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Yes ICANN

The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It’s About to Get Cattier and Pornier

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

Pete Millspaugh

Choke Points

Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank

Choke Points

How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank

Lama Rabah, Sabrina Slipchenko, Charles Boutaud, Firas Taweel, and Elena DeBre

Special Editions

Welcome to the WIRED Women Issue

No one wants to talk about women in tech. So we will.

In five stories, we look at some of the most fascinating aspects of human (and animal) intelligence. From new octopus research, to the scientists using human cells to power computers, to a promising new treatment for addiction, cognitive science is getting smarter.

The Truth About Kids These Days

The youngs are facing problems that didn’t exist half a generation ago. They’re handling it better than you think.

The Future of Home

How we live now is defined by unprecedented forces. In this special issue, WIRED and Architectural Digest help you understand what home will look like tomorrow—and beyond.

The Big Interview

Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI

The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”

Katie Drummond

Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

Lauren Goode

Patti Harrison Had Dreams of a Tech Utopia. Silicon Valley Smashed Them

The comedian sat down with WIRED to talk about social media, AI, and getting laughs for impersonating Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs.

Katie Drummond

If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, Station Eleven, turned her into something of a pandemic prophet. Her new novel, Exit Party, imagines two possible American futures—totalitarian state and post-civil-war chaos.

Katie Drummond