In late 2001, a weekly BBC radio segment featured a brief review of the Sharp J-SH04, a Japanese mobile phone that was the first to feature an integrated camera. And on the BBC's website, commenters weighed in on how they […]
There’s never been a movie quite like Netflix’s Roma, writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous, deeply immersive black-and-white drama about a young woman in 1970s Mexico. And there’s never been a movie released quite like Roma, which the streamer has put in […]
What’s more alive—library stacks or the internet? Seems plain as day: The living one clamors and bleats. The one that’s dark and smells of mildew is dead. But it hasn’t always been obvious. At the turn of the century, when […]
Another Monday, another blockbuster edition of The Monitor, WIRED's roundup of all of pop culture's biggest news. What's happening this fine day? Welp, Captain Marvel did better at the box office than most people suspected. Also, Brian K. Vaughan has […]
Even though the next movie doesn't hit theaters for more than a year, there's a surprising amount going on in the Star Wars universe— or, at least, behind the scenes of it. In some cases, it's new projects getting the […]
Over the course of 119 minutes in The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Alex Gibney's new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, very little is made of Holmes' speaking voice. Very little needs to be; she's on camera […]
Leaping from planes, we fall through aurora that looks as though it’s melting into the sky. We drifting for a few quiet moments above the tundra, descending with the snow. What we can’t truly grasp until we land, though, is […]
Early in the second season of American Gods, Laura Moon (Emily Browning) gives up and lies down among the flowers. She's chasing after her husband, Shadow (Ricky Whittle). She's also dead. (A leprechaun's lucky gold coin made its way into […]
Fortnite: Battle Royale is a surprisingly complex game. New players have to reckon not only with the challenging free-for-all gameplay featuring 100 players, but an ever-changing landscape steeped in a surprising amount of history. Epic Games has turned Fortnite into […]
In 2010, Facebook was having a pretty good year. It was good because the site was still seeing massive user growth and it had seen its valuation balloon to $23 billion. Facebook was also facing backlash over violating users' privacy, […]