I always tell people that the best thing I’ve ever tested for my job here on the WIRED Reviews team is my automatic litter box from Litter-Robot. I recommend every cat owner invest in an automatic litter box. If they can swing it, the Litter-Robot is the best one to invest in. You’ll be able
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If you missed the spectacular solar eclipse earlier this month, you have a chance to catch another stunning astronomical phenomenon: a partial lunar eclipse and “blood moon” that will occur on Thursday night into Friday early morning. Earth’s shadow will cover nearly all of the bright lunar disk and will cast a reddish or orange
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Roughly 160 people are dead and hundreds more—including dozens of international tourists—are missing after flash floods hit a region on the mountainous border of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday. Devastating footage posted to social media shows people fleeing a wall of water that washed away buildings and vehicles. Initial analysis of satellite imagery and reports
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With primary elections in the key 2026 battleground states largely complete, Democrats have emerged with several open paths to take the majority in the US Senate. The basic contours of the national map remain uphill for Democrats. They currently hold 47 seats in the Senate, meaning they need to flip four Republican seats and hold
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Advocates for children tell WIRED that Meta’s legal settlement to address concerns about teenagers’ use of social media proposes important and overdue feature changes that invite more parental oversight than ever before. They also, though, say it puts a significant burden on caregivers and unreliable age-assessment systems. Rather than go through a lengthy federal civil
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Gregg Phillips, an election denier who once claimed he teleported to a Waffle House, says he is still working in the Trump administration, after he was reportedly removed from his influential role overseeing the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s emergency response efforts in June. While it remains unclear what Phillips has been working on in the
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The Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education has informed five Northern Virginia school districts that their transgender policies violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. It has demanded the adoption of new rules to protect girls sports and private spaces from intrusion by biological males. As an interim measure, OCR has placed
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Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) came out against transgender athletes participating in women’s sports, a major departure from many in his party. In the debut episode of his new podcast, This is Gavin Newsom, the California governor hosted conservative activist Charlie Kirk for a nearly 70-minute conversation. At one point, Kirk challenged Newsom to speak out
Disney is one of the largest media companies in the world approaching 800 film productions. Over the last five years, its projects have floundered at the box office and in Hollywood accolades. The company’s latest filing to regulators did not mention its controversial “Reimagine Tomorrow” program, which began in 2021 and committed to a minimum
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Since Pew Research Center began conducting its religious landscape study in 2007, Christianity in the U.S. has faced a steady and precipitous decline, with those identifying as Christian decreasing from 78% in 2007 to 62% in 2024. However, this hemorrhaging appears to have halted, as indicated by Pew polls over the past few years, culminating
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