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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 08.29.21   TRIAL RUN | 4-MINUTE READ How to Save Money on Your Digital Subscriptions BY DAVID NIELD You don't have to be tied down to multiple costly services month after month.   CANE-IBALS | 3-MINUTE READ Nothing Can Eat Australia's Cane Toads—So They Eat Each Other BY JOHN TIMMER, ARS TECHNICA The species' relentless invasion of the continent has taken a turn towards cannibalism.   SPEED BUMP | 7-MINUTE READ 11 Ways to Upgrade Your Wi-Fi and Make Your Internet Faster BY WIRED STAFF There's always something you can do to improve your connection at home.   PROTECT YOURSELF | 5-MINUTE READ 6 Things You Need to Do to Prevent Getting Hacked BY MATT BURGESS, WIRED UK You are your own biggest weakness, but changing just a few of your behaviors can reduce the chances that your online accounts get breached. GET WIRED End of Summer Sale: Get WIRED for $10 $5. Get the print edition and exclusive subscriber-only content. You can't see into the future, but you can subscribe to WIRED. Subscribe now.   IDEAS | 6-MINUTE READ 'Prebunking' Health Misinformation Tropes Can Stop Their Spread BY RENEE DIRESTA Preemptively familiarizing people with centuries-old anti-vaccine narratives may be more effective than retroactive fact-checking.   GRADIENT DESCENT | 5-MINUTE READ Computer Scientists Find a Key Research Algorithm's Limits BY NICK THIEME The most widely used technique for optimizing values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult computational problem.   BUYING GUIDE | 12-MINUTE READ Which Google Pixel Phone (and Gear) Should You Buy? BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU Here's a guide to all the models, along with case recommendations and software tips. From the Archive   DECADE IN REVIEW | 12-MINUTE READ The 24 Absolute Best Movies of the 2010s BY WIRED STAFF From the cloistered college campus of The Social Network to the sands of Mad Max: Fury Road, these are the movies that defined the decade.   BARELY GETTIN' BY | 5-MINUTE READ The 8-Hour Workday Is an Unproductive Lie BY LIZZIE WADE What was once a socialist dream has become every knowledge worker's nightmare. It's time to unmake the modern myth of productivity.     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   Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.