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How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret

Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden.

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Rush Job

Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

Amanda Hoover

Test Case

The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron

Hype-o-chondria

The Fall of Babylon Is a Warning for AI Unicorns

Grace Browne

Off the Rails

The AI Hype Train Has Stalled in China

Lavender Au

Checked Out

The End of Airbnb in New York

Amanda Hoover

WIRED30

In the Dreams Favela, Wi-Fi and Ecommerce Promise a Better Future

Angelica Mari

Crash Diet

Fake Meat Is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet

Matt Reynolds

Sniff Test

Smell Your Way Out of the Uncanny Valley

Andrew Kersley

Compound Interest

Inside the DIY Race to Replicate LK-99

Gregory Barber

Patriot Games

A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys

Morgan Meaker

WIRED30

Gene-Edited Yeast Is Taking Over Craft Beer

Anna Kramer

500 Days

Rebuilding Ukraine Is an Act of Resistance

Peter Guest

Good As New

Open-Source Your Blender to Fight Electronic Waste

Jack McGovan

WIRED30

Porto Digital Is the Quixotic Tech Hub That Actually Worked

Angelica Mari

Gold Record

Love That Song? Buy Shares in It

Andy Jones

End of an Era

Chinese VCs Lived the High Life. Now the Party’s Over

Tracy Wen Liu

A Peter Thiel-Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware

Laurie Clarke and Nelson C.J.

Hot Air

Meet the ‘Anti-Woke’ Job Board for Christian Nationalists

Steven Monacelli

For Sale

Your Next Landlord Could Be 100 Random People

Amanda Hoover

Chatbot-opoly

ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It

Paresh Dave

Hard Lessons

When Colleges Offer Coding Boot Camp, Students Can Get a Raw Deal

Olivia Sanchez

stay human

Here Are the Skills You Need to Succeed in Tech in 2023

Jaime Stathis