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Of what use are users?

Google tries to speak for me. Here's what it does. Reading a friend's email, I click the Reply button, and withouth me asking, it writes a reply for me. Thus, if I want to speak for myself first I have to delete the message it created in my name. I don't yet have words to d...

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Gear News of the Week: Fairphone Lands in the US, and WhatsApp Is Finally on the Apple Watch

Plus: Motorola has new Moto G phones, Canon’s R6 III mirrorless has a 32-MP sensor, and Teenage Engineering’s Riddim n’ Ting looks gorgeous.

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Trump’s Hatred of EVs Is Making Gas Cars More Expensive

Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car, period.

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Should You Cold Plunge Before or After a Workout? (2025)

If you’re going to suffer, make sure it’s worth the effort. We consulted fitness experts to help you maximize your ice bath.

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Unpicking How to Measure the Complexity of Knots

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

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Bad Air Is One of the Biggest Threats to Your Health. Here’s How to Protect Yourself

Even though you can’t see it, fine particulate matter from woodsmoke and industrial pollution can cause everything from heart attacks and diabetes to brain damage.

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'The Interview': Fox News Wanted Greg Gutfeld to Do This Interview. He Wasn’t So Sure.

The pugnacious conservative late-night host on his "hierarchy of smears" and the risks of being a scold.

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Why Are We All Still Carrying Around Car Keys?

Ford wants you to stash it in your belt buckle, but there’s absolutely no need to be lugging around a bulky fob. Trouble is, phone-as-a-key tech could be superseded before it even gets going.

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Best Of: Judd Apatow / Misty Copeland

Before he was directing box office hits or launching the careers of comedy superstars, Judd Apatow was a kid writing fan letters to his heroes, collecting autographs, and obsessively documenting everything. He’s now opened his personal archive for a new book of photographs, ...

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I’ve seen the new Mac ad on TV several times now and really like it. There’s obviously something special about it. Didn’t realize at first that it was voiced by Jane Goodall.

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Watched: Pluribus S1E1, We Is Us. Not sure what to think of this yet. Rhea Seehorn is good, but want to watch a little more to see where the story is going. 📺

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Earthquake Prediction Flowchart

At least people who make religious predictions of the apocalypse have an answer to the question 'Why didn't you predict any of the other ones that happened recently?'

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I upgraded my phone to iOS 26 and it mostly looks and works fine. Most of the issues with Liquid Glass seem to have been addressed, although I feel like the new UX is a lot less conductive to people learning more advanced functionality... Anyway, why the hell is "Stop timer" a slider now.

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Kaycee Nicole

Mimi Lamarre at Switchboard Magazine has a delightful long read in The Curious Case of Kaycee Nicole, where, in the early days of online communities and blogging, a fake person claimed to have leukemia. The blogging community was relatively small back then, and I recall some of this happening contemporarily.

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Letters to Your Younger Self Are a Scam

Letters to Your Younger Self Are a Scam

The Futility of Trying to Tell Your Younger Self Anything Useful

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The Government Shutdown Is a Ticking Cybersecurity Time Bomb

Many critical systems are still being maintained, and the cloud provides some security cover. But experts say that any lapses in protections like patching and monitoring could expose government systems.

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She couldn't win as a Democrat. Will running as a Republican work?

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Kate Barr ran for state Senate in North Carolina’s 37th District as a Democrat last year, expecting to lose. She even branded her campaign with the words “Kate Barr can’t win.” She ran the unconventional campaign to make an argument against gerrymandering — a tactic used in ...

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Not sure if this is fair or not, but I think of Bird Bird Biscuit as a hipster version of Chick-fil-a. And to be clear I love both.

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Monitor Docker Containers Across Servers With Beszel

How many machines do you have on your network that run Docker containers? One? Two? 20? Now, how are those

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WIRED-Approved Brooklinen Bedding Is on Sale for a Few Days

Upgrade your sleep setup with up to 20 percent off some of our favorite bedding essentials.