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View in browser  |  Your newsletter preferences 12.21.23 BUYING GUIDE The Best Soundbars for Every Budget BY PARKER HALL Every television deserves a row of speakers to call its own. These are our favorite soundbars. BUYING GUIDE The Best Travel Mugs to Keep Drinks Hot or Cold BY MATT JANCER Never take a sip of 70-degree anything again. These tumblers keep hot drinks steamy and cold ones icy. AMPED UP Panasonic's New Powder-Powered Batteries Will Supercharge EVs BY CARLTON REID A company working with Tesla's main US battery supplier has silicon-based tech that could soon give electric cars 500-mile ranges and charge refills in just 10 minutes. PLAINTEXT Google's NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant BY STEVEN LEVY Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer's research material and help them extract and explore the key themes. Maybe too well. ADVERTISEMENT GET WIRED LIMITED TIME ONLY. Subscribe to WIRED for only $29.99 $5. That includes subscriber-only content like Steven Levy's Plaintext column, plus FREE WIRED stickers as a special bonus! VIDEO GAMES The Fight Tearing the Game Awards Apart BY MEGAN FAROKHMANESH Prior to the event, hundreds of people signed a letter asking The Game Awards' organizers to call for a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war. They didn't, and a rift in the industry has only grown wider. GIFT GUIDE 29 Techy Gifts Under $100 That We Tested and Love BY SIMON HILL Score a great gift for everyone on your list without breaking the bank. Every one of these gifts comes WIRED-recommended. STOP SIGN Tesla Is Recalling Nearly All Vehicles Sold in US to Fix an Autopilot Fault BY JEREMY WHITE The Tesla recall, which affects more than 2 million vehicles, follows a two-year investigation by the US government into a series of crashes linked to the Autopilot system. SUPER BAD OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check BY WILL KNIGHT The Superalignment team led by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has devised a way to guide the behavior of AI models as they get ever smarter. Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This email was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our email address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.