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AN IMPERFECT STORM

CAN THE U.A.E. REALLY MAKE RAIN ON DEMAND OR IS IT SELLING VAPORWARE?

THE TECH WORLD'S GREATEST LIVING NOVELIST GOES META

In which Robin Sloan writes Moonbound-a science fiction book about science fiction-and our writer writes his way into total insanity.

Do The Math - Learn you a Haskell-the spooky, esoteric cult classic of programming languages.

Learn you a Haskell-the spooky, esoteric cult classic of programming languages. Programming paradigms are mainly divided into "imperative programming" and "functional programming." The dichotomy isn't clear-cut, as a growing number of languages support both styles, but for our purposes it may be enough to say that in imperative programming you write code as a series of steps, line by line, while in functional programming you define mathematical functions and let the machine worry about the steps. In terms of actual functionality and usage, imperative programming is the far more common approach.

Screen Saver - Dumbphone life is about

There are still nice things on the internet. Dumbphone life, as r/Dumbphones moderator Jose Briones told me, is about "recovering your time and attention for the things you actually value." Of course, getting sucked into a subreddit because it was algorithmically suggested to me based on my extensive online browsing-is the antithesis of that. But it's how I found r/Dumbphones, now my favorite place on the internet.

Your online girlfriend is a workforce.

Because I have a deep and childish fear of being exposed as uncool, I try hard to act nonchalant when I´m around people with lives more interesting than my own. This is the tactic I employed last year when I met an OnlyFans star, a fit cosplayer and Japanophile who has soared into an enviable tax bracket by selling what she terms "exxxtra spicy content."

11,196 Years in Prison

Faruk Özer made crypto seem like the sation to decades of economic dysimction. Then he became Turkey's most wanted-and hated-man.

DeLorean vs DeLorean

Decades after her dad's iconic sports car time-traveled into movie history, Kat DeLorean wants to build a modern remake. There's just one problem: Someone else owns the trademark on her name.

THE BEHIND THE SCENES TECHNO-WIZARDRY OF ARATI PRABHAKAR

She has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.

THE FORENSIC EMPIRE OF ELIOT HIGGINS

As fakes and deceptions proliferate at record speeds, one guy has maintained a miraculous nose for the truth-the founder of Bellingcat, the world's biggest citizen-run intelligence agency.

THE COMMUNIST & THE CELEBRITY

CHINA MIÉVILLE WRITES A NOVEL WITH THE INTERNET'S BOYFRIEND.

DESIRED

WIRED's visit to the intersection of luxury and technology.

FIXER UPPER

Maybe you think they're majestic. Maybe you think they're an eyesore. No matter how you feel about wind turbines, there'll be a lot more of them in coming years.

PRETTY IN PINK

Why did scientists put tangerine DNA in a pineapple-and can this Frankenfruit help change public opinion toward bioengineered foods?

THE TRICKY BREAKAWAY OF PHIL WIZARD

He recently deactivated the Patreon that helped him scrape together enough to get by. Now he’s a somewhat reluctant) global ambassador for a new Olympic sport.

Women at the Bottom of the World

They go to Antarctica with dreams of studying the unknown. What they discover there is the stuff of nightmares.

RUSSIAN, GO HOME

WHEN MY COUNTRY WENT TO WAR, I FACED A CHOICE: Flee to a world where the truth might kill me - or seek peace in censored oblivion.

The Fateful Eight

THE STORY BEHIND THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL TECHNOLOGICAL PAPER IN RECENT HISTORY.

Can the Internet's Greatest Authenticity Machine Survive Wall Street?

When thousands of subreddits went dark in protest last summer, it exposed the tension at the core of Reddit - on the eve of the company's IPO. Now that synthetic media is flooding the internet, does the web's most reliably human forum represent a gold mine for investors, or an old-fashioned dumpster fire?

The Unnerving Presence of Javier Bardem

He's known for playing fanatics and murderous psychopaths. In real life, he loves his wife (and Brad Pitt) and cries during E.T.

HAPPY HAUNTING

IN A CHARMING game called This Discord Has Ghosts in It, up to 15 participants at a time gather in a Discord server that has been reimagined as a haunted house. (Of course.) Inside lies a maze of (chat) rooms where each player takes the role of either an eponymous spirit or a paranormal investigator.

THE MYTH OF METAL

How I became a Python programmer - and learned to love our abstract world.

SO YOU WANT TO REWIRE BRAINS

There's a lot to like about brain-computer interfaces, those sci-fi-sounding devices that jack into your skull and turn neural signals into software commands. Experimental BCIS help paralyzed people communicate, use the internet, and move prosthetic limbs.

FOR GIANT LIZARDS, PLEASE HOLD

The sounds of Slack have a secret history.

THE NERD-KING VIBES OF JENSEN HUANG

The Nvidia CEO turned a graphics-card company into a trillion-dollar AI behemoth. Now he wants to transform the rest of the world-health care, robotics, autonomous driving, the works.

IN DEFENSE OF JAVASCRIPT

Mock it all you want-but it runs the world. Possibly even literally.

EVERY WOMAN IS AN ISLAND

Matriarchy, money, and a modern mariner named Marina.

THE PROVINCE OF ALL MANKIND

TWO NATIONS. A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. AND THE URGENT NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE LAWS OF SPACE RIGHT NOW.

LOVE, DEMENTIA AND ROBOTICS

When my parents got sick, I turned to a NEW GENERATION of roboticists and their GLOWING, TALKING, WARMHEARTED creations.

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT

Three decades after a devastating nuclear war between the US and China, a divided America faces a new threat to its very DNA. An excerpt from 2054: A Novel.

TAIL AS OLD AS TIME

Was Bobi the world's longest-lived dogor just another casualty of Big Kibble?