Looking for a Tablet? These Are Our Absolute Favorites

PLUS: The best stories from WIRED this week. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 01.21.21   BUYING GUIDE Looking for a Tablet? These Are Our Absolute Favorites BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU AND JEFFREY VAN CAMP We've tested all the top slates, from Apple's iPads to Android and Windows devices.   GET JACKED The Best Phones With an Actual Headphone Jack BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU 3.5-millimeter audio jacks are endangered, but they're not extinct. Here are some of our favorite smartphones that still let you plug in.   PRIVACY A Site Published Every Face From Parler's Capitol Riot Videos BY ANDY GREENBERG Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.   THAT SINKING FEELING The Ongoing Collapse of the World's Aquifers BY MATT SIMON When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottle. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040. GET WIRED Winter Sale! Get 1 year of WIRED access for $10 $5. Tech news and analysis you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe now.   BOOK EXCERPT Palantir's God's-Eye View of Afghanistan BY ANNIE JACOBSEN The company's software can sift through enormous amounts of data, and those metrics can be used to make life-or-death decisions.   NOPE Is This a Fossilized Lair of the Dreaded Bobbit Worm? BY MATT SIMON Scientists say they've got 20-million-year-old evidence of giant worms that hunted in pretty much the most nightmarish way possible.   IDEAS If Covid-19 Did Start With a Lab Leak, Would We Ever Know? BY ROGER PIELKE JR. The two major investigations into the origins of the pandemic are compromised by potential conflicts of interest. Those problems need to be fixed—fast.   BOOKS WIRED's Picks for the 10 Books You Have to Read This Winter BY WIRED STAFF It's cold and you're probably still quarantined. Time to get reading. Start with these tales of reimagined histories and cloned partners.   BACKCHANNEL Your Body, Your Self, Your Surgeon, His Instagram BY KATHERINE LAIDLAW Social media gave the Real Dr. 6ix a stage on which to show off liposuctions and breast lifts. But when cosmetic surgery becomes entertainment, who owns the story?     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