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  Five WIRED stories you may have missed this week   Nasa can't send humans to Mars until it gets the food right In the 2030s, Nasa has plans to send a crew on a three-year mission to Mars. But if they can't get the menu right, the mission might never make it off the ground.   Powered food is back to take on sandwiches and cereal British company Huel makes meals you can drink – but can they solve the flavour challenge?    WIRED recommends: The best coffee machines Whether you're a sandal-sporting bearded barista or a regular joe looking for a regular cup of joe, we've tried the best coffee machines around so you can get your caffeine fix in style.     DPD’s belated decision shows time is up for gig economy exploitation All DPD couriers will now have access to basic employment rights after the death of one worker exposed the harsh conditions faced by thousands of gig economy delivery drivers. ...

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Your WIRED  daily briefing. Today, MyFitnessPal customer data was breached by hackers in February, China's Tiangong-1 space station is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry over the weekend, a leaked 2016 Facebook memo discusses questionable growth practices and more. 1. MyFitnessPal breach nets details of 150 million accounts Hackers have breached hugely popular nutrition and fitness tracking site MyFitnessPal, obtaining usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords for an estimated 150 million accounts ( The Verge ). MyFitnessPal owner Under Armour said in a statement that: "On March 25, the MyFitnessPal team became aware that an unauthorized party acquired data associated with MyFitnessPal user accounts in late February 2018." Payment card data was not included but users are urged to change their passwords as soon as possible. 2. Chinese space station expected to make uncontrolled reentry this weekend China's Tiangong-1 space station is ex...

Excerpts: Xiaomi's Mi Gaming Laptop comes with Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics and costs $1,430 Xiaomi's arrival to the PC gaming space is here , with the Chinese con...