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The NBA’s Rookie Class Is Getting Straight To Work

The NBA’s Rookie Class Is Getting Straight To Work
The best part of the first week of the NBA season is seeing preconceptions built up over a summer spent consuming season previews shattered by the hard reality of basketball games. Heading into this season, one such widely shared preconception was that the Rookie of the Year...

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Text • Steve Croce

Shadow AI: The Growing Risk IT Leaders Must Address

As long as there have been guardrails, there have been people trying to find ways around them, from the Garden

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WIRED
Text • Nena Farrell

Amazon Echo Studio (2nd Gen) and Echo Dot Max Review: Bigger Sound, Bigger Price

Amazon's new Echo Studio and Dot models get a new look and more power behind the sound and smarts.

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Text • Kathryn Xu

They Can’t All Be The Most Memorable World Series Game Ever

They Can’t All Be The Most Memorable World Series Game Ever
There is a somewhat prevalent belief among fans that baseball should be boring. That is, baseball is a sport best suited for the interminable regular season grind of 162 games, and is best viewed at noon with a beer in hand, not in discrete odd-numbered series. Even though d...

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Text • Jelani Harper

dbt Labs Open Sources MetricFlow: An Independent Schema for Data Interoperability

Data framework provider dbt Labs recently released as open source MetricFlow, a SQL generation tool that reinforces the dbt semantic

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Text • Dr. Werner Vogels

What is USSD (and who cares)?

While many of us chase the latest tech trends, innovative builders in Sub-Saharan Africa are leveraging a nearly 30-year-old messaging protocol to process hundreds of billions in transactions annually, reminding us that the best technology isn't always the shiniest, it's what actually solves customer problems.

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Text • Joseph Cox

Podcast: Grokipedia is Cringe

Podcast: Grokipedia is Cringe

Why Grokipedia won't beat Wikipedia; the Windows 10 update; and a16z's plan for a wholly AI-generated internet.

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Text • Emanuel Maiberg

Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers

Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers

“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”

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Text • Gracie Beaver-Kairis

A Brief Questionnaire Before You Adopt This Rescue Cat

Thank you for your interest in CHICKEN FINGERS, an available cat with Furrever Rescue. Furrever Rescue currently has over a hundred cats that desperately need forever homes. But it’s important to us that CHICKEN FINGERS gets adopted into the purr-fect family, so please fill ...

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Why David Chang Is ‘Steve Jobs with a Knife’

What happens when a world-class chef learns that success doesn’t taste like he imagined? David Chang—the culinary force behind Momofuku and author of Eat a Peach—joins Guy Kawasaki to talk about ambition, burnout, scaling the unscalable, and learning to trade Michelin stars ...

WIRED
Text • Jacob Roach

Exclusive: Adobe's Corrective AI Can Change the Emotions of a Voice-Over

Ahead of Adobe's MAX Sneaks event, WIRED got an exclusive look at a new tool that can change the tone and style of a voice-over.

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Text • Louryn Strampe

Eating Microwave Popcorn in 2025? You Can Do Better

Air-popped popcorn is superior in every way. We spoke with an expert to find out why, and tested a few different poppers worth your kernel.

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Text • Meredith Shubel

LogicStar AI Wants To Automate Debugging

Software bugs are huge pests, wasting developers’ time and slowing down release cycles. Boris Paskalev, co-founder and CEO of LogicStar

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WIRED
Text • Henri Robbins

Razer HyperFlux V2 Wireless Charging System Review: A $120 Mousepad

If you have a compatible Razer mouse and cash to burn, you can enjoy near-infinite battery life with this mousepad.

WIRED
Text • Craig Grannell

Apple’s Family Sharing Helps Keep Children Safe. Until It Doesn’t

When families break down, the systems put in place to protect children online can fall apart too.

WIRED
Text • John Semley

The Director of a Raunchy 3-Hour Dracula Movie Says AI Is Gross and Slimy. That’s Why He Used It

Radu Jude’s AI-filled adaptation features Dracula doing porn and exploiting tech workers.

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Text • Bob Dunn

How a Camping Trip Illustrates the Power of Storytelling in Tech

Rae Morey, WordPress journalist and podcast host, recently shared a story on Open Channels FM about a camping trip that revealed just how effective storytelling can be in business. After spending a rough night on the ground during a camping trip, Rae realized, “I woke up with a sore back. I’m getting old. And I […]

WIRED
Text • Manisha Krishnan

OnlyFans Goes to Business School

In its first foray into business content, the platform has asked lingerie entrepreneur and ex-SuicideGirl Rachael McCrary to teach creators how to monetize their ideas.

WIRED
Text • Luke Larsen

Acer Nitro V 16 AI Review: The Best Budget Gaming Laptop

It’s not perfect, but this sub-$900 Acer gaming laptop compromises in the right spots and delivers exceptional value.

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Is China Beating Trump?

President Trump’s trade war against China has so far proved harder to win than his administration ever let on. And it reached new levels of tension this month when China said it would further restrict exports of rare-earth minerals to the United States and Europe. Keith Brad...