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If you’ve ever seen a lightsaber at a Disney park or marveled at BB-8, you’ve seen Lanny Smoot’s work. Now, the man with over 100 patents wants you to be able to walk in VR.

Beyoncé’s new single seems tailor-made for viral dance crazes. It also comes at a time when Universal Music Group artists are still muted on the platform.

The X competitor is now open to the public—but until the platform establishes an identity, it will be more of the same.

Jon Stewart is back, and Super Bowl 2024 had 123 million US viewers. Live TV is making a comeback, and it has streaming to thank.

Last summer, Elon Musk began rate-limiting the number of tweets users could see on Twitter. Here's the real reason why.

The new Deadpool & Wolverine trailer positions Shawn Levy’s new Marvel movie as something more queer than anything Disney has released before.

British sculptor Nick Hornby uses computer modeling to make mashups of famous artworks and historical figures that shift and change depending on your perspective.

The “Yeah!” singer will take the stage at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas to cram 30 years of hits into 13 minutes of performing in the middle of the Super Bowl.

In an interview with WIRED, the legendary director says, “It would probably take contact with extraterrestrials to catch our attention.”

The popular anime streaming service is merging with Crunchyroll. When it does, not all purchased TVs and shows will make the jump.

Swifties, conspiracy theorists, and sports fans alike will be watching the Super Bowl this year just waiting to see what Taylor Swift does—even if she does nothing at all.

Mainstream awareness of polyamorous relationships is becoming more widespread. On dating apps, making connections is about more than sex.

Songs previously licensed from Universal Music Group artists are disappearing from TikTok. #SwiftTok may never be the same.

Some prominent right-wing commentators say the relationship between Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is a ploy to keep President Biden in power. Psyop experts think otherwise.

The ASCII Theater, a project from art collective MSCHF, takes movies and breaks them into text. It’s fun—and possibly a copyright violation.

YouTuber ToastedShoes had his Pokémon mod of Palworld taken down. Now he’s back with a new mod with “legally distinct” creatures—for as long as it lasts.

Music from Taylor Swift, Drake, Bad Bunny, and numerous other artists has been pulled from TikTok following a licensing dispute with Universal Music Group.

Max just isn't what it used to be. Apple TV+ is where you need to go for must-watch prestige television.

Amazon just rolled out its ad-supported plan, the latest in a string of covert streaming price hikes. The halcyon days of commercial-free content are gone.

Many Black users who stayed amid the chaos and change on the platform, now named X, have found a renewed sense in what originally fascinated them: the mundanity in connection.

Deepfake porn is prolific. The explicit, AI-generated images of Taylor Swift that circulated on X this week are taking the issue to new heights.

By spending $5 billion for 10 years of WWE’s Raw, Netflix shows just how thoroughly it’s rewritten the old streaming rulebook.

Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s new space thriller I.S.S. shows astronauts and cosmonauts fighting for control of the space station. That’s unlikely—and the reality is far more compelling.