How a Major Toy Company Kept 4chan Online
Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board. Toxic image board 4chan has managed to stay online for the past seven years—amid boycotts and advertiser flight, after being implicated in several mass shootings, even as it was identified as a source of the conspiracy theories that inspired the January 6
Lose Yourself in Tomoyuki Tanaka’s X-Ray Illustrations of Tokyo Train Stations
Tomoyuki Tanaka can see through walls. Known for meticulous, hand-drawn ballpoint renderings of the innards of everything from furniture to museums, the Japanese architect's most elaborate works are studies of Tokyo's sprawling train stations. Tanaka's unpeeling of the underground labyrinths of Tokyo Station, Shibuya Station, and Shinjuku Station (one of the world's biggest, and busiest, transport
A Velvet Worm Named for Totoro
This velvet worm is so cute it’s named for Totoro. Too bad it’s a slime-spewing killer. An adorable little velvet worm, Eoperipatus spp. The biggest ones in this genus are about 2 inches (5 cm) long.Nicky Bay Velvet worms are adorable caterpillar-y looking things, silently plodding along on stumpy legs in tropical forests around the world. A recently discovered species was so cute, it got a name s
Cosmic rays offer clue our universe could be a computer simulation
The idea that we might be living in an artificial reality constructed by something higher than ourselves has been a recurring philosophical hypothesis for centuries If recent measurements of cosmic ray particles are correct, then we may have the first evidence that the universe as we know it is really a giant computer simulation. Humans have explored the laws of our universe for many years now, an
Wael Ghonim Leaving Google to Launch Tech NGO in Egypt
Days after being named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world, Wael Ghonim, the young Google executive who became a symbol for the Egyptian revolution, announced he is leaving the search giant to a start a non-governmental organization in Egypt. “Decided to take a long term sabbatical from @Google […] Days after being named to Time magazine's list of the 100 most i
How Tech Tools Transformed New York’s Sex Trade | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Sex in the city: Then and Now Red-light districts were commonplace in big cities throughout the 20th century. But in recent years, New York City has seen the midtown areas with high concentrations of sex workers empty out. The trade has moved indoors and diffused into more-upscale districts downtown. Distribution of Prostitution Low Density
Cultural Evolution Could Be Studied in Google Books Database
Google’s massive trove of scanned books could be useful for researchers studying the evolution of culture. In a paper published Dec. 16 in Science, researchers turned part of that vast textual corpus into a 500-billion-word database in which the frequency of words can be measured over time and space. Their initial subjects of analysis, including […] Google's massive trove of scanned books could be
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