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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 12.11.21   IDEAS | 4-MINUTE READ I Accidentally Hacked a Peruvian Crime Ring BY ALBERT FOX CAHN I arrived in paradise. I got a new phone number. Then the eggplant and gun emojis started pouring in.   HAVEN ON EARTH | 6-MINUTE READ Fleeing Global Warming? 'Climate Havens' Aren't Ready Yet BY KATE YODER Climate migration is already underway. Here's how cities can prepare.   BUYING GUIDE | 7-MINUTE READ 10 Great Tech Books to Gift (or Keep for Yourself) BY SIMON HILL Treat the techie in your life to tomes revealing the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping Big Tech.   THE MONITOR | 3-MINUTE READ HBO Max Might Have Outsmarted the Streaming Wars BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER The play to put all Warner Bros. theatrical movies on the service in 2021 was a big gamble. It paid off. GET WIRED Cyber Week Sale Has Been Extended! Get WIRED for just $10 $5, plus get free stickers! Get the print edition and exclusive subscriber-only stories. Give yourself the gift of information. Subscribe now.   BUYING GUIDE | 4-MINUTE READ Which Apple Watch Is Best Right Now? BY ADRIENNE SO Apple now offers multiple versions of its popular fitness smartwatch. Here's our guide to them all.   PLAINTEXT | 6-MINUTE READ Big Tech's Flagships Are Leaking BY STEVEN LEVY The larger these companies get, the more their core products regress.   LET'S PLAY | 7-MINUTE READ The Fall and Rise of Real-Time Strategy Games BY LUKE WINKIE RTS games used to dominate sales charts and spawn entire esports leagues. Can new entries bring the beloved genre back to life?   FREEZE FRAME | 6-MINUTE READ To See Proteins Change in Quadrillionths of a Second, Use AI BY KARMELA PADAVIC-CALLAGHAN Researchers have long wanted to capture how protein structures contort in response to light. But getting a clear image was impossible—until now.     Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   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.