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Pornhub is blocking itself in the United Kingdom on February 2, arguing that the country’s age verification laws are ineffective, the company announced on Tuesday.As of February 2, only users who have already registered with Pornhub and…

The future never feels fully certain. But in this time of rapid, intense transformation—political, technological, cultural, scientific—it’s as difficult as it ever has been to get a sense of what’s around the next corner.Here at WIRED,…

On Saturday morning, a Reddit user who has posted about living in Minneapolis for years shared a video on the city’s subreddit, r/Minneapolis, with the title “Another ICE murder in front of Glam Doll Donuts.”The 40-second clip showed a…

Zohran Mamdani never auditioned for Survivor, but one of his campaign’s final television ads placed him in the middle of the show’s infamous Tribal Council. For roughly 30 seconds, a handful of former Survivor contestants addressed the…

Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI as the company’s chief revenue officer, multiple sources tell WIRED. Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, which owns Slack, shared news of Dresser’s departure in…

If there’s anyone who understands the importance of viral marketing, it’s Wicked: For Good director Jon M. Chu.At WIRED’s Big Interview event in San Francisco, the onetime YouTuber and Crazy Rich Asians director said that working with acts…

Stella Barey made a name for herself on TikTok during the first months of the pandemic talking about how much she loved anal. “The level of isolation pushed me there,” she says, recalling the moment everything started to change for…

Michael Calore: OK. There's a lot of lingo.Boone Ashworth: I had a lot of coffee today, and that actually really helped.Manisha Krishnan: It did calm me down a little bit, but, yeah, I was honestly struggling to follow his instruction…

Starbucks opened its first store in China in 1999, when drinking coffee in a Western-style café was still a novel idea to many locals. But in the years since, homegrown coffee and bubble tea brands like Luckin Coffee, Heytea, Chagee, and…