‘Elvis’ Director Baz Luhrmann Doesn’t Think AI Will Conquer Movies
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Baz Luhrmann blends in well here. The…
What Do a Falling Apple and an Orbiting Moon Have in Common?
If you drop an object, it will fall. It’s a motion that we’ve all seen hundreds of times. We’ve also all seen plenty of the moon, which makes one complete…
You’re Probably Underestimating AI Chatbots
In the spring of 2007, I was one of four journalists anointed by Steve Jobs to review the iPhone. This was probably the most anticipated product in the history of tech.…
BlueSky Ain’t It
There are upsides, of course. Even my cold academic heart can’t deny the joyous relief of my trans sisters and siblings who made it onto the Bluesky open beta and…
Google Is Opening the AI Floodgates
Google would like you to know that it has been at the forefront of machine intelligence for decades, actually. Never mind that it was beaten to the generative AI hype…
Browning bananas under threat as Philippines approves gene-edited version
Overripe bananas could soon become a mere memory — in the Philippines, at least. Tropic Biosciences, a startup in the UK, has tapped gene editing to banish the browning fruit — and…
Why Suicide Rates Are Dropping Around the World
Means restriction works in part because suicide is often an unplanned act. The time between a suicidal impulse arising and a person acting on that impulse can be as little…
‘Cash Stuffing’ Is Thriving on TikTok
In an old interview with the actors Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, Hackman shares a memory from one visit he made to Hoffman’s tiny apartment in Pasadena well before either of…
Ben Affleck Has a Plan for a Fairer Streaming World
A meme. A WAG. A Dunkin’ shill. Now 50, Ben Affleck has become a lot of things to a lot of people. With Air, his feel-good account of Nike’s wooing of a young Michael Jordan,…
Watch Live as Russian Cosmonauts Deploy a Radiator on the ISS
NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TVThe Mission The two cosmonauts will spend around seven hours deploying and activating a radiator on the Nauka science module. The radiator helps balance…