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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 10.31.21   LISTEN FIRST | 6-MINUTE READ What Is Critical Race Theory? Start Here BY CHRISTINA WYMAN With CRT at the forefront of national debate, these free online resources will bring you up to speed.   ONE-WAY TRIP | 4-MINUTE READ A Water Crisis Reveals You Can't Recycle in the Arctic BY MARC FAWCETT-ATKINSON Fuel contamination forced the residents of Iqaluit to rely on bottled water—and now they're having a hard time getting rid of the plastic.   HARD DRIVE | 5-MINUTE READ Neuron Bursts Can Mimic a Famous AI Learning Strategy BY ALLISON WHITTEN A new model of learning centers on blasts of neural activity that act as teaching signals—approximating an algorithm called backpropagation.   CHEAP THRILLS | 5-MINUTE READ 9 Free Streaming Services to Save You From Subscription Hell BY ERIC RAVENSCRAFT AND BRIAN BARRETT You may not have heard of Tubi, Pluto TV, or Kanopy—but they're the perfect cure for subscriber fatigue. GET WIRED Fall Sale: Get WIRED for just $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.   REWIND | 4-MINUTE READ How to Recover Earlier Versions of Files BY SIMON HILL Want to resurrect that paragraph from a few drafts ago, or dredge up the doc you accidentally deleted? Here are your options.   BACK TO THE FUTURE | 4-MINUTE READ Give Me My Hot Pink iPhone Already BY LOURYN STRAMPE I'm tired of minimalism and bland beige tones. Bring on the bright, bold, and weird.   IDEAS | 5-MINUTE READ Climate Stress Was Getting Me Down, So I Made a Clicker Game BY PAUL FORD In the game, you start as a lowly atmospheric scientist and you have to click "write grant" and wait.   STEREOTYPES | 10-MINUTE READ Oh, This Game Set in Latin America Features a Coup? How Original BY GABRIEL SOLIS From '80s arcade titles to Far Cry 6, video games have rehashed the same stereotypes of regimes and corruption.   AGE ESTIMATION | 6-MINUTE READ This AI Predicts How Old Children Are. Can It Keep Them Safe? BY MATT BURGESS, WIRED UK Yoti's tech may be enticing for Big Tech companies: It works out if you're under or over 13, the age most social media platforms require to create an account.     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.