WIRED Magazine - May - June 2024
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In this issue
Can Reddit’s Authenticity Machine Survive Wall Street?
Thousands of subreddits went dark in protest last summer, laying bare the tension inside the company before its IPO.
by Robert Peck and Paresh Dave
The Fateful Eight
The story behind the most consequential technological paper in recent history. by Steven Levy
Russian, Go Home
When my country went to war, I faced a choice: Flee to a world where the truth might kill me—or seek peace and familiarity in censored oblivion. by Vadim Smyslov
Women at the Bottom of the World
They go to Antarctica with dreams of studying the unknown. What they discover there is the stuff of nightmares.
10+ mins
RUSSIAN, GO HOME
WHEN MY COUNTRY WENT TO WAR, I FACED A CHOICE: Flee to a world where the truth might kill me - or seek peace in censored oblivion.
10+ mins
The Fateful Eight
THE STORY BEHIND THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL TECHNOLOGICAL PAPER IN RECENT HISTORY.
10+ mins
Can the Internet's Greatest Authenticity Machine Survive Wall Street?
When thousands of subreddits went dark in protest last summer, it exposed the tension at the core of Reddit - on the eve of the company's IPO. Now that synthetic media is flooding the internet, does the web's most reliably human forum represent a gold mine for investors, or an old-fashioned dumpster fire?
10+ mins
The Unnerving Presence of Javier Bardem
He's known for playing fanatics and murderous psychopaths. In real life, he loves his wife (and Brad Pitt) and cries during E.T.
10+ mins
HAPPY HAUNTING
IN A CHARMING game called This Discord Has Ghosts in It, up to 15 participants at a time gather in a Discord server that has been reimagined as a haunted house. (Of course.) Inside lies a maze of (chat) rooms where each player takes the role of either an eponymous spirit or a paranormal investigator.
3 mins
THE MYTH OF METAL
How I became a Python programmer - and learned to love our abstract world.
5 mins
SO YOU WANT TO REWIRE BRAINS
There's a lot to like about brain-computer interfaces, those sci-fi-sounding devices that jack into your skull and turn neural signals into software commands. Experimental BCIS help paralyzed people communicate, use the internet, and move prosthetic limbs.
3 mins
FOR GIANT LIZARDS, PLEASE HOLD
The sounds of Slack have a secret history.
5 mins
THE NERD-KING VIBES OF JENSEN HUANG
The Nvidia CEO turned a graphics-card company into a trillion-dollar AI behemoth. Now he wants to transform the rest of the world-health care, robotics, autonomous driving, the works.
10+ mins
IN DEFENSE OF JAVASCRIPT
Mock it all you want-but it runs the world. Possibly even literally.
5 mins
EVERY WOMAN IS AN ISLAND
Matriarchy, money, and a modern mariner named Marina.
5 mins
THE PROVINCE OF ALL MANKIND
TWO NATIONS. A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. AND THE URGENT NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE LAWS OF SPACE RIGHT NOW.
10+ mins
LOVE, DEMENTIA AND ROBOTICS
When my parents got sick, I turned to a NEW GENERATION of roboticists and their GLOWING, TALKING, WARMHEARTED creations.
10+ mins
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
Three decades after a devastating nuclear war between the US and China, a divided America faces a new threat to its very DNA. An excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
10+ mins
TAIL AS OLD AS TIME
Was Bobi the world's longest-lived dogor just another casualty of Big Kibble?
5 mins
THE Algorithmic Authenticity OF Shou Zi Chew
The CEO of the world's most influential social media company likes tacos, Sheryl Crow, and Diablo IV. Is he for real-ora really good politician?
10+ mins
The Revolutionary Absurdity of Boots Riley
The scene is straight out of Boots Riley's madcap moviemaking handbook
10+ mins
A. I. Goes to War
Ships without crews. Autonomous drone swarms. A small U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and Artificial Intelligence to prepare for the next great conflict at sea
10+ mins
The Fractal Immortality of Grimes
I thought my interview with Grimes-the mysterious techno artist, fan of all nerddom, and the deepest of insiders in Elon Musk's world-would be one-on-one. Instead it wound up as a roundtable discussion. Turns out there are multiple personas embedded in the surprisingly haimish human who sat under a tree with me and spent the waning hours of an afternoon in conversation. There was Claire Boucher, the given name of a Vancouver kid obsessed with video games and devoted to provoking adults with misbehavior and the embrace of taboo subjects. There was Grimes, the self-invented, scrappy DIY musician and provocateur who weaves sci-fi into her work and released what Pitchfork judged to be the second-best song of the 2010s. And there was her preferred nomenclature, "c," invoking the speed of light
10+ mins
A.I. Is a Fiction
Stop freaking out when chatbots say they're in love or make disturbing threats. Just treat them like Pinocchio.
6 mins
FRAUD TRACKER
With her blog Web3 Is Going Just Great, software engineer Molly White rains on the crypto parade. She doesn't feel great about it
2 mins
SAFETY FIRST
Fears that artificial intelligence might wipe us out have fueled the rise of protest groups like Pause Al. Their warnings are far-fetched, but not that far-fetched
5 mins
THE GREAT DIVIDE
There are two ways to compute, and two ways to see the world. It's batch vs. loopand we really need them to reconcile
4 mins
BRING THE NOISE
A vast array of gadgets make it easy to blot out sonic intrusions-maybe a little too easy
5 mins
THE DEFECTOR
Doug Rushkoff was one of tech's founding optimists. Now he's renouncing the digital revolution. He says it's the only human option.
10+ mins
MIND WIDE OPEN
Kids soak up new skills, adults not so much. But neuroscientist Gül Dölen might have found a way to help grownups learn like littles and heal from stroke and trauma. Step one: Take psychedelics.
10+ mins
Watch This Space
French satellite giant Eutelsat is taking on Elon Musk's Starlink-while navigating Russia's war in Ukraine, Brexit politics, and Iranian jamming attacks
3 mins
Christopher Bouzy – "Building a Platform Like Twitter is Not Difficult"
When Elon Musk's reign of toxic chaos began, Christopher Bouzy didn't just go looking for a rival place to post. He joined the crowded race to create one. (It got difficult.)
10+ mins
SONIC BOOM
With hundreds of thousands of podcasts competing for listeners, hosts are using IRL events and other strategies to make their shows more of an \"experience.\" Fans dig it
4 mins
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Publisher: Condé Nast
Category: Science
Language: English
Frequency: Bi-Monthly
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