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When the promise of an Instagram hashtag campaign meets real-life disaster, schadenfreude comes easy. But we’re all vulnerable to the power of the filter. The post The Fyre Festival: The Fiasco We All Should Have Seen Coming appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Jimmy Wales believes the crowd can fix what’s wrong with the media. But is it really journalism? The post Hate the News? Wikipedia’s Co-Founder Wants You to Edit It appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Cognitive neuroscientist Anil Seth’s talk about human consciousness was my TED moment. The post TED Day Three: The Mind-Scrambling TED Talk I Won’t Stop Sharing appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Facebook wants to beat the competition to the next big computing platform, including machine-brain interfaces. Never mind they might not work. The post Facebook’s Race to Link Your Brain to a Computer Might Be Unwinnable appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Opinion: Amid scandal, Uber is getting something right: diversity. The post You’ll Never Guess Who Does Diversity Right: Uber appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

The chair of the FCC today said he would work to strip his own agency of the authority to enforce net neutrality. But the fight is far from over. The post Why the FCC’s Plans to Gut Net Neutrality Just Might Fail appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

If the president wants results as much as a big, beautiful wall, he’ll need to shore up the tech behind border security. The post Trump’s Wall Is Worthless if He Doesn’t Back It Up With Tech appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Tech is a huge growth industry, but it comes at a price. The solution will have to come from people working to move beyond winner-take-all urbanism. The post Tech Made Cities Too Expensive. Here’s How to Fix It appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Search result snippets have made Google an arbiter of facts. Now it wants to outsource the job. The post Google Wants You to Help Fix the Fake-Fact Problem It Created appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

In Iran, apps have become a kind of loophole in the government’s censorship policies. The post This App Lets Iranians Swipe Past Political Propaganda appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico