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The 42 Best Movies on Netflix This Week
From Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga to Zombieland, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.
Matt Kamen and WIRED Staff
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Streaming Is Too Big for Its Own Good
Jason Parham
Viewers are overloaded with content. And as Netflix and other major services are now learning, blind excess comes at a cost.
Primal Stream
Reality TV Has Become a Parody of Itself
Primal Stream
Nobody Knows How to Watch Movies Anymore
Fast X Is the Fanfic We All Deserve
Dominic Toretto and company have made millions at the box office by doing something no one else has pulled off: Making movies that are truly for the fans.
Angela Watercutter
The 15 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now
From Barry to Succession, Max is a streaming paradise of “it’s not TV” television.
Jennifer M. Wood and WIRED Staff
The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed
Sudowrite, a tool that uses OpenAI’s GPT-3, was found to have understood a sexual act known only to a specific online community of Omegaverse writers.
Rose Eveleth
BlackBerry Is a Movie That Portrays Tech Dreams Honestly—Finally
The thing people used before they used the iPhone gets the Social Network treatment in Jay Baruchel and Glen Howerton’s new movie.
John Semley
Tears of the Kingdom’s Creators Answer Your Most Urgent Questions
Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and producer Eiji Aonuma weigh in on Link’s stink, Ultrahand, and getting lost in the world they created.
Megan Farokhmanesh
The Most Useful PlayStation and Xbox Accessibility Options
It's easier to use your gaming console than you might think.
David Nield
The Best Nintendo Switch Games for Every Kind of Player
From Hyrule to Hallownest, these are our absolute favorite escapes for the best portable console.
WIRED Staff
The Latest Legend of Zelda Embraces Mad Scientist Discovery
The new Ultrahand feature builds on Breath of the Wild’s open world and lets you build almost anything—once you get the hang of it. Even the game’s creators made “terrible things.”
Megan Farokhmanesh
The Ted Lasso Fandom’s Push for Polyamory Just Makes Sense
Admit it: There’s something satisfying and titillating about the idea of Roy, Keeley, and Jamie getting together.
Marah Eakin
Death of an Author Prophesies the Future of AI Novels
Stephen Marche composed this novella with extensive input from large language models. It’s required reading for anyone who's thinking about doing the same.
Tom Comitta
Your Twitter Feed Sucks Now. These Free Add-Ons Can Help
A few simple tools can help filter out most Twitter Blue users (but still see the ones you like).
Justin Pot
All Hail Charles, the Unmemeable King
Queen Elizabeth II was a blank canvas onto which scores of memes were projected. Charles III is nothing of the sort.
Chris Stokel-Walker
Spotify Has an AI Music Problem—but Bots Love It
Fake listeners are flocking to AI-made songs on streaming platforms, taking much needed money away from human artists.
Amanda Hoover
Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution
The former techno-optimist has taken a decisive political left turn. He says it’s the only human option.
Malcolm Harris
With Silo, Apple TV+ Strikes Prestige Sci-Fi Gold
The long-gestating adaptation of Hugh Howey’s book series was worth the wait.
Kate Knibbs
AI Wrote 95 Percent of This Murder Mystery
Stephen Marche composed Death of an Author using three AI tools, under the shared pen name Aidan Marchine. Here's a look at the result.
Aidan Marchine
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The Marvel Movies From Worst to Best—and Where to Stream Them
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