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Text • Aarian Marshall

This Mega Snowstorm Will Be a Test for the US Supply Chain

Shipping experts say the big winter storm across a wide swath of the country should be business as usual—if their safeguards hold.

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Text • Matthew Korfhage

Clearly Filtered Discount: Pitcher, Water Bottle, Under-Sink

Clearly Filtered water pitchers, bottles, and under-sink filters are 10 to 19 percent off. I tested three filters to see how they performed.

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Text • Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger

‘Uncanny Valley’: Donald Trump’s Davos Drama, AI Midterms, and ChatGPT’s Last Resort

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World Economic Forum.

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Text • Dell Cameron, Matt Giles

US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo

The ruling in federal court in Minnesota lands as Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces scrutiny over an internal memo claiming judge-signed warrants aren’t needed to enter homes without consent.

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Text • Reece Rogers

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

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Text • Matthew Korfhage

How to Prep for This Weekend’s Big Winter Storm: Power, Heat, and Underwear

Bitter cold, power outages, and impassible roads are a terrible cocktail. Here’s how to prep and bunker in for an extreme winter storm.

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Text • Brad Bourque

Our Favorite Earbuds for Most People Are Over 25 Percent Off

These excellent earbuds were already a good deal before the discount.

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Text • Caroline Haskins

CBP Wants AI-Powered ‘Quantum Sensors’ for Finding Fentanyl in Cars

US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other narcotics.

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Text • Jason Parham

Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise?

TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more closely.

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Text • Steven Levy

The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up

A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.

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Text • Scott Gilbertson

The Best Paper Notebooks and Journals, Tested and Reviewed (2026): Leuchttherm, Midori, Field Notes

Celebrate National Handwriting Day (I did not make that up) with new notebooks, a journal, or sketchbooks.

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Text • Luke Larsen

Lenovo LOQ 15 Review: The Best Gaming Laptop Under $1,000

It's rare to find a gaming laptop under $1,000 without any major compromises, but the Lenovo LOQ 15 surprises.

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Text • Adrienne So

Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Review: The Most Beautiful, Best Robot Vacuum

Roborock hasn’t updated its popular, affordable Qrevo Curv line of robovacs for years. Finally, it’s happening!

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Text • Reece Rogers

No, the Freecash App Won’t Pay You to Scroll TikTok

Freecash will actually pay money out to users but not for watching videos. This misleading marketing coincides with the app’s rising popularity.

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Text • Simon Cohen

We Are Rewind GB-001 Cassette Boombox: Old-School Stylish

We Are Rewind’s speaker/cassette player combo is an imperfect but satisfying reissue of a bygone audio era.

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Text • Lily Hay Newman

149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware.

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Text • Manisha Krishnan

Sorry MAGA, Turns Out People Still Like ‘Woke’ Art

From Black vampires gobbling up Oscar nominations to gay pro hockey players dominating the culture, diverse stories broke through in an environment that’s increasingly hostile to them.

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Text • Boone Ashworth

Legislators Push to Make Companies Tell Customers When Their Products Will Die

A pair of bills in Massachusetts would require manufacturers to tell consumers when their connected gadgets are going dark. It should be a boon for cybersecurity as connected devices grow obsolete.

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Text • Aarian Marshall

Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos

Humanoid robots, space travel, the science of aging—Musk was willing to weigh in on all of it at this week's World Economic Forum. But his predictions rarely work out the way he says they will.

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Text • Zeyi Yang

What Happens When a Chinese Battery Factory Comes to Town

Chinese firms are building battery plants from Europe to North America, promising jobs while prompting local concerns about the environment, politics, and who really benefits.

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Text • Maxwell Zeff

How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic

WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.

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Text • David Gilbert

AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy

Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.

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Text • Brad Bourque

One of Our Favorite Smart Plugs for Apple Users Is $15 Off

The Meross smart plug mini boasts excellent compatibility and slim construction.

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Text • Maddy Varner

ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves

The alleged risks of being publicly identified have not stopped DHS  and ICE employees from creating profiles on LinkedIn, even as Kristi Noem threatens to treat revealing agents' identities as a crime.

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Text • Will Knight

Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal

Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

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Text • Benj Edwards, Ars Technica

A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to ‘Humanize’ Chatbots

The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it.

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Text • Emily Peck

How to Meditate (Without an Om in Sight) (2026)

There’s no need for an expensive retreat to practice meditation. Try it on your lunch break to recharge your mind and body.

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Text • Emily Mullin

The US Is In For Another Bad Year of Measles Cases

A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has infected more than 600 people since October, with hundreds more being potentially exposed.

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Text • Garrett M. Graff

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

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Text • Vittoria Elliott

DHS’s Data Grab Is Getting Citizens Kicked Off Voter Rolls, New Complaint Says

As states check voter registration against a mashup of federal data, a new complaint says US citizens are getting kicked off state voter rolls as a result.