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The Best MagSafe Wallets for Your Everyday Carry (2026)

The slim and convenient magnetic wallets you’ll actually want stuck to the back of your phone.

Louryn Strampe 1 month ago

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The Trump Administration Wants to Change Public Engagement Rules for Polluters

The EPA has proposed a rule change that would let states decide how much input the public has on air pollution permits. It would be a huge boon for data centers increasingly reliant on fossil fuels.

Molly Taft 1 month ago

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America’s Hot Hybrid Summer

Gas prices are up, and US car dealerships are full of hybrids. Customers are going for it.

Aarian Marshall 1 month ago

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People Are Getting Off to Porn About ICE Raids

MAGA-coded adult content playing off immigration crackdowns, white supremacy, and obeying the “natural order” is finding rabid audiences on X.

Jason Parham 1 month ago

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Banning Social Media for Kids Is a Bad Idea

The risks are real. But banning children from the internet could create new problems without solving the ones that really matter.

Claudia Del Pozo, Nicté Cabañas 1 month ago

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Google Turns a Selfie Video Into Your Account’s Spare Key

The next time you’re locked out of your Google account, you can use your face as part of the account recovery process.

Reece Rogers 1 month ago

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My Week of Transparent Living With Apple’s ‘More Clear’ Liquid Glass Setting

I cranked Apple’s iOS 27 beta to maximum transparency on my iPhone and enjoyed every warped second.

Reece Rogers 1 month ago

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Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop

With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.

Boone Ashworth 1 month ago

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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease.

Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News 1 month ago

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Why Lettuce Is Always Making People Sick

The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc.

Emily Mullin 1 month ago

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The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.

Hugo Lowell 1 month ago

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Top Red-Light Therapy Deals at Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale (2026)

Save on WIRED-tested LED therapy devices from TheraFace, HigherDose, and more.

Kat Merck 1 month ago

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‘The Odyssey’ Is Inspiring Unprecedented Levels of Cope

Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. Now they’re crashing out.

Miles Klee 1 month ago

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China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.

Zeyi Yang 1 month ago

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Dyson V10 Konical Review (2026): Affordable and Solid

Out of Dyson’s two new affordable stick vacuums, this one is easily my favorite.

Nena Farrell 1 month ago

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Which New Samsung Foldable Phone Should You Buy? Fold8 Ultra, Fold8, or Flip8?

Samsung’s folding phone family has a new middle child with a fresh form factor, but which of its eighth-gen foldables is right for you?

Simon Hill 1 month ago

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Why Samsung Gave Its Next Folding Phone a New Shape

People spend hours watching videos on their smartphones. The wider, shorter, and lighter Galaxy Z Fold8 caters to exactly that.

Julian Chokkattu 1 month ago

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States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them

Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.

Maddy Varner 1 month ago

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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

Ara Rosenthal 1 month ago

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Flipper Busy Bar Review: An Expensive Focus Tool

It didn’t keep my coworkers at bay, but Flipper’s expensive productivity tool did help me focus on the task at hand.

Boone Ashworth 1 month ago

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Is the All-New Range Rover GT Stepping on Jaguar’s Tail?

It’s “the most car-like Range Rover ever created,” but will this all-electric grand tourer spoil Jaguar’s Type 01 party?

Jeremy White 1 month ago

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OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

Lily Hay Newman, Dell Cameron 1 month ago

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Shop Best Buy’s Black Friday in July Sale 2026 Before Fall Chaos

The discounts may not beat Prime Day, but I found worthwhile prices on WIRED-approved TVs, laptops, tablets, speakers, and other home gear.

Kat Merck 1 month ago

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Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

Kate Taylor 1 month ago

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