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Since the election, Richards says that applications have skyrocketed, with a majority of requests coming from Texas and Florida. In October, TCP had gotten a little more than 20 applications. By mid-November, that number was already over…

Zack Snyder doesn’t seem to be all that worried about AI disrupting the filmmaking world, bringing scores of novices to the fold. At WIRED’s The Big Interview event in San Francisco on Tuesday, the director told managing editor Hemal…

Inside a nondescript brick warehouse on Preston Street in Houston, a crowd gathered with their hopes cast on the future. Assembled among the 60-person flock were Byron Spruell, president of league operations for the NBA, and TikTok food…

Michael Calore: Only 54 percent?Lauren Goode: Yeah, no, 38 percent said fair, which did surprise me.Michael Calore: That is very surprising.Zoë Schiffer: No love for their fellow employees.Lauren Goode: And then 12.6 percent, I was like,…

Lauren Goode: Oh, really?Zoë Schiffer: Yes.Lauren Goode: I did not have that experience on Caltrain.Zoë Schiffer: Well, you weren't reading Infinite Jest on the Caltrain, were you now?. That was my catfishing technique.Lauren Goode: What…

Silicon Valley has been an epicenter of global innovation for decades. But the Valley, and its associated personalities, companies, and trends, has never been home to more undiluted power than it is today.Think about it: Elon Musk, among…

Michael Calore: Only 54 percent?Lauren Goode: Yeah, no, 38 percent said fair, which did surprise me.Michael Calore: That is very surprising.Zoë Schiffer: No love for their fellow employees.Lauren Goode: And then 12.6 percent, I was like,…

As I leave my house on an overcast Tuesday morning to walk the dog, I’m accosted by a neighbor who cheerily calls down the street: “I hear you have an OnlyFans now!” I start to wonder if I’ve made a terrible mistake.OnlyFans has—how shall I…

Jake Tapper looked as flummoxed as everyone else. After a week spent trying to figure out the whys and hows of the assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump, the CNN anchor was now facing something far more perplexing:…

In what way?If memes are intended to circulate across boundaries and through different publics and intimacies, lynching postcards were among the first memes. Lynching postcards traveled across state lines. They literally were a form of…