The (old) Google WiFi was a series of interchangeable pucks that, when put together, created a mesh around your home. If you had a gnarly blackspot or a house that was bigger than the maximum range, you could just tack on another unit to improve speeds or reception. Modularity offered flexibility, and that was a…

I challenge you to find a review of Death Stranding that doesn't mention how cinematic it feels. Not only does the game employ beautiful perspective shots and dramatic exposition, it stars top-tier actors and directors, including Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen and Guillermo del Toro. Their names are emblazoned across the screen multiple times, packed into…

What does the First Amendment have to do with Facebook? It depends on whom you ask.Mark Zuckerberg would probably say: a lot. Over the past few weeks, he has repeatedly invoked the First Amendment to justify Facebook’s controversial decision to exempt posts and paid advertisements by political candidates from its fact-checking system. In a speech…

What makes a great button? No, really. While rankings of the best videogame controllers abound, a consideration of the importance of individual buttons has, scandalously, been ignored. Until now. Because what was gaming, really, until the N64 Z-trigger came along? A great button is the perfect mix of form, function, and simplicity.Wired UKThis story originally…

Valentine’s Day is a high-pressure event dreaded by millions—precisely the type of holiday you may not want to relive, unless you sell flowers for a living. But that’s exactly what happened to many people across the United States on Thursday, when they awoke to find that their phones had suddenly sent or received text messages…

WeWork was facing a different sort of meltdown on Tuesday at its office space in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood: A plant-based frozen yogurt machine was on the fritz. As its owner frantically searched for the WeWork facilities manager, dozens of entrepreneurs milled about in the communal kitchen, sampling products from local food-tech startups, some…

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…