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CREATING WIRED

Big Tech is now a geopolitical force – and that should worry everyone

START Monster munch • From croissant lasagne to cheeseburger muffins, Twisted’s culinary outrages are redefining good taste

ALL YOU CAN EAT DATA

5-4-3-2-1-playlist! • What do astronauts like to listen to as they orbit Earth? WIRED goes where no compilation has gone before…

Scaling up mini energy • Elizabeth Nyeko is rethinking grids to provide affordable, low-carbon electricity to the country she fled as a child

For strength, just add fibre • From rigid hydrofoils to flexible wings, this robot arm can custom-weave components

Intelligence: it’s child’s play • Scientists are at last unlocking the mysteries of a key stage of cognitive development, thanks to a world-first collaboration at London’s new Wohl Wolfson ToddlerLab

EARLY ADOPTERS • WIRED asks three entrepreneurs to share their favourite ways to spend their precious down-time

Disney and chill • Making Netflix nervous is a bonus: the real goal for the House of Mouse is gaining control over where and how all its shows can be watched

WIRED insider • Events, new products and promotions Compiled by Jake Pummintr

Healing touch: distance no object • A collaboration of surgical expertise and AR technology is bringing new hope to patients, no matter how far away

Breaking up is hard to do… • …and it won’t work when it comes to curbing the Silicon Valley giants. What’s needed is a plan to harness their power for a new social contract

Radiohead revisit their online roots • One of the first bands to build a website has, in a radical act of digital archaeology, constructed a library to house the multiple iterations of their internet existence – and it’s not always pretty…

Turning up the heat • Automated solar arrays could help incinerate global warming

Dmitry Morozov’s Cybernetic sounds • The Moscow-based artist’s machines play ‘music’ created by the human body – including its dying breaths…

Snappy insurance claims • Dealing with insurers can be as painful as a collision. But startup Tractable aims to speed up the compensation process by using AI

STREET CULTURE SUPPLY AND DEMAND: HOW NTWRK HARNESSED THE POWER OF HYPE

You’ll never catch us wearing this • Don’t be fooled by the loud pattern – this ‘adversarial’ apparel can bamboozle the classification systems of video surveillance, and render the wearer invisible to AI

THE TALENT ISSUE • From the world’s favourite alt-milk to the new wave of banking innovators, raise your glass to the freshest ideas for building a culture in which your best operators thrive

HOW OATLY BUILT ITS BRAND ON IDEALISM • THE SWEDISH MILK-ALTERNATIVE MAKER HAS HARNESSED ITS CULT APPEAL TO ATTRACT AND KEEP STAFF WHO WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD

SIMPLE OFFICE-PRODUCTIVITY HACKS

RECRUIT FIVE YEARS AHEAD • STARTUPS STRUGGLE TO LURE TALENT. BUT FINTECH COMPANY TIDE IS TEMPTING HIGH FLYERS – BY TURNING THEM INTO FORWARD HIRES

STYLE GUIDE: WHAT YOU SHOULD NEVER WEAR TO AN INTERVIEW AT A TECH COMPANY

PLOT A ROUTE TO YOUR DREAM INTERVIEW • Tom Fraine, the head of people at green energy supplier Bulb, shares five ways to get the attention of your ideal company

INSIDE TRACK TO INNOVATION • IN THE AGE OF THE INTRAPRENEUR, STAFF ARE COLLABORATING WITH EMPLOYERS TO FUSE JOB SECURITY WITH THE STARTUP SPIRIT

HOW TO TURN YOUR GREAT IDEA INTO CORPORATE REALITY: NINE...