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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show Complaints Focused on Lack of DEI for White People. The FCC received 125 complaints about Kendrick Lamar’s concert, according to public records obtained by WIRED, with many focusing on the lack of white performers.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever. Scandal surrounding the Trump administration’s Signal group chat has led to a landmark week for the encrypted messaging app’s adoption—its “largest US growth moment by a massive margin.”

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 Inside Maye Musk’s Cozy Relationship With China. As Elon Musk continues to expand his political power in the US, his mother has repeatedly traveled to China to speak at events, model for Chinese brands, and promote Tesla.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 The Best Phones You Can’t Buy in the US. Wondering what you’re missing out on? Here are our favorite smartphones not officially sold stateside, available in markets like the UK and Europe.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 Nintendo Is Changing the Way Digital Games Work. During its Nintendo Direct event Thursday, the company revealed “Virtual Game Cards,” which will allow players to share games or play across multiple systems. It also teased “Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.”

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 I Put Nvidia’s RTX 50-Series Laptop GPU to the Test. Here’s What I Found. Multi-frame generation has real potential to improve the gaming experience on cheaper laptops, but Nvidia’s RTX 5090 laptop GPU isn’t the huge leap you’re waiting for.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella. The Japanese singer-songwriter’s new album goes deep on their “fascination with science.” WIRED Japan took Hikaru Utada to visit the Large Hadron Collider to learn more.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 The Light Phone III Gives You Back Precious Time. A significant hardware upgrade over its predecessor, the Light Phone III is the digital detox we need right now.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 I Opted Out of AI Training. Does This Reduce My Future Influence?. WIRED’s advice columnist considers whether trying to remove your data and information from generative AI tools could lessen your impact on the technology.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science. Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 The Manta Sound Helps Me Sleep Through Anything. Fall asleep anywhere with this comfortable sleep mask that has built-in headphones.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.27.2025 Vivaldi Partners With Proton to Put a VPN in Your Web Browser. Our favorite VPN service is now integrated into our favorite web browser.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public. A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 SignalGate Isn’t About Signal. The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID. Court filings show that from the earliest days of the second Trump administration, Elon Musk’s DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against USAID.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia. Challenging the world's most successful chipmaker with an entirely new type of computer chip may seem absurd—but it is no more ridiculous than the AI race itself.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 A New Social Media App Punishes Users for Rage-Baiting. On Sez Us, users who are intentionally inflammatory may score lower than those who gain influence through respectful dialog.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis. Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 An Organic, Eco-Friendly Mattress That Works for Most Sleepers. The Avocado Green Mattress manages to be soft and plush while still offering a supportive base good for combination sleepers.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 I Went Undercover in Crypto’s Answer to ‘Squid Game.’ It Nearly Broke Me. I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and backstab their way to claiming a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack. One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

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#wired.com. × #Mar.26.2025 The Best Programming Language for the End of the World. Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.

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