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A talk with the author of “Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City.”

Why children’s radio—a format once important enough that Disney undermined a competitor to dominate the radio dial—has largely disappeared from the airwaves.

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Fitness trends come and go. But the weight, about as low-tech and simple as it gets, is an anchor in the shifting tides of culture. As workout equipment has become canonized within the realm of home appliances, this heavy metal object aids in our dual — and sometimes conflicting — pursuit of athletics and aesthetics.

There is an entire world of chemical ‘dark matter’ just beyond our fingertips right now.

Email newsletters unlocked a new way to pay for content, but is this a tool or a network? You can write all you like, but how do you get readers? And is the take rate 10% or 90%?

In her recent book, New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul catalogs some of the things we have lost because of our move to

To write the history of how our culture thinks about tomorrow, one obsessed academic read every issue of WIRED in chronological order. Here are his findings.

Do the Right Thing was an incendiary and vital film when it was released in 1989. Despite initial controversy over the film, it remains so to this day.

Vizio’s business model doesn’t end once you buy a 4K TV.

On Facebook, Steve Silberman shared this amazingly prescient prediction of our future-present by Neil Postman, from Postman’s 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death: [H/t Steve Silberman] Image…

It is not often you get to do something you have never done before. That is an argument made by a close friend, who has been urging me to take on everything uncomfortable and difficult during what …

Do you know which tech trends you should be looking out for in 2022? Here are the top 15 technology trends dominating in 2022

The infrastructure bill, expected to be signed into law on Monday, includes very big news for broadband internet access in the United States.

The evolution of the trackball, which is more than an upside-down mouse. It's the Royal Canadian Navy’s greatest gift to modern-day computing. Really.

Tony Judt said that there is darkness in this world, and that darkness often triumphed—and liberated me to do the same.

Surveillance systems, no matter the intention, will always exist to serve power.

These creatures are at the core of our region's identity. Without them, 'we'd be just like everywhere else.'

The science fiction author spoke with WIRED senior correspondent Adam Rogers about climate change and big solutions.

New data paints a detailed picture of the ways Western companies are selling cyber weapons and surveillance technology to NATO’s enemies.

In Washington state and across the country, the financial realities of child care are like mismatched puzzle pieces jammed together.

You can come up with great ideas until the cows come home, but until you actually start building something, your idea is just an idea.

A Bitcoin mine run by a Canadian company is the newest power customer in Navajo Nation, where many residents live without basic utilities.

Photographer Ibarionex Perello recalls how school picture day would go back in the 1970s at the Catholic school he attended in South Los Angeles. He recalls that kids would file into the school auditorium in matching uniforms. They’d sit on a stool, the photographer would snap a couple images, and that would be it. But

Throughout our series on semiconductors, we have used the semiconductor industry to explore big questions in economic theory and industrial policy. Today, we offer a positive account.

This post is the second in a series that uses the history and economics of the American semiconductor industry to ask big picture questions about the future of fiscal policy and industrial policy.