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How Elizabeth Holmes Tricked WIRED—and Everyone Else
1. The Promise That Fooled Everyone Elizabeth Holmes arrived in the national conversation not with a bang, but with a whisper that sounded like…
The Story of Billy Evans and ‘Theranos 2.0’
There is a particular kind of intimacy that forms when two people find each other in the wreckage of what the rest of the…
Maricopa County, Arizona, Is Again Ground Zero of Election Conspiracy Theories
Here is a summary and humanized retelling of the content, expanded into six paragraphs. On a seemingly ordinary day at the Maricopa County ballot…
Nathan Fielder’s Surprise Call From Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Trust You’
A few months ago, an email landed in my inbox that made me do something I almost never do: I stopped breathing for a…
How the Xbox’s Disc-to-Digital Program Works
1. You know that feeling when you stumble upon something that seems like a perfect solution, only to realize it comes with a dozen…
Disney Asked Character.AI to Go Bankrupt for a Get-Out-of-Lawsuits Card
Character.AI began as a seductive promise. It offered users something that technology had never quite delivered: a companion that seemed to understand them, a…
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Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip
Welcome back to Power Play, the weekly column where we dig into the biggest issue of this midterm season: data centers. Normally, senior writer Molly Taft is your guide through…
Climate Change Has It In for the World’s Best Surfing
Imagine a wave that has been breaking in the same place for centuries, a slow, glassy point peeling around a headland or a hollow beach barrel thumping onto a sandbar.…
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How Tech Companies Can Use Digital Marketing + SEO to Grow Faster (Without Burning Budget)
Growth in tech is oddly simple and painfully competitive at the same time. Simple because the path is clear: get in front of the…
Federal Court Deems FBI’s Warrantless “Backdoor” Searches Unconstitutional
The recent ruling by US District Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall declaring the FBI's warrantless searches of US citizens' communications under Section 702 of…
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Don’t Let a Crypto Inheritance Get Stuck on the Blockchain
Ahoy matey! If someone you know owns cryptocurrency and you expect to inherit it, I hope you have a good…
Microplastics React With Water, a New Study Says. That’s a Problem for Biology
Plastic has become one of the most trusted materials in modern life because it doesn’t fall apart, rust, or react…
Why AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomes
Imagine your genome as a vast, endlessly detailed cookbook, with each cell containing every single recipe it could ever need.…
Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’
For nearly four decades, Sherry Turkle has been one of our most careful and credible guides to the strange territory…
The Leap Second Is No More
For fifty years, we have lived with the leap second—that tiny, quirky adjustment to our clocks that keeps our carefully…
Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds
For most people, the first week at a new job is a blur of onboarding sessions, forgotten passwords, and awkward…
Thank Gen Z for the ‘Girls’ Revival
The HBO series that once served as a stand-in for everything wrong with white millennial women was not supposed to…
Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists
On a cool evening in early April, in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, a group of people came together at…
Review: Razer Barracuda V2 Pro Headset
There is a particular kind of chaos that comes with loving audio gear but living a life that refuses to…
Here’s Exactly How Tesla Made Its New 230-Mph Car ‘Fly’
Last night, in the dusty, windswept outskirts of McGregor, Texas, at SpaceX’s rocket development and testing facility, Elon Musk did…
Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push
1. The Quiet Machine Behind the Midterms For all the noise and spectacle that usually defines American politics, some of…
Review: Jabra Enhance Select M3
INSERT GROUP ASSET: IMG_3735 and IMG_3734 Screenshot: SoundScape app via Christopher Null Let’s be honest about hearing aids: they are…