How to get the most out of your smartphone battery

PLUS: Honda's new airbag, a vaping death, and upstart crossword puzzlers. View this email in your browser  08.25.19   PILLOW TALK Honda's New Airbag Catches Your Head to Save Your Brain BY ERIC ADAMS The automaker's got a brand new bag, and it could reduce the chances of brain injury in some crashes by 75 percent.   FAN-TASTIC PLANET Upstart Crossword Puzzle Builders Get Their Point Across (and Down) BY PETER RUBIN A new wave of crossword creators started to notice something: The old guard didn't have a clue. Now this band of enthusiasts is thinking outside the boxes.   RANTS AND RAVES I Replaced My Oven With a Waffle Maker, and You Should Too BY SCOTT GILBERTSON Dust off that waffle iron and enter a world of cooking that goes way beyond breakfast.   SUPERCHARGED How To Get the Most Out of Your Smartphone Battery BY DAVID NIELD If you treat your smartphone's battery right, you'll drive yourself a lot less crazy trying to find an outlet. GET WIRED Get 12 months of WIRED for just $49.99 $10.   Stories to help you understand the future.   Subscribe now   WHILE YOU WERE OFFLINE While You Were Offline: Who Wants to See Sean Spicer's Samba? BY GRAEME MCMILLAN Not us, and not Tom Bergeron!   PODCASTS Nobody's Watching the Best Giant-Monster Movies BY GEEK'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY "Colossal," "A Monster Calls," and "I Kill Giants" are terrific sci-fi films with weird, big themes. They all failed to connect with audiences.   VICES Vaping May Have Killed Someone, Health Officials Say BY SARA HARRISON An investigation into respiratory illnesses connected to e-cigs by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention turned up the first known death this week.   SECURITY ROUNDUP Cryptocurrency Mining Employees Expose Nuclear Plant to Internet BY BRIAN BARRETT Xbox eavesdropping, email scammers, and more of the week's top security news.   SEMIPRIME Alleged 'Snake Oil' Crypto Firm Sues Over Boos at Black Hat BY SEAN GALLAGHER, ARS TECHNICA The paper being presented suggested that the two researchers had a method to quickly find large semiprime numbers and essentially break RSA-2048 and any other semiprime-based encryption.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe