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The 29 Best Movies on Hulu This Week
Origin, Anchorman, and Fight Club are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.
Jennifer M. Wood and WIRED Staff
Tooth and Nail
Interview With the Vampire Fans Say the Stakes Have Never Been Higher
Elizabeth Minkel
The 38 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now
The Bear, Queenie, Black Twitter: A People’s History, and Shōgun are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.
Jennifer M. Wood and WIRED Staff
The 34 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now
The Boys, Outer Range, and Fallout are just a few of the things you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.
Matt Kamen and WIRED Staff
The 38 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now
House of the Dragon, Ren Faire, and Fantasmas are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on Max this month.
Jennifer M. Wood and WIRED Staff
The 30 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now
Am I OK?, Dune: Part Two, and MoviePass, MovieCrash are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Max this month.
Jennifer M. Wood and WIRED Staff
Metroid Prime 4 Gets a Release Date After Years of Troubled Development
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has a release date and a new gameplay trailer, both of which were announced at Tuesday's Nintendo Direct.
Megan Farokhmanesh
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Finally Gives Zelda Her Own Game
Princess Zelda is getting her own adventure on September 26.
Megan Farokhmanesh
Cities: Skylines II Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords
For months, players have been complaining about high rents in the city-building sim. This week, developer Colossal Order fixed the problem by doing something real cities can’t: removing landlords.
Megan Farokhmanesh
The Indie Horror Game That Launched a Surprising Queer Hopepunk Revolution
Signalis came out in 2022 to strong reviews but has mostly stayed under the radar. Two years later, it has amassed a following of women, nonbinary, and queer folks who have created a hopeful community based around its grimdark themes.
Laurence Russell
The Anderson Cooper of Black Twitter Believes Journalism Can Survive Influencers
Editor and news aggregator Phil Lewis isn’t afraid of YouTubers or TikTokkers. He says the real threat is misinformation.
Jason Parham
Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You
Here's this month's prompt, how to submit, and an illustrated archive of past favorites.
WIRED Readers
Meet the Photographer Behind the Social Media App for Everyone Sick of Meta’s AI
Artists are fleeing Meta’s platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang’s Cara promises protection, but the influx of new users is taxing her niche portfolio app.
Kate Knibbs
Behind That Viral LA Billboard That Trolled Microsoft and Other Game Companies
As big studios showed up in Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest, they were greeted by a message to recently shuttered developers: “We miss you. We hate money.”
Megan Farokhmanesh
I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again
Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Lena Dunham, Roxane Gay: We’ve all agreed to be turned into AI reading companions by a mysterious company called Rebind. I report from the inside.
Laura Kipnis
The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots
In The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge With AI, the spiritual sequel to his (in)famous first book, Ray Kurzweil doubles down on the promise of immortality.
Ray Kurzweil
The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist Goes Meta
In which Robin Sloan writes Moonbound—a science fiction book about science fiction—and our writer writes his way into total insanity.
Jason Kehe
AI Killed Images. Legacy Russell Knows How We Can Revive Them
The author of Black Meme has ideas for how to protect digital culture from the rise of generative AI. It starts with embracing slow media.
Jason Parham
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Megan Farokhmanesh
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I Spent an Hour in Marvel’s Apple Vision Pro Experience. I’m Still Not Sure Why
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Sets the Standard for Classic Game Remakes
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