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#wired.com. × With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’. Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.

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#wired.com. × Judge Ends One Man’s 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill. A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a landfill for over a decade.

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#wired.com. × Mapping Elon Musk’s Global Empire. From tunnels to Tesla factories to SpaceX launch facilities, there’s barely a place on Earth that doesn’t feel the gravitational pull of humanity’s wealthiest reply guy.

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#wired.com. × New US Rule Aims to Block China's Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World. The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations.

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#wired.com. × DDR4 vs. DDR5 RAM: What's the Difference?. Which type of RAM should you buy? Here are the differences explained in nerdy detail.

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#wired.com. × The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Created Another Problem—Unsafe Drinking Water. Melted plastic pipes and drastic water-pressure drops are potentially leaching toxic chemicals and contaminants into local supplies. Multiple water authorities in north Los Angeles have issued Do Not D

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#wired.com. × The Best Cat Water Fountains. Ensuring your cat is drinking enough water is one of the best ways to keep your pet healthy. We tested many models and these were our favorites.

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#wired.com. × Rich Men Rule the World. The holders of the vast majority of the world’s wealth? Men. So many men—from Trump and Musk and Putin to every CEO, crypto schmo, and solar bro in between.

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#wired.com. × The Spectacular Burnout of a Solar Panel Salesman. He thought he’d make millions of dollars selling solar panels door-to-door. The reality was much darker.

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#wired.com. × The Money Money Money Issue. WIRED sent reporters far and wide to find out who controls the world's wealth. What did they find? Men. From Trump, Musk, and Putin to the CEOs, crypto schmoes, and solar bros, meet the patriarchy cont

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#wired.com. × The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell. Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut, will it have to betray its first patients—type 1 diabetics?

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#wired.com. × AI Financial Advisers Target Young People Living Paycheck to Paycheck. AI finance apps are reaching Gen Z and millennial users with personalized chatbots that offer money advice—and upsell them big time.

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#wired.com. × 19 Fancy Gadgets That Won’t Leave You Broke. The next new thing doesn’t have to cost as much as next month’s paycheck.

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#wired.com. × Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance. Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that aim to predict who’s safe—and who’s a threat.

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#wired.com. × You Have NASA to Thank for Wireless Headphones and Vacuum Cleaners. The space agency’s Spinoff project displays the countless everyday technologies that were spurred by space-related research.

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#wired.com. × GPS Is Vulnerable to Attack. Magnetic Navigation Can Help. Signals from the global navigation satellite system can be jammed and spoofed, so a Google spinout is working on an alternative positioning and navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field.

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#wired.com. × Panasonic’s Z95A OLED TV Brings Searing Brightness and Colors. Panasonic makes a fiery return with one of the best TVs right now.

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#wired.com. × New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered. Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.

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#wired.com. × Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta's Next Moves. So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news ecosystem.

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#wired.com. × A Glowing Metal Ring Crashed to Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From. The 1,100-pound mystery object landed in Kenya at the end of December. Experts are still baffled.

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#wired.com. × These Maps Show Just How Dry Southern California Is Right Now. In early January, soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2 percent of historical records.

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