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The urgency of the climate crisis is indisputable. But the response has been a series of half measures and delayed actions that don’t add up to anywhere near enough.Yet there’s always hope.…

Few adaptations in recent memory have been as hotly (and skeptically) anticipated as Netflix’s live-action remake of the 1998 jazz-fused anime classic, Cowboy Bebop. Since its…

On Tuesday the New York Times dropped a bombshell report about patents around Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine. After a four-year partnership with the US National Institutes of Health, Moderna…

Until about a year ago, artist Mike Winkleman hadn’t sold a print for more than 100 bucks. Then, this spring, he became, according to auction house Christie’s, one of the three most valuable…

Neal Stephenson has no trouble getting the science right in his speculative sci-fi best sellers, which dwell on how people might respond to new technologies that upend the world. But…

Jen Easterly has her work cut out for her. As only the second director of the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), she must contend with a historic…

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, revealed at the RE:WIRED conference today that he had emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey prior to the Capitol riots on January 6th to warn him that “his…

Artificial intelligence researchers are facing a problem of accountability: How do you try to ensure decisions are responsible when the decision maker is not a responsible person, but rather…

After 27 years with Apple, Sir Jony Ive decided to start something new. The legendary codesigner of such products as the iPod, the iMac, the iPhone, the MacBook, and the iPad seems to have…

When we think of artificial intelligence, many of us jump to visions of the future from science fiction—hellscapes like The Matrix, Black Mirror, and The Terminator. But that isn’t…