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Despite being human-made, human-taught, and human-promoted, it’s easy to criticize AI for being fundamentally…

Photo: Peter Macdiarmid (Getty Images)Facebook jail is about to get less crowded. Under a new set of policies…

Long gone are the days when fan fiction was treated as a guilty pleasure, exclusively consumed on a glowing iPad…

There are several potential avenues for protecting influencers that would, in turn, help all of us confronting…

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,…

I shrug and put the phone back in my pocket. “No, it’s not.”After a pause, she demands, “Let me see that again.”The…

When most people think of Reddit, they don’t usually think of physical objects. That’s why the project from…

Northern Square was not the only account reviving the lo-fi, nostalgic aesthetic from China’s more hopeful and…

When it comes to explaining the internet, tech writer Brian Feldman has a singular approach. He’s spent significant…

The fabled "4 Dabloon Cat"TikTok Money isn’t real - it’s a shared fiction that, nowadays, feels more ethereal and…