In the first procedure of its kind, a 54-year-old New Jersey woman received a genetically engineered pig kidney and thymus after getting a heart pump.

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25.04.2024

Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram | WIRED

WIRED found thousands of ads running on Meta’s social platforms promoting sexually explicit “AI girlfriend" apps. Some human sex workers say the platform unfairly polices their own posts more harshly.

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25.04.2024

'Metaphor: ReFantazio' Steals the Best Ideas From 'Persona 5' | WIRED

Atlus promises its next game, out later this year, will be a culmination of all of its beloved RPGs.

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25.04.2024

President Biden Signs Bill That Could Ban TikTok | WIRED

The law will give TikTok a year to divest from ByteDance, its Chinese owner.

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25.04.2024

Team Biden Is Posting Through the Looming TikTok Ban | WIRED

President Joe Biden may have signed the TikTok ban bill into law, but his campaign is still active on the Chinese-owned app.

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25.04.2024

Can the First Amendment Save TikTok? | WIRED

TikTok says it plans to challenge the law that could ban it in the US in court. Experts think it's got a fighting chance.

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24.04.2024

TikTok's Creator Economy Stares Into the Abyss | WIRED

The US Senate voted to pass a bill that could see TikTok banned within a year, pitching creators and businesses dependent on the platform into an uncertain future.

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24.04.2024

ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire | WIRED

Internal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled.

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24.04.2024

Rabbit's AI Assistant Is Here. And Soon a Camera Wearable Will Be Too | WIRED

WIRED went along to the company's launch event where customers picked up the very first R1s and learned of an inbound “all-seeing” accompanying AI device.

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24.04.2024

The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean | WIRED

Decades after her dad’s iconic sports car time-traveled into movie history, Kat DeLorean wants to build a modern remake. There’s just one problem: Someone else owns the trademark on her name.

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24.04.2024

This Is the Beginning of the End of TikTok | WIRED

After years of negotiations, the Senate approved a bill to force TikTok to either divest from its Chinese owners or face an outright ban.

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24.04.2024

How to Handle Online Harassment When It Happens to You | WIRED

If your mentions, inbox, and DMs are blowing up with hateful comments, here are the technological and psychological tools you need to weather the storm.

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24.04.2024

Bang & Olufsen Beosystem 9000c: Price, Specs, Release Date | WIRED

Bang & Olufsen has released just 200 units of its new-old CD changer, but it reminds us that a corporation can’t ever delete a physical, plastic disc out of your great big honking CD collection.

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23.04.2024

Elehear Alpha Pro Review: Hearing Aids With Great Battery Life | WIRED

These midrange over-the-counter hearing aids have stellar battery life and can use your phone’s mic to send audio straight to your ears.

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23.04.2024

Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust | WIRED

Sales of vegan meat are trending downward in the US, with companies scrambling to win back customers.

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23.04.2024

A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI | WIRED

Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.

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22.04.2024

North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say | WIRED

Thousands of exposed files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint at one way the reclusive country may evade international sanctions.

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22.04.2024

Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better | WIRED

Amsterdam is experimenting with roofs that not only grow plants but capture water for a building’s residents. Welcome to the squeezable sponge city of tomorrow.

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22.04.2024

Boomergasms Are Booming | WIRED

Dating apps from Feeld to Match have become ground zero for aging singles to unlock their newfound sexual appetites—and a bolder sense of self.

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22.04.2024

Semiconductor Giant ASML Has a New Boss, and a Big Problem | WIRED

European chip machine-maker ASML is at the center of US-China trade tensions. Its new chief executive now faces a daunting political juggling act.

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21.04.2024

The House Passes a TikTok Ban Bill That’s on the Fast Track | WIRED

The latest TikTok ban bill has been tacked onto a foreign aid package, making it much harder for the Senate to ignore.

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21.04.2024

Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts | WIRED

Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places poorly served by polling stations.

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20.04.2024

The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem | WIRED

When "The Tortured Poets Department" leaked, some Taylor Swift fans swore it must be AI. Expect that to be a common refrain.

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20.04.2024

AI-Controlled Fighter Jets Are Dogfighting With Human Pilots Now | WIRED

Plus: New York’s legislature suffers a cyberattack, police disrupt a global phishing operation, and Apple removes encrypted messaging apps in China.

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20.04.2024

How One Corporation Is Cashing In on America’s Drought | WIRED

In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town—and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away. Local residents fear the agreement has “opened Pandora’s box.”

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20.04.2024

My Life Outside of the Apple Vision Pro | WIRED

Apple's mixed-reality headset is impossible to ignore and, one WIRED writer finds, can create a wall of isolation between partners.

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19.04.2024

RFK Jr.’s Very Online, Conspiracy-Filled Campaign | WIRED

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his campaign one year ago this week.

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19.04.2024

Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse | WIRED

An infection can upset your microbiome, and if certain gut fungi run riot, this can kick the immune system into overdrive.

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19.04.2024

She Painted a Few Champagne Bottles. Then Came Meta’s Customer Support Hell | WIRED

A fashion influencer’s struggles to unblock her Instagram account highlight a long-standing problem with Meta’s lackluster customer service. Users and regulators say the company must step up.

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19.04.2024

Nas’ 'Illmatic' Was the Beginning of the End of the Album | WIRED

Nas’ critically revered "Illmatic" hit record store shelves 30 years ago today. The digital age has ensured that there will never be another album like it.

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19.04.2024

Donald Trump Is 'Seriously Considering' Jake Paul's Fight Invite | WIRED

Influencers like Jake Paul can offer Donald Trump inroads to audiences beyond his base—and prime seats at a major spectacle.

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19.04.2024

We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening | WIRED

After months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for its brain implant study is the Barrow Neurological Institute.

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19.04.2024

Far-Right Sheriffs Want a Citizen Army to Stop 'Illegal Immigrant' Voters | WIRED

Speakers at a conference for Constitutional Sheriffs claimed that militias need to patrol polling stations to stop the "expected flood" of immigrant voters.

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18.04.2024

The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived | WIRED

Watch how smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely available face-swapping tech to carry out elaborate romance scams.

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18.04.2024

The Rise of the Carbon Farmer | WIRED

Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultural practices of yesteryear—to improve soil health, raise yields, and trap carbon in the atmosphere back down in the soil.

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18.04.2024

Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a) Review: Third Time, Still Charming | WIRED

The third generation of Nothing's clear-plastic AirPod clones is here, and they're some of the best wireless earbuds for Android.

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18.04.2024

Google Fires 28 Workers for Protesting Cloud Deal With Israel | WIRED

The fired workers included nine Google employees who were removed by police after occupying Google offices on Tuesday.

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18.04.2024

Delta Is an iOS Game Boy Emulator That (Likely) Won’t Get Taken Down | WIRED

A new app called Delta that lets iPhone owners play old Nintendo games is available on the App Store. Apple removed a similar emulator Monday.

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17.04.2024

Hackers Linked to Russia’s Military Claim Credit for Sabotaging US Water Utilities | WIRED

Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin’s Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn’t dare to.

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17.04.2024

How ‘Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley’ Hit Its Antiauthoritarian Stride | WIRED

The title character of ‘Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley’ scares cops and destroys park signs in the latest game adaptation of Tove Jansson’s creation.

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Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery | WIRED

Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram | WIRED

'Metaphor: ReFantazio' Steals the Best Ideas From 'Persona 5' | WIRED

President Biden Signs Bill That Could Ban TikTok | WIRED

Team Biden Is Posting Through the Looming TikTok Ban | WIRED

Can the First Amendment Save TikTok? | WIRED

TikTok's Creator Economy Stares Into the Abyss | WIRED

ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire | WIRED

Rabbit's AI Assistant Is Here. And Soon a Camera Wearable Will Be Too | WIRED

The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean | WIRED

This Is the Beginning of the End of TikTok | WIRED

How to Handle Online Harassment When It Happens to You | WIRED

Bang & Olufsen Beosystem 9000c: Price, Specs, Release Date | WIRED

Elehear Alpha Pro Review: Hearing Aids With Great Battery Life | WIRED

Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust | WIRED

A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI | WIRED

North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say | WIRED

Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better | WIRED

Boomergasms Are Booming | WIRED

Semiconductor Giant ASML Has a New Boss, and a Big Problem | WIRED

The House Passes a TikTok Ban Bill That’s on the Fast Track | WIRED

Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts | WIRED

The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem | WIRED

AI-Controlled Fighter Jets Are Dogfighting With Human Pilots Now | WIRED

How One Corporation Is Cashing In on America’s Drought | WIRED

My Life Outside of the Apple Vision Pro | WIRED

RFK Jr.’s Very Online, Conspiracy-Filled Campaign | WIRED

Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse | WIRED

She Painted a Few Champagne Bottles. Then Came Meta’s Customer Support Hell | WIRED

Nas’ 'Illmatic' Was the Beginning of the End of the Album | WIRED

Donald Trump Is 'Seriously Considering' Jake Paul's Fight Invite | WIRED

We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening | WIRED

Far-Right Sheriffs Want a Citizen Army to Stop 'Illegal Immigrant' Voters | WIRED

The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived | WIRED

The Rise of the Carbon Farmer | WIRED

Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a) Review: Third Time, Still Charming | WIRED

Google Fires 28 Workers for Protesting Cloud Deal With Israel | WIRED

Delta Is an iOS Game Boy Emulator That (Likely) Won’t Get Taken Down | WIRED

Hackers Linked to Russia’s Military Claim Credit for Sabotaging US Water Utilities | WIRED

How ‘Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley’ Hit Its Antiauthoritarian Stride | WIRED

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