The Present

Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.

We all see beauty the same way.

The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.

“My dad asked me if I had been to tutoring and I lied… Then he showed me the tablet.”

Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.

The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.

Leftover Cold War-era bunkers are still kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war.

Airports are like mini-cities: they have places of worship, policing, hotels, fine dining, shopping, and mass transit.

The findings contradict a widespread belief.

Proxy wars on the pitch.

After cryptoassets, a wave of central bank digital currencies is set to revolutionize our ideas about what money is and how to manage it.

What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.

In the future, driving an app across a bridge could let engineers know how safe it is.

They believe in meritocracy, yet leave their kids massive wealth.

There is one House member for every 761,169 people, which isn’t exactly representative.

The future of American jobs isn’t only services and tech.

There’s enough evidence to conclude president Bukele had no idea what he was doing.

Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.

The media is deliberately pushing your buttons.

We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.

The world has improved in mind-blowing ways.

“Ghost gear” leads to hundreds of thousands of animal deaths.

Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.

It turns out it’s hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.

This is a perversion of justice.

We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.

Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.

The “attention economy” corrupts science.