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Every parent of young children has a book they’re sick of reading aloud, whether it’s The Rainbow Fish or Goodnight…

Last year, when the novelist Laura Brooke Robson began writing Love Is an Algorithm—a love story between the cofounder of…

Nobody gets into advertising to become a manager. But if you’re good at it, that’s where you end up.Inevitably, your…

In the 60 years that ELIZA has been influencing computation and culture, conventional accounts portray it as the earliest example…

On May 31, Sarah Wynn-Williams took the stage as a panelist at the prestigious Hay Festival, alongside law professor Tim…

If gratification is so easy, why don’t you feel more gratified already? Because it’s gotten harder. It’s still easy to…

For our very first WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs will be joined by the author of The Yahoo Boys:…

Activists in San Francisco’s Mission District weren’t giving up easily. David Campos had taken the baton from Chris Daly as…

Audiobook, e-book, or both? Now, you won’t have to choose. The Scribd-owned reading subscription service Everand wants to make the…

Earlier this month, WIRED published an excerpt from Steve Rosenbaum’s buzzy new book, The Future of Truth, which looks at…

Nearly half of Americans say they use AI to find information and generate ideas. It’s not hard to see why.…

At first, the winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2026 enjoyed the envy of their peers. But…

The polar bear video has millions of views. Set to a haunting piano score that’s become ubiquitous on TikTok, it…

Adam Strauss is standing in his New York City apartment, holding the limp cord of his headphones, trying to choose…

Philosopher Nick Bostrom recently posted a paper, where he postulated that a small chance of AI annihilating all humans might…

Imagine a tech company so visionary that it can take an idea public. A “concept IPO,” they called it.Picture the…