Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Is Ready to Blow Your Mind
WIRED: What’s your first memory of the original Matrix? Yahya Abdul-Mateen II: I might have been 14. I remember trying
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Amazon’s Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
On September 26, 2018, a row of tech executives filed into a marble- and wood-paneled hearing room and sat down
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At the End of the World, It’s Hyperobjects All the Way Down
Perhaps unsurprisingly, reactions to Morton have been intense and polarized. Hyperobjects has (and hyperobjects have) been called “pessimistic,” “provocative,” “disempowering,”
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The 10,000 Faces That Launched an NFT Revolution
Within 24 hours, all the Punks were gone; one man who saw the post amassed 758 of them. Within days,
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In ‘Termination Shock,’ Neal Stephenson Finally Takes on Global Warming
Over lunch, roughly when we’d started considering dessert, I asked Stephenson how that reception feels. He seemed a little chagrined—and
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Blood, Lies, and a Drug Trials Lab Gone Bad
The email that Joe Hagood received in August 2017 was vague and brief, but too unsettling to ignore. Hagood worked
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Swapped Blood, Faked Data, and a Lab Gone Bad
The email that Joe Hagood received in August 2017 was vague and brief, but too unsettling to ignore. Hagood worked
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Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America
Mitchell came from a Black family with an entrepreneurial spirit. When he was a teenager growing up in New Haven,
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Day One at The Every: An Excerpt From Dave Eggers’ New Novel
“I think so,” Kiki said. “But you should know—you were the forest ranger!” Delaney cackled idiotically and thought she’d choke.
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Greg LeMond and the Amazing Candy Colored Dream Bike
When you’re a kid, a bike spells freedom. Long before you can get a driver’s license, long before you can
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