21st-century storms are overwhelming 20th-century cities

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 09.05.21   NO FREE LUNCH | 4-MINUTE READ Chicago Claims DoorDash and Grubhub Misled Customers on Fees BY SIDNEY FUSSELL The city capped commissions on restaurant deliveries amid the pandemic, but it says the apps added new fees and marketed deceptive promotions.   GENE ACTIVITY | 5-MINUTE READ To Learn More Quickly, Brain Cells Break Their DNA BY JORDANA CEPELEWICZ DNA double-strand breaks are associated with cancer and aging. A new study shows neurons can use them to quickly express genes related to learning and memory.   BREAKING OUT | 5-MINUTE READ How to Prevent and Treat Face Mascne BY MEDEA GIORDANO AND LOURYN STRAMPE Just in case you needed more to worry about, mask-related acne is also breaking out nationwide. Here's how to get it under control.   BIGGER PIPES | 4-MINUTE READ 21st-Century Storms Are Overwhelming 20th-Century Cities BY AARIAN MARSHALL AND MATT SIMON Deadly flooding in and around New York City dramatizes the risks to infrastructure that wasn't built to handle warmer, wetter climate. 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.   GIVEAWAY | 1-MINUTE READ We're Giving Away One of Our Favorite TVs BY GEAR TEAM We're working with TCL and CBS Sports to give away our top WIRED-recommended TV. (Open to the US only. See rules for details.)   APPS AWAY | 4-MINUTE READ How to Turn Your Favorite Web Apps Into Desktop Apps BY DAVID NIELD Want to access Twitter and Google Chat in a single click? Here's how to think outside the browser.   SAME BUT DIFFERENT | 6-MINUTE READ Biomutant and Ratchet & Clank Epitomize the Gaming Budget Gap BY REID MCCARTER Two games. Two foxlike creature-heroes. Vastly different outcomes. From the Archive   WHOOPS | 6-MINUTE READ How WIRED Lost $100,000 in Bitcoin BY LOUISE MATSAKIS We mined roughly 13 bitcoins and then ripped up our private key. We were stupid—but not alone.   TICK TOCK | 5-MINUTE READ These Physicists Watched a Clock Tick for 14 Years Straight BY SOPHIA CHEN It was to test Einstein's theory of general relativity.     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.