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The Big Story

Bill Gates Traumatized His Parents—and Other Stories of a Wild, Wonky Youth

By Steven Levy
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Are You Lonely? Adopt a New Family on Facebook Today

By Lexi Pandell
The Big Story

Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head

By Lily Hay Newman
The Big Story

The ‘Crazy Guy’ Who Bet Billions on the iPhone—3 Years Before It Existed

By Lionel Barber
Culture

Imagining a Future Where Chicagoans Get Around in Free Driverless Cars

By Nnedi Okorafor
The Big Story

A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI

By Bradley Hope
Business

Mapping Elon Musk’s Global Empire

By Elana Klein and Anthony Lydgate
The Big Story

The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell

By Virginia Heffernan
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The Spectacular Burnout of a Solar Panel Salesman

By Brendan I. Koerner
The Big Story

The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real

By Dhruv Mehrotra and Andy Greenberg
The Big Story

Inside a Fusion Startup's Insane, Top-Secret Opening Ceremony

By Jaron Lanier
The Big Story

Tim Cook Wants Apple to Literally Save Your Life

By Steven Levy
Science

The Whole Story of How Humans Evolved From Great Apes

By John Gowlett
The Big Story

Murderbot, She Wrote

By Meghan Herbst
The Big Story

Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination

By Steven Levy
The Big Story

Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future

By WIRED Staff
The Big Story

The Great American Microchip Mobilization

By Kelly McEvers
The Big Story

Even Under Trump, California (Yes, That Hellscape) Will Keep Moving the World Forward

By James Fallows
The Big Story

‘We Were Wrong’: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website

By Virginia Heffernan
Gear

As Schools Ban Phones, More Kids Are Using Smartwatches

By Emily Tate Sullivan
Culture

The Aftermath of the Alligator Experiment

By Jeff VanderMeer
The Big Story

Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

By Virginia Heffernan
The Big Story

The American Who Waged a Tech War on China

By Issie Lapowsky
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Alfonso Cuarón Subverted Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Now He’s Coming for TV

By Samanth Subramanian
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