Twenty-five years ago, WIRED was founded with the mission of chronicling the ways technology was transforming society. Around the same time, a young designer named Jony Ive moved from Britain to San Francisco to take a job at Apple developing, […]
After all of recorded history, 2019 is finally here. It doesn’t look much like Blade Runner (or Akira, or The Running Man) predicted it would, but it’s still got its fair share of futuristic visions and crazy tales—especially on movie […]
Happy Thursday, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED's roundup of all things pop culture. What's new this week? The Suicide Squad may have found someone to replace Will Smith, the Mindy Kaling movie Amazon picked up at […]
All told, it was a good—if uneven—year in music. Rapper Cardi B finally released her long-anticipated major label album Invasion of Privacy; queer pop blew up; Beyoncé surprise-dropped another album. Streaming is huge, record sales less so. Long-simmering tensions between […]
“The nature of these jobs, which often involve heavy physical demands and risk of injury … makes them difficult to fill and has led to concerns about an ongoing shortage in paid caregivers.” —“Automation in Everyday Life,” Pew Research Center […]
Television's golden-statue extravaganza is finally here. Yes, that's correct; the 2018 Emmy Awards are upon us. There's a lot at stake in this year. Game of Thrones garnered an impressive 22 nominations, trailed by Westworld with 21. Nominees also include […]
This week, we're witching, we're selling, and we're preserving the past. Things are going pretty nice this week on Replay, as massively multiplayer games get their due and so does Henry Cavill, who was totally underrated as Superman and also […]
As has become convention for our accelerated times, I first got word of Young Busco's death on Twitter. "Lmao bruh was legit hella funny RIP," @ChillyANT wrote in a tweet that included a minute-long compilation video showcasing Busco's routine antics: […]
Among those called out by The New York Times earlier this week for allegedly scamming their kids' way into college were the parents of Olivia Jade Giannulli. Giannulli, as her 2 million YouTube followers know, has a successful career as […]
Quran Preston considered it the “story of the century”—and in a way, it was. In late October, the college student proudly confessed to being a MAGA-obsessed black Republican who, as tweets detailed days later, had been disowned by her parents […]