What the Arab Spring can teach us about GameStop

PLUS: How universes collide, banning white supremacy, and the best portable chargers. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 01.31.21   CRASH TEST How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide BY CHARLIE WOOD To understand how universes might inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process.   IDEAS Banning White Supremacy Isn't Censorship, It's Accountability BY MALKIA DEVICH-CYRIL Claims that deplatforming racists is a violation of First Amendment rights represent a distorted understanding of the way speech, race, and power work online.   BUYING GUIDE The Best Smart Plugs to Help Modernize Your Home BY MEDEA GIORDANO An internet-connected plug can give any basic appliance a brain. Here are our favorites (and a few we don't like).   IDEAS What the Arab Spring Can Teach Us About GameStop BY NOAM COHEN Ten years ago, democracy protesters used social media to organize against an oppressor. But ultimately, the powerful came out ahead. GET WIRED Get 1 year of WIRED access for less than $1 per month. Tech news and analysis you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe now.   WATTS UP The Best Portable Chargers for All Your Devices BY SCOTT GILBERTSON Keep your phone, tablet, laptop, or device running with these handheld power banks.   VANISHED A Quarter of Known Bee Species Haven't Been Seen Since 1990 BY PATRICK BARKHAM A global study finds that species numbers reported in the wild fell sharply between 1990 and 2015.   ARCHAEOLOGY Dozens of Egyptian Tombs Will Be Unearthed at Saqqara Necropolis BY KIONA N. SMITH, ARS TECHNICA Archaeologists found the entrance to the unexplored burial shaft earlier this week.   SECURITY ROUNDUP Update Your iPhone and iPad Now If You Haven't Recently BY BRIAN BARRETT Plus: A ransomware arrest, a dating site data leak, and more of the week's top security news.   The Bowers & Wilkins PX7 Are a Joy to Wear (and Hear) BY PARKER HALL The British audio brand's carbon fiber noise-canceling headphones have become my favorite quarantine companion.     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 or Manage your newsletter subscriptions