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In her workshop on world-building, the master fantasist schools the audience in the structural forces that cause inequality.

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It’s yet another cautionary tale about the risks of buying internet-connected devices.

The augmented-reality game isn't just Microsoft's most ambitious mobile title to date; it's a play to change the way we interact with the world and each other.

Speculative execution attacks still haunt Intel, long after researchers told the company what to fix.

The more scientists learn about the slumbering brain, the more they realize how vital sleep actually is. Now some researchers hope to develop it into a form of medicine.

Researchers have identified 11 new vulnerabilities in 5G—with time running out to fix them.

With a comfortable fit, great sound, and awesome noise canceling, these are the best AirPods ever.

Don’t trust your eyes—the water’s not moving the way you think it is.

As US leaders dither, President Xi Jinping vies for the technological future of finance.

Teenage slime influencer Katie Anstett teaches grownups the viral, sticky craft.

Vine was a white-hot sterling feature of a larger truth: The internet depends on black people.

Dave Filoni spearheaded the Star Wars cartoons—and might be the future of the franchise. Here, he picks the scenes that inspired him as a creator.

How a group of Somalis became leaders in the fight to change a tech behemoth.

The service didn't need the kind of ramp-up Apple TV+ or Netflix needed—in terms of content and infrastructure, Disney's already locked and loaded.

Tech giants can access all of your personal medical details under existing health privacy laws. The question is how else that data might get used.

Attention Dara Khosrowshahi: The killing of a woman in Arizona by your company's self-driving car is not a "mistake."

But, he says, the fandom shouldn’t let itself be defined by a few bigots.

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A veteran analyst explains the work of gathering fingerprints that can link a suspect to a crime—even after it rains.

Fish larvae off the coast of Hawaii are mistaking tiny pieces of plastic for prey, an alarming finding with big implications for the oceanic food web.

The slim, light, 2-in-1 computer has a new chip that hobbles the machine’s ability to achieve the dreams that Microsoft had for it.

The famed journalist and teacher explains her philosophy to parenting.

Netflix, meanwhile, could have more than 200 million by that time.

The creator of Apple TV+'s launch title talks to WIRED's Peter Rubin about what it would look like if the Russians beat us to the moon.

How a lowly WIRED columnist got caught up in a secret war at one of the world's biggest websites.

Microsoft's $10 billion Pentagon contract puts the independent artificial-intelligence lab OpenAI in an awkward position.

And what Alphabet’s moonshot factory, X, is going after next.

Plus, a call to require helmets for cyclists, Paris battles e-scooters, and more.

Last week, Rudy Giuliani lawyered up on Twitter and the internet began to ask what triggers liberals and conservatives.

Neural networks are demonstrating profound leaps in their abilities when they're tasked with open exploration instead of a narrowly focused goal.

Get your child a Kindle and use it to support your local library!

Apple Mail encryption, Ring doorbell Wi-Fi, and more of the week's top security news.

The timing of the walrus's disappearance suggests the Vikings, and their ivory trade, had something to do with it.

Americans are as polarized as they've ever been. Could the problem be that we're caring for each other too much?

Some people are so passionate about doing their own shifting, they keep manual transmissions in cars converted to run on electric power.

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Computational biologist Laura Boykin says scientists are “asleep at the wheel”; activist Malkia Devich-Cyril says citizens also need to pressure technology companies to change.

See WIRED editors live in conversation with Jeff Weiner, Anne Neuberger, Matthew Prince, Dawn Song, Patrick Collison, Traci Des Jardins, Astro Teller, and more.

The UC Berkeley professor talks about using algorithms to make it safer for robots and people to cross paths.

An interactive art exhibit at WIRED25 explores the ways technology may expose—or obscure—the details of our lives.

If he simply told companies that new employee orientation programs were valuable they would blow him off. So he resorts to violence.

Memphis Meats' lab-grown flesh approach is still far off, but Impossible Foods' plant-based approach is already on the menu at Burger King.

The CEO spoke with WIRED’s editor in chief about the pros and cons of replacing in-person workplace conversations with messaging software.

For the second year in a row, researchers from the developing world have been denied visas to a major AI conference in Canada.

Hiding like counts is just the latest step in Instagram’s quest to become the safest place on the internet.

At the WIRED25 festival in San Francisco, three *Juliana v. United States* plaintiffs talk about suing the government to force it to save us from climate doom.

At WIRED25, the ex-chief product officer talks about why he left the social media company and his new work on climate and progressive politics.

Josh Edelson’s photograph of downtown Los Angeles haloed in smoke forces the viewer to accept the consequences of climate change.

At WIRED25, the startup founder talks about her “new privacy paradigm” and how it could protect personal data, and keep it anonymous.