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The Wired mission is to tell the world something they've never heard before in a way they've never seen before. It's about turning new ideas into everyday reality. It's about seeding our community of influencers with the ideas that will shape and transform our collective future. Wired readers want to know how technology is changing the world, and they're interested in big, relevant ideas, even if those ideas challenge their assumptions—or blow their minds.

Readers reflect on inequity and bristle at benefaction. • After we published David Kushner’s story about Jane Willenbring and other female scientists and contractors in Antarctica who experienced pervasive sexual harassment and abuse, we received a slew of letters thanking us for the piece. Below are a few. And Steven Levy’s popular feature about the eight Google researchers behind what is arguably the most influential work on AI garnered some heat from readers. As did philosopher Leif Wenar’s invective against effective altruism.

PRETTY IN PINK • Why did scientists put tangerine DNA in a pineapple—and can this Frankenfruit help change public opinion toward bioengineered foods?

DO THE MATH • Learn you a Haskell—the spooky, esoteric cult classic of programming languages.

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. And someone will have to keep each one of them spinning. In fact, wind turbine repair technician is estimated to be one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US this decade, with at least 5,000 new roles by 2032. One onshore wind veteran who’s been doing the work for 13 years spills to WIRED about what it’s like.

SCREEN SAVER

CLOUD SUPPORT • Spiritual troubleshooting for the everyday user.

RISING COSTS AND FALLING BIDS: WHY THE OLYMPICS IS RUNNING OUT OF HOSTS

DESIRED • WIRED’S visit to the intersection of luxury and technology.

SOUND & VISION

FEATURES

SHE CONTAINS MULTITUDES • YOUR ONLINE GIRLFRIEND IS A WORKFORCE. I JOINED IT.

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.

THE COMMUNIST & THE CELEBRITY • CHINA MIÉVILLE WRITES A NOVEL WITH THE INTERNET’S BOYFRIEND.

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.

11,196 YEARS IN PRISON • Faruk Özer made crypto seem like the solution to decades of economic dysfunction. Then he became Turkey’s most wanted—and hated—man.

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.

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.

COLOPHON

Honorable Mentions • THE ASSIGNMENT: IN SIX WORDS, WRITE THE 2024 VERSION OF THE DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIE SMART HOUSE.