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THE CULTURE OF BREAKING THINGS IS BROKEN

The space race goes lightweight • An Italian satellite company is building the fastest rocket on Earth

Smarten your clothes up • Thanks to a connected fabric that brings tech functions to fashion, you can sell your data to the highest-bidding brand

Tech to tickle your funny bone • Comedy duo Foxdog get their audiences to conduct on-stage experiments with their phones

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Edible devices: fusing food and tech • Snacks and science often aren’t the tastiest combination. But Erika Marthins thinks they can be paired to create custom consumable experiences

A high-wire robotics act • The cable-driven Polibot autonomously builds structures

This is how an AI sees the next wave of computing • Bristol startup Graphcore’s new chip uses 1,000 processors to share the mind-boggling workload machine learning entails

The art of the particle • How CERN inspired two artists to create a sound and light show based on the Big Bang

ESSENTIAL APPS

Big tech must support Wikipedia • The long-term survival of creative commons depends on companies giving back

The virtual-reality headset that sees the world in a sharper light • Varjo has a vision: VR that displays detail at the same resolution as the human eye

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LIVE THE WIRED LIFE • A lifestyle edit by the WIRED staff

THE POWER OF VOICE: brand identity in the world of AI assistants • AI will become more than just an algorithmic function to companies – it will be part of their brands, says Accenture’s Ray Eitel-Porter

Riga: Latvia’s fast-growth tech hub • Latvian capital Riga is home to a thriving startup scene, where local entrepreneurs have global ambitions.

WHAT I’VE LEARNED • Matthew Prince, co-founder of Cloudflare, on defending reputations

Q&A

Create your dream job with a co-op • After struggling to make a living on zero-hours contracts for production companies, film graduates Ieva Padagaite and Simon Ball decided to join a growing network of tech co-operatives, and do business on their own terms

How the world’s most popular meditation app was dreamed up • Headspace CEO Rich Pierson and co-founder Andy Puddicombe reveal their mental journey

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FEATURES

WORK IN PROGRESS   WeWork’s bid to take over the workplace

PARANAL: A SPACE ODYSSEY • ONE OF THESE MACHINES, PARANAL, IS THE LARGEST OPTICAL - INFRARED OBSERVATORY IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IN TERMS OF LIGHT - COLLECTING AREA.

THE BIGGEST LEGAL CRISIS FACING UBER STARTED WITH A PILE OF VOMIT

THE ENEMY WITHIN • Cyber threats were once external, so we built walls to keep them out. Now they’re inside organisations. How do you keep data safe when the enemy has already breached your defences?

The robot assault on Fukushima • The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan triggered a devastating catastrophe in one of the country’s largest nuclear power plants. The cleanup will take decades, and officials will need to locate all the lethal fuel remaining in the pitch-black, debris-strewn, water-filled vessels. It’s no job for humans.

the mind hacker • MindMaze founder Tej Tadi uses VR to rehabilitate the brains of stroke patients. Now he’s creating a microchip that can mimic the brain itself

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THE WIRED MATRIX   07/08.18

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