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With its twirly cord and landline-like features, the Tin Can is giving kids a crash course in phone etiquette. For example: Talk!
Google’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes.
A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.
The Latest Repair Battlefield Is the Iowa Farmlands—Again
A new bill that would give farmers in Iowa the right to repair is a big threat to tractor manufacturer John Deere.
A show that started as an earnest if messy quest for love is now simply a mirror to the hell of modern dating.
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.
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AI Will Never Be Conscious
In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.
Inside the Gay Tech Mafia
Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.
An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.
AI Safety Meets the War Machine
THINGS FALL APART
It's not enough to build things. You also have to tear them down. WIRED commissioned five stories about decommissioning, from EVs and internet cables to supercomputers and space stations.
23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century
The Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025
AI of a Thousand Faces
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Originally published August 2023: So many people are nearsighted on the island nation that they have already glimpsed what could be coming for the rest of us.
Framed for Murder by His Own DNA
