WeWork’s Failure is SoftBank’s Day Of Reckoning

In the wake of WeWork’s failed IPO last month, schadenfreude fans had a lot to cheer from Adam Neumann’s fall from grace. The once high-flying CEO lost his job, his corporate jet, over a billion dollars of liquidity, and voting control over the company he founded a decade ago.It would be easy to write off…

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A Propane Smoker That’s as Good as a Wood One

If you were to rate all of the cool options for smoking food, propane smokers would be near the bottom. There are so many flashier alternatives to cook and infuse smoky flavor like a Big Green Egg, a Weber Summit or modified Weber kettle grill, an ace in the hole like the PK 360 Grill…

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The Air Force Ditches Its Nuclear Command Floppy Disks

The first thing you should read about cybersecurity this week, if you somehow haven't already, is this in-depth look at Olympic Destroyer, the malware that plagued the Pyeongchang Olympics. An excerpt from WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg's upcoming book Sandworm, the feature from our November issue details how investigators figured out who was behind the…

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14 Great Weekend Deals: Sony, LG, Razer, and More

Fall is a busy season. There are leaves to rake, scary movies to watch, and houses to be festooned with acres of spiderweb simulacra. But before we've even finished carving our pumpkins, we here at the Gadget Lab have already started getting reminders from retailers and readers alike that November, and holiday deals, are just…

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At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms

As casual dining chains have declined in popularity, many have experimented with surveillance technology designed to maximize employee efficiency and performance. Earlier this week, one Outback Steakhouse franchise announced it would begin testing such a tool, a computer vision program called Presto Vision, at a single outpost in the Portland, Oregon area. Your Bloomin' Onion…

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IPOs are the beginning, not the end

Earlier this month at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, we sat down with Box’s Aaron Levie and PagerDuty’s Jennifer Tejada to discuss their respective companies’ paths to an IPO, the general…

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The new iPhone is ugly

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a bit old-fashioned when it comes to phones. Everyone scoffs at my iPhone SE, but the truth is it’s the best phone…

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