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As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.
Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds
All my Gen Z friends want to ditch their smartphones. It’s cool. They’re cool. But there’s more at stake than they think.
From surveys of the pre-Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of alien technology.

Are DJI Drones Still Banned?

How to Clean Your Keurig

The Best Water Leak Detectors for Your Home
Minnesota ICE Shooting

The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good
After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.

Why ICE Can Kill With Impunity

Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet

If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.

True Patriots Are Cashing In on the Apocalypse

DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost.

Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab

From Tesla to AI friends to Big Balls and back, this is our definitive breakdown of everything, and everyone, that conquered the WIRED world this year—and a few that fell from the top.

AI of a Thousand Faces

All Hail the Technocracy

WIRED Takes You Back to School

The New Era of Work Travel
Originally published September 2022: The Pacific Northwest is due for a massive quake. I trained to help rescue efforts in the aftermath—by racing around the city on an electric kid hauler.
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