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They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War
The untold, top-secret story of the British researchers who found the key to keeping humans alive...
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
Jane Willenbring was the first to blow the whistle on sexual harassment and assault in Antarctica....
He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared
Faruk Özer just started a 11,196-year prison sentence. Did he almost get away with the biggest...
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential...
Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO?
When thousands of subreddits went dark in protest, it exposed the tension at the core of...
Javier Bardem Is Menacing and Thrilling in 'Dune: Part Two'—and a Soulful Teddy Bear IRL
He’s known for playing fanatics and murderous psychopaths. In real life, the actor loves his wife...
There's No AI Without Nvidia. Meet the CEO Powering the Future
Tech companies can’t get enough of this tech company. Earnings are off the charts. WIRED probes...
Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death
Should I flee to a world where the truth might kill me—or seek peace in Russian...
Help, My Friend Got Me a Dumb AI-Generated Present
WIRED’s advice columnist on the true purpose of gift giving.
Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them
Silicon Valley’s top pundit dishes on her memoir Burn Book, immature billionaires, and whether she’s actually...
The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century
Meet Marina Hadjipateras: Greek shipping heiress, successful venture capitalist, and the woman trying to transform the...
The One Internet Hack That Could Save Everything
It’s so simple: Axe 26 words from the Communications Decency Act. Welcome to a world without...
2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington
“This eruption of violence had been brewing for years, through successive economic collapses, pandemics, and the...
2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love
“Had this all been contrived? Had his life become a game in which everyone knew the...
2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided
“The people are in the streets. We can’t ignore them any longer. Really, we have little...
2054, Part III: The Singularity
“You’d have an incomprehensible level of computational, predictive, analytic, and psychic skill. You’d have the mind...
2054, Part II: Next Big Thing
“If molecules really were the new microchips, the promise of remote gene editing was that the...
2054, Part I: Death of a President
“They had, quite swiftly, begun an algorithmic scrub of any narrative of the president suffering a...
‘Over Time the Trust Will Come’: An Exclusive Interview With TikTok’s CEO
A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he’s...
How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named...
WIRED’s Biggest Interviews of 2023
Pedro Pascal, Sundar Pichai, Grimes, Jennifer Doudna, and more: feisty conversations with famous people.
11 Noteworthy WIRED Long-form Stories of 2023
This year’s standout feature stories from WIRED will transport you, make you think, and maybe even...
