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How Data Centers Broke American Politics

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What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me...

The Real Story Behind the 2018 Google Walkout

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In 2018, more than 20,000 employees walked out to protest how Google...

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Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far...

Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

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“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s...

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out

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Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US...

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out

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An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash...

Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read

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Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’

19 days ago

Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside...

The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT

25 days ago

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot...

WIRED World Fair

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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic

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Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the...