The 53 Best Cyber Monday Deals 2019 Still Available Now: Amazon, Walmart, Etc

Cyber Monday is officially over, but many of our favorite deals are still going. If you took an extended holiday from screens, or ignored the past few days of sale madness, fear not. There are still quite a few great deals going.We combed through our many Cyber Monday guides and found everything that's still going.…

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SpaceX Will Bring the Science of Fire and Beer to the ISS

On Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida bound for the International Space Station. The brand-new rocket will be carrying a previously flown Dragon capsule loaded with supplies and experiments. It will mark SpaceX’s 19th trip to the space station as part of NASA’s Commercial Resupply…

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Why YouTube Won’t Ban Trump’s Misleading Ads About Biden

The online political advertising wars rage on.In late September, Facebook pleased almost no one when it announced that it would exempt posts by politicians, including ads, from its fact-checking system. Almost as if on cue, a few days later the Donald Trump reelection campaign dropped an ad full of conspiratorial claims about Joe Biden. When…

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Want Vintage NASA Space Photos? Sotheby’s Can Help

Apollo 12 pilot Alan Bean stands on the moon during the second lunar landing in November 1969. A Hasselblad camera is fixed to his chest, and mission commander Pete Conrad is crisply reflected on his helmet’s visor, as Bean holds up a gleaming cylinder filled with lunar dust.Space-philes can download a high-resolution version of this…

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15 Passive-Aggressive Gift Ideas for Your Terrible Roommate

When you share a living space with other human beings, a few bumps in the road are inevitable. But sometimes those bumps can feel more like mountains. You know, like when your roommate is constantly "forgetting" to pay the bills, leaving clothes all over the floor, and stealing your food from the fridge.Instead of treating…

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It’s Now Easy to Shift Facebook Pics to Google (in Europe Anyway)

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation is delivering results. Big time. Facebook on Monday announced a tool that allows anyone to copy their endless selfies and holiday pictures from the Zuckerberg empire to Google Photos.Wired UKThis story originally appeared on WIRED UK.A beta of the photo-transfer tool is rolling out today in Ireland with a…

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Tesla Has Found a Use for Lasers—Cleaning Glass

Elon Musk may not want lidar scanners anywhere near his cars, but at least somebody in his employ believes that lasers can help Tesla cars see the world around them. Not by firing photons and measuring how long they take to return, but by blasting away grime that might block the view of the cameras…

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What Is Genetic Testing? The Complete WIRED Guide

Big secrets come in small packages. Take cells, like the ones shedding off the inside of your cheeks and into your saliva right now. These days it’s not that hard to crack them open, shake out the DNA coiled inside, and read the genetic code they contain. Those strings of As, Cs, Ts, and Gs…

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Meet Europe’s top VCs at Disrupt Berlin

Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, from Sequoia to Benchmark to Accel, are investing more and more dollars overseas, as more globally-minded unicorns crop up across Europe. As Forbes recently…

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