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Food Becoming More Calorific But Less Nutritious Due To Rising Carbon Dioxide
More carbon dioxide in the environment is making food more calorific but less nutritious — and also potentially more toxic, a study has found. From a report: Sterre ter Haar, a lecturer at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and other researchers at the institution created a method to compare multiple studies on plants’ responses to increased CO2 levels. The results, she said, were a shock:...
Apple Becomes a Debt Collector With Its New Developer Agreement
Apple released an updated developer license agreement this week that gives the company permission to recoup unpaid funds, such as commissions or any other fees, by deducting them from in-app purchases it processes on developers’ behalf, among other methods. From a report: The change will impact developers in regions where local law allows them to link to external payment systems. In these...
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The Best Cookbooks of 2025: Soju Party, Good Things, Salsa Daddy, Linger, and More
This year’s bumper crop looks at salsa, salads, drinking culture, home baking, and Italian cuisine.
15 years of leading smartphone camera technology – A history of Galaxy camera innovation
Samsung Electronics has achieved numerous firsts in mobile camera performance and technology since the pre-smartphone era.
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Automated Holiday Party Ideas (2025): Ninja, HP Sprocket, Cricut
I’ve tested smart home gear and high-tech party gadgets at every holiday party I’ve hosted so far this year. Here’s how to automate your party so you can actually enjoy the holiday season.
Checkers Sixty60 delivery riders “worse than taxis”
South African motorists continue to report bad driving behaviour from Checkers Sixty60 riders, while in-store customers say that Sixty60 shoppers fulfilling online orders are just as bad in the aisles.
Denmark Says Russia Was Behind Two ‘Destructive and Disruptive’ Cyberattacks
The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks in what it describes as “very clear evidence” of a hybrid war. From a report: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyberattack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Danish...
Will the TikTok deal mean the app changes in the US?
The app’s Chinese owner ByteDance has signed a deal with investors to run its business in the US.
Best MacBooks (2025): Which Apple Laptop Should You Buy?
With prices at new lows and an incoming memory shortage, here’s our advice on which MacBook you should buy.
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites — are now configured to redirect visitors to sites that foist scams and...
17 Best Camera Bags, Slings, Straps, and Backpacks (2025), Tested and Reviewed
Tote your photo and video gear around in style. We tested more than 80 packs and rounded up our favorites.
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The 14 Best Sexy Gifts for Lovers (2025)
Spice things up with our favorite sex toys, date-night boxes, and lingerie for every type of couple.
The 8 Best WIRED-Tested Handheld Vacuums (2025)
Lightweight, powerful, and generally inexpensive, the handheld vacuum is the perfect household helper.
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
“We were roadkill,” says Colin Angle, former chief executive of iRobot, maker of the robot vacuum.
What Paralympic Athlete Monster Mike Schultz Packs for His Races
The world champion adaptive snowboard cross athlete repairs his own prostheses before a competition.
How to Quickly Find Out What’s Streaming on Multiple Services at Once
Build a watchlist of all the movies and shows you want to watch, no matter where they’re streaming.
The Avatar Game Is So Good, They Don’t Need to Make the Movies Anymore
See the new movie Avatar: Fire and Ash if you’d like. But if you really want to experience the big blue world of Pandora, the video game is where it’s at.
From Queer-Baiting to Neurodivergence: ‘Heated Rivalry’s Author Tackles Fan Theories and Controversy
“I didn’t expect this book to be analyzed like The Great Gatsby,” hockey smut author Rachel Reid tells WIRED.
The two guys who built South Africa’s biggest independent app over a weekend
What started as a personal weekend side project to help two guys fresh out of university plan their lives around Eskom’s power cuts has evolved into a useful app for improving communities’ handling of broader service delivery headaches.