The Rise and Precarious Reign of China’s Battery King
The headquarters of battery giant CATL tower over the coastal Chinese city of Ningde. To the untrained eye, the building resembles a huge slide rising out...
China Built Your iPhone. Will It Build Your Next Car?
On the face of it, Foxconn seems well placed to start making cars. But there are important challenges to overcome. Foxconn’s expertise lies in harnessing human...
DALL-E Mini Is the Internet’s Favorite AI Meme Machine
On June 6, Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence projects, saw traffic to an AI image-generation tool called DALL-E Mini skyrocket. The...
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Before Starbucks Baristas Had Unions, They Had Coworker Petitions
Her petition, titled “Let us have visible tattoos!!!,” racked up more than 25,000 signatures—including nearly 14,000 from Starbucks baristas—in more than 40 countries. In October of...
Shopify Goes Soul-Searching
Hey, folks. Ready for a wet, hot summer? Better keep the Paxlovid handy. The Plain View When I spoke to Shopify’s CEO and founder, Tobias Lütke,...
The End of Klarna’s Easy Money Is Bad News for BNPL
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the cofounder and CEO of Klarna, looks slightly frayed down the barrel of his webcam as he explains over Google Meet why everything is...
Can Binance Save Crypto? The CEO Is Thinking About It
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. WIRED: I want your take on the current moment. What the hell is going on with crypto?...
Meta Made Millions in Ads From Networks of Fake Accounts
When Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was called to testify before Congress in 2018, he was asked by Senator Orin Hatch how Facebook made money. Zuckerberg’s answer has...
In Russia, Western Planes Are Falling Apart
An Airbus A320-232 with the tail number YU-APH made its first flight on December 13, 2005. Since then, the aircraft has clocked millions of miles, flying...
EV Charging Costs Penalize Urban Drivers
And while EVs generally remain cheaper to run than gas or diesel equivalents, if you were to only use a DC rapid charger, that may not...