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The White House is inserting Trump into midterm elections even though he’s not on the ballot. Three people, including the suspect, were killed and five injured in a Minnesota shooting. And the Los Angeles Clippers are handed one of steepest penalties in NBA history. In…
It was only a matter of time before wellness trackers—already out there trying to optimize our heart rate, sleep, stress, steps, blood sugar, and menstruation—came for perhaps the most private biosignal of all: our poop. The global gut health market is expected to reach nearly…
Flock Safety’s latest search tools give police several ways to find people on camera, not just the license plates on their cars. The capabilities sit inside a suite of software now at the center of dozens of police-stalking cases. WIRED collected and analyzed that software,…
A big problem with physics is that it’s invented by humans. We see stuff around us and use our observations to build a mental model of the world. Children do this, and of course physicists keep right on doing it. In many cases, this is…
Gloria Steinem, the indefatigable feminist and journalist whose activism revolutionized the personal and professional lives of women, has died. She was 92. Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her,” a post on…
Prime Video is doubling its investment in Japanese original content over the next two years, according to three of the streamer’s top executives, who detailed a slate led by a documentary on boy band Arashi‘s reunion tour and subsequent conclusion from Kore-eda Hirokazu, in an…
In 2025, AI deepfakes flooded Tinder. According to the company, 98 percent of the content-moderation actions on the app were focused on combating fake accounts, scamming, and spam, pushing the company to expand its moderation efforts for its 60 million global users. The problem is…
Evan Rachel Wood appeared to shade her original “Practical Magic” co-stars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock by revealing in an Instagram story (via Entertainment Weekly) that no one involved in the 1998 cult classic reached out to her when she was not invited back to…
WASHINGTON — An American journalist has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for acting as an agent of a foreign government within the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said. Thomas Weir Pauken II, 51, pleaded guilty earlier this year and is not…
LIVINGSTON, Texas — Texas authorities rescued dozens of people from stranded cars, homes surrounded by floodwaters and an assisted living facility Wednesday as former Tropical Storm Edouard lingered over rural parts of the state and dumped nearly 2 feet of rain in some places. Heavy…