Sorry to comment on the site and not the article, but goddamn. I have an old phone and visiting news sites like wired make it as hot as if I'm playing a video game, and the page had to reload several times like it ran out of memory. I lost 15% of my battery in 2 minutes of reading.
Wired (and other news sites), what the hell are you doing to computers? Stop it. People on newer phones may not notice it, but they're still burning just as many cycles on whatever stupid bullshit you decided to add to your site.
Maybe we wouldn't need so many air conditioners if sites like yours didn't exist.