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Payback Time

After a 10-Year Wait, Mt. Gox Bitcoin Is Finally Being Returned

Former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange Mt. Gox are preparing to be reunited with their lost bitcoin—and it’s a $9 billion windfall.

Longreads

Cold Hard Cash

How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People’s Fridges

Forget the S&P 500. Look at the ice cream. This investor visits homes around the world to see where diets—and economies—will go next.
Game Changer

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

Sh-AI-kespeare

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

The Big Interview

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

Book Excerpt

The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots

Business

Inside a16z’s Boot Camp for Crypto Startups

Britain’s Brewing Battle Over Data Centers

Polestar Is Bracing for the EV Tariff Wars. It May Not Emerge Unscathed

Culture

The 63 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now

The New ‘Ethical’ AI Music Generator Can’t Write a Halfway Decent Song

AI Is Rewriting Meme History

Gear

How to Fold (and Store!) Your Sheets

Samsung Puts an Entire Desktop Operating System on Its Phones. Here’s How to Use It

30 Fireworks-Worthy Fourth of July Deals on WIRED-Tested Gear

Politics

How Influencers and Algorithms Are Creating Bespoke Realities for Everyone

UK’s Labour Is Winning the Meme War, but Young Voters Think It’s All Incredibly Embarrassing

The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors

Science

Health Care Should Be Designed for the Extremes of Life

US Government Awards Moderna $176 Million for mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine

A Chinese Space Startup Launched Its New Rocket by Accident

Security

The World’s Most Popular 3D-Printed Gun Was Designed by an Aspiring Terrorist

How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’

Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docs

Reviews and Buying Guides

Buying Guide

The Best Sleeping Pads for Camping, Backpacking, and Travel

Whether you’re snoozing in a campground or schlepping up to an alpine valley, these are the best pads we’ve found for resting your weary bones.
Buying Guide

These 3-in-1 Wireless Chargers Can Juice Up Your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods at the Same Time

Product Review

The REI CTY e2.1 Is an Affordable, Dependable City Commuter

Vroom Vroom

The Best Electric Kick Scooters

Buying Guide

Take Your Tunes Anywhere With Our Fave Bluetooth Speakers

WIRED Classics

Enjoy Your Stay

Check In With the Velociraptor at the World's First Robot Hotel

Originally published in March 2016: The world of tomorrow exists in Japan today—at a hotel run by robots. Please see the velociraptor for check-in.
The Climate Issue

The Greatest Climate-Protecting Technology Ever Devised

Creator of Worlds

Brandon Sanderson Is Your God

Opioid Crisis

On the Trail of the Fentanyl King

Opression

Inside China’s Massive Surveillance Operation