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The Big Story

The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century

By Virginia Heffernan
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2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
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2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
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2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
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2054, Part III: The Singularity

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
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2054, Part II: Next Big Thing

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
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2054, Part I: Death of a President

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
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‘Over Time the Trust Will Come’: An Exclusive Interview With TikTok’s CEO

By Dexter Thomas
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Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space

By Khari Johnson
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How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity

By Andy Greenberg
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My Parents’ Dementia Felt Like the End of Joy. Then Came the Robots

By Kat McGowan
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11 Noteworthy WIRED Long-form Stories of 2023

By Caitlin Kelly
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How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun

By Steven Levy
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You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?

By Tom Vanderbilt
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The Spy Who Dumped the CIA, Went to Therapy, and Now Makes Incredible Television

By Laura Kipnis
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Rebel Moon Director Zack Snyder on Violence, Loss, and Extreme Fandom

By Hemal Jhaveri
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Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence

By Lauren Goode
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Satoshi Is Black

By Brandi Collins-Dexter
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The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story

By Andy Greenberg
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Robotic Putting Greens. Mixed Reality. Loud Spectators. This Is Golf?!

By Steven Levy
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How Citizen Surveillance Ate San Francisco

By Lauren Smiley
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Taylor Swift, Star Wars, Stranger Things, and Deadpool Have One Man in Common

By Angela Watercutter
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Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era

By Brendan I. Koerner
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‘Someone Is Using Photos of Me to Talk to Men’

By Lindsay Jones
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