Marvel Puzzle Quest Might Just Be My Forever Game

Despite the raft of new games now available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, a free-to-play mobile puzzler still has the bulk of my attention.

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Brawn on a Budget: The New Mac Mini With Apple Silicon

The tiny desktop PC has been relaunched with an Apple-made chip, and boy does it rip.

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Russia's FireEye Hack Is a Statement—but Not a Catastrophe

The fallout from the attack may not be as dire as it first sounds.

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The Christchurch Shooter and YouTube's Radicalization Trap

The platform has gotten better about stamping out extremist content. But researchers say its policies and algorithms are still too opaque.

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Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction

Cyberpunk as a genre, and Cyberpunk 2077 the game are both rooted in a type of otherization that can't be ignored—but it can be examined.

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Chuck Yeager's 1947 Flight Inspired Our Supersonic Ambitions

Yeager was the prototype of the American hero, a decorated fighter pilot immortalized in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. He died Monday at age 97.

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Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher's Firing

Timnit Gebru was one of seven authors on a study that examined prior research on training artificial intelligence models to understand language.

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Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ for 2020: A $549 Pair of Headphones

The future of audio is spatial.

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The 8 Best Science Books to Read or Gift This Holiday Season

Here are the WIRED science team's top new picks for this winter.

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This Guy Is Taking Viewers Along for His Driverless Rides

Joel Johnson, who has taken more than 60 rides in Waymo's Arizona taxis, has posted over a dozen videos and says it's been "rock solid."

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The 22 Best Bike Accessories to Kit Out Your Ride

You got a bicycle! Here’s our favorite gear, from bells to helmets, to make your ride safer and more pleasant.

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VR Meetings Are Weird, but They Beat Our Current Reality

A new VR app called Arthur allows you and your distant colleagues to collaborate within a 3D meeting space—as long as you all have headsets handy.

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New Vaccine Data Is Coming: Watch Out for These 3 Claims

Tips on how to read the full results from BNT-Pfizer and Moderna, from an expert in evaluating medical evidence.

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The Galaxy S20 Fan Edition Is Samsung’s Best Phone of 2020

By trimming the fat from its highest-end Galaxy handset, Samsung inadvertently made one of the year’s top Android phones.

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The Perfect Strategy to Fight Covid-19 Is … Everything?

It’d be great to know which public health interventions against the coronavirus have the biggest bang for the buck. But nobody does.

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Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem?

Earlier this year, the startup claimed to have a revolutionary solid-state lithium-ion cell that could change EVs forever. Now it has data to prove it.

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Get a Better Picture With Our Favorite Webcams

Videoconferencing cameras have been in high demand since the pandemic began. We’ve narrowed down our favorites.

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Friends, Fleetwood Mac, and the Viral Comfort of Nostalgia

If there’s one thing that brings people together now, it’s old shows, old songs, and drinking Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice to a 1977 hit.

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Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed

Amnesia:33 is the latest in a long line of vulnerabilities that affect countless embedded devices.

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Uber Gives Up on the Self-Driving Dream

The ride-hail giant invested more than $1 billion in autonomous vehicles. Now, it's selling the unit to Aurora, which makes self-driving tech.

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