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Chinese surveillance, neural networks, and robot noses: Check out our recent favorites, and start your month with the very best of WIRED. View this email in your browser June 2019 It’s a new month, which means you have a new chance to catch some great WIRED reads—five this month! From an investigation into China’s massive surveillance operation on the Muslim Uyghur population, to a deeper look at how neural networks evolve, to the quest to make robots that can smell as well as dogs, there are plenty of great ways to use your free articles this month. Interested in reading everything WIRED has to offer? Subscribe here. Excerpt The Woman Who Saved John McAfee from an Epically Bad Deal By Julian Guthrie He was going to sell his antivirus software company to Symantec for $20 million. But Sonja Hoel had a smarter, better offer. book Excerpt The Curious History of Crap—From Space Junk to Actual Poop By Ziya Tong We don't think much about where our waste goes, but the history of what we do with poop is also the history of how we grow food. Opression Inside China's Massive Surveillance Operation on Uyghurs By Isobel Cockerell In northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of repression are fighting a digital resistance. Under Our Noses The Quest to Make a Bot That Can Smell as Well as a Dog By Sara Harrison Scientists are trying to crack the code of how smell works—and create robots that can sniff out the world's secrets like a dog. Get WIRED Get 12 months of WIRED for just $10. Stories to help you understand the future. Subscribe now Cover Story Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry By Paul Ford Technology is just another human creation—like religion or government or sports or money. It's not perfect, and it never will be. But it's still a miracle. WIRED Q&A An AI Pioneer Explains the Evolution of Neural Networks By Nicholas Thompson Google's Geoff Hinton was a pioneer in researching the neural networks that now underlie much of artificial intelligence. He persevered when few others agreed. Book Excerpt How the Videogame Aesthetic Flows Into All of Culture By Jay David Bolter Videogames show us how digital media in general, from YouTube to Twitter, lend themselves easily to the selfsame aesthetics of flow. Vroom My Wild Ride in a Robot Race Car By Antonio García Martínez On a track in Northern California, our writer tags along with the scrappy tinkerers of the autonomous-vehicle gold rush, who gather to share tech and race their robot cars. It’s the Homebrew Computer Club on wheels. 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 Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.