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FULLY FILTERED To prepare for her shoot with Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, photographer Lenne Chai spent hours on the massively influential social media app researching her subject and soaking up its very particular aesthetics. Chai, who, like Chew, is from Singapore, fell for the “fan edits”—videos of Chew embellished with sparkly filters and set to romantic tunes. “They influenced my decision to incorporate real-life in-camera filters to create a dreamy atmosphere—complete with sparkles and soft glows,” she says. IMPACTFUL IMAGERY Photographer Dave Imms had a packed day at our recent WIRED Impact event, shooting portraits of more than 20 key speakers: “My aim was to create a quiet space where they could pause after the pressure of being on stage. Whether we had 30 seconds or 30 minutes, I used…

EDITOR’S ESSAY

I write this the day after the UK foreign secretary, former Prime Minister David Cameron, stated that “the lights are flashing red” on the global dash-board. It’s mid-January and the news cycle is (once again) in overdrive with what feels like a relentlessly bleak news firehose—whether that’s the continuing conflict in Ukraine and in Gaza or the data points on ice coverage of lakes in North America. Even Iceland’s volcanoes have turned red. Cameron’s statement was a reference to the possibility of the escalation of a regional conflict in the Middle East involving Western forces and Iranian proxies. And, with a gloomy global economic outlook, inflation not yet under control, populists gaining traction in democracies from Europe to Asia (not to mention the prospect of a second Trump term) and the…

Meet ANDI, the world’s sweatiest mannequin. Although he might look like a shop-floor stalwart from a distance, a closer glance reveals bundles of cabling and pipework concealed beneath his shell. He’s wired up with sensors, plumbed into a liquid supply, and dotted with up to 150 individual pores that open when he gets warm. It sounds gross, but it’s all by design—ANDI is a sophisticated, breathing, walking, and yes, perspiring mannequin, part of a range of body-analog dummies developed by Seattle-based firm Thermetrics. He made headlines recently—in mannequin circles, at least—because researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) are using an ANDI model to study how the human body reacts to extreme heat. 2023 was the hottest since records began, and as the world gets warmer, clothing designers, car manufacturers, and militaries are…

A THERAPY BASED ON PICKING UP GOOD VIBRATIONS

In 2015, Lucy Yung was a young industrial designer working on assistive devices for stroke victims, people with multiple sclerosis, and those with other conditions which meant they struggled with fine motor control. Her projects included a pen that used high-frequency vibrations to help Parkinson’s patients write more clearly. Then she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. “I really learned what it felt like to be a patient, and that any kind of support or help can dramatically change the lives of people with long term conditions,” she says. Once she had recovered and returned to work in 2018, she picked up her research on Parkinson’s, with the goal to improve the lives of those with the disease. Parkinson’s stems from a communication problem: Damage to neurons in the substantia nigra of…

A THERAPY BASED ON PICKING UP GOOD VIBRATIONS

BUILDING A BETTER WAY FOR WORKERS TO DO THE RIGHT THING

In September 2017, Singapore-based lawyer Pav Gill took a job at Wirecard, a high-flying German payments business worth tens of billions of euros. Not long after he started, he heard from a colleague that an executive at Wirecard Asia, the region Gill was responsible for, had allegedly been teaching staff how to trick auditors into thinking the firm had money it didn’t have. Gill quietly began an investigation, codenamed Project Phoenix. The results were damning: Wirecard had been fudging its numbers. But when the board of directors caught wind of his work they got “very upset,” says Gill. He was ordered to stand down, and his investigation came to nothing. The head of Wirecard Asia began to make Gill’s life “pretty horrible,” he claims, yelling at him in front of colleagues and…

BUILDING A BETTER WAY FOR WORKERS TO DO THE RIGHT THING

A DATA MAP FOR AFRICA’S RIVERS

In the war-scarred wilderness of the Angolan highlands, a team of biologists, botanists, and biodiversity experts paddle upstream. Adventurers of yesteryear deliberately avoided its treacherous terrain, which is now encircled by man-eating crocodiles and long-forgotten minefields. But today, explorers are studying this landscape using drones, 360° cameras, machine learning, and hydroacoustic current meters. Their goal: To understand the African water basins that support the lives of hundreds of millions of people, as well as countless species of flora and fauna. “This is the most important time to be an explorer on the continent,” says Steve Boyes, the South African conservationist leading The Great Spine of Africa expeditions mapping previously uncharted waters. As they travel, panoramic images are captured every 30 seconds and uploaded to open-access environmental platform EarthViews. Photographs are interactive, displaying…

A DATA MAP FOR AFRICA’S RIVERS

MODERN ART IS A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE

You can get a crash course in Nick Hornby’s work over the course of an hourlong London walk. The artist has three permanent sculptures installed across the city, metal silhouettes that start off familiar but change with your vantage point. In St. James, his conquering equestrian, modeled on Richard I, becomes an amorphous squiggle as you circle; in Kensington, his take on Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer turns abstract; and a bust of Nefertiti doubles as the Albert Memorial. Raising questions about power and the role of the monument, the trio are a clever combo of craft and concept. But they’re also feats of digital innovation. The equestrian, for example, started out as a digital model scripted in Python. It was then unrolled into individual components to be laser-cut from metal, then…

MODERN ART IS A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE

TAIL AS OLD AS TIME…

On october 21, 2023, Bobi the dog died. At 31 years and 163 days, he was old. So old, in fact, that eight months earlier, Bobi had been crowned the “oldest dog ever” by Guinness World Records. But shortly after Bobi’s death, experts started raising questions about the Portuguese mastiff’s advanced years. “Not one of my veterinary colleagues believe Bobi was actually 31 years old,” veterinarian Danny Chambers told The Guardian. “For the Guinness Book of Records to maintain their credibility and authority in the eyes of the veterinary profession, they need to publish some irrefutable evidence.” Someone needed to find the truth. That someone, it turned out, was me. For more than 60 years, Guinness World Records has cataloged the stinkiest flowers, widest mouths, and largest chicken nuggets. It had the receipts…

TAIL AS OLD AS TIME…

IN DEFENSE OF JAVASCRIPT

Lex fridman has done many long interviews on his popular podcast. Even so, the episode with the legendary programmer John Carmack has an unhinged director’s-cut feel to it. Over five hours, Carmack dishes on everything from vector operations to Doom. But it’s something Fridman says, offhand, that really justifies the extended run time: “I think that if we’re living in a simulation, it’s written in JavaScript.” To review: JavaScript is what makes static web pages “dynamic.” Without it, the internet would resemble nothing so much as an after-hours arcade; lifeless and dark. These days, the language is used in both front- and backend development for a whole host of mobile platforms and apps, including Slack and Discord. And the main thing to understand about it, in the context of Fridman’s nerdy…

IN DEFENSE OF JAVASCRIPT

The fight against climate change starts in our cities Impact Briefing Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London Cities and mayors are the strongest political forces fighting climate change, argued London’s mayor Sadiq Kahn in a fireside chat at WIRED Impact 2023. He quoted former Denver mayor Wellington Webb: “The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities,” as he told the room that while global emissions will go up 14 percent by 2030, in cities in the urban C40 network they will fall by more than 50 percent. “We’re trying to address the challenges but also channel it to an opportunity,” he said. “We want to develop technology, make sure we get green finance and create the jobs…

GEAR All-Terrain

Waterside WaveShark Jetboard 2 Explorer / ROKA Maverick X2 Wetsuit WaveShark’s new jetboard can now keep you offshore for up to 65 minutes, hitting almost 34 mph in just 5.5 seconds. And to complete the sleek look, ROKA’s X2 wetsuit is engineered like a neoprene exoskeleton to give athletes the edge, and is built with the arms raised, swimstyle. $TBC waveshark.com; £1,075 uk.roka.com Ocean Reef Neptune III This advanced full-face mask is great for divers looking for an effortless underwater experience—its completely re-engineered second stage regulator makes breathing as natural as possible through your nose and mouth without the inconvenience of biting down on a mouthpiece. It’s fully customizable, with six head-straps and a patented silicone face-skirt for a secure fit, plus inner ribs so it sits comfortably away from the face. The polycarbonate…

GEAR All-Terrain

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THE Algorithmic Authenticity OF Shou Zi Chew

Is he for real—or a really good politician? BEFORE I SIT DOWN to talk to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, he apologizes for the noise. The evening’s guests have been doing sporadic sound checks all day: Peso Pluma running through his opening number, Offset ad-libbing over a backing track. I passed by throngs of One Direction fans to get into the park (Niall Horan for $25 is a solid deal). This isn’t where I imagined I’d be talking to the head of the most influential social media app on the planet, but the only way I could get on Chew’s calendar was by meeting him at TikTok’s first-ever music festival—a sold-out, two-stage program at the Cubs’ training facility in Mesa, Arizona. The location makes no sense until you realize that for TikTok,…

THE Algorithmic Authenticity OF Shou Zi Chew

THE LAIR INSIDE MARK ZUCKERBERG’S TOP-SECRET HAWAIIAN COMPOUND

Off the two-lane highway that winds along the northeast side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, on a quiet stretch of ranchland between the tourist hubs of Kapaa and Hanalei, an enormous, secret construction project is underway. A 6-foot wall blocks the view from a nearby road fronting the project, where cars slow to try to catch a glimpse of what’s behind it. Security guards stand watch at an entrance gate and patrol the surrounding beaches on ATVs. Pickup trucks roll in and out, hauling building materials and transporting hundreds of workers. Nobody working on this project is allowed to talk about what they’re building. Almost anyone who passes compound security—from carpenters to electricians to painters to security guards—is bound by a strict nondisclosure agreement, according to several workers involved in…

THE LAIR INSIDE MARK ZUCKERBERG’S TOP-SECRET HAWAIIAN COMPOUND

LOVE, DEMENTIA, AND ROBOTS

When my mom was finally, officially diagnosed with dementia in 2020, her geriatric psychiatrist told me that there was no effective treatment. The best thing to do was to keep her physically, intellectually, and socially engaged every day for the rest of her life. Oh, OK. No biggie. The doc was telling me that medicine was done with us. My mother’s fate was now in our hands. My sister and I had already figured out that my father also had dementia; he had become shouty and impulsive, and his short-term memory had vaporized. We didn’t even bother getting him diagnosed. She had dementia. He had dementia. We—my family—would make this journey solo. I bought stacks of self-help books, watched hours of webinars, pestered social workers. The resources focused on the basics: safety,…

LOVE, DEMENTIA, AND ROBOTS

THE PROVINCE OF ALL MANKIND

IN THE BEGINNING there was only one. It looked like an aluminum beach ball with four car antennas sticking out. Stuffed with radio transmitters, history’s first human-made satellite emitted a spectral beeping signal from its solitary orbit for just three weeks before its batteries died. That was enough to terrify the world. The Soviet Union’s 1957 surprise launch of Sputnik was, famously, the jump scare that startled the United States into a space race. But in a lesser-known series of events, Sputnik’s appearance also frightened many of Earth’s non-superpowers into taking decisive action. Facing the real possibility—just 12 years after Hiroshima—that Moscow and Washington were about to turn the commanding heights of space into rival platforms for mass annihilation, a group of diplomats at the United Nations began looking for a way…

THE PROVINCE OF ALL MANKIND

THE SERVER ON THE ROCKS

From flowing water to electricity to algorithm: Kinetic force becomes mechanical force becomes Bitcoin. This is the idea behind Alps Blockchain, founded in the northern Italian city of Trento by two young entrepreneurs. Francesco Buffa and Francesca Failoni, both in their 20s, spotted an opportunity in Italy’s under-utilized engineering infrastructure, and are now using the energy of two hydroelectric power stations to power Bitcoin mining machines. These specialized servers operate 24 hours a day performing “proof of work”—crunching mathematical formulas to mine new units of cryptocurrency. The crypto revolution has been criticized for its environmental impact—among other things—but the two power plants at Thumel in the Aosta Valley and Valstagna in Veneto aim to offer a more sustainable path. Open the floodgates! Raffaele Panizza is a journalist and director of the…

THE SERVER ON THE ROCKS

SELECT THE BOXES THAT ARE EVIDENCE.

—@TRappaRT, via X Honorable Mentions It chose storage space over souls. —@JDHaveman, via X When pressed, its alibi was 404. —Amanda Peterson, via Facebook Robot charged with battery. Gets life. —Evan Donahue, via Facebook Can’t arrest me, I am distributed. —@fsidders, via Instagram Sentenced to blue screen of death. —@parrollo, via Instagram Dead battery? You’re out of order! —David Reeg, via email It demanded a jury of peer-to-peers. —Scott Bradley, via email Robot vacuum bullies tabby. Gets life. —Liisa W, via email I didn’t know humans can’t reboot. —Joshua Cuestas, via email Bit by bit, AI’s defense collapsed. —YN Hickman Want to submit a six-word story for us to consider? Look for the latest story prompt on Facebook, X, Instagram, and WIRED.com/six-word, where you can also see how we have illustrated past favorites. Disclaimer: All #WIREDSIXWORD submissions become the property of WIRED. Submissions will not be acknowledged or returned. Submissions and any other…

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