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Creating WIRED

SATELLITE STRESS LAB

THE AI DOCTOR WILL HEAR YOU NOW • It turns out that ‘listen to your body’ is the best wellbeing advice ever—so Roeland Decorte built an AI that uses your smartphone’s mic to eavesdrop on your health, detecting audio indicators for cancer, heart conditions, and more

PIECE OF MIND • This diagram maps 1 mm3 of human brain—but its unprecedented clarity deepens the mysteries of cognition

TIME IS RUNNING OUT IN THE HUNT FOR RARE BITCOIN • Not all satoshis are created equal—and obsessive collectors are racing to catch them all

MAPPING THE OPEN SOURCE BATTLEFRONT • Deep State uses public data and insider intelligence to power its live tracker of Ukraine’s ever-shifting front line

THE POTATO’S MASHED-UP REPUTATION • The humble spud is a miraculous veg, but Americans are eating less of them than ever before, and have ditched fresh potatoes for frozen. Is it time for a ’tater rebrand?

THE ETERNAL TRUTH OF MARKDOWN • An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web

TERMINAL VELOCITY

COOLER HEADS • The deadliest environmental threat to city dwellers worldwide isn’t earthquakes, tornadoes, flooding, or fire—it’s heat

SPIN CYCLE • To study tornadoes, it helps to wear a skirt (and rocket launchers)

UPGRADING HOW WE BUY • New insights from WIRED Consulting and Google shed light on how artificial intelligence could bring more joy, more confidence, and less regret to consumer decision-making

GEAR AUTOPIA EV SPECIAL • It’s time for WIRED to celebrate the most electrifying new EVs—and even with a few hybrid holdouts, there’s plenty to excite us

BY LAND OR SEA

How to reinvent the definition of all-terrain • Yangwang’s luxury hybrid SUV can traverse land and water while barely ruffling its cosseted occupants—but will this ambitiously-specced amphibious beast ever cross to our shores? By Alistair Charlton

The electric-motor revolution is picking up speed • Mercedes-Benz has made a power-play to own axial-flux tech. By Ben Oliver

FEATURES

DAMAGE CONTROL • Ripping out pipelines, destroying petrol pumps—these are violent, criminal acts. According to Léna Lazare, the 26-year-old face of the radical climate movement, they’re also acts of joy.

TOWARD A MORE FANTASTIC PLASTIC • Stretchy seaweed. Reverse vending machines. QR-coded take-out boxes. To cure our addiction to disposable crap, we’ll all need to get a little loony.

AN IMPERFECT STORM • CAN THE U.A.E. REALLY MAKE RAIN ON DEMAND—OR I S I T SELLING VAPORWARE?

THE HOLE IN THE MAP OF THE WORLD • ON THE SURFACE, THERE’S NOTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT IT. JUST A SPOT OF OCEAN. BUT BENEATH THE WAVES LURKS SOMETHING INCREDIBLE: A MASSIVE WATERFALL. AND IN ITS MYSTERIOUS DEPTHS, THE FATE OF THE WORLD CHURNS.

PRISCILA, QU EEN OF THE RIDESHARE MAFIA • She come to the US with a dream, Using platforms like Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash, she built a business empire up from nothing.

DO NOT DISTURB THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT. • THE ASSIGNMENT: IN SIX WORDS, SOLVE THE FERMI PARADOX.