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Today on WIRED     November 30, 2021 Europe Went Bananas for Gorillas. Then Its Workers Rose Up By Morgan Meaker The CEO and cofounder of grocery app Gorillas looked nervous as he shifted on the spot. It was June 28 and Kağan Sümer was facing a crowd of riders protesting about missing salaries and injuries they claimed were caused by hauling heavy bags of booze around Berlin. Sümer tried to find common ground with protesters, but was met with a pantomime  groan when he pointed to a bike tattooed on his arm to prove he was "a rider at heart." When he tried to say he supported the protest—"I like that you're fighting for your rights"—a voice from the crowd shot back: "You have to give people their rights,...

Today on WIRED     November 29, 2021 Meet the Cyberpunk Albatrosses Scanning for Secret Explosions By Robin Andrews Sometimes, the most important sounds are those that cannot be heard.   Take infrasound—acoustic waves below the range of human hearing. Although nuclear weapons blasts, midair meteor explosions, volcanic paroxysms, and angry thunderstorms make plenty of noise people can hear up close, the infrasound these phenomena emanate can also circumnavigate the globe. Even if a scientist is half the world away, their infrasound detector may be able to pick it up.   Despite its promise as a remote sensing technique, you can't register these sources of infrasound everywhere. The world's oceans are not onl...