Good day, and welcome to another installment of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. What’s happening this week? Star Wars, mostly. But also some news about Watchmen—and, interestingly, about a new team-up between Leslie Jones, David Benioff, and D.B. Weiss.Regina King Would Do a Second Season of WatchmenAfter seeing the amazing cliffhanger on last Sunday’s…

Amazon has afforded a few opportunities in the past few weeks to nab its own devices at steep discounts, and—good news fellow last-minute deal seeker—there are still some surprisingly good deals going on.These last-minute device deals aren't as cheap as the same items were during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals week, but they're pretty close.…

For hundreds of millions of years, sharks have been roaming Earth’s oceans making meals out of a huge range of critters, from the whale shark gobbling up tiny krill to the 60-foot megalodon that could take down whales. Their ancestral line has survived mass extinctions with ease, most notably the catastrophe that took down the…

All told, 2019 was kind of a weird year for movies. Disney, whose world we increasingly live in, made $10 billion at the box office before releasing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—thanks to cash cows like Avengers: Endgame (on our list) and a live-action remake of the The Lion King (very much not). Meanwhile,…

Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant are locked in a tug-of-war over who controls the smart speakers in your house. Right now, we prefer Google. Its Assistant answers questions more accurately and has a simpler setup. It connects to a growing number of smart home devices, too (view compatibility here). All of these devices have Google…

I've always had trouble sleeping. Between crippling anxiety and general insomnia, I take all the help I can get. And I'm not alone. Most of us are probably not getting enough sleep, and that can have a serious impact on our overall health.So, I traveled far and wide (on the web) and tested dozens of…

After several rounds that had the crowded, chaotic feel of early-season Bachelor episodes, the field for Thursday night’s debate is down to a somewhat more manageable seven candidates: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang. (The rest of the hopefuls failed to meet polling and fundraising thresholds…

Cats, depending on who you ask, is either a beloved musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber or a reviled musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber. Originally staged on the West End in London in 1981—and later on Broadway in 1982, where it ran for a record-breaking 18 years—the premise is quite simple: It’s about cats. Cats played…

Curve, the so-called “over-the-top” banking platform that lets you consolidate all of your bank cards into a single Curve card and app, is launching new feature to make it possible…

Tesla owners have seen a bunch of games added to their car’s in-dash display over the last few months, from a handful of Atari classics to the painfully hard Cuphead.…