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RANTS AND RAVES

The Great Soundscape • Clubhouse’s buzz may have quieted down, but its spirit still animates the social internet.

CHARTGEIST

Chimp Change • OpenSea’s booming NFT marketplace is riddled with security issues and copycat listings, but the platform’s attempts to fix things are enraging everyone.

Go Configure • It took me three decades to achieve computing nirvana. What was it all for?

Fab It Yourself • As a senior in high school, Sam Zeloof designed and built his first handmade chip in his parents’ garage. He’s been outpacing Moore’s law ever since.

Meat Marketing • US beef producers can now get certified to label their cuts “low-carbon.” Some critics think it’s a bunch of bull.

READOUT • The world, quantified.

Watt’s Happening • Reduce the carbon footprint of your errands and commutes with a safe and zippy escooter.

WIRED RECOMMENDS • The latest picks from our reviews team.

DEAR CLOUD SUPPORT: They Were Just Typing, Then … Nothing

THINK UFOS ARE SPACE ALIENS? THINK WEIRDER • After six globe-trotting decades spent probing what he calls “the phenomenon,” the information scientist Jacques Vallée is sure of only one thing: The truth is really, really out there.

FEATURES

JOEL KAPLAN IS EVERYWHERE • ZUCK’S MAN IN WASHINGTON HAS PLAYED A HAND IN NEARLY EVERY FACEBOOK SCANDAL, REWIRED POLITICAL SPEECH ACROSS THE PLATFORM TO AVOID ANGERING THE RIGHT, AND BUILT THE MOST UBIQUITOUS INFLUENCE OPERATION IN DC. NOW HE’S FIGHTING OFF THE BIGGEST ANTI-TECH ONSLAUGHT IN HISTORY. HE THANKS YOU FOR NOT NOTICING.

“I’M THE OPERATOR.”

CASTE AWAY • SIDDHANT WAS BORN IN A COWSHED IN AN INDIAN VILLAGE TO A FAMILY FROM A HISTORICALLY OPPRESSED CLASS OF “UNTOUCHABLES.” TODAY HE’S AN ENGINEER AT META, BUT HE’S DISCOVERED THAT SILICON VALLEY IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE DISCRIMINATION OF HIS HOMELAND.

A.I. Is My Copilot • Thousands of developers are using a tool from OpenAI that can autocomplete their code or whip up a program from a simple prompt. The tech might help us all automate our lives—and riddle the internet with even more bugs.

COLOPHON • Close Encounters That Helped Get This Issue Out

DAIYU DREADED GALACTIC UNITY DAY FESTIVITIES.

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