Adoption moved to Facebook and a war began

PLUS: Facebook's new AI, a murder hornet nature doc, and app data leaks. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 03.04.21   NO HANDS Facebook's New AI Teaches Itself to See With Less Human Help BY WILL KNIGHT Most image recognition algorithms require lots of labeled pictures. This new approach eliminates the need for most of the labeling.   !!! The Murder Hornets Nature Doc Disguised as a True-Crime Show BY KATE KNIBBS Attack of the Murder Hornets plays out like a spooky murder mystery. But the insects are scary enough; they don't need horror movie tropes.   LONG EXPOSURE Thousands of Android and iOS Apps Leak Data From the Cloud BY LILY HAY NEWMAN It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time.   Adoption Moved to Facebook and a War Began BY SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO As the adoption industry migrates to social media, regretful adoptees and birth mothers are confronting prospective parents with their personal pain—and anger. GET WIRED Get 1 year of WIRED access for $29.99 $10. Tech news and analysis you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe now.   ADVICE Why Can't I Stop Staring at My Own Face on Zoom? BY MEGHAN O'GIEBLYN WIRED's spiritual advice columnist on narcissism, Nabokov, and what it means to exist—really exist—for other people.   THINK SMALL The Secret Behind North Dakota's Speedy Vaccine Rollout BY GREGORY BARBER The state's independent rural drugstores are showing the power of small.   BUY LOW SELL HIGH The Best Used Tech to Buy (and Sell) BY WHITSON GORDON That old Microsoft Zune? Not so much. That old iPhone? Definitely.   SMOKE SIGNAL Can Alien Smog Lead Us to Extraterrestrial Civilizations? BY MEGHAN HERBST A new study modeled whether we could find intelligent life on another planet—by looking for its pollution.   MORE SEX PLEASE The Rise of Unapologetically Erotic LGBTQ+ Games BY MARK HILL Video games have long struggled to handle sexuality, but a growing number of indie developers are changing that.     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