Get Ready for the Battle of the Metaverses
As the pixels settle after Apple’s meticulously planned rollout of its Vision Pro headset, battle lines have solidified in the war for a new reality. Multiple...
The Instagram Founders’ News App Artifact Is Actually an AI Play
The invasion of chatbots has disrupted the plans of countless businesses, including some that had been working on that very technology for years (looking at you,...
Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How
I agree with every single one of those points, which can potentially guide us on the actual boundaries we might consider to mitigate the dark side...
BuzzFeed and Gawker Meme-ified Reality With This One Weird Trick
Ben Smith thought that he’d be spending the end of April banking interviews about his book that goes on sale next week. It’s not working out...
How the Streaming Era Turned Music Into Sludge
I woke up one day last year and realized I no longer listened to music. Instead I just listened to sludge—a blur of indistinguishable songs that...
The Internet Archive’s Literary Civil War
A lesson I learned early in life: never piss off a librarian. Apparently District Court Judge John G. Koetl skipped out on a formative traumatic-shushing experience,...
Who Should You Believe When Chatbots Go Wild?
In 1987, then-CEO of Apple Computer, John Sculley, unveiled a vision that he hoped would cement his legacy as more than just a former purveyor of...
Alphabet’s Layoffs Aren’t Very Googley
In 2004, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin engaged in a comically passive-aggressive IPO road show. They eschewed business suits for casual garb, refused to...
My Week With the Future of Garbage Bins
It’s 10 pm and, like a vampire stirring in its coffin to greet the nocturne, my garbage bin comes to life. A semicircle of yellow lights...
Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those of us as terminally online as...