“I Sweated So Much I Never Needed to Pee”: Life in China’s Relentless Gig Economy

In his newly translated memoir I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan captures the brutal labor and quiet grace of life at the edge of China’s booming ecommerce industry.

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A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children.

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NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight

The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly customers more than twice as fast as commercial airliners.

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If You Hated ‘A House of Dynamite,’ Watch This Classic Nuclear Thriller Instead

At a time when nuclear threats feel more alarming than ever, Netflix’s doomsday film falls frustratingly flat. A 1964 masterpiece tells a much better cautionary tale.

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8 Best Password Managers (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.

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A Fight Over Big Tech’s Emissions Has the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Caught in the Crossfire

An ideological war over how tech giants can account for AI data center emissions has bled into the international arena.

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How ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Star EJAE Topped the Charts

Kids everywhere know her voice—if not her name. WIRED talks to the former SM trainee about her rise to global superstardom with her hit song “Golden.”

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Vodafone goes for Dell in major Open RAN network modernisation

European operator selects global IT giant to power regional strategic five-year RAN infrastructure programme to improve connectivity across Europe

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Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act promises to fill Meta’s coffers

The owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram is spending billions on new datacentres for artificial intelligence

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Post Office scandal investigator warns public inquiry about Horizon defect at large for years

Forensic investigator who helped expose Horizon scandal described defect ‘sufficiently serious’ to inform public inquiry

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