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Most women don’t know what’s going to happen during perimenopause. Smart-ring manufacturers are stepping in to provide data and guidance.

Silo, Disclaimer, and Slow Horses are among the best shows on Apple TV+ this month.

From sitting in on calls with foreign leaders to recommending new hires, Musk is already wielding power at Donald Trump’s side.

Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video  —  Amazon is officially shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported video streaming service originally launched under the IMDb brand nearly five years ago.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Marc Lore’s food delivery startup Wonder is in advanced talks to buy Grubhub from Just Eat Takeaway; Just Eat bought Grubhub in 2021 in a $7B+ deal  —  Marc Lore’s Wonder is close to a deal to buy the food-delivery startup from Europe’s Just Eat Takeaway.com

Financial Times: Sources: Gail Slater, a top aide to JD Vance, and Mark Meador, a former enforcer at the DOJ’s antitrust unit and the FTC, are the front-runners to lead the FTC  —  Contenders for prime slots include a top aide to JD Vance and former Department of Justice lawyers

AI and Google Street View have created ‘digital twins’ of living trees in North American cities – part of a huge simulation that could help make urban tree planting and trimming decisions

An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such as chairs and tables out of reusable building blocks

Imagine using artificial intelligence to compare two seemingly unrelated creations — biological tissue and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9.” At first glance, a living system and a musical masterpiece might appear to have no connection. However, a novel AI method developed by Markus J. Buehler, the McAfee Professor of Engineering and professor of civil and environmental […]

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Strategies to foster cooperation, increase engagement, and solve complex problems.

Can an established international spirits company digitally transform its systems and integrate artificial intelligence into its operations?

Lowered age restrictions and cheaper VR headsets have led to young kids hijacking the metaverse. Maybe we should let them keep it.

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

Privacy advocates worry banning masks at protests will encourage harassment, while cops’ high-tech tools render the rules unnecessary.

Financial Times: Analysts: Nintendo and Sony are heading into the holiday season with little to offer consumers; the Switch is now seven years old and $700 PS5 Pro is overpriced  —  Video game industry fears its most important quarter will fall flat with few new mass-market offerings

Bloomberg: Alibaba, JD, and Xiaomi report Singles’ Day sales numbers they say make the shopping event one of the most productive yet, as China’s economy continues to sag  —  – Data shows sales surged, but over a much longer period  — Analysts warn shoppers still show signs of moderated spending

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Baidu unveils smart glasses powered by its Ernie LLM that aim to “become a private assistant” by tracking calories, playing music, and more, launching in 2025  —  Launch comes as Chinese internet groups jostle for dominance in hardware  —  Baidu has unveiled artificial intelligence …

As a teenager living in a small village in what was then Yugoslavia, Admir Masic witnessed the collapse of his home country and the outbreak of the Bosnian war. When his childhood home was destroyed by a tank, his family was forced to flee the violence, leaving their remaining possessions to enter a refugee camp […]

There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, they release a soup of […]

Our top office chair and standing desk recommendations are on sale through December 2.

The annual UN climate summit has kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, with lofty goals, but many global leaders missing.

There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $150 to $500—stood up to WIRED’s testing.

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Alameda Research co-CEO Sam Trabucco has agreed to hand over a slew of properties, including his yacht, to FTX creditors as part of a November 3 settlement deal  —  – Former Alameda Research co-CEO reached a settlement deal  —  Sam Trabucco, one of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle …

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Canadian digital bank Neo Financial raised a CA$360M Series D from Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, and others  —  Shopify, Slack, PointClickCare, Roblox founders back FinTech scaleup’s fast growth.  —  Calgary and Winnipeg-based challenger bank Neo Financial …

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: An indictment against two men suspected of hacking Snowflake clients, including AT&T, says the pair and their co-conspirators extorted at least 36 bitcoins  —  The indictment also charges a second hacker that 404 Media previously reported as being linked to the AT&T breach.

Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the words “man” or “men” than “woman” or “women”, raising fears of bias

Learn from women who’ve gone all in.

A study of over 1 million job listings posted before and after the introduction of major gen AI tools reveals the effect they’re having on gig workers.

Three reflective exercises to help you become a more confident, effective public speaker.

New MacBooks are here. Having a hard time choosing which Apple laptop to buy? Let us help.

Last week’s US election will affect the future for all of us. Here’s how we’ll cover it.

The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.

Callan Quinn / CoinDesk: FTX sues crypto trader “Humpy the Whale” alleging margin trading market manipulation from January 2021 to September 2022, leading to FTX and Alameda losing $1B  —  The suit also links him to organized crime in Eastern Europe and terrorist groups.

a16z crypto: a16z says it is “very optimistic” that the US government will “foster innovation” in crypto and there is a “pathway for constructive engagement” with regulators  —  Miles Jennings Michele Korver Brian Quintenz  —  We’ve been flooded with crypto founders asking us …

Bloomberg: How Swiggy beat Amazon to fast grocery deliveries in India by using an army of gig workers, mini-warehouses, and notable investors, ahead of its November 13 IPO  —  It has an army of gig workers, a fleet of mini-warehouses and big-name investors.  But a knockout trading debut isn’t a guarantee.

Whether you’re setting out before dawn for that epic summit or need some light during a power outage, these are the best flashlight and headlamps you can buy.

There are many kinds of mothers, but these are our favorite picks for the WIRED mom in your life.

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find those worth your money.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about Firefox’s 20th birthday, growth due to the EU’s DMA, privacy, the Google search deal, AI, and more  —  Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser.  At the time, you could download it or buy …

Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: Gurman: the second generation Apple Vision Pro may arrive between the fall of 2025 and spring of 2026 and could feature an M5 around when the first Macs get it  —  In the latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reported that the 2nd generation of Apple Vision Pro is […]

Taylor Lorenz / User Mag: Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights the shift toward a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum  —  Over the past several days, Meta’s Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies.

Oral phenylephrine was shown to be ineffective for treating nasal congestion over a year go. This week, the FDA took the first steps toward removing it from pharmacy shelves.

Washington Post: Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters  —  Artificial intelligence was predicted to disrupt the 2024 election.  It ended up shaking people’s faith in truth rather than changing minds.

James Zou / Nature: A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7%-17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs  —  Since the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was released in late 2022, computer scientists have noticed a troubling trend …

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI companies create their own internal benchmarks as new models approach or exceed 90% accuracy on existing public tests  —  Rapidly advancing technology is surpassing current methods of evaluating and comparing large language models

These WIRED-tested slates let you take the world’s library anywhere.

TCL’s midrange TV is a top performer with one major caveat.

Stay hydrated in style and cut down on single-use plastic with our favorite bottles—now updated with information on lead.

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT’s launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools  —  Chegg’s stock is down 99%, and students looking for homework help are defecting to ChatGPT  —  Most companies are starting to […]