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Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance

WIRED Opinion

Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance

Ross Atkin

Google’s nemesis: meet the British couple who took on a giant, won... and cost it £2.1 billion

Long Reads

Google’s nemesis: meet the British couple who took on a giant, won... and cost it £2.1 billion

Rowland Manthorpe

Real Heroes Have the Guts to Admit They're Wrong

Morals

Real Heroes Have the Guts to Admit They're Wrong

Clive Thompson

UK police are now using fingerprint scanners on the streets to identify people in less than a minute

Policing

UK police are now using fingerprint scanners on the streets to identify people in less than a minute

Matt Reynolds

Twitter has admitted Russian trolls targeted the Brexit vote (a little bit)

Twitter

Twitter has admitted Russian trolls targeted the Brexit vote (a little bit)

Matt Burgess

Brexit will hit the UK's car and aviation industries hardest

Brexit

Brexit will hit the UK's car and aviation industries hardest

Rowland Manthorpe

The gig economy is being fuelled by exploitation, not innovation

WIRED Opinion

The gig economy is being fuelled by exploitation, not innovation

James Temperton

How religious extremists gamed Facebook to target millions of Britons with far-right propaganda

Long Reads

How religious extremists gamed Facebook to target millions of Britons with far-right propaganda

Matt Reynolds

The Techies Running For Congress Walk a Fine Line

national affairs

The Techies Running For Congress Walk a Fine Line

Issie Lapowsky

Airbnb is booming in London

Airbnb

Airbnb is booming in London

Rowland Manthorpe

Matt Hancock MP has launched an app. And he wants all your data

Politics

Matt Hancock MP has launched an app. And he wants all your data

Matt Burgess

May's Davos speech exposed the emptiness in the UK's AI strategy

WIRED Opinion

May's Davos speech exposed the emptiness in the UK's AI strategy

Rowland Manthorpe

In the digital age, foreign policy won't be decided by presidents

WIRED World in 2018

In the digital age, foreign policy won't be decided by presidents

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Theresa May's fake news unit is just another naïve plan for the web

WIRED Opinion

Theresa May's fake news unit is just another naïve plan for the web

Matt Burgess

Only bots can fix capitalism now

Long Reads

Only bots can fix capitalism now

Rowland Manthorpe

Space mining is going to seriously disrupt Earth's economy. And we're nowhere near ready for the shock

Space

Space mining is going to seriously disrupt Earth's economy. And we're nowhere near ready for the shock

Abigail Beall

From Athens to Zhuzhou, city states are the home of innovation

WIRED World in 2018

From Athens to Zhuzhou, city states are the home of innovation

Roman Krznaric

18 predictions for 2018: UpVote 21

UpVote

18 predictions for 2018: UpVote 21

Rowland Manthorpe

Meet Antifa's Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists

Free Speech

Meet Antifa's Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists

Doug Bock Clark

6 Tales of Censorship in the Golden Age of Free Speech

Special Issue

6 Tales of Censorship in the Golden Age of Free Speech

WIRED Staff