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How the Royal Albert Hall was redesigned to fix its dreaded echo
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Royal Albert Hall In 1871, a new music hall was unveiled in London – a magnificent building that could seat 8,000 people (it now has space for around …
The grim reality of life under Gangs Matrix, London's controversial predictive policing tool
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Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images The first time Bill was stopped and searched by police, he was standing outside a friend’s house in south …
Social Media
Inside the final days of Google+
Wired UK - Louis Staples
WIRED When MySpace announced in March that, owing to a “server migration issue”, 14 million pages and 50 million audio tracks had been deleted, the …
Saudi Arabia
Monday briefing: Saudi Arabia accused of Bezos hack
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Getty Images Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here Saudi Arabia accused of Bezos hack An investigator hired by Jeff Bezos says that …
Yellow Vests Movement
Like the gilets jaunes, London's black-cab and Uber drivers rail against environmental policies
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Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire/PA Images That we need to take action on climate change is an inescapable fact of our times. But that doesn’t mean that …
Carnegie Mellon University
How to fix the shocking, sexist collapse of female coders
Wired UK - Mary Ann Sieghart
Getty Images The world is full of professions and industries in which men dominate. But there’s only one job that used to be completely dominated by …
Headphones
Focal's retro-styled headphones are an audiophile's dream
Wired UK - Chris Haslam
Pros Sumptuous comfort; refined sound; portable Cons Very brown; very expensive Price £2,795 9 / 10 Focal/Wired Back in 2016, luxury French audio brand Focal …
How the Reddit Bureau of Investigation solves mysteries while avoiding witch hunts
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Wikimedia / WIRED On April 16, 2013, a day after three people lost their lives when terrorists detonated two homemade bombs during the annual Boston …
Why is the NHS holding back on medical cannabis? Blame data
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Chris Roussakis/Bloomberg via Getty Images “I think that we’ve opened a Pandora's box,” Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer for England, told …
Nintendo
Why launching two new Nintendo Switch models is a stroke of genius
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Nintendo There’s no denying the Nintendo Switch has been an unqualified success. By the end of 2018, the company had shifted more than 32 million …
Powerbank
The best power banks and portable chargers in 2019
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It's hard to encapsulate the difference between a dead smartphone battery and the realisation that you have a charged up power pack in your bag. It's …
Science Fiction
We really need to talk about the plot twist shocker in the finale of Star Trek: Discovery season two
Wired UK - James Temperton and Andy Vandervell
CBS/Netflix Who saw that coming? If season one of Star Trek: Discovery went into overdrive towards the end, then season two was even more of a …
Star Trek
We really need to talk about the plot twist shocker in Star Trek: Discovery season two
Wired UK - James Temperton and Andy Vandervell
CBS/Netflix Who saw that coming? If season one of Star Trek: Discovery went into overdrive towards the end, then season two is even more of a …
Business (UK)
The clocks are changing tonight for one of the last times ever
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Getty Images / Ivan / WIRED In his 2017 bestseller Why We Sleep, the scientist Matthew Walker describes a horrifying sounding global experiment in …
Web Design
The best VPNs to keep your browsing safe and secure
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iStock / stas11 Need a VPN? There’s a whole lot of choice out there, but picking through the technical jargon isn’t easy. From protecting your privacy …
Gender Equality
WIRED Book Club: We're reading Invisible Women, by Caroline Criado Perez
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Chatto & Windus / WIRED Welcome to the WIRED Book Club, a series where we invite you to read along with us as we delve into recent titles that give an …
World Meteorological Organization
Friday briefing: Chytridiomycosis has wiped out 90 species
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Public domain Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here Chytridiomycosis has wiped out 90 species Fungal disease chytridiomycosis has, over …
Public Administration
15 top thinkers predict the biggest tech breakthroughs in our lifetime
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STR/AFP/Getty Images Predicting the future depends on your outlook. Will we be flying to Mars courtesy of Elon Musk and co., or will air travel have …
Electric Scooters
The problem with China’s electric scooter revolution? It’s too quiet
Wired UK - Katia Moskvitch
GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images Central Shanghai traffic is just as busy as in any other big city – but if you close your eyes, at times you can hear …
Brexit
How the viral Led by Donkeys anti-Brexit campaign is haunting flip-flopping politicians
Wired UK - Will Bedingfield
Jiri Rezac/ Led By Donkeys On a weekend that featured an array of aesthetically creative Brexit protest signs, the most memorable was perhaps the …
Soundtracks
Abbey Road's startup incubator wants to nurture the next generation of musical talent
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Abbey Road is one of the most significant buildings in music history – from the Beatles to the patent for the world’s first stereo player, the …
Huawei
UK authorities raise security alarm over ‘defects’ in Huawei tech
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WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images A UK government-led report into Huawei has concluded the firm’s equipment poses a “significant” risk to the nation’s …
White Nationalism
Thursday briefing: Facebook bans white nationalism
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Getty Images / Bloomberg / Contributor Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here Facebook bans white nationalism Facebook has announced …
Meteorites
This is what went down when a meteorite hit the roof of a house
Wired UK - Jonathan O'Callaghan
SSPL/Getty Images The rock fell from the sky, smashing through the roof of the house, bouncing off a couch, and destroying a bed and TV. When the …
Apple Pay
Is Apple Card the future of finance or just a fancy Mastercard?
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Michael Short/Getty Images Tim Cook thinks the freshly announced Apple Card – made of titanium, wrapped in the iPhone maker’s distinctive, minimalist …
Copyright Directive
Don't believe the hype: Article 13 is great news for YouTube
Wired UK - Gian Volpicelli
WIRED Article 13 (now known officially as Article 17) is happening. The European Parliament voted – by 348 votes to 274 – to pass its new, …
Apple Watch
You can finally use the Apple Watch's ECG tracker in the UK
Wired UK - Jeremy White
Apple Arguably the most innovative piece of tech built into Apple's Watch Series 4, the ECG feature, is now finally available to users in Europe and …
Carbon Emissions
Wednesday briefing: Global carbon emissions broke records in 2018
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Getty / Chung Sung-Jun / Staff Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here Global carbon emissions broke records in 2018 A new report by the …
NATO
To protect Putin, Russia is spoofing GPS signals on a massive scale
Wired UK - Matt Burgess
Konstantin Zavrazhin/Getty Images Russian-linked electronic warfare equipment which creates false GPS signals has been used thousands of times – …