One caveat: Cabela’s frequently sells the pre-2018 model of these at a steep discount but doesn’t label it as such. I have not tested that…
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11 Best Sleeping Bags (2024): Ultralight, for Car Campers, Warm Weather, for Kids
John Muir famously set off for the mountains with “some bread and tea in a pair of blankets with some sugar and a tin cup.”…
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If anything is emblematic of the demise of Twitter, it is the rise and stall of the account of Oprah Winfrey. Oprah joined the platform…
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7 Best Sleeping Pads (2024): For Camping, Backpacking, and Travel
What are these sleeping pads you speak of? When I was young, all hiking was uphill both ways and everyone slept on the ground in…
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10 Best Robot Vacuums (2024): Mops, Budget Vacs, Great Mapping
No other product I’ve tested has advanced as quickly as the humble robot vacuum. Just a few short years ago, they were mostly annoying, overpriced…
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Why Antarctic wildlife is being ‘sunburnt’
A large group of ozone depleting chemicals were responsible – primarily CFCs or chlorofluorocarbons – that were used as refrigerants. Every country agreed, in 1987,…
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Roborock’s Robot Vacuums—Including WIRED’s Top Pick—Are on Sale Right Now
We’ve tested a lot of great robot vacuums here at WIRED, but the Roborock Q5 Pro+ has held the top spot in our Best Robot…
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Tesla Autopilot Was Uniquely Risky—and May Still Be
A federal report published today found that Tesla’s Autopilot system was involved in at least 13 fatal crashes in which drivers misused the system in…
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US auto-safety regulators said on Friday that their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot had identified at least 13 fatal crashes in which the feature had been…
View More Tesla Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator saysUN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’
A UN-led panel of nearly 100 countries is to draw up new guidelines to prevent some of the environmental damage and human rights abuses associated…
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