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Buying energy drinks in public is embarrassing. Every time I see someone scanning the cooler for their favorite flavor of Monster or Ghost, I guess which accompanying vape flavor they've picked out, and I know others are making the same…

In comparison to the cultural domination of “Barbenheimer,” which was followed by a Best Picture win for Oppenheimer, the competition for the top prize at the 2025 Oscars is much more uncertain. Online controversies, lack of strong buzz…

Sitting in Lincoln Center awaiting the curtain for Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal—a much anticipated theater production starring Robert Downey Jr., with ChatGPT in a supporting role—I mused how playwrights have been dealing with the implications of…

Ashley Poprik has never been the model for a video game character. As a writer on projects like Spider-Man 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, they work on games, not as characters within them. In 2023, however, a cabal of angry gamers was…

That fear was evident among some rationalists as news of the violent incidents surrounding LaSota had spread. “I don’t want Ziz to ever think about me, ever,” a person involved in the Bay Area rationalist community said in an interview in…

“That was a game that everyone was playing,” Parlapiano says, “and it was a race to the bottom to catch Netflix.”“They’re Kmart. They have some of everything.”J. Christopher Hamilton, Syracuse UniversityTubi was founded in 2014 by Farhad…

But she notes that even as Sam ostensibly had a more central role in the franchise in recent years, it was hard to see evidence of that onscreen—or in the franchise’s promotion and marketing. “As a POC, you tend to hope and pray that you…

Soon after WIRED's global editorial director started in 2023, she sent me a message on Slack. By accident, I hearted it. A message from my very serious, very new boss. It haunts me to this day.I have no recollection of what the message…

A researcher affiliated with Elon Musk’s startup xAI has found a new way to both measure and manipulate entrenched preferences and values expressed by artificial intelligence models—including their political views.The work was led by Dan…

In 2017, Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to the phenomenon that was The Handmaid’s Tale.While Netflix has largely cornered the…