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Geoengineering Is the Only Solution to Our Climate Calamities
If global warming were an extraterrestrial adversary, it would not have to fear a diplomatically unified Earth. The past decade…
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As Trump Squeezes China, Alipay’s Star Rises
Li Xian, who works at a publishing company in Shanghai, says the Chinese mobile-payments app Alipay is indispensable. Over the…
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The iOS 14 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know
This new iOS 14 feature gives your iPhone a different MAC address every time it connects, making it much more…
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Democracy Will Only Work If the Social Media Giants Grow Up
Last weekend, the president of the United States urged Americans to vote twice in the upcoming election. This brazen—and illegal—suggestion…
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A Bluetooth Flaw Leaves Billions of Devices Vulnerable
The October issue of WIRED took a close, in-depth look at the state of election security. While lots of it…
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19 Best Weekend Deals on Cameras, Apple Gear, and Games
There’s always a nice calm between the end of Labor Day sales and the deluge of holiday sales that will…
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The 943-Dimensional Chess of a Trustworthy Covid-19 Vaccine
Mostly, the protocols are just thick volumes of procedures—the instruction manuals for the trials. How big a dose of vaccine…
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Why Teens Are Falling for TikTok Conspiracy Theories
Of all the bits of sleepover gossip ever uttered, this was the most unexpected. “Basically, Hillary Clinton sex traffics children…
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Trump’s TikTok Circus Will Have Lasting Consequences
It’s been one hell of a week for TikTok. The company is scrambling to get the White House to approve…
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The Progressive Case for a TikTok Sale
When the United States demanded in early August that TikTok be sold to American owners by this weekend, the backlash…
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