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A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China

An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.

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The Best Kitchen Composters for Digging in the Dirt

Responsibly dispose of your food scraps with one of these indoor, (mostly) odor-free, WIRED-tested devices.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down

John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as CEO on September 1. Cook will stay on as executive chairman.

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Ben McKenzie Says Crypto Has a Secret Ingredient: Male Loneliness

The actor-director discussed his least favorite currency and read a series of mean tweets—about us!—at our inaugural WIRED@Night event.

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A Hot-Air Balloon Landed in a California Backyard. The Owner Says It's a 'Very Rare' Event

The CEO of Magical Adventures Balloon Rides tells WIRED how the pilot made a safe landing after they got stranded over a neighborhood.

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War Memes Are Turning Conflict Into Content

The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious.

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Hyundai's New Ioniq 3 Has Hot-Hatch Looks, but Can It Beat BYD?

The brand’s new 300-mile urban EV has great interior space and driving smarts, but a lot of competition. And, yes, there's a chance it is US-bound.

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Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce?

The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time.

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Snag a Great Deal on the Best Noise-Canceling Earbuds

The Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2 have the best active noise cancellation on the market, and they very rarely get cheaper.

Louryn Strampe

Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control.

Miles Klee

The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad

Years before the figure skater became an Olympic superstar, a Chinese operative tried to stalk her father and monitored other US residents deemed dissidents against China. And that’s just the beginning.

Timothy McLaughlin

There’s New Evidence for How Loneliness Affects Memory in Old Age

A longitudinal study found that loneliness is more closely linked to lapses in immediate and delayed recall than to the overall speed of cognitive decline.

Jorge Garay