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Long before TikTok refugees discovered Red Note, Candise Lin was giving Americans a portal into the wild, hilarious world of Chinese social media.

During today’s Pokémon Presents, the company showed off Pokémon Champions, a new battle-focused game for Switch and mobile.

A WIRED investigation goes inside the Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups on Facebook with doxing, harassment, and sharing of nonconsensual intimate images.

In January, a 20-year-old man that police believe to be an internet-famous street racer known as Squeeze was sentenced to five years in prison for unrelated crimes. Many more still speed through New York City and put it all on YouTube.

Anima Interactive’s forthcoming game Take Us North aims to capture the lived experiences of those trying to cross the US-Mexico border.

As companies like Meta, Google, and Amazon follow President Trump’s moves to roll back diversity initiatives, trans and genderqueer devs worry their already struggling industry could follow suit.

One developer responds to the release of Muse: “We are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives.”

After 75,000 attempts over five years, Summoning Salt is hanging up the virtual gloves.

Sly Lives!, A Real Pain, and Alien are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.

Deli Boys, A Thousand Blows, and Devil in the Family are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.

Challengers, My Old Ass, and The Creator are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

Invincible, The Rig, and Fallout are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

In an excerpt from his new book, Reinventing the Heartland, urbanist Nicholas Lalla makes the case for setting up technology's next big nerve center in Oklahoma.

From the start, Kendrick Lamar wanted to turn his life into a video game for his big Super Bowl halftime show. The team tasked with doing that knew what to do—right down to sourcing a vintage GNX.

Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to science to be recognized.

Dengue Boy, a book about a humanoid mosquito taking his revenge in the dying years of planet Earth, is unsettling and essential.