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Gold Treasure Worth a Fortune Was Hidden in a Forest. Let the Hunt Begin

For years, Jason Rohrer put out bizarre, beloved video games. Now, with Project Skydrop, he launches the real-world treasure hunt of his dreams.

Joseph Bien-Kahn

The Big Interview

Josh Johnson Has Become the Funniest Guy on the Internet. That Is Not a Joke

Jason Parham

The Big Interview

After Shark Tank, Mark Cuban Just Wants to Break Shit—Especially the Prescription Drug Industry

Lauren Goode

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The Big Story

Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body

Hans Peter Brondmo

The Big Interview

Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy Into the 21st Century. Even He’s Surprised by the Results

Garrett M. Graff

The Big Interview

Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

Andy Greenberg

The Big Interview

The Big Interview Gets Even Bigger

WIRED Staff

The Big Story

The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It

Vince Beiser

The Big Story

She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax

Morgan Meaker

The Big Story

The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony

Clive Thompson

Climate Control

The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe

Amit Katwala

The Big Story

How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World

Sandra Upson

Model Citizens

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

Arthur Holland Michel

The Big Interview

For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley

Jay Ruben Dayrit

Buckle Up

Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia

Lauren Smiley

Cold Hard Cash

How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People’s Fridges

Nicola Twilley

Game Changer

SimCity Isn’t a Model of Reality. It’s a Libertarian Toy Land

Kelly Clancy

Sh-AI-kespeare

I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again

Laura Kipnis

The Big Interview

If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud

Steven Levy

Book Excerpt

The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots

Ray Kurzweil

Boosted

The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico

Christopher Solomon

A Strange Loop

The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist Goes Meta

Jason Kehe

The OceanGate Files

The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined

Mark Harris