Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is the symbol of a climate change generation gap, a girl rebuking adults for their inaction in preventing a future apocalypse. Thunberg’s riveting speech at the UN's Climate Action Summit has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube, and she was considered a viable contender for the Nobel…

Death Stranding is the latest game by acclaimed videogame director Hideo Kojima and his studio, Kojima Productions. It's his first released work since his unceremonious departure from Konami and the Metal Gear Solid franchise. It's a big, bizarre, and difficult-to-explain exercise. So in lieu of a traditional game review, we put together some thoughts and…

Conversations around today’s internet are stuck in a stifling binary. Either we hear that the digital revolution will either magically deliver us into an über-efficient world where we are all connected and uplifted, or our fears about it gone awry, threatening our democracies and economic security, will be realized.WIRED OPINIONABOUTRamesh Srinivasan (@rameshmedia), a professor at…

Greetings! Welcome to a new edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s culture news roundup. Lots of headlines from the frontlines of the streaming wars today. Also, Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck are teaming up. Who knew?M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ Show Servant Has a TrailerAnd the hits just keep on comin’! Apple’s TV+ might have already…

In 2017, Stafford Sheehan was a chemist working on artificial photosynthesis, coming up with metal-based catalysts that’d mimic the way living things acquire energy from the Sun. He did not expect to create a martini that could save the planet.Sheehan had an invention, a box that could electrolyze a burst of carbon dioxide and a…

Disney+ will launch in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands on November 12th, a bit shy of a week from today. On November 19th, it’ll expand to Australia and New…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went into a bit more detail about the timelines and vehicle requirements to not only reach Mars, but to set up a sustainable base on the…

Early adopters of Disney+ are mostly watching Marvel and Star Wars movies and TV shows, according to a new third-party report by SimilarWeb out today. The analytics firm measured Disney+…

Dan Burgar is President of the Vancouver VR/AR Association, where he has helped develop the city's ecosystem into the second largest VR/AR hub globally. He's also a partner at Shape…

Octopus Interactive, a startup bringing an interactive TV and ad experience into Uber and Lyft rides, has raised a $10.3 million funding round led by Sinclair Digital Group. Backseat TVs…