Science
WIRED
11,196 Years in Prison
Faruk Özer made crypto seem like the sation to decades of economic dysimction. Then he became Turkey's most wanted-and hated-man.
10+ min |
July - August 2024
WIRED
DeLorean vs DeLorean
Decades after her dad's iconic sports car time-traveled into movie history, Kat DeLorean wants to build a modern remake. There's just one problem: Someone else owns the trademark on her name.
10+ min |
July - August 2024
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THE BEHIND THE SCENES TECHNO-WIZARDRY OF ARATI PRABHAKAR
She has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.
10+ min |
July - August 2024
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THE FORENSIC EMPIRE OF ELIOT HIGGINS
As fakes and deceptions proliferate at record speeds, one guy has maintained a miraculous nose for the truth-the founder of Bellingcat, the world's biggest citizen-run intelligence agency.
10+ min |
July - August 2024
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THE COMMUNIST & THE CELEBRITY
CHINA MIÉVILLE WRITES A NOVEL WITH THE INTERNET'S BOYFRIEND.
10+ min |
July - August 2024
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DESIRED
WIRED's visit to the intersection of luxury and technology.
2 min |
July - August 2024
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FIXER UPPER
Maybe you think they're majestic. Maybe you think they're an eyesore. No matter how you feel about wind turbines, there'll be a lot more of them in coming years.
3 min |
July - August 2024
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PRETTY IN PINK
Why did scientists put tangerine DNA in a pineapple-and can this Frankenfruit help change public opinion toward bioengineered foods?
5 min |
July - August 2024
WIRED
THE TRICKY BREAKAWAY OF PHIL WIZARD
He recently deactivated the Patreon that helped him scrape together enough to get by. Now he’s a somewhat reluctant) global ambassador for a new Olympic sport.
10+ min |
July - August 2024
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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+ min |
May - June 2024
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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+ min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
The Fateful Eight
THE STORY BEHIND THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL TECHNOLOGICAL PAPER IN RECENT HISTORY.
10+ min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
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+ min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
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+ min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
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 min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
THE MYTH OF METAL
How I became a Python programmer - and learned to love our abstract world.
5 min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
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 min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
FOR GIANT LIZARDS, PLEASE HOLD
The sounds of Slack have a secret history.
5 min |
May - June 2024
WIRED
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+ min |
May - June 2024
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IN DEFENSE OF JAVASCRIPT
Mock it all you want-but it runs the world. Possibly even literally.
5 min |
March - April 2024
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EVERY WOMAN IS AN ISLAND
Matriarchy, money, and a modern mariner named Marina.
5 min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
THE PROVINCE OF ALL MANKIND
TWO NATIONS. A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. AND THE URGENT NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE LAWS OF SPACE RIGHT NOW.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
LOVE, DEMENTIA AND ROBOTICS
When my parents got sick, I turned to a NEW GENERATION of roboticists and their GLOWING, TALKING, WARMHEARTED creations.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
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DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
Three decades after a devastating nuclear war between the US and China, a divided America faces a new threat to its very DNA. An excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
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TAIL AS OLD AS TIME
Was Bobi the world's longest-lived dogor just another casualty of Big Kibble?
5 min |
March - April 2024
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THE Algorithmic Authenticity OF Shou Zi Chew
The CEO of the world's most influential social media company likes tacos, Sheryl Crow, and Diablo IV. Is he for real-ora really good politician?
10+ min |
March - April 2024
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The Revolutionary Absurdity of Boots Riley
The scene is straight out of Boots Riley's madcap moviemaking handbook
10+ min |
September 2023
WIRED
A. I. Goes to War
Ships without crews. Autonomous drone swarms. A small U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and Artificial Intelligence to prepare for the next great conflict at sea
10+ min |
September 2023
WIRED
The Fractal Immortality of Grimes
I thought my interview with Grimes-the mysterious techno artist, fan of all nerddom, and the deepest of insiders in Elon Musk's world-would be one-on-one. Instead it wound up as a roundtable discussion. Turns out there are multiple personas embedded in the surprisingly haimish human who sat under a tree with me and spent the waning hours of an afternoon in conversation. There was Claire Boucher, the given name of a Vancouver kid obsessed with video games and devoted to provoking adults with misbehavior and the embrace of taboo subjects. There was Grimes, the self-invented, scrappy DIY musician and provocateur who weaves sci-fi into her work and released what Pitchfork judged to be the second-best song of the 2010s. And there was her preferred nomenclature, "c," invoking the speed of light
10+ min |
September 2023
WIRED
A.I. Is a Fiction
Stop freaking out when chatbots say they're in love or make disturbing threats. Just treat them like Pinocchio.
6 min |