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News Image Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

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News Image The Big Interview Gets Even Bigger

A YouTube series! An event in San Francisco! Even a good old-fashioned print issue! As The Big Interview expands, WIRED interviews its own global editorial director, Katie Drummond.

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News Image A Look Inside the Airbus Factory Revolutionizing the World of Airplanes

In Hamburg, aviation giant Airbus is transforming aircraft production with state-of-the-art robotics technology on its planes. We go on a behind-the-scenes visit for the delivery of an A321neo.

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News Image Promising Mpox Drug Fails in Trials as Virus Spreads

In a trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, was found to be no better than placebo at clearing mpox lesions.

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News Image The US Grid Is Adding Batteries at a Much Faster Rate Than Natural Gas

The shift toward renewables is officially in high gear.

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News Image Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s Arrest Linked to Sweeping Criminal Investigation

French authorities detained Durov to question him as part of a probe into a wide range of alleged violations—including money laundering and CSAM—but it remains unclear if he will face charges.

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News Image Hope and disparity: a colorful new way to visualize air quality around the world

A new tool shows how much air quality has changed since the Industrial Revolution in cities across the world. It generates a single image made up of different colored stripes representing pollution each year in each major city.

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News Image Struggling to Unlock Your Phone? You Might Have Lost Your Fingerprints

The absence of these identifying marks—which can be the result of excessive typing, manual work, chemotherapy, or sports—is becoming more of an issue in the age of biometrics.

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News Image Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency

The UNRWA calls Israel’s strategy of promoting alleged misinformation “destructive.”

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News Image ‘Should Art Be Regulated by the SEC?’: NFT Artists’ New Lawsuit Seeks Answers

At issue is whether digital collectibles can be considered a security. “What the SEC has done directly affects my ability to make a living,” one plaintiff says.

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News Image This over-the-counter gadget could help the war against diabetes

The Dexcom Stelo aims to help people with Type 2 diabetes access CGMs more affordably.

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News Image Pavel Durov’s Arrest Leaves Telegram Hanging in the Balance

Durov has reportedly been detained in France over Telegram’s alleged failure to adequately moderate illegal content on the messaging app. His arrest sparked backlash and left some associates asking, what now?

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News Image ‘Unprecedented Times’ Is the New Normal

The phrase has become a convenient descriptor for an increasingly inconvenient future.

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News Image The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

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News Image NASA will bring the Starliner astronauts home next year on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission

NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

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News Image The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX’s Dragon Next Year

The decision will leave the crew on the ISS until February. The mission was initially supposed to last about a week.

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News Image The Shokz OpenFit Air would’ve been perfect if not for my glasses

The bass is pretty good for open-ear fitness buds, but alas, my glasses foiled the ear hook design.

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News Image Will the ‘Car-Free’ Los Angeles Olympics Work?

Organizers of the 2028 Summer Games will attempt to re-create the city’s public transport heyday of the early 20th century, but ousting the car—even for just a few weeks—will be costly.

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News Image Your Guide to Surviving Extreme Weather

How to pack a go bag, get emergency alerts, and find disaster aid.

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News Image The US Navy Has Run Out of Pants

Plus: The US intelligence community formally blames Iran for Trump campaign hack, aircraft-tracking platform FlightAware says a “configuration error” exposed sensitive user data, and more.

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News Image Online Action Movie Fandom Birthed a New Film-Fest Era

The Big Bad Film Fest, now in its second year, is like a big, muscle-bound hug for Very Online action-movie obsessives who brought it to life.

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News Image The Apartment Rental Market Is Rigged by Algorithms, a DOJ Lawsuit Alleges

The US Department of Justice claims that a company called RealPage is responsible for price-fixing across millions of apartment rental units nationwide.

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News Image Crypto’s Shiny New Political Machine

Despite its comparatively small size and the continued absence of any obvious mainstream utility, the crypto industry is hurling more money than any other at the US general election.

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News Image So You’re Underwater: Why Do You See That Circle of Light Above You?

Snell’s window is one of the coolest phenomena in the natural world. You’ve seen it, but do you know what causes it?

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