The Best Coffee Grinders to Amp Up Your Morning Brew

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View in browser  |  Your newsletter preferences 08.17.23 BURRING GUIDE The Best Coffee Grinders to Amp Up Your Morning Brew BY JAINA GREY AND SCOTT GILBERTSON Get more joy from your java. These conical-burr, flat-burr, and bladed machines let you enjoy freshly ground beans in every cup. BUYING GUIDE These Are Our Favorite PC Monitors BY ERIC RAVENSCRAFT AND GEAR TEAM The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we reviewed those too (including a few portable screens). BUYING GUIDE The Best Cheap Laptops We've Tested BY SCOTT GILBERTSON We've tested lots of affordable Windows laptops, Chromebooks, and 2-in-1 tablets. You don't have to spend more than $700 to get a good computer. PAGE BREAK Why the Great AI Backlash Came for a Tiny Startup You've Probably Never Heard Of BY KATE KNIBBS A literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It's a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift. ADVERTISEMENT GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. That includes subscriber-only content like Steven Levy's Plaintext column, plus free stickers! Subscribe now. PLAINTEXT The 'Godfather of AI' Has a Hopeful Plan for Keeping Future AI Friendly BY STEVEN LEVY Geoffrey Hinton left Google so he could speak more freely about AI's dangers. He argues that building analog computers instead of digital ones might keep the technology more loyal. WIRED PODCASTS The World Isn't Ready for the Next Decade of AI BY GIDEON LICHFIELD AND LAUREN GOODE Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, talks about how AI and other technologies will take over everything—and possibly threaten the very structure of the nation-state. PRODUCT REVIEW Lectric's Electric Tricycle Is an Affordable Ebike—With Compromises BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU This low-cost electric trike opens up the outdoors to more people, but three wheels have their own set of challenges. HELLO, OTHER MIND To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test BY BEN ASH BLUM The father of modern computing would have opened his arms to ChatGPT. You should too. 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.