Life as a 21st-Century Trucker
[ad_1] 1 When Jay LeRette preaches the Word, he transforms from a mild Midwesterner—one who loves country gospel, rides a horse he has trained to roll over and grin, and…
Unmasking Pedro Pascal, the Complicated New Face of Sci-Fi
[ad_1] Meaning physical pain? Pain of every kind. I don’t like psychological, emotional, or physical pain. Some people will be like, Oh, I know that it’s very likely I’ll break…
Would You Sell Your Extra Kidney?
[ad_1] When we were teenagers, my brother and I received kidney transplants six days apart. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. He, two years older, was scheduled to receive…
The Singularity of Allison Williams
[ad_1] On a chilly but humane November night in Toronto, Allison Williams and I slip into an expansive conversation about the polite ways one can manipulate an audience. Williams is…
The Secret Life of Plant Killers
[ad_1] When you hunt the tree of heaven, you come to know it by its smell. A waft of creamy peanut butter leads you to a tall trunk, silvery and nubbled…
The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb
[ad_1] In March 2015, the Deepwater Champion rig was at work for Exxon Mobil, exploring for oil in the Atlantic Ocean 120 miles off the coast of Guyana, drilling below…
Welcome to Digital Nomadland | WIRED
[ad_1] Seen from afar, the parish of Ponta do Sol looks as compact and picturesque as a postcard. There’s a small roundabout at the center, a gas station, a tiny…
Tony Fadell Is Trying to Build the iPod of Crypto
[ad_1] Fadell looks at the photos of the credit-card-sized wallet and its innovative E Ink touchscreen. When Ledger reveals it on December 6, it will cost $279. That’s a rounding…
We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion
[ad_1] Think of how devastating it was to the anti-vax influencers Alex Berenson and Robert Malone to be kicked off Twitter. They happened to be grifters. But if Twitter died,…
Inside Amazon Air’s Quest to Seize the Skies
[ad_1] Two former air employees recall items flying from Seattle to the Cincinnati hub, then back west to Portland—a two-and-a-half hour drive from its northern neighbor. While Amazon says it…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 6: Endgame
[ad_1] The direct ripple effects of that explosion of incriminating data, passed through so many institutions’ records, aren’t easy to track. But over the following years, Grant Rabenn, who served…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 5: Takedown
[ad_1] Rabenn remembers the atmosphere of that war room as more dead silence and sweaty, anxious tension than eagerness or anticipation. He knew the possibility of achieving a Ross Ulbricht–style…
Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips
[ad_1] Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 4: Face to Face
[ad_1] The FBI agent, thinking quickly, avoided eye contact with Cazes and walked directly past him to the door. In the seconds it took for Cazes to cross the room,…
The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps
[ad_1] the bottle held a thin broth, light brown, with some uncertain chunks of dark matter bobbing on top—a soup, maybe, but one that you’d never want to eat. Once…
Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: 2 Years of Pushing Limits
[ad_1] Ultimately, the issue came up in a March 2022 meeting with Clegg, who seemed taken aback by the board members’ frustration. He promised to break the logjam, and a…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 3: Alpha Male
[ad_1] CHAPTER 6 RAWMEO By March 2017, the always aggressive Fresno prosecutor Grant Rabenn was ready to charge Alexandre Cazes with running AlphaBay. But his more cautious colleague Paul Hemesath…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 2: Pimp_alex_91
[ad_1] That legal request took weeks to bear fruit. Finally, one evening in the early weeks of January 2017, Ali was in the middle of a law school night class…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 1: The Shadow
[ad_1] Shortly before AlphaBay took over the dark web’s top spot, Alpha02 had changed his username on the site to merely “admin” and announced that he would no longer accept…
When a Houseplant Obsession Becomes a Nightmare
[ad_1] When the package arrived without issue, the vendor turned Mat on to the Facebook Nepenthes community. If the forums were the farmers markets of carnivorous plant collecting, Facebook was…
The Search for a Pill That Can Help Dogs—and Humans—Live Longer
[ad_1] halioua began 2020 with $5.1 million in funding. By way of thanks she sent all of her investors, including Rosen, fluffy toy puppies wearing company bandanas. She secured an…
The Secret Microscope That Sparked a Scientific Revolution
[ad_1] “It almost seems as if Van Leeuwenhoek knew that a new microworld was to unfold,” Cocquyt told me. One of his scientific rivals, Johannes Hudde, later said, “isn’t it…
A Better Birth Is Possible
[ad_1] September 2000, Atlanta. I had just celebrated my 23rd birthday. After a summer spent cashiering at Whole Foods for $8.25 an hour, and with my senior year at Spelman…
Kanye West Was Right(ish) | WIRED
[ad_1] Four thousand is a reference to the 40 acres Black people were supposed to receive as reparations and start-up seed investment after the US Civil War, reparations that were…
When the Big One Hits Portland, Cargo Bikers Will Save You
[ad_1] But then we had a kid, and after her first birthday we enrolled her in daycare. As I flipped through the parent handbook, skimming the guidelines on nut-free snacks…