Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
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Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’
Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines.
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The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the state to power the AI boom, thanks to a regulatory loophole, leaving residents feeling blindsided.
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What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
Burst water mains. Evacuated hospitals. In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by China’s Volt Typhoon hackers—and found a nightmare scenario.
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People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore
In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards.
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How Hunter Biden Won the Internet
WIRED spent months talking to America’s favorite failson as he plotted his return to public life. Now he’s feeding the trolls—and everyone else.
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I Found Jesus at a Drone Show
Drone shows are the new fireworks—and possibly a new kind of religion. I traveled to Texas to be converted.
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British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.