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RIP Gordon Moore, a true giant. Those who understood "law" he's famous were able to build companies that changed the world.
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Great to reconnect with Turing Winner and ask him what he thinks about the internet he helped scale with Ethernet.
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I was quoting Steve Jobs!
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This quote from @StevenLevy, written four decades ago, resonates in this decade as GPT-4 writes an entirely new chapter of the romance.
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This was super fun
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Great joining @TWiT this week with @leolaporte and @StevenLevy: twit.tv/shows/this-wee
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I'm about to do This Week in Tech podcast. Tune in!
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"Although no depositor lost money, the saga looks like a traumatic event whose consequences will linger for months, or even years. Things happened that we can’t unsee."
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This podcast series is really rich with reporting and insight. Highly recommended.
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Fresh off the proverbial press: our trailer for @LostWomenofSci Season 5, on Marie Nyswander, who pioneered methadone maintenance for heroin addiction in the 1960's. A multi-layered, deeply caring, and controversial physician. @prx @sciam #WomenInScience
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We need to be thoughtful as we roll out AI. But hard to think clearly if it's presented as the apocalypse.
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Fun to do this. We will be talking AI a lot in the months to come. Not to mention talking TO AI.
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“Playing With Dynamite:” How AI Chatbots Will Change Life as We Know It @WalterIsaacson @StevenLevy @WIRED
youtu.be/puCmqZIRHAc
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There was no way that was not getting into the story.
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lmao goddamit Steven Levy got me with a "guava croissant" detail. classic. I am honored. wired.com/story/plaintex
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Fun to talk to Dennis. Grateful that he didn’t get political until the end of the conversation.
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The great @WIRED writer @StevenLevy on chatbots that are more human than humans, up now on Episode 13 of #WhatsBuggingMe. Catch it! @Ricochet twitter.com/Ricochet/statu…
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Bad news: You missed a cool Twitter Spaces on AI chatbot search w me, you.com's and . Good news: Listen to recording at
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There can be two sides of AI chatbots. Uncomplaining factotums. Or bots claiming human impulses, sounding like Diana Ross in the spoken-word part of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” My love is alive! Or Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear.
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WIRED's own will host "Know It All: Chatbots and the Next Era of Search" on on March 1st at 1pm EST.
Joining him will be You.com CEO and host of 's podcast
RSVP here: wired.trib.al/89PM06Q
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Time again to ask all of you what question you'd like me to address in my Plaintext newsletter. The best question gets a reply that will elevate your query to something that bewitches my brilliant audience. And then I'll answer. Ask away!
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Product suggestion for . On the "What's Happening" bar put a little gravestone icon on someone who's trending because they died. And none on those who didn't! Would save a lot of stress.
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That crazy moment when you are reading a novel and suddenly the characters are talking about a book you wrote in real life.
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The underappreciated Robert Littell is an American LeCarre, and his masterwork The Company is onsale as an ebook for two bucks. If you're interested in spy stuff, the Cold War or just a great read about the world of mirrors, I recommend it.
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Did Google's groundbreaking work on Loon help the Chinese spy balloon program?
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Happy Valentine's Day! And happy Day 1 of bargaining to ! We ❤️ working for a magazine that covers sex and sexuality.
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This seems like good addition to but there's still not a single board member w a CS degree! Meta's input blocked a qualified candidate who did have one. Meta should have no input on who oversees them! wired.com/story/inside-m
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Today, we are announcing the appointment of a new Board Member from the United States, @kenji_yoshino.
Kenji brings with him knowledge and experience that will enrich our work, deepen our analysis, and help us improve how Meta treats people and communities around the world.
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The grass still sucked but it wasn’t Rihanna’s fault. This story is fascinating
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Last night, @WIRED went behind the scenes of the Super Bowl Halftime Show to examine how Rihanna's floating platforms worked.
From a logistics standpoint, the show was a rousing success for one essential reason: it kept performers off the grass. wired.com/story/super-bo
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Instead of a classic do or die drive for the Super Bowl we get a total crap call deciding the winner in a way that even the winners can’t claim they deserve it.
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The ref steals the entire Super Bowl on a total bullshit call. I think we have to monitor the bank accounts of the men in zebra.
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Special teams screwed up but defense lost this game for #eagles. Has Reddick been sleeping all game?
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I wrote about 's new and powered answer-bot Poe, and the plight of social networks in a world dominated by generative AI.
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A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a "2007 Twitter" vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies ( / Wired)
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This was really fun, especially hearing the original Lisa builders relive the experience. Also: hang in for a surprise.
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A marvelous and heartwarming 40th birthday party for Apple’s Lisa (arguably the computer world's most important flop) earlier this week at the @ComputerHistory Museum. youtu.be/oCvQbGXPtBU #AppleLisa #CHMLive @StevenLevy @danllewin
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Of the many startups trying to build a Twitter alternative, T2 is notable for most wanting to be like....OG Twitter. I sit down w to get the low down.
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My first WIRED story, which set me on a course to write Crypto And I'm still writing for WIRED!
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30 years ago today on Feb 1, 1993, @WIRED published “Rebels with a Cause”@StevenLevy
“It's the FBIs, NSAs, and Equifaxes of the world versus a swelling movement of Cypherpunks, civil libertarians, and millionaire hackers. At stake: Whether privacy will exist in the 21st century.”
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Happening soon! More people will tune in than people who bought Lisas!
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Is it true that without the Lisa there would be no Mac? Was it in fact Apple's most important flop? Live tonight at 7pm PT for the Apple Lisa’s 40th birthday at the @ComputerHistory
Museum. bit.ly/3VDZmsx I'm moderating, w/@StevenLevy @danllewin
#AppleLisa #CHMLive
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