25 Great Deals on Smartwatches, Grills, Bags, and Tablets

Need a new hobby like grilling or photography? Want to get Dad a new smartwatch for Father's Day? These sales might help.

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Big Tech Has Become a Creature of the Swamp

Plus: Time travel on the blockchain, an update on apocalyptic horsemen, and '90s-era squabbles over internet regulation.

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Which Apple Watch Is Best Right Now?

The Apple Watch is the best-selling wearable in the entire world. Now you just have to figure out which version to get.

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Prediction Engines Are Like Karma: You Get What You Stream

WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on the virtues of sharing a streaming profile and screwing with algorithms.

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Sea to Summit's Arlo TR1 Is a Fantastic Ultralight Tent

It's the company's first in this product category, and it's one of the best we've tested.

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The Quarry Lets You Experience What’s Great About Slasher Films

The video game combines couch co-op bonding with the joy of watching horror films with friends.

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The Real Story Behind Jurassic World Dominion’s Dino Feathers

It took 29 years, six movies, and a flock of VFX artists and puppeteers, but the franchise finally bows to paleontologists in creating feathered dinosaurs.

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This Is the Internet That Socialists Want

We asked Internet for the People author Ben Tarnoff about why antitrust isn't enough, and whether profit motive is the root of all of Big Tech's problems.

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NASA’s Plan to Get Ingenuity Through the Martian Winter

NASA engineers are trying to keep the Mars helicopter running as it endures longer, colder nights and the chance of more frequent dust storms.

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Do Xbox Consoles Still Have a Place at Microsoft?

As low supply and high demand continue, cloud gaming is more attractive than ever.

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For All Mankind Is the Best Sci-Fi of Its Era

The Apple TV+ alternate history series is simply more ambitious and thought-provoking than its contemporaries.

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India Isn’t Ready for a Deadly Combination of Heat and Humidity

The country’s recent heat wave has seen “wet bulb” temperatures rise to potentially fatal levels—but plans to handle the crisis are still in their infancy.

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Apple’s ‘Pay Later’ Is the Latest Plea for Your Loyalty

From full-stack computing to full-stack financial services.

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How Abortion Clinics Are Racing to Prepare for a Post-Roe America

Access to reproductive care depends on more than red states vs. blue states—but that will matter. Here’s how the future could vary across the country.

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A Pandemic Tragedy on Brazil’s Lago Verde

A dispatch from the Amazon: A beloved leader was the first Indigenous person in Brazil to die of Covid—a loss entwined with her people’s fight for sovereignty.

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8 Queer Video Games Worth Playing

From Caper in the Castro to Raptor Boyfriend, these fabulous games let you express yourself and remember LGBTQ+ history.

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How to Buy and Set Up a Projector for Your Home Movie Theater

We all want our personal big-screen experience to feel as close to the real thing as possible. Here’s how to optimize your system—popcorn not included.

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‘Plastitar’ Is the Unholy Spawn of Oil Spills and Microplastics

On the beautiful beaches of the Canary Islands, scientists discovered a noxious new pollutant: tar mixed with tiny bits of plastic.

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The Internet Needs You-Are-Here Maps

We spend so much of our time online without knowing where we are—or how fragmented we've become. Locating ourselves can help us leave our bubble.

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Pregnancy Has Risks. Without Roe, More People Will Face Them

The national abortion debate has focused on its legal and political dimensions. But that ignores the physiology of pregnancy.

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After Ms. Marvel, Read These 5 Comics

The latest Marvel show on Disney+ will be a game-changer. Here’s what to read after you’ve fallen for Kamala Khan.

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25 Father’s Day Gifts for the Dependable Dad in Your Life

From mechanical keyboards to the best home composter, we compiled the best Father's Day gift guide … without a single tie or wallet on the list.

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The Boys’ Tribute to Ant-Man Was Explosive

Let's just say Amazon can send superheroes where Marvel can't. We talked to the showrunner about how that scene from the third season opener came to be.

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The Secret to Tastier Fake Meat? Breeding Better Beans

Scientists are using genomics to create high-protein soybeans and peas. Their aim? To make meat and milk substitutes that can rival the real thing.

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Period-Tracking and Fertility Apps Can Put Women Seeking Abortions at Risk

Apps collect sensitive data that could be subpoenaed by law enforcement or sold by data brokers.

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The Unwritten Laws of Physics for Black Women

I just wanted to be a scientist, not a trailblazer. But in my field, people like me are anomalies—and we face constant scrutiny for our race and gender.

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Smartphones Blur the Line Between Civilian and Combatant

In Ukraine, civilians are valiantly assisting the army via apps—and challenging a tenet of international law in the process.

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The Next Challenge for Solid-State Batteries? Making Lots of Them

Startups like Solid Power are beginning to roll out solid-state batteries that meet the needs of EVs. But hurdles remain for manufacturing them at scale.

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DJI’s Wireless Microphone Captures Good Sound—and It’s Easy

DJI branches out from drones again, this time with a wireless mic system that’s one of the best simple options.

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Bolt Loaned Employees Thousands to Buy Stock—Then Laid Them Off

At least one employee borrowed $100,000 from the company—and now has just 30 days to pay it back.

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A New Kind of Genome Editing Is Here to Fine-Tune DNA

Instead of deleting genes, epigenetic editing modulates their activity. A new paper tests if it’s able to undo a genetic effect of early alcohol exposure.

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Google's Russian Empire Faces an Uncertain Future

After filing for bankruptcy, Google could withdraw from Russia or antagonize the country's regulators from overseas.

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Here’s a Nice Way to Air-Condition Your Summer Campout

The update to Zero Breeze’s mobile AC unit is a little more effective, and a little less expensive.

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It’s the End of a Pokémon Era

The coming of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet demonstrate the brand’s next evolution.

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The Hacker Gold Rush That's Poised to Eclipse Ransomware

As governments crack down on ransomware, cybercriminals may soon shift to business email compromise—already the world's most profitable type of scam.

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Gmail Is Kind of a Mess. Here’s How to Fix It

It may be ubiquitous, but Google’s email service can leave a lot to be desired when it comes to looks and functionality.

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Satellites and AI Can Help Solve Big Problems—If Given the Chance

Traditional hurdles stand in the way of ambitious plans to use imagery to help feed people, reduce poverty, and protect the planet.

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Amazon Watches Its Workers and Waits for Them to Fail

Plus: A new Microsoft Surface laptop, sharable holograms, and Google cleans up its messaging mess.

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Google May Owe You a Chunk of $100 Million

Plus: The US admits to cyber operations supporting Ukraine, SCOTUS investigates its own, and a Michael Flynn surveillance mystery is solved.

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Your Tim Hortons Coffee App Knew Where You Were at All Times

The Canada-based company illegally collected “vast amounts of location data,” such as every time a person entered or left their home, workplace, or another coffee shop.

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What’s It Like to Drive NASA’s 1972 Moon Buggy?

OK, we’re 50 years late, but WIRED (finally) caught up with one of only six people to ever ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the moon’s surface.

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The FDA May Nix the Word ‘Milk’ From Your Almond Milk Carton

Dairy groups have argued that using the name for plant-based drinks confuses people. Critics say their real motivation is declining sales.

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The Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 Won't Be the Best 2-in-1 in 2022

Samsung's latest 2-in-1 laptop flagship makes few changes to its formula. Up against tough competition from Lenovo and HP, it’s falling behind.

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Google Meet and Duo Will Finally Become a Single Video Chat App

The Duo brand is dying, but its code base will live on.

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13 Great Deals on Sustainable Products, Walmart+ Sales, and More

Reduce, reuse, and buy a sweatsuit made of recycled plastic bottles this weekend. Or shop Walmart’s members-only event.

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The Best Earplugs for Gig-goers, Insomniacs, and Anyone With Ears

Whether you want to sleep through the party or rock out to your favorite band, these earplugs will help drown out the noise.

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Just How Hard Is Thor’s Battle Chain Workout?

In his upcoming movie, the Norse god of thunder has to get back into shape—but does it take superhero strength to exercise like he does?

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Garmin Finally Brings Back the Vivosmart—and It’s Even Better

It’s only taken four years, but Garmin’s small fitness tracker is back with a slew of great and necessary improvements.

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The Accuracy of Airfare Predictions Is Up in the Air

The world's current weirdness has made it more difficult for tools like Kayak and Google Flights to guess the best time to buy a plane ticket.

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Apple’s Software Strategy Is More Important Than Ever

As it heads into its annual developer conference next week, Apple's focus needs to stay on bits, not atoms.

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The Fight Against Robocall Spam and Scams Heats Up in India

A new proposal by India's telecom regulator aims to make accurate caller ID mandatory, but critics say it may be fundamentally flawed.

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The First Privately Funded Killer Asteroid Spotter Is Here

Researchers at the B612 Foundation’s Asteroid Institute developed a new tool for tracking space-rock trajectories—even with limited data.

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Star Wars Has a Fandom Problem

The racist messages sent to Obi-Wan Kenobi star Moses Ingram are just the latest in a series of incidents directed at actors in the franchise.

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The New Frontier of Prosthetics? Tech for Independent Living

For many, “prosthetics” means wheelchairs and hearing aids. Adults with cognitive disabilities are pioneering a new paradigm for assistive technology.

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Arctis' Nova Pro Wireless Sound Great, Unless You're Speaking

This do-everything gaming headset has a price tag to match. Just make sure you get the right model, and that you don't need a high-end mic.

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Welcome to the Great Reinfection

A repeat encounter with Covid used to be a rarity. But now that Omicron has changed the game, expect reinfections to be the new normal.

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The Star Wars Galaxy Is Burdened With Backstory

Making whole shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi just to fill in plot holes is wildly unnecessary.

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This Is What Flying Car Ports Should Look Like

It might be years before flying cars take to the skies, but designers and engineers are already testing the infrastructure they’ll need to operate.

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Volodymyr Zelensky on War, Technology, and the Future of Ukraine

In a one-on-one interview with WIRED, the embattled president expresses clarity amidst the chaos.

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I’m Embarrassed by How Much I Enjoy Merge Mansion

Mobile games are designed to hook you, and I’ve fallen for it.

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Hiking 101: Everything You Need to Head for the Hills

From cooking breakfast on a camp stove to sleeping comfortably under the stars, here’s all the gear you need to embrace the great outdoors.

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Can Disgusting Images Motivate Good Public Health Behavior?

Graphic images have long been tools of campaigns against smoking and STDs. Researchers want to know if can they work for infectious diseases like Covid.

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‘Civic Fan Fiction’ Makes Politics a Dysfunctional Team Sport

The internet’s fandom-generating culture creates fantasies of the powerful that imprison us in their delusions.

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The Trendy, Spendy Future of Tech-Enabled Indoor Farming

Apps and sensor-laden gadgets are helping farmers shift from the fields to indoor food-growing operations. But these innovations still don’t make it easy.

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The Race to Hide Your Voice

Voice recognition—and data collection—have boomed in recent years. Researchers are figuring out how to protect your privacy.

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Rising Food Prices Will Make Obesity Rates Worse, Not Better

When faced with food insecurity, studies show that people gravitate toward cheap, energy-dense meals that are bad for their health.

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How the Kremlin Infiltrated Russia’s Facebook

VKontakte was created to empower free speech, but it has instead enabled government censorship and arrests.

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Tension Inside Google Over a Fired AI Researcher’s Conduct

Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their results were wrong or even falsified.

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How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers

Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit.

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You Need to Update iOS, Chrome, Windows, and Zoom ASAP

Plus: Google patches 36 Android vulnerabilities, Cisco fixes three high-severity issues, and VMWare closes two “serious” flaws.

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‘Thinkwashing’ Keeps People From Taking Action in Times of Crisis

When it comes to issues like climate change, too many let the perfect become the enemy of the good, while the world burns.

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The Multifarious Multiplexity of Taika Waititi

He makes big movies and little movies, funny movies and sad movies—but mostly big-little funny-sad movies. Waititi is a bundle of contradictions.

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This Startup Wants You to Eat Ground-Up Chicken Bones

A Finnish company says it has found a way to incorporate bone into ground chicken, lowering the production cost and environmental impact of the meat. But will anyone eat it?

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This Punk Band Will Definitely Land in Your Spam Folder

It's a tough digital world out there for a musical group called the Viagra Boys.

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How to Fix the US Baby Formula Shortage

Importing formula will provide quick relief, but reforming the program that provides free formula to low-income families would help more in the long term.

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Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage

The supply chain issues have no end in sight, so manufacturers are being forced to improvise.

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Good Luck Not Accidentally Hiring a North Korean Scammer

DPRK hackers are tricking their way into jobs with western firms. A US government alert reminds employers they're on the front lines—and potentially on the hook.

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8 Gardening and Plant-Based Video Games for Spring

Test your digital green thumb with farming simulators, cozy growing games, and peculiar indies.

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Let’s Get Our Shit Together—Literally

It's time to build the Poop Ark, a centralized collection of the entire animal kingdom's feces, for research, de-extinction, and more.

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A Father-Son Team Solves a Geometry Problem With Infinite Folds

The result could help researchers answer a larger question about flattening objects from the fourth dimension to the third dimension.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Plans Would Mean Less Free Speech for Many

The platform has a history of standing up to governments. Its billionaire suitor wants to follow their rules to the letter.

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Become a Telegram Master With These 10 Tips and Tricks

Whether you've picked up the messaging app recently or you've been using it for ages, these tools can help you make the most of it.

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Finding a PlayStation 5 Is About to Get Easier

Plus: Google Assistant comes to the Samsung Galaxy Watch4, and a new virtual space for streaming 360-degree audio invites you to jack in.

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How to Switch to Google Fi

Here’s everything you need to know about switching from Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T to the search giant’s cell phone service.

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What Is 32-Bit Float Audio, and Should You Record In It?

Is it the end of setting levels? Just another recording gimmick? Well, it's somewhere in between.

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‘Flash Droughts’ Are the Midwest’s Next Big Climate Threat

New research shows that dry weather is coming on more quickly than before, with little advance warning. It could devastate farmers.

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In Dot’s Home, Your Choices Are Often Illusions

The game tackles housing inequality, gentrification, racism, and generational trauma with elegance and empathy.

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How to Clean Your Vinyl Records (Because They're Filthy!)

Those clicks and pops aren't supposed to be there! Give your music a bath with this handy guide.

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The Breaking Point Is Here—Again

Tragedies converge, apocalypse colors the air, and digital realities no longer suffice. Eventually everything, and everyone, cracks.

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What Do Those Pesky 'Cookie Preferences' Pop-Ups Really Mean?

We asked the engineer who invented cookies what they mean and how to handle them.

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Beyerdynamic’s DT 700 Pro X Can Make the Old Sound New Again

What if the best headphones for gaming, movies, and music are the kind studios use to make them?

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Quashing Racist Pseudoscience Is Science’s Responsibility

The recent act of racist terrorism in Buffalo has raised the stakes on how science is communicated and sold.

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The 25 Best Memorial Day Sales on Tech, Games, and Outdoor Gear

Summer is within reach. Save on Bluetooth speakers, TVs, and hot-weather essentials this weekend.

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An Autonomous Car Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency

The incident, which cost first responders valuable time, underscores the challenges that Cruise and other companies face on the road to driverless taxis.

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Are TikTok Algorithms Changing How People Talk About Suicide?

Social media users have adopted terms like unalive to avoid platform censorship. But not using the word suicide can stigmatize it.

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11 Great Memorial Day Deals on Sex Tech

Slide into summer with a bang this year, riding the wave from Masturbation May right into the long weekend.

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11 Rapid At-Home Covid-19 Tests—and Where to Find Them

How accurate are over-the-counter swabs? Does your insurance cover them? We have answers.

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25 Best Memorial Day Sales on Grills, Camping, and Outdoor Gear

This long weekend marks the beginning of summer in the US, and it's a good time to score a deal on equipment for your next adventure.

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The Mystery of China’s Sudden Warnings About US Hackers

The Chinese government recently began saber-rattling about American cyberespionage. The catch? It’s all old news.

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Why Was the Tonga Eruption So Massive? Scientists Have New Clues

Early theories suggested an underwater landslide caused a catastrophic mix of magma and seawater. Recent evidence reveals an explosion unlike anything studied before.

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