
WIRED
CONFESSIONS OF A HINGE POWER DATER
BY HIS OWN estimation, JB averages about three dates a week. \"It's gonna sound wild,\" he confesses, \"but I've probably been on close to 200 dates in the last year and a half.\"
4 min |
January - February 2025

WIRED
REVENGE OF THE SOFTIES
FOR YEARS, PEOPLE COUNTED MICROSOFT OUT. THEN SATYA NADELLA TOOK CONTROL. AS THE COMPANY TURNS 50, IT'S MORE RELEVANT-AND SCARIER-THAN EVER.
10+ min |
January - February 2025

WIRED
MOVE SLOWLY AND BUILD THINGS
EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON MICROCHIPS-WHICH MEANS TOO MUCH DEPENDS ON TAIWAN. TO REBUILD CHIP MANUFACTURING AT HOME, THE U.S. IS BETTING BIG ON AN AGING TECH GIANT. BUT AS MONEY AND COLOSSAL INFRASTRUCTURE FLOW INTO OHIO, DOES TOO MUCH DEPEND ON INTEL?
10+ min |
January - February 2025

WIRED
FOLLOW THAT CAR
CHASING A ROBOTAXI FOR HOURS AND HOURS IS WEIRD AND REVELATORY, AND BORING, AND JEALOUSY-INDUCING. BUT THE DRIVERLESS WORLD IS COMING FOR ALL OF US. SO GET IN AND BUCKLE UP.
10+ min |
January - February 2025

WIRED
THE NEW COLD WARRIOR
CHINA IS RACING TO UNSEAT THE UNITED STATES AS THE WORLD'S TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERPOWER
10+ min |
January - February 2025

WIRED
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'
KINDRED MOTORWORKS VW BUS - Despite being German, the VW T1 Microbus is as Californian as the Grateful Dead.
5 min |
January - February 2025

WIRED
COPYCATS (AND DOGS)
Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and flew to their new home in Europe.
4 min |
January - February 2025

WIRED
STAR POWER
The spirit of Silicon Valley lives onat this nuclear fusion facility's insane, top-secret opening ceremony.
9 min |
January - February 2025

WIRED
THE WATCHFUL INTELLIGENCE OF TIM COOK
APPLE INTELLIGENCE IS NOT A PLAY ON \"AI,\" THE CEO INSISTS. BUT IT IS HIS PLAY FOR RELEVANCE IN ALL AREAS, FROM EMAIL AUTO-COMPLETES TO APPS THAT SAVE LIVES.
10+ min |
January - February 2025

The Atlantic
The Most Remote Place in the World - Point Nemo is Earth's official "middle of nowhere." A lot seems to be going on there.
It’s called the “longest-swim problem”: If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any speck of land—the remotest spot on Earth—where would that place be? The answer, proposed only a few decades ago, is a location in the South Pacific with the coordinates 48 52.5291ᤩS 123 23.5116ᤩW: the “oceanic point of inaccessibility,” to use the formal name. It doesn’t get many visitors. But one morning last year, I met several people who had just come from there.
10+ min |
November 2024

Time
The Hunt for Life on a Moon of Jupiter Begins - Nearly half a billion miles from Earth, a world may be stirring.
Europa has fascinated astronomers and exobiologists at least since 1979, when the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft reconnoitered the moon and photographed an icy white surface shot through with cracks and fractures, suggesting a churning ocean disrupting the frozen crust. The later Galileo mission, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, discovered that Jupiter's magnetic field is disrupted in the vicinity of Europa in a way consistent with a deep, electrically conductive liquid beneath the surface of the moon. The Juno mission, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has been studying Europa more closely still, documenting ice walls, scarps, and ridges, all pointing to a surface in constant motion. Astronomers now believe that Europa has an ice shell up to 15 miles thick, covering a global ocean up to 100 miles deep.
3 min |
October 14, 2024

WIRED
Inside the Uncanny World of TikTok Home Remodeling - Turn a tree into a luxury apartment. Retrofit a bedroom for a million children. The videos are bizarre-and going very viral. Who's behind them?
If you've been on TikTok at any point in the past six months, chances are you've stumbled across them, as I first did during a fairly routine doomscroll one night this summer. For me it started with two videos somewhat incongruously tagged #homeremodeling and #housedesign. One of them featured a CGI man summoning a baby phoenix outside of a tree that he planned to turn into an apartment. Then a robotic AI voice started to narrate how the CGI man, identified as Little John, was going to build it. Over the next 90 seconds, Little John transformed the tree into a maniacally space-efficient luxury unit in an AI-generated ballet of flying galvanized square steel, ecofriendly wood veneer, and expansion screws.
6 min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
A Full-Term Gig - Hiring someone to carry your baby to term is a booming business.
Hiring someone to carry your baby to term is a booming business. The market for surrogacy is expected to expand to $129 billion by 2032, fueled by older parents, rising infertility, and more same-sex families. Silicon Valley contributes to the growth too: Tech companies like Google, Meta, and Snap pitch in up to $80,000 toward the six-figure cost of the process.
4 min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
THE MIDLIFE NOT -A-CRISIS OF MARK CUBAN
Though he's soon to be out at Shark Tank, the billionaire has a massive new \"disruption\" in the works. He's certain it'll save lives.
10+ min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF MEREDITH WHITAKER
It's free. It doesn't track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it's a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
10+ min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
THE DAD-ROCK DIPLOMACY OF ANTONY BLINKEN
Two major wars. A rising China. Hackers everywhere. He's from the US government, and he's here to help.
10+ min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES TRAE STEPHENS
The venture capitalist and cofounder of the defense-tech startup Anduril has worked with Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, and Elon Musk.
10+ min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
THE TELEVISUAL HIJACKING OF ALFONSO CUARON
Gravity, Children of Men, the best Harry Potter film-and now a seven-part miniseries?
10+ min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
What's the future for Western 'super apps'?
Super apps create a single interface to unify a broad ecosystem of services such as messaging, e-commerce, and transport. With consumers making all of their purchases within one walled garden, the user engagement and data benefits for the app owner are obvious and substantial. These apps have become a major part of the Chinese technology landscape, so we asked two leading experts: Could the concept successfully break through in Western markets?
2 min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
WAIT, GO BACK
To mature as programmers, newer generations need to take a lesson from Google’s programming language.
4 min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
THE SICK (AND SLOW) BURNS OF JOSH JOHNSON
The comedian tells jokes the way he found fame: slowly, and then all at once.
10+ min |
November - December 2024

WIRED
THE ULTRACOOL CASH GRABS OF BOOBI ALTHOFF
Now the Tik Tokker turned podcaster is out to prove her worth-by being herself.
10+ min |
November - December 2024

USBE & Information Technology
TOP INNOVATORS
10 BEYA SCIENCE SPECTRUM AWARDEES MAKING A HUGE IMPACT IN STEM
7 min |
Volume 48 Issue 3

USBE & Information Technology
INNOVATION IN ACTION
Navy Leader Walt Davis Champions Vision, Adaptability, and Risk-Taking to Inspire Future Generations of Innovators
2 min |
Volume 48 Issue 3

USBE & Information Technology
BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Demystifying the Metaverse: A Look at its Potential to Bridge the Digital Divide
5 min |
Volume 48 Issue 3

USBE & Information Technology
REDEFINING YOURSELF
How Kindra Porter Uses Change to Drive Progress in Aerospace
3 min |
Volume 48 Issue 3

USBE & Information Technology
THE IMPORTANCE OF AI AND HBCUS
Inclusive AI Advancement: HBCUs' Role in Diversity, Ethics, Research, and Workforce Development
3 min |
Volume 48 Issue 3

USBE & Information Technology
REVOLUTIONIZING HEALTHCARE
The Transformative Impact of Medical Technology Health on Global
3 min |
Volume 48 Issue 3

USBE & Information Technology
LANNY SMOOT
Lanny Smoot is synonymous with creativity and innovation in theme park entertainment.
3 min |
Volume 48 Issue 3

USBE & Information Technology
ENGINEERING'S GRAND CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
From AI to Infrastructure: Shaping the Next Decade with Engineering Solutions
3 min |