcy court filing, the company has opened a vast breach in its users’ financial privacy.

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15 Best Deals From Best Buy’s Flash Sale (2022): Headphones, TVs, Apple Devices

Amazon isn’t the only one in a prime position to unleash killer discounts on smart TVs, headphones, and Apple devices.

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Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Works in Rats

Scientists integrated tiny cell clusters called organoids with the animals’ own tissue, a step toward developing sophisticated mini-models of the brain.

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