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How Dockless Bike Shares Could Fix America’s Broken Cities
WIRED - Felix Salmon
Chinese cities have been overtaken by the chaos and clutter of dockless bikes. American cities should follow their lead. Think of your favorite cities …
Feb 1, 2018
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A Family’s Race to Cure a Daughter’s Genetic Disease
WIRED - Erika Check Hayden
Personalized medicine promised a cure for rare genetic disorders. Now patients and families themselves are trying to make up for its failures. One …
Jan 31, 2018
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The Legend of Chimp, the Vaguely Humanoid Robot
WIRED - Matt Simon
Two and a half years after Chimp competed in the Darpa Robotics Challenge, it remains one of the weirdest humanoid robots on Earth. Even in …
Jan 29, 2018
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What Good Is Crispr If It Can't Get Where It Needs to Go?
WIRED - Megan Molteni
In the 34 trillion-cell sea that is your body, an IV bag full of Crispr’d cells won’t make a dent. So scientists are working on ways to put the gene …
Jan 26, 2018
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Elon Musk's $0 Salary Encapsulates the Legend of Tesla
WIRED - Alex Davies
In a rapidly changing world, Musk's combination of prescience, persuasion, and a taste for challenges makes him feel like a good bet. For a self-made …
Jan 24, 2018
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States and Cities Keep the Battle for Net Neutrality Alive
WIRED - Klint Finley
Montana's governor issued an executive order barring state agencies from doing business with internet providers that violate net neutrality. States …
Jan 23, 2018
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This Startup Wants to Neutralize Your Phone—and Un-change the World
WIRED - Alice Gregory
Yondr's device stifles smartphone use in places where the people in charge don’t want it. But it may also be stifling our essential means of …
Jan 16, 2018
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How Smallsats Could Make a Big Difference for NASA and NOAA
WIRED - Sarah Scoles
Small satellites used to be a way for scrappy startups and scientists to get orbital data on the cheap. But now they're powerful enough that the feds …
Jan 23, 2018
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what if people used the internet to expand their minds rather than wall them off?
Our Best Hope for Civil Discourse on the Internet Is on ... Reddit
WIRED - Virginia Heffernan
Jan 16, 2018
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Meet Antifa's Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists
WIRED - Doug Bock Clark
Megan Squire is an intelligence operative of sorts, passing along information to those who might put it to real-world use, like Antifa—who can …
Jan 16, 2018
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A great primer on the promise of the blockchain to return us to the internet's roots
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A great primer on the promise of the blockchain to return us to the internet's roots https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html
Jan 17, 2018
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The Astrophysicist Who Wants to Help Solve Baltimore's Urban Blight
WIRED - Issie Lapowsky
Vacant buildings are more than just an economic threat. They're also a public safety concern. And it turns out they have their own sort of …
Jan 16, 2018
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How Dirt Could Save Humanity From an Infectious Apocalypse
WIRED - Peter Andrey Smith
One chemist thinks he’s found a way for us to outrun the lethal juggernaut of antibiotic resistance. Nobody scours Central Park looking for drugs …
Jan 14, 2018
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Clashes Over the Future of Gene Therapy and Crispr at the US's Biggest Biotech Meeting
WIRED - Megan Molteni
After 30 years in the making, gene therapy is finally an FDA-approved reality. What comes next—and how will Crispr get a slice of the action? For one …
Jan 12, 2018
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“The idea that we exist for the sake of progress, and that progress requires unconstrained and exponential growth, is the
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“The idea that we exist for the sake of progress, and that progress requires unconstrained and exponential growth, is the whip that lashes us.” https://pubpub.ito.com/pub/resisting-reduction/collaborate
Jan 4, 2018
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building a better future requires diversifying the tech talent pool -- something that's been clear for a long time now. here are a few actionable steps to help us get there.
How to Buck the Brogrammer Culture and Get Women into STEM
WIRED - Cai Gao
Jan 4, 2018
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here's an unsurprisingly deep and thoughtful response to the singularitarian view of technological development from the of
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here's an unsurprisingly deep and thoughtful response to the singularitarian view of technological development from the head of MIT's MediaLab. "The idea that we exist for the sake of progress, and that
Jan 3, 2018
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Rony Abovitz has no chill when it comes to spinning lofty visions of the future. Now that we have some sense of what his Magic Leap hardware might look like, WIRED's Peter Rubin takes a look at how li …
How the Magic Leap Lightwear Headset Might Actually Work
WIRED - Peter Rubin
Dec 21, 2017
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“COMMENT EMAIL AUTHOR: ZACHARY KARABELLZACHARY KARABELL BUSINESS 12.20.1707:00 AM WHY TECH GIANTS AND TELECOMS SHOULD JOIN TO BUILD AN INTERNET FOR ALL Activists gather before a hearing at the Federa …
Why Tech Giants and Telecoms Should Join to Build an Internet for All
WIRED - Zachary Karabell
Dec 20, 2017