It certainly isn’t the biggest year for phones at the Mobile World Congress. Nevertheless, here are some of our favorite picks with a few added surprises. wired.trib.al/iUwcEKw 1/9
TCL dropped the new TCL 30 5G, TCL 30+, TCL 30, TCL 30 SE, and TCL 30 E. (Still with me?). But the big news here is the price point—the most expensive is the 30 5G which is roughly $280 US dollars (€249), and the price continues to plummet down to the 30 E. 2/9
Introducing: the TCL Fold 'n Roll. The name says it all here: This phone is both foldable and rollable, allowing you to both extend the display and shrink it down to size, then close it shut. Remember, this is a concept, so it's unlikely we'll see it for sale. 📸: TCL 3/9
Motorola is keeping things simple at #MWC22, with one phone headlining its offering: the Edge+. The design is straightforward, but additional appeal comes from three years of bimonthly security updates and two OS upgrades. 📸: Motorola 4/9
Nokia came bearing three new budget phones. The top dog is the Nokia C2 2nd Edition—a modest device that comes with a 5.7-inch display, up to 32 GB of internal storage and a single 5-MP rear camera. wired.trib.al/iUwcEKw 📸: Nokia 5/9
It may sound strange, but not everything at MWC is about phones. After a limited showing from the phone world, laptops, 2-in-1s, and tablets helped steal the show. Take Samsung’s new thin and light Galaxy Book2 range. wired.trib.al/7GKoDxD 6/9
Another great non-mobile pick is the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen 1. The ThinkPad X13s Gen 1 will be the first opportunity to put an 8cx Gen 3 chip and Windows 11 on ARM combination through its paces. 📸: Lenovo 7/9
NEWS: A software update from cybersecurity company Crowdstrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted Microsoft IT systems globally. wired.trib.al/cvUpRaS
Banks, airports, TV stations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread disruption, after Windows machines have displayed errors worldwide. wired.com/story/microsof…
In the early hours of Friday, companies in Australia running Microsoft’s Windows operating system started reporting devices showing Blue Screens of Death (BSODs). wired.com/story/microsof…
NEW: J.D. Vance, a Republican US senator and Trump’s running mate left his Venmo account public, exposing his list of “friends,” from fellow Yale Law grads to tech executives—precisely the elites he rallies against. wired.com/story/jd-vance…
WIRED found that more than 200 people appear on Vance’s Venmo “friends” list. This includes Amalia Halikias, a director at the Heritage Foundation—the force behind Project 2025.
Vance’s Venmo friend’s list also includes media personalities like Bari Weiss and Tucker Carlson, as well as tech executives from Anthropic and AOL. wired.com/story/jd-vance…
SCOOP: Arab and Muslim workers at Meta allege that its response to the crisis in Gaza is one-sided and out of hand. “It makes me sick that I work for this company,” says one employee.
But when a club for Muslim workers revealed plans to spend $200 in company funds to serve nine dozen cupcakes in watermelon colors at the event, Meta management called the offering disruptive.
Bellingcat is the world’s biggest citizen-run intelligence agency, investigating everything from the 2014 shoot-down of MH17 to the various plots to kill Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The person behind it all? Eliot Higgins. wired.com/story/how-to-l…
Bellingcat’s trajectory tells a scathing story about the nature of truth in the 21st century. Hard facts have been devalued. Online, everyone can present, and believe in, their own narratives, even if they’re mere tissues of lies. wired.com/story/how-to-l…
The year ahead may be the biggest of @bellingcat's life. In addition to tracking conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, its analysts will also be flooded with falsified artifacts from elections in the US, the UK, India, and dozens of other countries. wired.com/story/how-to-l…
Even before Sam Bankman-Fried, Faruk Fatih Özer had built a crypto empire. Now, the 27-year-old is facing a prison sentence of 11,196 years.
Did he almost get away with the biggest heist in Turkey’s history, or was it a misunderstanding? WIRED deep dive: wired.trib.al/wMvxpYp
Following decades of political turmoil in Turkey, at 23, Özer founded a crypto exchange called Thodex by investing just 40,000 lira ($11,100 US). He advertised his company as a way to prevent economic volatility, using a playbook from Silicon Valley. wired.com/story/faruk-oz…
In a few years, thousands of people bought in. Thodex expanded, reaching the upper echelons of society and government. By March 2021, Turkey became one of the top five nations for crypto use and Özer’s company was booming. wired.com/story/faruk-oz…