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VOLCANO WATCHERS • Armed rebel skirmishes, international politics and a corrosive atmosphere are just a few obstacles facing a British photographer’s mission to gather life-saving visual data on one of Africa’s most active volcanoes

NOW EVERYONE CAN BE A MUSIC MOGUL • A fan-community platform from Sweden says it can help you fund your favorite artists—and maybe make you rich, too

SHOOT FOR FAME WITH AN AI SCOUT • Young soccer players hoping to be talent-spotted by a big club rely on luck as much as skill: the off-chance that a scout just happens to see them playing the game of their lives. Now an AI tool may shorten those odds

LASERS ILLUMINATE THE PAST • With digitized archaeology, the mysterious Iron-Age souterrains of the Scottish Highlands are accessible to all

CATCHING A COSMIC WAVE IN TUSCANY • Ripples in spacetime are ancient signals from interstellar cataclysms. Virgo lets researchers measure them as they wash through our planet

QUIET QUANTUM: WE NEED SHUSH FOR SUPERPOSITION • Today’s quantum devices are being held back by the problem of ‘noise’—but by modeling and mitigating its effects, Algorithmiq can harness the power of qubits

POWER FROM THE PEOPLE • ‘Batteries not included’ could be the norm for new electroceuticals

SPECULATIVE SPECIALIST • Neal Stephenson isn’t just an award-winning sci-fi author—he possess an uncanny knack for predicting Silicon Valley’s next big things, from cryptocurrencies to the metaverse

THE FIRST RULE OF CRYPTO-CLUB … • … Is we definitely talk about Crypto Club. Networking for the NFT-enabled is the aim of London’s latest membership

AN ARTIST’S EYE IN THE SKY • While it may be nearing the end of its ten-year fuel supply, NASA’s Landsat 8 still has lots to show us. With the help of a visual creative, this satellite is capturing images of Earth worthy of an art exhibit

TREADING A NEW PATH FOR OLD MATERIALS • Truly befitting the circular economy, spent rally tires are getting a luxurious upgrade

WELCOME TO THE SMART RESET • WIRED Smarter takes the pulse of the worlds of work, research, the startup scene, and investor interest, with keynotes from figures including Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Parisa Tabriz, and an expert-led drill down into Retail, Money, and Security to find out what’s on the WIRED network’s collective mind. Here’s what we learned…

The next web needs a better foundation • We have an opportunity to steer the web back to its creators’ original, secure, user-centric vision. But first, we must break the data monopolies

Simulation’s real impact • Computer models have transformed the physical world. New tools that let us simulate in responsive 3D will take this even further

Think like a hacker to stay cybersecure • The next level of cybersecurity will come from fresh mindsets. As well as thinking like a baddie, diversities of background and expertise will bring new perspectives—and greater safety

The metaverse isn’t what you think it is • The biggest technological, social and commercial shift in decades still has most of us scratching our heads. We need to focus on connection

Working smarter • After another tumultuous year, our speakers had plenty of fresh takes on how workers have gained a whole new perspective on what it means to be an employee—and what companies need to do to if they want to survive and thrive in this new landscape

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