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Eric Geller

A New Jam-Packed Biden Executive Order Tackles Cybersecurity, AI, and More

US president Joe Biden just issued a 40-page executive order that aims to bolster federal cybersecurity protections, directs government use of AI—and takes a swipe at Microsoft’s dominance.

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Joel Khalili

The First Bitcoin President? Tracing Trump’s Crypto Connections

Crypto execs funneled millions in donations to swing this election, and now their man is in charge. Here’s how Donald Trump’s “crypto cabinet” could shape the next four years.

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Brian Barrett, Dhruv Mehrotra

How Much Are Donald Trump’s Truth Social Shares Worth?

The incoming president of the United States is also a social media mogul. We’re keeping a running tally of his stake in Truth Social—and how his fortunes change with its ups and downs.

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Lionel Barber

Masayoshi Son Bet Billions on the iPhone—3 Years Before It Existed

How SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son convinced Steve Jobs to make the deal of the century.

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Lydia Morrish

GitHub’s Deepfake Porn Crackdown Still Isn’t Working

Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found.

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27 Gifts From Uncommon Goods To Surprise Your Significant Other With This Year

Long-distance touch bracelets, a customized pet sweatshirt, an emotional support sloth plushie, and other thoughtful, out-of-the-box picks for your boo.

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Callie Holtermann

Pasadena Teenager Starts Donation Drive to Help Girls Affected by California Wildfires

An eighth grader started a donation drive for teenagers whose homes burned in Los Angeles. Ariana Grande, Prince Harry, Meghan and others have chipped in.

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Orlando Mayorquín and Emily Baumgaertner

The Los Angeles Fires Burned Livelihoods, Too

For many service workers, a wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood represented an economic lifeline that the fires have now severed.

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Karoun Demirjian and Catie Edmondson

Johnson Ousts Turner as Intelligence Chairman, Bowing to Trump

Representative Michael R. Turner, Republican of Ohio, had at times been critical of the president-elect. He told people that he was axed after an edict from Mar-a-Lago.

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Theodore Schleifer and Kenneth P. Vogel

A Euphoric Tech Industry Is Ready to Celebrate Trump and Itself

The elite of Silicon Valley are set to revel in their new clout during a long weekend of inaugural parties as President-elect Donald J. Trump is set to resume power.

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Maggie Haberman and Sapna Maheshwari

TikTok C.E.O. Plans to Attend Trump Inauguration

Shou Chew will join tech moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as the fate of the app hangs in the balance.

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Javeria Khalid

Widespread use of electric bikes could help curb Pakistan’s heavy air pollution. Can its grid support them?

Gas-powered motorbikes outnumber and out-pollute cars in Pakistan. Can widely available electric bikes help clean up the country’s air?

Pakistan is the world’s fourth-most polluted country, and in November 2024, its capital, Lahore, recorded an Air Quality Index of nearly 1,600 making it the world’s most polluted city. 

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Andrew Thompson

What fast food marketing completely misses about customers

Skip the gimmicks. Our analysis shows that this is what people secretly crave.

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Lauri Pietinalho

Consultants beware, AI is coming for your job

The management consulting industry transformation provides not just a snapshot of the changes AI is driving but also a blueprint for how economies will adapt.

The Singularity—a future where AI exceeds our human capacity for cognition— may no longer be a distant horizon. Currently, in almost any cognitive task, AI is matching, and often exceeding human accomplishments. 

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Stephanie Vozza

This tool will make your work conversations more clear and productive

If you’re looking to avoid miscommunication and awkwardness, here’s a useful way to plan for important conversations at work.

If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation wondering what just happened, you know that talking to someone and staying on the same page is easier said than done. Alison Wood Brooks, Harvard Business School professor and author of Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves, says conversations are coordination games, like playing chicken,...

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Elizabeth Segran

Say goodbye to your candles. Estée Lauder just designed a better way to make your home smell good

Estée Lauder Companies, which owns Le Labo and Jo Malone London, created a new technology called Exuud that prevents your nose from getting desensitized.

We’re in a golden age of home fragrance. Everywhere you go, from Sephora to Whole Foods, you’ll find candles, diffusers, and plug-ins, all designed to fill rooms with irresistible scents.

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Shalene Gupta

This clinic is designed to remove weight stigma from the healthcare experience

Knownwell Clinic is reimagining primary and metabolic care to make the experience less stressful for overweight patients.

Knownwell Clinic is tucked inside a multistory building that looks more like a house than an office in Needham, Massachusetts. Inside, one wall is covered in potted plants and the others are painted with pastel shapes. Wide velvet chairs are scattered throughout the waiting room, which has gold and marble accents. The decor radiates calm. And that’s the idea.

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How to watch Sabalenka vs. Tauson online for free

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Aryna Sabalenka is on a quest to win another Australian Open. Can anyone stop her from claiming another crown? It's too early to tell, but Tauson is next in line to face the reigning champ.

If you want to watch Sabalenka vs. Tauson in the 2025 Australian Open for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you...

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FDA bans Red Dye No. 3, but dont panic if youve eaten it

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned Red Dye No. 3, an additive used to colour food bright red, due to it being carcinogenic. Still, if you've been enthusiastically chowing down on Betty Crocker Red Icing or Brach's Candy Corn, there's no need to freak out. You probably haven't eaten enough to cause cancer, and even if you have, you'd also need to be a rat.

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