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Jacques Vallée Still Doesn’t Know What UFOs Are

By Chantel Tattoli
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Driving While Baked? Inside the High-Tech Quest to Find Out

By Amanda Chicago Lewis
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Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress

By Gregory Barber
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How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

By Darren Loucaides
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They Were ‘Calling to Help.’ Then They Stole Thousands

By Becca Andrews
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North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

By Andy Greenberg
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Here Come the Underdogs of the Robot Olympics

By Tom Vanderbilt
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How Bloghouse’s Sweaty, Neon Reign United the Internet

By Lina Abascal
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Gravity Could Solve Clean Energy’s One Major Drawback

By Matt Reynolds
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What Happens When an AI Knows How You Feel?

By Will Coldwell
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The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change

By Vince Beiser
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The Wave-Conquering, Metaverse-Crashing Life of Kai Lenny

By Daniel Duane
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And Now: 31 Notable WIRED Long-Form Stories of 2021

By Mark Robinson
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Welcome to Miami, Where All Your Memes Come True!

By Arielle Pardes
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Boom’s Quest to Make Supersonic Flights a Reality (Again)

By Tom Vanderbilt
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The Race to Find ‘Green’ Helium

By William Ralston
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4 Dead Infants, a Convicted Mother, and a Genetic Mystery

By Oscar Schwartz
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David Attenborough’s Unending Mission to Save Our Planet

By Stephen Armstrong
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The Twitter Wildfire Watcher Who Tracks California’s Blazes

By Boone Ashworth
Culture

WIRED Peers Into the Future of Reality

By The Editors
Culture

The Matrix Is the Best Hacker Movie

By Andy Greenberg
Science

Welcome to the (Synthetic) Meatspace

By Amy Webb
Ideas

What The Matrix Got Wrong About Cities of the Future

By Nicholas De Monchaux
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Is Ready to Blow Your Mind

By Jason Parham
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