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WIRED helps you dive into emerging technologies and discover how they affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Oct 18, 2021 - 51 min

Blood, lies, and a drug trials lab gone bad

How greed and narcissism altered so many lives.

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Oct 12, 2021 - 15 min

Alcohol is the breast cancer risk no one wants to talk about

Most women are unaware of this well-recognized link.

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Oct 6, 2021 - 12 min

What social media needs to learn from traditional media

Can social media pursue goals beyond ad revenue?

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Oct 3, 2021 - 19 min

Changing minds about why doctors change their minds

When medical knowledge shifts, so do its guidelines.

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Sep 26, 2021 - 33 min

One man’s amazing journey to the center of the bowling ball

Understand the nuances of the sport's design.

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Sep 24, 2021 - 26 min

One woman’s mission to rewrite Nazi history on Wikipedia

Ksenia Coffman is an antidote to the site's poisonous sources.

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Sep 20, 2021 - 9 min

Online dating apps are actually kind of a disaster

We need to change the conversation surrounding online matchmakers.

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Sep 9, 2021 - 34 min

Meet the little-known genius who helped make Pixar possible

Steven Levy on the man behind your favourite animations.

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Sep 8, 2021 - 11 min

The $150 million machine keeping Moore’s Law alive

An insight into the revolutionary product.

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Aug 30, 2021 - 9 min

Games don't just let you escape - they also help you remember

Is it time for us all to pick up a console?

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Aug 29, 2021 - 24 min

Looks that quill: The dark side of hedgehog Instagram

When viral algorithms bring joy whilst rescuers grieve.

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Aug 24, 2021 - 10 min

If you want to tackle climate change, start with methane

The gas is responsible for around a quarter of global warming.

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Aug 16, 2021 - 11 min

How gravity turns me upside down

A personal essay on ageing and gravity.

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Aug 14, 2021 - 9 min

The Delta variant has warped our risk perception

Why has pandemic risk become passive?

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Aug 11, 2021 - 16 min

This new way to train AI could curb online harassment

Will this usher in a new era of content moderation?

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Aug 5, 2021 - 9 min

Is social media making us… better people?

Exploring the platforms' hidden but vital attribute.

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Jul 28, 2021 - 10 min

Who’s winning the war between Biden and Facebook? Fox News

Cable TV is having the most impact on COVID sceptics.

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Jul 22, 2021 - 8 min

Help! How do I accept that I’m burned out?

Some hard truths about work exhaustion.

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Jul 16, 2021 - 32 min

How Roblox became a playground for virtual fascists

Gaming culture could become a breeding ground for white supremacy.

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Jul 12, 2021 - 14 min

The coelacanth may live for a century — that's not great news

The race is on to save the prehistoric species.

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Jul 5, 2021 - 11 min

Actually, the antitrust case against Facebook is very much alive

Why the FTC’s fight isn’t over.

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Jul 3, 2021 - 11 min

What the Pentagon’s new UFO report reveals about humankind

It's less about aliens and more about the current cultural climate.

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Jun 29, 2021 - 17 min

Part 1: AI, ethics and engineers

Protecting the industry’s favorite technology.

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Jun 29, 2021 - 16 min

Part 4: The future of ethics in AI

The aftermath from the fallout.

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Jun 29, 2021 - 15 min

Part 3: Set up to fail?

Why the reluctant computer scientist took the role.

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Jun 29, 2021 - 17 min

Part 2: The engineer’s meteoric rise

"It wasn’t just the algorithms or their training data that skewed white."

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Jun 28, 2021 - 12 min

More content moderation Is not always better

“The solutions to social media’s problems aren’t as obvious as they might seem”.

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Jun 17, 2021 - 4 min

Search engines change how memory works

Revisiting the early-stage investigation into online tools and cognition.

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Jun 16, 2021 - 9 min

Hacker lexicon: what is a supply chain attack?

Get to know the lingo of cybersecurity.

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Jun 13, 2021 - 31 min

The full story of the stunning RSA hack can finally be told

What happens during a cyberattack?

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Jun 10, 2021 - 12 min

The case for using MDMA to help heal victims of trauma

Does ecstasy really have therapeutic power?

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Jun 5, 2021 - 9 min

Meet your next angel investor — they're 19

The rise of Gen Z angel investors.

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May 30, 2021 - 6 min

The Ford F-150 lightning is the electric vehicle of dystopia

Ford says it can power a home for three days.

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May 19, 2021 - 37 min

The 60-year-old scientific screwup that helped COVID kill

A tiny error with tremendous consequences.

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May 18, 2021 - 12 min

If work is going remote, why is Big Tech still building?

Perks of the office could be key to its survival.

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May 12, 2021 - 7 min

Gummy bears and candy bars are casualties of the pandemic

“With great change comes great experimentation.”

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May 6, 2021 - 25 min

How audio pros ‘upmix’ vintage tracks and give them new life

“The uncanny valley is alive with the sound of music.”

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May 4, 2021 - 11 min

As digital currency’s popularity rises, so do privacy fears

Is this the beginning of the end for cash?  

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May 2, 2021 - 38 min

They hacked McDonald’s ice cream machines — and started a cold war

Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. Mcflurries.

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Apr 25, 2021 - 9 min

Plastic is falling from the sky. But where’s it coming from?

Plastic rain is the new acid rain.

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Apr 20, 2021 - 12 min

Antitrust and privacy are on a collision course

What is the next step for Big-Tech's data privacy?

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Apr 17, 2021 - 37 min

I called off my wedding — the internet will never forget

The trouble with constant reminders.

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Apr 12, 2021 - 9 min

Email and Slack have locked us in a productivity paradox

Is it time to ditch them?

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Apr 10, 2021 - 12 min

COVID-19 vaccine passports are coming. What will that mean?

What you should know about vaccine verification.

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Apr 8, 2021 - 6 min

The foundations of AI are riddled with errors

New research reveals some complex problems.

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Apr 5, 2021 - 38 min

Sex tapes, hush money, and Hollywood’s economy of secrets

Meet Hollywood’s celebrity sex tape broker.

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Mar 30, 2021 - 13 min

Google and the age of privacy theater

Out with cookies, in with the FLoC.

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Mar 14, 2021 - 13 min

NFTs boom as collectors shell out to ‘own’ digital art

Find out more about crypto's artistic side.

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Mar 9, 2021 - 19 min

The case for cannibalism, or: how to survive the Donner party

A light-hearted reminder that sometimes it's okay to eat your friends.

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Mar 7, 2021 - 41 min

‘If you want to kill someone, we are the right guys’

The darkest corner of the web harbours many engrossing stories — this one is no exception.

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Mar 4, 2021 - 8 min

Gig workers gather their own data to check the algorithm’s math

Analysing the digital tools helping them to wrestle back control.

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Feb 24, 2021 - 50 min

The lion, the polygamist, and the biofuel scam

An unusual duo, but a classic American swindle story.

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Feb 6, 2021 - 25 min

The unsettling truth about the ‘Mostly Harmless’ hiker

His emaciated body was discovered in a tent, just a few miles from a major Florida highway.

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Jan 31, 2021 - 28 min

A 25-year-old bet comes due: has tech destroyed society?

Steven Levy: what a bet about technology made in the 1990s tell us about the state of humanity today.

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Jan 24, 2021 - 19 min

How to escape a sinking ship (like, say, the Titanic)

Climb aboard, put on your fanciest clothes, consider heading down to Deck and...

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Jan 24, 2021 - 13 min

Hello, world! It is ‘I,’ the Internet

When did 'the Internet' become 'the internet'?

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Jan 20, 2021 - 37 min

How many microcovids would you spend on a burrito?

Six roommates used public health data to create an online COVID-risk points system for every activity.

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Jan 16, 2021 - 7 min

The ethics of rebooting the dead

Just because something can be done, does it mean it should be?

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Jan 11, 2021 - 35 min

TikTok and the evolution of digital blackface

"Users drape themselves in the trappings of Black culture — and steal the viral spotlight."

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Dec 30, 2020 - 50 min

The scammer who wanted to save his country

A time-bomb waiting to explode in South America, and a hacker eager for adulation.

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Dec 19, 2020 - 17 min

They found community, and then love, in online games

Bridging long distances and cultural divides through gaming.

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Dec 15, 2020 - 10 min

The smoking gun in the Facebook antitrust case

The government wants to break up the world’s biggest social network — internal company emails show why.

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Dec 10, 2020 - 39 min

Huawei, 5G, and the man who conquered noise

Steven Levy on why we have to learn the story of polar codes.

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Dec 5, 2020 - 34 min

One woman’s high-touch bid to upend the sex-toy Industry

She ambitiously promised a toy that works for any and every body — but that was only the beginning.

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Nov 30, 2020 - 21 min

Why it's hard to escape Amazon's long reach

Being an e-commerce platform is just one of the many, many things the company does.

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Nov 22, 2020 - 80 min

The confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who saved the internet

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen: WannaCry.

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Nov 19, 2020 - 15 min

Why it’s a big deal if the first COVID vaccine is ‘genetic’

There are a lot of caveats to Pfizer and BioNTech's news. But plenty of reasons to be hopeful too.

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Nov 17, 2020 - 63 min

The man who speaks softly — and commands a big cyber army

America's most powerful spy yields more control over our lives than we can possibly imagine.

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Nov 15, 2020 - 20 min

A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

He was nice and said he worked in tech. After he died, not even DNA databases could figure out who he was.

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Nov 12, 2020 - 6 min

The left and the right speak different languages — literally

A study found that liberals and conservatives use different words to express similar ideas.

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Nov 10, 2020 - 30 min

ClickHole started as a meat joke — can it avoid being offal?

The humour site has survived it all: new owners, layoffs and a culture war.

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Nov 5, 2020 - 33 min

How Taiwan’s unlikely Digital Minister hacked the pandemic

For Audrey Tang, tech can build trust, tame misinformation and strengthen democracy.

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Nov 3, 2020 - 8 min

This algorithm doesn't replace doctors — it makes them better

Bridging technology with natural instincts could be the future of medicine.

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Nov 1, 2020 - 41 min

The weird, dark history of 8chan

Breaking down the imageboard site linked to several mass shootings in recent years.

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Oct 28, 2020 - 16 min

His writing radicalized young hackers — now he wants to redeem them

Cory Doctorow targets those whose moral compasses have been compromised working for Big Tech.

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Oct 27, 2020 - 13 min

What forest floor playgrounds teach us about kids and germs

How microbes could help the immune system decipher what’s dangerous and what is not.

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Oct 11, 2020 - 41 min

One couple’s tireless crusade to stop a genetic killer

When Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare disease, she and her husband set out to find a cure.

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Oct 9, 2020 - 14 min

Climate grief is burning across the American West

Climate change is fueling a new kind of despair on the West Coast — and beyond.

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Oct 6, 2020 - 48 min

The strange life and mysterious death of a virtuoso coder

Jerold Haas was on the verge of a life-altering triumph. Then, his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.

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Sep 17, 2020 - 31 min

A radical new model of the brain illuminates its wiring

The approach is not about finding new ways to study the brain, but understanding its essence.

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Sep 16, 2020 - 10 min

What sci-fi can teach computer science about ethics

How stepping out of the confines of reality can be an asset for academia.

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Sep 5, 2020 - 32 min

One IT guy’s spreadsheet-fueled race to restore voting rights

In 2020, thousands will show up to vote only to find out they've been purged.

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Sep 4, 2020 - 7 min

How four brothers allegedly fleeced $19 million from Amazon

The scheme involved 7,000 $94 toothbrushes, according to law enforcement.

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Sep 4, 2020 - 37 min

My friend was struck by ALS. To fight back, he built a movement

Meet Brian Wallach, the man on a mission to give ALS patients help and hope.

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Sep 4, 2020 - 41 min

Why Craigslist is such a mess

It is the most important community site going and yet the most underdeveloped.

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Sep 4, 2020 - 42 min

The furious hunt for the MAGA bomber

A Herculean effort, equaled perhaps only by the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

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Aug 26, 2020 - 36 min

My week of radical transparency at a Chinese business seminar

A tale of two cultures, technology and understanding where one comes from.