#wired.com. × Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese. Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel. Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own. Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship—even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × How China’s ‘Crystal Capital’ Cornered the Market on a Western Obsession. Decades ago, Donghai was a backwater county. Today, thanks to an army of 24/7 livestreamers, it orchestrates a multibillion-dollar global industry.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × Chinese EV Batteries Are Eating the World. China’s lithium batteries aren’t always “made in China.” Companies like BYD and CATL are building factories on nearly every continent.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × China’s Renewable Energy Revolution Is a Huge Mess That Might Save the World. A global onslaught of cheap Chinese green power is upending everything in its path. No one is ready for its repercussions.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × The Search for Alien Artifacts Is Coming Into Focus. From surveys of the pre-Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of alien technology.
#Jan.19.2026
#wired.com. × Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds. All my Gen Z friends want to ditch their smartphones. It’s cool. They’re cool. But there’s more at stake than they think.
#Jan.19.2026
#wired.com. × Capturing the Moment a White Dwarf Exploded. A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion.
#Jan.19.2026
#wired.com. × US Hackers Reportedly Caused a Blackout in Venezuela. Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more.
#Jan.17.2026
#wired.com. × The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good. After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.
#Jan.16.2026
#wired.com. × How Does the Hive Mind Work in ‘Pluribus’?. The “Joining” seems to connect people via radio waves. Let’s dig into the physics at play.
#Jan.16.2026
#wired.com. × RFK Jr. Says He’s Ending the War on Protein. It Doesn’t Exist. There is no war on protein. But pretending there is goes hand-in-hand with the Trump administration’s appeal to traditional masculinity.
#Jan.16.2026
#wired.com. × Altra Running Deals: Up to 50% off, 10% off With Sign-up, and Free Shipping This February. Score big savings on Altra Running shoes with up to 50% off sale styles, 20% off select models, 10% off your first order when you sign up, plus free standard delivery on every purchase.
#Jan.16.2026
#wired.com. × Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed. X has placed more restrictions on Grok’s ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to fully address the issue.
#Jan.15.2026
#wired.com. × Why ICE Can Kill With Impunity. Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.
#Jan.15.2026
#wired.com. × OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs. Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.
#Jan.15.2026
#wired.com. × Former CISA Director Jen Easterly Will Lead RSAC Conference. The longtime cybersecurity professional says she’s taking the helm of the legacy security organization at “an inflection point” for tech and the world beyond.
#Jan.15.2026
#wired.com. × Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking. Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
#Jan.15.2026
#wired.com. × Watch Our Livestream Replay: Welcome to the Chinese Century. Watch our livestream on China’s dominance, influence, and how it is rewriting the future.
#Jan.15.2026
#wired.com. × A Brain Mechanism Explains Why People Leave Certain Tasks for Later. New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug.
#Jan.14.2026
#wired.com. × How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts. Two years ago, companies like Meta and OpenAI were united against military use of their tools. Now all of that has changed.
#Jan.14.2026
#wired.com. × Microsoft Has a Plan to Keep Its Data Centers From Raising Your Electric Bill. In response to a growing backlash, Microsoft said it would take steps to ensure that data centers don’t raise utility bills in surrounding areas and address other public concerns.
#Jan.13.2026
#wired.com. × Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing. If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.
#Jan.13.2026
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