The Best Laptop Deals Right Now—and Which One Is Right for You

Whether you’re looking for an all-arounder, a gaming powerhouse, or a wallet-friendly machine, we’ve found discounts from trusted retailers.

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A Film Challenges the James Webb Telescope's Controversial Name

The documentary scrutinizes the former NASA administrator's role during an era of homophobic policies.

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Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill

A bill with bipartisan support might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law.

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This Hardcore Band Is a Product of the Internet—in the Best Way

Turnstile breaks most of the rules of their genre. Their fans, who grew up online and care less about convention, follow them because of it.

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A Tool for Fighting Superbugs Has Been Found Deep in the Desert

Scientists are turning to the world’s most extreme environments to find new ways of combating drug resistance.

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Tech Industry Layoffs May Undo Workforce Diversity Gains

Companies have recently made progress in employee diversity, but cuts due to economic worries are expected to hurt underrepresented workers most.

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How to Use Your Smartphone to Cope With Hearing Loss

From live transcriptions to sound filtering, here's how you can benefit from features on Android and Apple devices.

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The Most Popular Period-Tracking Apps, Ranked by Data Privacy

Under increased scrutiny, certain period-tracking apps are seeing a surge of new users. Which are as safe as they claim to be?

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Bookstagram Is Fueling an Unnerving Trend

Authors aren't above criticism—but when they're tagged in negative social media reviews of their books, it can stifle the conversation.

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I Shredded a 70-Mile Dirt Ride on a Folding Commuter Bike

I was invited to ride in an overseas off-road cycling event and asked if I could try it on a Brompton T-Line folding bike. Everyone laughed, but I did it anyway.

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Glacier Collapses Are a Growing but Hard-to-Predict Threat

After 11 people were killed and eight hospitalized by a glacier in early July, Italian scientists are asking how future tragedies can be avoided.

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Comic-Con Is Back! Will It Live Up to Its Former Hype?

The annual pop culture confab held a series of smaller and/or online events during the pandemic. Here's what to expect from this year's in-person event.

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Embryonic Research Could Be the Next Target After Roe

Stem cell research has underpinned IVF’s success, but legal experts, clinicians, and potential donors worry it could be the next target.

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A Father’s Quest for an Accessible Game Controller

After months of writing hardware companies and developers for help, Andreas Karlsson finally found a hero in retro controller maker 8BitDo.

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How to Promote Your Music Online

From TikTok to Patreon, here's how musicians can use the internet to cut through the noise.

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How China Threatens to Splinter the Metaverse

In the future, the metaverse could be split into two: China and the rest of the world.

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Gender-Affirming Care Improves Mental Health—and May Save Lives

Scores of bills in US states aim to block medical treatments for trans youth. But research shows that these bans could have dire consequences.

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Shows Games Are a Shared Art

Gabrielle Zevin’s novel makes a case that video games are one of the most empathetic forms of creativity—something the writer and her husband know well.

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Ms. Marvel Ended Up Being the Best Thing on Disney+ This Year

It’s an origin story that’s truly original.

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Meet the UK’s New Woodland Rangers: a Herd of Wild Bison

A rewilding project in Kent thinks that introducing bison to the UK can supercharge biodiversity. But how wild can introduced animals ever be?

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Fully’s Workstation Is a Standing Desk in Disguise

The Nolan has a total of four motors and is the most stable sit-stand workstation I’ve ever tried.

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This Band Wrote the Best Legend of Zelda Song of 2022

Among the Boston slowcore group's inspirations are The Ocarina of Time, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and Mario Party 3.

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Abortion Pill Demand Is Driving an Underground Network

Desperate people in the US and beyond are turning to an unregulated, cross-continental supply chain.

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The Covid Virus Keeps Evolving. Why Haven't Vaccines?

Updating the shots to adapt to rapidly changing variants is easier said than done, even with new mRNA technology.

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How the Secret ‘Project Galileo’ Gave Rise to the MoonSwatch

Omega and Swatch's timepiece isn't just a hype juggernaut. The collaboration has revolutionized materials, manufacturing, and more.

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14 Xbox Game Pass Games Worth Playing

Microsoft’s subscription service includes captivating titles like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and Citizen Sleeper.

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The Best Turntables for Your Vinyl Collection

Streaming music giving you the blues? These entry-level turntables will help you rock on to analog audio at home.

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Meet the Ukrainian Number Theorist Who Won Math’s Highest Honor

With her homeland mired in war, the sphere-packing number theorist Maryna Viazovska has become the second woman to win a Fields Medal in the award’s history.

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How to Support People in States Where Abortion Is Under Threat

Donating to national organizations is great. But these local reproductive health care services—in places under immediate threat—could use your help, too.

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How to Make Sure You’re Getting the Best Streaming Quality

There may be a reason your favorite shows aren’t looking their best.

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AI Art Is Challenging the Boundaries of Curation

Artists working with programs like DALL-E do more than push a button—selecting outputs and engineering prompts are acts of aesthetic expression.

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‘Blood Washing’ Is the Latest Dubious—and Pricey—Long-Covid Trend

Thousands of people are traveling far and paying huge sums for a procedure that has not been proven effective for persistent Covid symptoms.

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Amazon Handed Ring Videos to Cops Without Warrants

Plus: A wild Indian cricket scam, an elite CIA hacker is found guilty of passing secrets to WikiLeaks, and more of the week's top security news.

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Peloton Will Stop Making Its Own Bikes and Treadmills

Plus: BMW fiddles with fee-based feature unlocking, Twitter lets you untag yourself, and the final beta of Android 13 arrives.

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The 17 Best Accessories for Your PlayStation 5

From extra game storage to a fancy new 120-Hz TV, here are our favorite WIRED-tested complements to your PS5.

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The Dangerous Chemicals Lurking Inside Shipping Containers

Seizure-inducing methyl bromide and carcinogenic formaldehyde are only some of the poisonous gases scientists found inside cargo containers.

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How to Take a Screenshot on Any Phone or Laptop

Capture that weird message, high score, or malfunctioning app in a snap.

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The New MacBook Air Fits Some Upgrades in a Sleeker Package

This is a capable and lightweight laptop with improvements that count—if you can stomach the higher price.

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The Best Sleep Gadgets and Apps

Do you struggle to nod off or stay asleep through the night? These WIRED-tested tools can help.

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The Emmy Nominations Prove No One Knows How to Watch TV Anymore

Not that folks have forgotten the mechanics, it’s that there’s no longer any order to the medium.

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Texas’ Precarious Power Grid Exposes a Nasty Feedback Loop

Air conditioning saves lives. But as the planet warms, more AC use stresses the grid and drives up emissions, accelerating climate change.

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The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups

Companies that promise groceries delivered in 15 minutes surged during the pandemic—but are now in retreat.

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How Heat Waves Are Messing Up Your Sleep

Higher nighttime temperatures don’t just make it harder to drift off, they can disrupt your sleep cycles and leave you with low-quality rest.

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Have Pollsters Cleaned Up Their Act in Time for the Midterms?

G. Elliott Morris, a writer and top election forecaster, wants you to trust the polls a little less.

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Nothing's New Phone Is Everything a Phone Should Be

Simple. Attractive. Affordable. This new Android smartphone is more of what the world needs.

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What Happens Next for Vaping

This week, we look at how regulatory pressure might deflate—or even kill—the nicotine vaping industry in the US.

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F1 22 Perfectly Simulates the Morality Vacuum of Formula 1

The new game is great at capturing the excitement of motor racing. It's even better at mirroring the sport's rampant commercialism.

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A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser

Researchers have found a way to use the web's basic functions to identify who visits a site—without the user detecting the hack.

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Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No, It’s a Flying Ferry

An electric hydrofoil ferry could be the future of public transportation in Stockholm—and beyond.

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The Pandemic Fueled a Superbug Surge. Can Medicine Recover?

As Covid swept ICUs, doctors prescribed antibiotics to ward off secondary infections. Now bacteria have evolved resistance—but hospitals are fighting back.

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Meet the Lobbyist Next Door

What do a Real Housewife, an Olympic athlete, and a doula have in common? They’re all being paid by an ad-tech startup as influencers—peddling not products but ideologies.

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What Germany's Lack of Race Data Means During a Pandemic

Due to its history with the Holocaust, calling race by its name has often been contested. Black Germans say that this policy can ignore disparate impact.

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The First—and Last—Time We Rank the Star Wars Movies

All ranked lists are lazy, lame, and lacking. Except this one.

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Turkey Probably Hasn’t Found the Rare Earth Metals It Says It Has

The deposits discovered reportedly contain enough resources to meet global demand for 1,000 years—surpassing even China’s reserves. But experts are skeptical.

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When AI Makes Art, Humans Supply the Creative Spark

Fears that artificial intelligence tools could displace creatives such as illustrators, designers, and photographers seem unfounded—for now.

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What Humans Can Learn From the Sea Cucumber’s Toxic Arsenal

Sea cucumbers are squishy and soft. They also employ lethal strategies to protect themselves.

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The 20 Best Headphone and Speaker Deals for Prime Day

Want to upgrade your audio? Here are the best-sounding items on Amazon this shopping holiday.

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How Might Your Data Be Used to Pin Charges on You?

WIRED’s editor in chief reflects on how digital surveillance infrastructure could be used to prosecute abortion, plus more thoughts on this month’s headlines.

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Our Favorite Prime Day Mattress and Sleep Deals

Get your beauty rest with these sales on sheets, pillows, and snooze-enhancing tech.

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21 Best Prime Day Deals on Amazon Devices

From Echo speakers and Fire tablets to Kindles, this is the best time of year to snag the retailer's own hardware.

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The 48 Best Prime Day Deals Under $50

Do you already have a TV, mattress, or laptop? From smart bulbs to board games, these are the best cheap deals to fill your shopping needs.

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The 59 Absolute Best Prime Day Deals

Amazon’s annual sales event is here. From Alexa-powered Echo Dots to gaming laptops, here are all the greatest discounts we’ve found.

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How to Install the Google Play Store on an Amazon Fire Tablet

These slates are cheap but hampered by the retailer's limited app store. Here's how to get a broader selection.

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The Climate Anxiety Discussion Has a Whiteness Problem

Marginalized groups often think about the mental impact of the climate crisis in different terms—meaning they end up crowded out of the conversation.

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Quantum Advantage Showdowns Have No Clear Winners

A series of recent experiments between quantum and classical computers shows the term’s ever-evolving meaning.

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Russian ‘Hacktivists’ Are Causing Trouble Far Beyond Ukraine

The pro-Russian group Killnet is targeting countries supporting Ukraine. It has declared "war" against 10 nations.

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Juul Nears Its Last Gasp—After It Hooked a Generation on Vaping

The startup used regulatory loopholes and marketing to make nicotine cool. Now the FDA threatens to shut the company down, but new rivals are taking over.

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Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

'The Dawn of Everything' fundamentally shifted my view of … everything. I had to meet one of the minds behind its world-tilting revelations.

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The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses

Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.

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Everything You Need to Work From Home Like a Pro

Gear can make or break your home office setup. Here’s our ultimate list of nearly 100 items, from monitors and desks to webcams and chairs.

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Travel Back in Time With Street View and Map Archives

These free, simple tools for phone or web let you visualize urban sprawl or see what your street looked like before the turn of the millennium.

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‘Clean Slate’ Justice Laws Offer a Second Chance—Only to Some

States are trying to automate criminal record clearance. But what if they end up amplifying racial disparities?

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How to Earn More Than $50 in Amazon Credits Ahead of Prime Day

Most of these promotions require you to spend some money, but they’re a relatively easy way to redeem some extra cash.

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A Long-Lost Rare Crayfish Resurfaces in an Alabama Cave

Thought for decades to be extinct, the tiny animal has stayed hidden in a former subterranean speakeasy.

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The Quarry and Evil Dead: The Game Lure You Into a Scary Movie

The games take different approaches to the horror game genre, but both are informed by their love for slasher flicks.

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The Hype Machine That Turned Minions Into a $4B Juggernaut

The #GentleMinions and the #minionscult have overrun TikTok, taking the franchise’s impact to all-new levels.

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Thor: Love and Thunder’s Biggest Drawback? It’s Just for Fans

Taika Waititi’s Ragnarok follow-up is full of inside jokes that make it almost impenetrable to outsiders. That’s not a bad thing, but it’s not great either.

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9 Great Early Prime Day Deals on Tremendous TVs

Need a new 4K screen? Some of our top picks are on sale right now.

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Speedway's Mini 4 Pro Is a Great City-Friendly Electric Scooter

This relatively lightweight escooter gets nearly everything right.

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Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem

The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms.

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Cruise's Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco

In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.

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Could Your Old Poop Cure You of Future Diseases?

Fecal transplants can fix gut diseases, but finding the right donor stool is tricky. The solution, some scientists believe, is to keep a store of your own.

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It’s Time for Fans to Watch Superheroes Like They Read Them

Thor: Love and Thunder is out Friday; Ms. Marvel wraps up on Disney+ next week. Instead of feeling overwhelmed, it’s time to pick faves and stick with them.

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Europe's Big Tech Law Is Approved. Now Comes the Hard Part

Enforcing the sweeping Digital Services Act will be an uphill climb—and the Commission is not yet equipped for it.

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The Danger of License Plate Readers in Post-Roe America

Known as ALPRs, this surveillance tech is pervasive across the US—and could soon be used by police and anti-abortion groups alike.

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Tech Companies Will Cover Abortion Travel—but Not for All Workers

Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out.

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Lenovo's Latest AMD-Powered ThinkBook 13S Is on Sale Right Now

It's not often we see the latest Ryzen 7 chip in a laptop at this price.

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After Thor: Love and Thunder, Read These 5 Comics

Want to know more about how Jane Foster came to wield Mjolnir? Start here.

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Abortion Pills May Force States and the FDA Into a Standoff

Under the Constitution, federal laws overrule state ones. But challenges to medication abortion will test the agency’s ability to make nationwide regulations.

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The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization's Collapse

The Limits to Growth argued that rampant pollution and resource extraction were pushing Earth to the brink. How does it hold up 50 years later?

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Permanent Birth Control Is in Demand in the US—but Hard to Get

After the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, more people are seeking to get their tubes tied—assuming they can find a sympathetic doctor.

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Why Some Video Game Companies Are Staying Silent on Abortion

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe, many in the industry piped up. But for Texas studios, the potential for legal retaliation looms.

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The Digital Divide Is Coming for You

More services are going online-only—catching more people on the wrong side of a widening gulf.

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How to Avoid the Worst Instagram Scams

Fake sellers. Competitions. Crypto cons. There are plenty of grifts on the platform, but you don’t have to get sucked in.

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The Best Barefoot Shoes for Walking or Running

Our favorite zero-drop, minimalist footwear will let you feel the ground beneath your feet.

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How Landsat Chronicled 50 Years on a Changing, Fiery Planet

The pioneering satellite program has provided the longest continuous document of how fire, global warming, and humanity are remaking our world.

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End-to-End Encryption's Central Role in Modern Self-Defense

With abortion set to be criminalized in more than half the US, encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience.

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Genetic Screening Now Lets Parents Pick the Healthiest Embryos

Those using IVF can see which embryo is least likely to develop cancer and other diseases. But can protecting your child slip into playing God?

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Climate Change Breaks Plant Immune Systems. Can They Be Rebooted?

When temperatures rise, plants mysteriously lose their ability to defend against invading pathogens—but there may be a fix.

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Instagram Keeps Showing Me Children’s Tragedies

After I became a parent, my social media feeds filled up with videos of kids who are sick or have died. Why couldn’t I look away?

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