You'll get your Equifax money, it just might take awhile

PLUS: A new Intel chip, icy waterfalls, and a climate conscious transportation plan View this email in your browser  08.01.19   CULTURE Whitney Cummings—and Her Sex Robot—Take on Modern Womanhood BY EMMA GREY ELLIS In her new Netflix standup special, 'Can I Touch It?,' Cummings takes easy gender jokes and delivers them slightly askew.   GEAR Intel's New Chips Are Finally Here to Boost Your Next Laptop BY LAUREN GOODE Today, the chipmaker provided details about its long-hyped Ice Lake processors, which will start showing up in laptops around the holidays.   TRANSPORTATION The Senate's Transportation Plan Reckons With Climate Change BY ALEX DAVIES America's Transportation Infrastructure Act, approved by a Senate committee this week, includes $10 billion to prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change.   SECURITY You'll Get Your Equifax Money. It Just Might Take a While BY LILY HAY NEWMAN Despite the FTC pushing people away from an Equifax cash payout, there's a good chance you'll get all $125. Eventually. GET WIRED Get 12 months of WIRED for just $49.99 $10.   Stories to help you understand the future.   Subscribe now   SECURITY Russia Is Going to Up Its Game for the 2020 Elections BY MATT LASLO "You don't need to change votes to cause chaos," Senator Mark Warner tells WIRED in an exclusive interview.   SCIENCE Finally, a Robot That Moves Kind of Like a Tongue BY MATT SIMON Octopus arms and elephant trunks and human tongues move in a fascinating way, which has now inspired a fascinating new kind of robot.   SCIENCE Icy Waterfalls Are Roaring as a Heat Wave Sizzles Greenland BY ERIC NIILER Glaciologists are rappelling into a glacial plumbing system to probe the effects of climate change on the melting of Greenland's ice sheet.   CULTURE How White Nationalists Have Co-Opted Fan Fiction BY C. BRANDON OGBUNU Opinion: In fan fiction, enthusiasts create whole new worlds from elements of cherished pieces of fiction or history. Racists have perverted the form.   SECURITY An iPhone App That Protects Your Privacy—For Real This Time BY LILY HAY NEWMAN The Guardian Firewall app gives iOS users a reprieve from the scourge of online trackers.     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