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In August 2016, WIRED visited the San Francisco offices of a young startup recently snapped up by a surprising buyer. General Motors acquired three-year-old Cruise for a reported $1 billion in hopes the straitlaced Detroit automaker could…

The entirety of Night School Studio used to fit into a single room. The biggest bragging rights for its Glendale, California, office were that it shared the building with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s media company, HitRecord.In 2014, Night…

After a four-year hiatus, Black Mirror is back. Season six is now on Netflix, along with the whole back catalog—including one Christmas special and an interactive movie.The show, created by Charlie Brooker and producer Annabel Jones, is a…

Elmore says the goal is to force reform.“We can’t bring the victims of this lawsuit back, but we can make sure that no other families have to file this kind of lawsuit,” he says. No families deserve to be members of this unenviable club,…

Photo: Luiza Kamalova (Shutterstock)This week (and every week) people are wrong about dangerous TikTok challenges. This tragic story of a teenager in North Carolina burning himself with an aerosol can flamethrower is all over the media,…

Photo: Nolichuckyjake (Shutterstock)This summer, Planet Fitness is giving teenagers a free summer pass to work out at their facilities. From May 15 until Aug. 31, 14- to 19-year-olds who pre-register will be allowed to exercise whenever…

Image: Short CircuitMovies date themselves for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes what seemed great when we were kids looks silly to adult eyes. Other times the whys are more complicated—think Rambo III and The Living Daylights making heroes…

Photo: RomanaMart (Shutterstock)I learned to make cheese under the tutelage of two women on a farm in New Zealand. The memory that really stuck is being shown to the cheese cave, a walk-in outbuilding protected by the largest duck I’d ever…

Photo: Matej Kastelic (Shutterstock)There’s a lot of magical thinking surrounding retirement. The rule of thumb is to target about 80% of your current income for your retirement, and while that number is a little sketchy, it’s useful in…

Photo: Ground Picture (Shutterstock)Maybe you tend to study the old-school way: sit down, break out a highlighter and pen combo, memorize your notes, and pray you retain it all until test time. But there are also some great apps out there…