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Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. As of Tuesday, there are 24 million users on the social media platform. With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has to do a…

At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to his shock, that he had just been banned from Twitter. His crime: posting a link to @Elonjets, an account on the…

Figma cofounder Dylan Field is seemingly a big Enron fan—or rather, of the crypto-fueled semi-parodic relaunch of the company that hit the web earlier this week.Sporting an oversized Enron hoodie during his conversation with WIRED editor at…

In advance of the reveal, Jaguar has made much of the company's ambition for its cars to be “a copy of nothing”, and a great deal of what we see here, with invisible A-pillars, a squared front end and rounded rear seems to make good on that…

TV sales are as predictable as the changing seasons, with prices steadily dropping on multiple brands and models this time of year. As Black Friday has become more of a monthlong free-for-all than a weekend event, you'll find many of the…

In 2025, we will see AI and machine learning begin to amplify the impact of Crispr genome editing in medicine, agriculture, climate change, and the basic research that underpins these fields. It’s worth saying upfront that the field of AI…

You more than likely know Xiaomi, so-called Apple of China, as a maker of smartphones that offer a decent alternative to Samsung. You might also know about its smartwatches, robotic vacuums and electric scooters. Good, if often unoriginal…

Next year will be Big Tech’s finale. Critique of Big Tech is now common sense, voiced by a motley spectrum that unites opposing political parties, mainstream pundits, and even tech titans such as the VC powerhouse Y Combinator, which is…

There’s a growing trend of people and organizations rejecting the unsolicited imposition of AI in their lives. In December 2023, the The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In March 2024, three authors filed…

Today, our information feeds and social media are largely governed by algorithms optimized to maximize engagement, often amplifying the most inflammatory content. With every view, like, and share analyzed to predict and steer our behaviors,…