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Gregory Barber

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Gregory Barber is a journalist in San Francisco who previously covered energy and climate for WIRED.

Machine Readable

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

Oct 13, 2025 7:00 AM

Cleanup Act

Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out

Dec 7, 2023 8:00 AM

LiveWIRED

The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

Dec 7, 2023 7:00 AM

Material World

Google DeepMind's AI Dreamed Up 380,000 New Materials. The Next Challenge Is Making Them

Nov 29, 2023 11:00 AM

Hot Rocks

A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener

Nov 28, 2023 8:00 AM

Life After Death

Why Teslas Totaled in the US Are Mysteriously Reincarnated in Ukraine

Nov 17, 2023 6:00 AM

Bright Outlook

Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard

Nov 14, 2023 10:00 AM

Meltdown

The First Small-Scale Nuclear Plant in the US Died Before It Could Live

Nov 9, 2023 3:43 PM

Hammer Time

Everyone Is a Luddite Now

Oct 22, 2023 7:00 AM

Blackout

The Annular Solar Eclipse Will Decimate US Solar Energy Output

Oct 13, 2023 7:00 AM

AI of the Storm

AI Hurricane Predictions Are Storming the World of Weather Forecasting

Sep 27, 2023 7:00 AM

Mixed Reality

Your New Apple Watch Won’t Be Carbon Neutral

Sep 14, 2023 7:00 AM

Juice Boxes

Big Batteries Are Booming. So Are Fears They'll Catch Fire

Sep 8, 2023 7:00 AM

Post-Docs

The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

Aug 3, 2023 6:00 AM

Compound Interest

Inside the DIY Race to Replicate LK-99

Aug 2, 2023 8:00 AM

WIRED30

A Vast Untapped Green Energy Source Is Hiding Beneath Your Feet

Jul 19, 2023 6:00 AM

Friend or Foe?

Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse

Jul 18, 2023 7:00 AM

Plaintext

Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap?

Jul 7, 2023 9:00 AM

Sort Function

Deepmind’s AI Is Learning About the Art of Coding

Jun 7, 2023 11:00 AM

Depth Charge

The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World

May 25, 2023 6:00 AM