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1.24.19

ROBOTICS The Prime Challenges for Amazon’s New Delivery Robot BY MATT SIMON AND ARIELLE PARDES The company’s six-wheeled delivery bot, Scout, is built to ferry Prime packages. AUTOMATION Robots Will Take Jobs From Men, the Young, and Minorities BY TOM SIMONITE Automation may create as many jobs as it destroys, a new study finds, but men, younger folks, and minorities hold positions that are particularly vulnerable. MOVIES Fyre Festival Documentaries Dissect Attendees’—and Your—FOMO BY ANDREA VALDEZ The Netflix and Hulu docs show a festival that lived and died by social media. BROWSERS Google’s Proposed Changes to Chrome Could Weaken Ad Blockers BY KLINT FINLEY Google’s proposal would render some ad blockers and other tools ineffective, forcing developers to make changes. SPONSORED CONTENT The New Sneaker Brand You’ll Fall in Love With Cariuma is about to become your new favorite sneaker. It’s classic, comfortable and made in a better way. For men and women, there’s a canvas, leather, or suede for you. Get $20 off your order here. GET WIRED Get 12 months of WIRED for just $10. Subscribe now WHEELIES So Uber Wants Self-Driving Bikes and Scooters. Why? And How? BY ALEX DAVIES AND AARIAN MARSHALL They’d be difficult to engineer, and expensive to boot. But they’re part of the company’s master plan. MONEY TALKS Google and Facebook Backed an Event Denying Climate Change BY STEPHANIE MENCIMER Three tech giants, including Microsoft, sponsored a libertarian conference that included attacks on the science of climate change. FLIGHT PLAN Boeing’s Flying Taxi Prototype Takes to the Air (Briefly) BY JACK STEWART The company is one of the partners in Uber’s bid to fly the skies. CONSERVATION Drones Drop Poison Bombs to Fight One Island’s Rat Invasion BY MATT SIMON On the Galapagos Island of Seymour Norte, conservationists scramble to destroy every last invasive rodent before the ecosystem descends into chaos.

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