In this issue

Can Reddit’s Authenticity Machine Survive Wall Street?

Thousands of subreddits went dark in protest last summer, laying bare the tension inside the company before its IPO.
by Robert Peck and Paresh Dave

The Fateful Eight

The story behind the most consequential technological paper in recent history. by Steven Levy

Russian, Go Home

When my country went to war, I faced a choice: Flee to a world where the truth might kill me—or seek peace and familiarity in censored oblivion. by Vadim Smyslov

FOR GIANT LIZARDS, PLEASE HOLD

The sounds of Slack have a secret history.

5 mins

SO YOU WANT TO REWIRE BRAINS

There's a lot to like about brain-computer interfaces, those sci-fi-sounding devices that jack into your skull and turn neural signals into software commands. Experimental BCIS help paralyzed people communicate, use the internet, and move prosthetic limbs.

3 mins

THE MYTH OF METAL

How I became a Python programmer - and learned to love our abstract world.

5 mins

HAPPY HAUNTING

IN A CHARMING game called This Discord Has Ghosts in It, up to 15 participants at a time gather in a Discord server that has been reimagined as a haunted house. (Of course.) Inside lies a maze of (chat) rooms where each player takes the role of either an eponymous spirit or a paranormal investigator.

3 mins

The Unnerving Presence of Javier Bardem

He's known for playing fanatics and murderous psychopaths. In real life, he loves his wife (and Brad Pitt) and cries during E.T.

10+ mins

Can the Internet's Greatest Authenticity Machine Survive Wall Street?

When thousands of subreddits went dark in protest last summer, it exposed the tension at the core of Reddit - on the eve of the company's IPO. Now that synthetic media is flooding the internet, does the web's most reliably human forum represent a gold mine for investors, or an old-fashioned dumpster fire?

10+ mins

WOMEN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD

They go to Antarctica with dreams of studying the unknown. What they discover there is the stuff of nightmares.

10+ mins

The Fateful Eight

THE STORY BEHIND THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL TECHNOLOGICAL PAPER IN RECENT HISTORY.

10+ mins

RUSSIAN, GO HOME

WHEN MY COUNTRY WENT TO WAR, I FACED A CHOICE: Flee to a world where the truth might kill me - or seek peace in censored oblivion.

10+ mins

THE NERD-KING VIBES OF JENSEN HUANG

The Nvidia CEO turned a graphics-card company into a trillion-dollar AI behemoth. Now he wants to transform the rest of the world-health care, robotics, autonomous driving, the works.

10+ mins

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