During these weird and stressful times, more of us are playing video games than ever before. For some, the high-octane shooter offers release, the day’s anxieties dissipating alongside the cacophonous […]
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Back to news home’80s Fantasy Movies Are Awesomely Cheesy
In the 1980s the fantasy genre achieved unprecedented popularity with the release of films such as Labyrinth, The NeverEnding Story, Ladyhawke, and Time Bandits. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel says […]
The YouTube TV, NBCUniversal Debacle Feels Like a Harbinger
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.If you’re a YouTube TV user and you […]
The Best Camera Gear for Your Smartphone
We’re living in a golden age of mobile photography. Also whatever the opposite of a golden age is for everything else. Depending on where you are, the global pandemic might […]
How to Set up a Smartphone for Elderly Loved Ones
On an iPhone: Use the Shortcuts app. If you create a folder for the home screen, you can potentially add multiple shortcuts. You can tap the plus (+) icon at […]
TP-Link’s New Wi-Fi 6 Router Puts Gamers in the Fast Lane
It does this via three bands. There’s a 5-GHz band offering up to 4,804 Mbps, a second 5-GHz band offering up to 1,201 Mbps, and a 2.4-GHz band that can […]
How ‘Big Funeral’ Made the Afterlife So Expensive
“You can’t die these days because it’s too expensive,” Randy Hinojosa told Time last year. Hinojosa had just paid $15,000 for a funeral for his wife of 26 years, after […]
Why Skincare That Burns Is So Satisfying
The ritual goes a little bit like this. Once or twice a month, I prance expectantly into my little bathroom and greet my face in the mirror. In the private […]
Why ‘Diablo II: Resurrected’ Kept Its Rough Edges
Diablo II is the sort of game that made the cliché “instant classic” mean something again. When it launched in 2000, the game’s skullface aesthetic, elaborate gameplay systems, and infinite […]
Spice World: WIRED Traces the Dune Legacy
Dune, famously, is an unfilmable piece of work. It has four appendices and a glossary of its own gibberish, and its action takes place on two planets, one of which […]
