This was the year finance jumped the Doge

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 12.29.21   TYSM | 5-MINUTE READ How to Use Tech to Say Thank You BY LISA KANAREK From recordings to custom visuals, here are some future-forward ways to show you appreciate someone.   YEAR IN REVIEW | 9-MINUTE READ 2021 Was the Year Space Tourism Opened Up. But for Whom? BY RAMIN SKIBBA SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic finally made commercial spaceflight possible. Now there are questions about the purpose of these exclusive trips.   EMOTIONAL AI | 13-MINUTE READ What Happens When an AI Knows How You Feel? BY WILL COLDWELL Technology used to only deliver our messages. Now it wants to write them for us by understanding our emotions.   YEAR IN REVIEW | 8-MINUTE READ This Was the Year When Finance Jumped the Doge BY GIAN M. VOLPICELLI From GameStop to bored apes, weirdness abounded among meme-loving amateur investors. GET WIRED New Year, New Ideas. Give yourself the gift of information. Get the print edition of WIRED and exclusive subscriber-only stories for just $29.99 $5. Subscribe now.   BEST OF 2021 CUT IT OUT | 7-MINUTE READ If You Transplant a Human Head, Does Its Consciousness Follow? BY MAX G. LEVY In her new book, Brandy Schillace recalls the unbelievable legacy of a Cold War era neurosurgeon's mission to preserve the soul.   YEAR IN REVIEW | 7-MINUTE READ 2021 Was a Huge Missed Opportunity on Climate Action BY MATT SIMON The pandemic should have been a wake-up call—instead, emissions have climbed once more. Here's how the US could have seized the opportunity.   BE A STAR | 4-MINUTE READ How to Upgrade Your YouTube Recording Setup BY ERIC RAVENSCRAFT Whether you're recording specifically for YouTube or making movies that may just end up there, this gear can help.   START UP | 8-MINUTE READ Cosmologists Close in on Logical Laws for the Big Bang BY CHARLIE WOOD Physicists are translating commonsense principles into strict mathematical constraints for how our universe must have behaved at the beginning of time.     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 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.