Wired UK - March, April 2022 PDF

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Wired UK - March, April 2022 PDF

Amazon’s dark secret - For years, the online retail giant has been keeping something from you: it’s handled your information less carefully than its packages

EV special - WIRED looks carefully at the latest crop of electric vehicles to find the details that delight and the innovations that inspire

Crash! - Inside Volvo’s huge crash lab in Gothenburg, engineers recreate real-life accidents, from violent collisions to cliff-top plummets

Looks that quill - The African pygmy hedgehog may be the most Instagrammable pet ever. But behind the tiny top hats is a sadder, far darker reality

To the pixel, and beyondT - Alvy Ray Smith is the creative thinker who made Pixar possible. Now he shares his vision of where Digital Light will take us next

Hyper real - Artist Jim Naughten explores humankind’s fraught relationship with nature, using unnatural effects to create an air of unease

All punked up - It began as an online art project, but CryptoPunks has upended the art world to become a billiondollar ultra-hyped NFT juggernaut

Guilt-free chocolate - The battle against big chocolate, with its palm oil and ethical murk, has a new champion—and there’s not a cacao bean to be found…

Off-planet litterbugs - Earth’s space superpowers are taking pot-shots at their old satellites—and it’s leaving a huge and dangerous mess in orbit

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