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The stigma against processed food is growing, but there's no way to sustainably feed 8 billion people without it.

The fate of users who left Facebook may provide clues to a post-Twitter world.

A postmortem on “Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits”—the most influential article of the 20th century.

These frontline birth workers already know how to assist during floods, fires, and earthquakes. They could be doing more.

The midterm elections showed that the far-right's manufactured narrative about trans kids doomed the GOP when they made it policy.

WIRED's spiritual advice columnist on whether to use the tone that most resembles your own—or to stick with the original Simpsons-esque color.

An archetype culled from the depths of social media seems to be short-circuiting screenwriters’ creativity.

It's all too easy to believe in the illusion of neverending data storage and streaming. But it's destroying the natural world.

Reentry programs help, but tech companies must also modify their hiring systems.

The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

Google and Facebook's privacy violations are common knowledge. But the decisions of a less-known company, Relx, are also impacting people's everyday lives.

The way people imagine the past and future of society can sway attitudes and behaviors. How might this be wielded for good?

A plan to monetize adult content could make sense from a business and social standpoint. In practice, Twitter won’t be able to pull it off.

Escaping the platform's addictive grasp means first overhauling our relationship to our devices.

True, new systems devalue craft, shift power, and wreck cultures and scenes. But didn’t the piano do that to the harpsichord?

Colorado's Proposition 122 wants to let people take psilocybin at healing centers. But sensitive data isn't covered by medical privacy protections.

Startups like Meta and Twitter serve as digital infrastructure, but aren't accountable to users. Some startups are trying to chart a new way to exit that […]

Combating fake news with facts doesn't work because humans are wired for emotion. It's time for more creative tactics.

This is a moment to choose a different path, inspired by the lessons of thriving offline communities.

WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on bardic traditions for a modern age—and why book snobs worry about the wrong things.