Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not

John Borthwick, CEO of the venture capital firm Betaworks, tells WIRED that he is skeptical about the feasibility and potential effectiveness of many Mamdani campaign proposals—like free buses, or a city-owned grocery store pilot program—and felt his answers tended to be “very general and nonspecific.” But Borthwick adds that he found Mamdani “very compelling and…

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The Best Cooling Sheets (2025): Brooklinen, Slumber Cloud, Buffy

There’s a lot of terminology thrown around in the world of cooling sheets and cooling mattresses. Temperature regulating! Airflow! Moisture wicking! Phase-change material! Most of the time, these features come back to how breathable the sheets are. Breathability means moisture can better evaporate, and “temperature-regulating” usually means the sheets are breathable enough to release the…

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The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era

When it was first released by Adobe in 1993, the PDF was truly transformative technology. The Portable Document Format was a multipurpose container that replicated the appearance and functionality of physical documents. That sounds unimportant, but as adoption spread with Adobe’s introduction of free Acrobat software for reading PDFs a year later, anyone, from the…

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Dell 14 Premium Review: Hello Old Friend

The port selection is another design choice that’s easy to complain about. On the left, you get two Thunderbolt 4 ports, while the right side has one more Thunderbolt 4 port, a microSD card slot, and a headphone jack. This is unchanged from last year’s model. I wasn’t expecting a move to Thunderbolt 5, though…

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