How the BBC’s Netflix-killing plan was snuffed by myopic regulation. Insiders reveal just how close the BBC came to launching a credible Netflix competitor – only to have the door slammed in its face.

by Chop_Chop to /s/BritishTV from wired.co.uk

The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush

by Vigte to /s/YoungerDryas from wired.co.uk

The European Parliament has voted in favour of Article 13

by Mnemonic to /s/Internet from wired.co.uk

The European Parliament has voted in favour of Article 13

by useless_aether to /s/Europe from wired.co.uk

Why your immune system is key in the fight against cancer (One step closer to admitting it's cause by a virus/auto-immune problems...)

by Vigte to /s/Health from wired.co.uk

How China's WeChat became a grim heart of illegal animal trading

by Mnemonic to /s/Internet from wired.co.uk

The gloomy saga of Article 13 just got a whole lot worse

by useless_aether to /s/Internet from wired.co.uk

Inside the British Army's secret information warfare machine

by useless_aether to /s/propaganda from wired.co.uk

The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it's too late

by Mnemonic to /s/environment from wired.co.uk

In China, the government is developing a much broader “social credit” system partly based on people’s routine behaviours with the ultimate goal of determining the “trustworthiness” of the 1.4 billion citizens. It might sound like a futuristic dystopian nightmare but the system is already a reality.

by Orangutan to /s/WorldNews from wired.co.uk

Occultist father of rocketry 'written out' of Nasa's history

by Oof_Too_Humid to /s/conspiracy from wired.co.uk