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PLUS: A big bang discovery, end-to-end encryption for Android, and coronavirus news. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 11.22.20   PRODUCT REVIEW This Lower-Cost Roomba Needs Some Navigation Help BY ADRIENNE SO This is iRobot's cheapest robot vacuum with automatic dirt disposal. But it also sacrifices some key navigational features.   COSMOLOGY Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction Just After the Big Bang BY THOMAS LEWTON The newly measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process that forged the first atomic nuclei matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.   OPINION Overcoming Vaccine Skepticism Starts in the Community BY SHADIM HUSSAIN Many of the communities most vulnerable to Covid-19 are the ones least willing to get a vaccine. Convincing them may require a peer-to-peer approach.   LEGENDARY LOOT The 13 Best Gifts for the PC Gamer in Your Life BY JESS GREY AND CECILIA D'ANASTASIO It's dangerous to go alone! Take these. GET WIRED Get 1 year of WIRED access for less than $1 a month. Tech news and analysis you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe now.   CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Pfizer Seeks Vaccine Approval, the CDC Urges Restraint, and More Coronavirus News BY EVE SNEIDER Catch up on the most important updates from this week.   LOCK IT DOWN Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages BY DAN GOODIN, ARS TECHNICA For now, the security measure will be available only to people using the beta version of the app.   LESSONS What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust BY ZACHARY KARABELL European regulators focus on how Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google use—and abuse–their vast stores of data to maintain advantages over rivals.   SLIPPERY SLOPES Climate Change Is Intensifying the Tsunami Threat in Alaska BY VICTORIA PETERSEN As glaciers retreat and permafrost thaws, massive landslides threaten coastal communities. Those, in turn, could trigger giant sea waves.   VIRTUAL REALITY How Video Game Historians Resurrected Sega's Lost VR Headset BY CECILIA D'ANASTASIO In 1993, the console maker's big plans for virtual reality fizzled. Now a team of preservationists is using emulation to bring them back.     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