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“Maybe an Alzheimer’s patient is frightened, so a nurse has to spend some time calming them down, or perhaps they have lost some ability overnight. That’s not one of the discrete physical tasks that can be measured. Most of the job is…

Leah Feiger: And so many have been. Absolutely.Katie Drummond: So many have been, so my answer has been this will go through court and it will churn through the legal system, and it will be slow and messy and painful, but that is what the…

Lauren Goode: I also think if there is a bright spot, it's probably going to be some of the apps that are very specific for people that help people winnow down what they're looking for and find someone who is aligned with what they want,…

What a great idea I had for the first Plaintext of 2025. After following the frantic competition between OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic to churn out brainier and deeper “frontier” foundation models, I settled on a thesis about what’s…

Zoë Schiffer: Booktok got me fully immersed in the romantasy world. Now I'm incapable of reading normal literature. Thank you.Lauren Goode: I'm going to assume that romantasy is romance and fantasy?Zoë Schiffer: Oh, yes it is. Dragons.…

While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat it all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of…

Michael Calore: This is WIRED's Uncanny Valley, a show about the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. I'm Michael Calore, Director of Consumer Tech and Culture here at Wired.Zoë Schiffer: I'm Zoe Schiffer, WIRED's director of…

Streaming services are known for having award-worthy series but also plenty of duds. Our guide to the best TV shows on Netflix is updated weekly to help you know which series you should move to the top of your queue. They aren’t all…

It may not have the shine it once did, but Max (previously HBO Max) is still home to some of the best TV shows of the past 25 years, from The Sopranos and The Wire to Game of Thrones and The Leftovers.Max has gotten…

Zoë Schiffer: I like it.Lauren Goode: Yeah.Michael Calore: That's great.Lauren Goode: I'm really enjoying that. Yeah. I'm not sure I'm going to do it, but I'm enjoying the hashtag content. What about you, Mike?Michael Calore: My rabbit hole…