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National Geographic’s new show, Photographer, doesn’t bother itself with analyzing images. It’s all about the drive it takes to find the ideal shot.

From Taylor Swift: The Era's Tour (Taylor's Version) to The Marvels, here’s what you need to watch on the streaming platform.

This week, US lawmakers began a new push to ban TikTok. At the heart of it is a lot of confusion about what the app is and what it means.

Montreal-based Sweet Baby employs just 16 people. They now find themselves the targets of gaming’s latest harassment campaign.

Blurry hair, meandering zippers—we asked WIRED’s design department to explain the editing errors in Kate Middleton’s controversial Mother’s Day photo.

Extreme Dishwasher Loading encourages members to “think quality, not quantity” when inviting new people to the 29,000-strong group. Also: Don't talk about washing machines.

The game’s ending prompts heated discussion online about whether it does justice to its most iconic moment.

Earlier this week, after Instagram, Facebook, and Threads went down, Leave the World Behind took off on social media. The trend’s bizarre origins have something in common with Alex Garland’s new movie Civil War.

In Doppelgängers³, three look-alikes, including director Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, go to a cave in Spain to figure out ways Earthlings could avoid repeating history’s mistakes on other planets.

Here’s how to stream the best sci-movies of all time, from Dune: Part Two to The Matrix.

The 96th Academy Awards ceremony celebrating major movies, like Oppenheimer, will air on ABC this Sunday and be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

The devs behind Yuzu have shut down the Switch emulator, which they now say is “primarily designed” to break DRM.

Following in the footsteps of Netflix and Disney+, streaming service Max plans to start restricting password-sharing later this year.

It’s hard to imagine a weirder film version of Dune than the one David Lynch released in 1984, but Frank Herbert found a way.

More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements. Sound clips are ready for their big break.

Frank Herbert’s Dune is a sci-fi classic with more than a few problems. Denis Villeneuve’s stunning movie adaptation addresses them.

Paul Connell, who portrayed “Willy McDuff” at Willy’s Chocolate Experience, talks to WIRED about the Unknown, jelly beans, and an impossible vacuum cleaner trick.

Next year, SenLinYu’s Harry Potter fic Manacled will disappear from Archive of Our Own. They don’t want to take it down, but it’s the only way to keep others from profiting off of the work.

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.

Announced during Tuesday’s Pokémon Day, Legends: Z-A’s release date sparked a new wave of speculation that new Switch consoles will arrive next year.

Completing a game of Vertex takes just 15 minutes, but I’ve started calling that time my smooth-brain hours.