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We ❤️ Hardware

A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won

Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.

Amos Zeeberg

We ❤️ Hardware

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

Charles Platt

We ❤️ Hardware

‘You Must Believe You Can Repair It’

Scott Gilbertson

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Creator of Worlds

Brandon Sanderson Is Your God

Jason Kehe

We ❤️ Hardware

How to Love Technology Again

WIRED Staff

We ❤️ Hardware

I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory

Virginia Heffernan

Flux Capacitor

Jenny Odell Can Stretch Time and So Can You

Camille Bromley

Opioid Crisis

On the Trail of the Fentanyl King

Benoît Morenne

Solo Trip

This Is a Philosopher on Drugs

Justin E. H. Smith

False Witness

The Lie Detector Was Never Very Good at Telling the Truth

Amit Katwala

Depth Charge

The Mining Industry's Next Frontier Is Deep, Deep Under the Sea

Vince Beiser

Free Fall

The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing

Vauhini Vara

Best Supporting Actors

Meet the Superusers Behind IMDb, Everyone’s Favorite Movie Site

Stephen Lurie

Farce Majeure

We’re All Living Under Gravity’s Rainbow

John Semley

Double Vision

Keanu Will Never Surrender to the Machines

Angela Watercutter

Made in the USA

The Out-of-Control Spread of Crowd-Control Tech

Wil Sands

Intercepted

The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat

Darren Loucaides

For Peat's Sake

The Spaceport at the Edge of the World

Tomas Weber

The Last Cowboys

Life as a 21st-Century Trucker

Andrew Kay

Fungus Amongus

The Last Of Us Does What No Show Has Done Before

Will Bedingfield

This Is the Way

Unmasking Pedro Pascal, the Complicated New Face of Sci-Fi

Hemal Jhaveri

Gut Check

Would You Sell Your Extra Kidney?

Dylan Walsh

Mirror Mirror

The Singularity of Allison Williams

Jordan Crucchiola