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Amazon Has Conquered Christmas—but Its Reign May Be Ending
The problem with Amazon’s own-brand mince pies is that they’re delicious. For years, the ecommerce giant has stuck its fingers…
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Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those…
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The Year the NFT Died and Came Back to Life
The market for non-fungible tokens took a nosedive this year. Now, die-hard evangelists think the key to success is finding…
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Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point
Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk…
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The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from…
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Tired, Filthy, and Overworked: Inside Amazon’s Holiday Rush
Tyler Hamilton has optimized his every waking minute. Between Black Friday and Christmas, five nights a week, he pulls himself…
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Mastodon Features That Twitter Should Steal (but Won’t)
Any platform that supports free speech should have a content warning system pretty much like the one Mastodon offers. I…
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No One on Twitter Is Safe From Elon Musk
Musk changed his tune this week after he alleged a “crazy stalker” followed a car carrying his young son. Questions…
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Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think
In January 2021, after former US president Donald Trump tweeted in support of an insurrection on the Capitol, his account…
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How to Stop ChatGPT from Going Off the Rails
When WIRED asked me to cover this week’s newsletter, my first instinct was to ask ChatGPT—OpenAI’s viral chatbot—to see what…
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