Jan 31, 2010 4:54 AM

The ReadWriteWeb events guide

*And that's just for February. Imagine that you went to all of these gigs. What kind of condition would your head be in?

*Would you even be able to talk? I mean, without using words like "disintermediate"?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_events_guide_30_january_2010.php

events_100218_future_funding

events_100315_social_networking2

events_socialmediaweek

WIRED Ghost Stories

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

Please Let the Internet Die

Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.

Miles Klee

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

Lily Hay Newman

Demi Adejuyigbe Thinks You Should Only Post 3 Times a Day

The comedian sees being online as similar to visiting the zoo. “I don’t need to interact with that,” he says. “It’s just a thing that I enjoy, and then I walk away.”

Miles Klee

Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI

More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.

Kate Taylor

9 WIRED-Approved Gifts for the Techie in Your Life

Don’t buy a loved one something you wouldn’t want for yourself. These are the must-haves that tech enthusiasts have on their wish lists this year.

Luke Larsen

Spend Elon Musk’s Money

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

Neal Agarwal

the case for lowercase

a certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?

Tiffany Ng

The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

Zoë Schiffer

Sony Is Giving You a Reason to Party With $100 Off One of Our Favorite Speakers

The Sony ULT Tower 7 is one of our top party speaker picks and is at its lowest-ever price. Grab this or one of its sibling models before your next fete.

Les Shu

This Preamp Costs More Than a Fancy Sports Car

Goldmund’s $240,000 Mimesis Statement is an exercise in extreme Swiss sound engineering—and only one part of a $1.5 million audio setup.

Simon Lucas

We Linked 150 of Ikea’s $10 Speakers to Make a Wall of Sound

WIRED attempts what even the Swedish brand hasn’t: making a sonic monolith using scores of the cheapest Bluetooth speakers on the market. Can you have too much of a small thing?

Jeremy White