Saturday 27th April 2024

10 Best Lubes (2024): Water-Based, Silicone, and Lube Dispensers

For the most sensitive parts of the human body, friction is the enemy. Here’s how to keep it at bay.


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Decades of Garry’s Mod Nintendo Uploads Are Disappearing

For the past few months, Nintendo-related content has been disappearing from Garry’s Mod, the physics-based sandbox game and modding platform beloved by Steam players.

The source of the takedown requests presents a worst-case scenario for the community; rather than coming from copyright trolls, the takedowns are coming from Nintendo itself, according to creator Garry Newman of Facepunch Studios. “I have been assured that the takedowns have been verified by Nintendo as legit,” Newman wrote on X, adding that removals will continue as planned. “Sorry.”


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The 17 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now

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The 33 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now

From Mr. and Mrs. Smith to Fallout, these are our picks for what you should be watching on the streamer.


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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 ways the automaker should have foreseen—and done more to prevent. Not only that, but the report called out Tesla as an “industry outlier” because its driver assistance features lacked some of the basic precautions taken by its competitors. Now regulators are questioning whether a Tesla Autopilot update designed to fix these basic design issues and prevent fatal incidents has gone far enough.

These fatal crashes killed 14 people and injured 49, according to data collected and published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the federal road-safety regulator in the US.


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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 Vacuums guide for some time now. It fluctuates in price quite often, but currently it's on sale for $480, matching the $220 discount we last saw during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2023. Just clip the on-page coupon to save. You can also snag the Roborock Q5+ (9/10, WIRED Recommends) for $380, a $320 discount. The pricier Pro+ model doubles as a mop—that’s the main difference between the two.

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How to Manage a Cross-Functional Team

Cross-functional teams — those with people from different departments who have varied expertise — are becoming more common, as is the rise of project-based work arrangements.  Early in your career, you may even find that your first “real” leadership role is managing a newly formed, cross-functional team for a specific and short-term project. There are a few key actions new leaders can take to get their team off to a great start.

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Master the Art of Asynchronous Communication

With the rise of remote and hybrid work, the number of employees collaborating across time zones is growing. If you accept a position on a global team, particularly in a hybrid or fully remote environment, you should not expect to work the same hours as all of your peers. As a result, you will need to learn an increasingly important skill: asynchronous business communication. Here are a few practices that can help.

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What Does the Labor Side of Manufacturing Need Over the Next Decade?

Deloitte's vice chair of industrial products joins the show to discuss the company's new survey on the manufacturing sector.

John Coykendall, Deloitte’s vice chair of U.S. industrial products and construction, joins the show to discuss hiring in the manufacturing sector.

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2024 NFL Draft

Wharton’s Cade Massey and Eric Bradlow speak with Bill Connelly, ESPN football analyst, about the upcoming NFL draft, draft prospects, and what we can expect from the new crop of NFL rookies.

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