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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 01.02.23 Thanks for subscribing to the Fast Forward newsletter! Twice weekly we'll send you the latest on technological developments revolutionizing the ways we work, live, and move, from AI advancements to battery breakthroughs. To get you started, we've put together a collection of stories that touch on some of the defining topics of our time. Enjoy, and you'll be hearing from us again soon. Artificial Intelligence and the 'Gods Behind the Masks' In an excerpt from AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan explore what happens when deepfakers attack the deepfakes. Soon Your Google Searches Can Combine Text and Images With the help of AI, you'll be able to take a picture of a shirt, then ask Google to find socks with the same pattern. Can Robots Evolve Into Machines of Loving Grace? Perhaps, if we put bots together the right way, consciousness will simply emerge. How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools. I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married. The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars. There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain Security cameras. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. We're being watched 24/7. What happens when all those data streams fuse into one? NFTs Are Hot. So Is Their Effect on the Earth's Climate The sale of a piece of crypto art consumed as much energy as the studio uses in two years. Now the artist is campaigning to reduce the medium's carbon emissions. GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. Includes the print edition plus editor in chief Gideon Lichfield's column, System Update. Subscribe now.   Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.