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Inside the Contentious World of Luigi Mangione Supporters

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 · Gadgets

Last February, Emily Whittemore stepped onto the stage at Los Angeles’ Jumbo’s Clown Room in a pair of eight-inch Pleaser heels, a black string bikini, and an extra-large…

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A Journey Into the Heart of Labubu

October 1, 2025October 1, 2025 · Gadgets

The day after I failed to secure a Labubu from Pop Mart’s original store, I decide to console myself with a visit to Pop Land, the company’s 10-acre…

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Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings

September 26, 2025September 26, 2025 · Gadgets

During our conversation, Brown compared Praxis to Israel—minus a world war and a holocaust, of course. “There were these stateless people who were scattered,” he says, and they…

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Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?

September 22, 2025September 22, 2025 · Gadgets

When the suit didn’t produce instant results, Musk went jingoistic. A few months earlier, in February 2014, Russia had invaded Ukraine, illegally annexing the Crimean Peninsula and triggering…

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A Vigil for Charlie Kirk

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025 · Gadgets

Young people dominated the hospital crowd, which makes sense, since Kirk’s major accomplishment was to promote his brand of rightwing politics to a cohort that has historically been…

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The Superyacht, the Billionaire, and a Wildly Improbable Disaster at Sea

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025 · Gadgets

The court delivered a devastating judgment in January 2022. In a 1,700-page ruling, the judge found that Lynch had been “aware of improprieties in Autonomy’s accounting practices” and…

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The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?

September 3, 2025September 3, 2025 · Gadgets

Bi understood how far-fetched her allegations sounded. “If it were not for all the hard evidence, it’s too shocking to believe [Rebecca Smith] did what she did to…

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Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?

August 21, 2025August 21, 2025 · Gadgets

Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer who has relinquished management responsibilities to focus on…

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‘We Were Wrong’: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website

‘We Were Wrong’: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website

October 29, 2024October 29, 2024 · Gadgets

Kevin: When we went to do the IPO, it was very, very clear that the digital side was far more valuable than the magazine side. That was the…

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‘Absolution’ Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Newest Southern Reach Book

‘Absolution’ Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Newest Southern Reach Book

October 22, 2024October 22, 2024 · Gadgets

But then, too, there was the assurance, the confidence, in the accounts of the biologists as remedy to allay suspicion. Because Sergeant Rocker, too, had then taken to…

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Bobbi Althoff on Exactly How She Got Rich—and How Rich, Exactly

Bobbi Althoff on Exactly How She Got Rich—and How Rich, Exactly

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024 · Gadgets

Well actually WIRED shares a parent company with Reddit. Good. Get rid of it. What’s the part of all of it that feels the weirdest to you still?…

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The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It

The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It

August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 · Gadgets

Moqadi Mokoena had been feeling uneasy all day. When he’d left his home on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, for his job as a security guard, he’d…

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She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax

She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax

August 7, 2024August 7, 2024 · Gadgets

By the time I arrive in Lezay my clothes are damp with sweat, my head foggy. I find hundreds of Les Soulèvements de la Terre’s supporters in a…

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The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe

The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024 · Gadgets

It was questionable how much credit they could take. They had arrived in Texas right at the start of the rainy season, and the precipitation that fell before…

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China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet’s Boyfriend (It’s Keanu Reeves)

China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet’s Boyfriend (It’s Keanu Reeves)

June 5, 2024June 5, 2024 · Gadgets

**SPOILERS AHEAD**!!!!!! As the fictional Freud writes of his own approaching death, he foresees the death of his sister Dolfi (who will die three years later in historical…

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How Advertising Broke the World

How Advertising Broke the World

May 29, 2024May 29, 2024 · Gadgets

Disclosure: Longtime journalist Steven Brill is the founder or cofounder of a number of publications and companies, including NewsGuard, where he is the co-CEO and coeditor in chief.…

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They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 · Gadgets

The Allied soldiers who weren’t killed limped back from the defeat. It was clear now, they needed to be able to creep up to the beaches days before…

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8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 · Gadgets

The last two weeks before the deadline were frantic. Though officially some of the team still had desks in Building 1945, they mostly worked in 1965 because it…

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Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination

Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination

March 7, 2024March 7, 2024 · Gadgets

Hall says when she has access to an interpreter, they are rotated throughout the week, forcing her to repeatedly explain some technical concepts. “Google is going the cheap…

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How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 · Gadgets

Most alarmingly, PlanetRisk began seeing evidence of the US military’s own missions in the Locomotive data. Phones would appear at American military installations such as Fort Bragg in…

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