Wired USA - 03.2020

He had recently read a blog post by venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, in which the author defined two kinds of CEOs: wartime and ...

Across the Line Derek Murphy started his Marathon Investigation website to report on runners who cheat. Relying on hard data min ...

by Gordy Megroz Illustration by Mark Weaver ...

On a warm Saturday evening in late May, Derek Murphy, wearing cargo shorts and a polo shirt, sat on his living room floor, his b ...

together 600 time-stamped photos to cre- ate a three-minute video. Once finished, Murphy found that at about mile 11.5, Meza, wh ...

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and that, in a photo of Seo near the fin- ish line, the face of her watch was visible. Murphy bought the race photographer’s hig ...

for health and well-being, and her race series allowed casual runners to try out long races without much pressure. “At what poin ...

“If what happened to Frank happened physically and not in the virtual world, they would all be in jail.” Endurance races have pr ...

for the holiday. Kids were riding bicycles up and down the street. Driving his wife’s car, he headed to Frog- town, the neighbor ...

physically and not in the virtual world,” Faustina added, wiping away tears, “they would all be in jail.” At some point on July ...

070 THE High above the earth, a new array of satellites will track nearly every bolt of lightning across the Western Hemisphere, ...

The American flag is reflected in optical solar reflectors on the fourth and final satellite that will be launched as part of th ...

Lockheed Martin technicians work on thrusters, which will make microadjustments to keep the satellite’s position steady. 072 ...

F or ages, earthlings regarded lightning as an indicator of godly wrath. To under- stand what displeased a higher power, you fol ...

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LEFT: Red caps cover the three star trackers, which help the satellite determine its position in space. Not only do the satellit ...

The Last Best Place on the Internet by Richard Cooke ...

People used to think Wikipedia represented all that was wrong with the web—a site where any idiot with a keyboard could say anyt ...

Illustrations by Michael Haddad Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? ...