How to Make Your Holidays as Waste-Free as Possible: DIY Tips and Advice
From consciously choosing wrapping paper to gifting more mindfully, WIRED has all the tips to help you reduce your waste this holiday season.
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Tokyo’s Best Video Game Arcades in Akihabara: Where to Go, What to Do
Read more: Tokyo’s Best Video Game Arcades in Akihabara: Where to Go, What to DoI visited several Japanese arcades, aka game centers, in Tokyo’s Akihabara ward. Here’s some advice about how to get the most out of your visit to gamer’s paradise—and which arcade you shouldn’t miss.
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13 Habits of Highly Effective Risk-Takers
Read more: 13 Habits of Highly Effective Risk-TakersFrom poker players to venture capitalists, there’s a mindset to making the most of opportunities, and engineering the odds of success.
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What a VPN Kill Switch Is and How to Set One Up
Read more: What a VPN Kill Switch Is and How to Set One UpWhen your VPN goes down, your online activity can become exposed to snoops. A kill switch for your VPN solves that.
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How to Use Your iPhone to Text Over Satellite When You’re Adventuring
Read more: How to Use Your iPhone to Text Over Satellite When You’re AdventuringWhether your travels take you deep into the wilderness or just to the part of your city that doesn’t have cell service, you can stay connected by using your iPhone to text from orbit.
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Save Space on Your Phone by Offloading and Archiving Apps
Read more: Save Space on Your Phone by Offloading and Archiving AppsDon’t uninstall those rarely used apps. Just securely stash them in the cloud until the next time you need them, and free up space on your phone in the meantime.
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Tips for ChatGPT’s Voice Mode? Best AI Uses for Retirees? Our Expert Answers Your Questions
Read more: Tips for ChatGPT’s Voice Mode? Best AI Uses for Retirees? Our Expert Answers Your QuestionsIf you missed our second live, subscriber-only Q&A with WIRED’s AI columnist Reece Rogers, you can watch the replay here.
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Use Android’s Built-In Settings to Cut Your Phone Usage Time in Half
Read more: Use Android’s Built-In Settings to Cut Your Phone Usage Time in HalfBy setting limits on app use, limiting your notifications, and keeping tabs on your screen time, you can unleash your mind from the tyranny of the scroll.
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The Bot fwd2cal Adds Events to Your Calendar Automatically. Just Forward It an Email
Read more: The Bot fwd2cal Adds Events to Your Calendar Automatically. Just Forward It an EmailWhen you get an email suggesting you meet up with somebody, put this free bot to work. Fwd2cal uses ChatGPT to parse the information in the email and adds an event to your calendar.
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Free App Duplicati Can Back Up Your Computer to Any Cloud Service
Read more: Free App Duplicati Can Back Up Your Computer to Any Cloud ServiceDuplicati, a free download on both macOS and Windows, puts encrypted backups of all your important files into the cloud service of your choice. Here’s how to use it.
