THE CONNECTIVE

After spending 48 hours furiously writing, editing, and designing (and many, many more hours anxiously awaiting its final release), we’re so thrilled to announce that The Connective, a crowd-s...

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You can find The Connective on the Wired newsstand in iTunes on May 17th. We can’t wait to share it with you!

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Time’s up! We’re done! As you beamed us your stories from cafés on the other side of the world and photos from buses in our own neighborhood, as you brainstormed story ideas on Twitter an...

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Submissions are now closed. We’re so thrilled with all you’ve shared with us. Now it’s time for you to wish us luck! Over the next 24 hours, we’ll hustle to edit, fact check, and design o...

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The theme is MASS TRANSMIT Your phone’s newest trick is small potatoes; it’s just one tiny Internet-enabled ingredient in the feast of connected objects in our lives. And together these obj...

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And the theme is MASS TRANSMIT!!! We want your features and short pieces, infographics and lists, photos and illustrations, original sounds and videos. We want something new—something unique�...

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Final Theme Hint: “While playing around with the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) we discovered an amazing number of open embedded devices on the Internet. Many of them are based on Linux and allo...

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We’ll be giving you one last real hint in just a little bit, but consider this trailer, well, a teaser. Back soon!

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Today’s the day! We announce our theme at 3 p.m. Pacific. We can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip wherein Johnny Mnemonic uses the VR “G...

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“This interconnected networks of networks is called the internet.” Let’s take it back to the basics for a minute. The basics - in this case - are those bygone days when we were still lear...

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1993? 2013? AT&T said we will, and now we do. What will we be doing 20 years from now? 

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Today’s Theme Hint: Ok, today’s hint is a little more fun than the ones we’ve given you so far. It’s Data from Star Trek singing a little ditty about how much fun he has searching for ...

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Ok, this project is cool. The band Light Light  has put up this site  that is making a crowdsourced music video  using the motion of all the cursors of people who come to check it out. Watch ...

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What does 91,585 people + $5,702,153 equal? One fully funded Veronica Mars movie . If you build it, they will come. (Also, crowdsourcing works!) 

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Henry Rollins breaking down the pitfalls of “information overload” to Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic (in very crass language, sheesh).  We tend to be more utopian than dystopian when it c...

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“For example, mobile phone positioning data is proposed and applied as one promising movement data collecting method, providing advantages over traditional methods of traffic measurement (e.g. ...

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Jason Schwartzman: “Everything is the same, even if it’s different.”   Dustin Hoffman: “Exactly. Because we. Are. Connected.” ~ Dustin Hoffman knows what we’re talking about.

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The Oracle of Bacon : Ok, this isn’t exactly a hint for a our theme, just something fun to get your mind working on our wavelength. So, with that in mind, can you find any actor with a Bacon ...

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Today’s Theme Hint: In 2011, this video posted on Facebook helped inspire people to join the movement in Egypt that eventually brought down the government of President Hosni Mubarak. A decad...

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“In these fast-moving times, it’s highly important that our nation’s capital should be attached to every single citizen in this country by the very fastest, best kind of communications.” ...

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