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Three decades ago, the punk rockers, hardcore kids and metalheads of New York City relied on the operators of one answering machine to find out where bands were playing. This is the story of 212-OPEC-SID

The actor and comedian has taken a leftist turn — and he’s not apologizing

The untold story of your favorite rappers' favorite trippy brand—and the elusive designer behind it.

Despite criminal comparisons and bruised fingers, a community of hobbyist lockpickers is thriving online.

The political economy of bullshit.

Legendary London DJ duo Coldcut have been making music together for an incredible 33 years now, which means Matt Black and Jonathan More must be fast approaching national treasure status. But don’t expect any valedictory laps of honour just yet from two men still working on, and presiding over, plenty of sonic vitality as label... Read more »

Why we’re building Slant

The new box set of their work took 19 years to put together, and the story it tells is that of a truly singular, curious, oppositional group.

Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and

The controversy over the Covington students shows why American journalism should disengage from Twitter.

Analyzing the politics of the antitrust hearing featuring the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

We crunched the numbers on just how inefficient wireless charging is — and the results are pretty shocking

The tiny photo processing kiosks could be found everywhere in the 1970s and 1980s. And that was the problem.

Microsoft Excel: 1 — Human Genetics: 0.

For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver.

He is the beta narcissist in clinical terms, the male Madame Bovary in literary ones. But in my mind, he is always the longing man.

Happy Friday! This week’s interview is with WIRED senior writer Lauren Goode. We talked about the new podcast — Get WIRED — that she’s hosting, pandemic listenership habits, and the most important tech issues that **all of this** has brought into sharp relief.

A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads—and its revenues went way up.

A discussion of the ways that large tech companies helped to define the evolution of computer typography. One battle made the CEO of Adobe really mad.

I’ve argued that “online” and “offline,” like “body” and “mind,” aren’t like two positions on a light switch — a perspective I've called digital dualism. Instead, all social life is made of both information and material; it's technological and human, virtual and real. Together with friends and colleagues, I’ve theorized an experience of the internet based less in cyberpunk and more in body horror — and not just horror but other things too, like joy. With Real Life, we will be building on that perspective.

Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Chaotic and often violent protests against racial injustice have topped the headlines for days, but lost in the shouting are the voices of many Black Portland residents...

Reopening universities will accomplish little and endanger many.

I started this blog as a way for me to ween myself off social media. This was my intention from when I started #100DaysToOffload after re...

We’re talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not anymore.” We were super interested in how they went about solving the problems with email, so we invited Jonas on to share all the details and a behind-the-scenes look at the ...

Digital advertising needs to sniff its own stench, instead of everybody’s digital butts. A sample of that stench is wafting through the interwebs from  the Partnership for Responsible Address…

Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay and CEO Satya Nadella on a device that melds the familiar—Android and Office—with new ideas about mobile productivity.

Microsoft finally gave us details on its first foray into phones in years, and its slick software could make this a must-have device.

How would Nashville be different if it hadn’t pushed the trio away? A conversation about “Gaslighter” and beyond.