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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.

Newspapers said they wanted to protect the print product, but they were raring to go when it came to experimental online news approaches in the early '80s.

On the Get WIRED podcast, the philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder tackles everything from Covid-19 vaccine development to TikTok.

At their scale, it’s pocket change.

Problems in Greece are far from over. But amid the turmoil, a group of young artists have built a dynamic hip hop scene from the embers of crisis.

As Cal Newport wrote in his bestseller Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Digital Minimalism is: > "A...

I knew my career depended on connecting with people unlike me. Now I want to challenge them, too.

It is becoming easier to break free of paper and pen and instead rely on computers to take notes that can be archived, cataloged and searched.

What comes next.

It was May 2003. The photographer and I were in a grocery store parking lot in the better part of Washington, DC. We chain-smoked and waited for disaster to strike. When the police scanner crackled we cranked up the car and headed across town, over the Anacostia River to one of the most chronically violent […]

Microsoft 365 subscribers get access to a new transcription tool in Word

Who gets to participate in knowledge production?

Too many people feel like they're always late, always behind, and never have time to do real work. A bunch of startups are betting that better calendars are a key part of the future of work.

A weirdly tame, let’s-all-get-wasted riff on “The Purge” from the team behind such solid youth-focused comedies as “Banana Split” and “Big Time Adolescence,” Hulu original “The Binge” imagines an a…