In Steven Spielberg’s 1977 classic The third type of intimate contact, an ordinary person gets involved in a major event involving an alien visitor.TV writer Andrea Kyle Said the film continued to... Read more »

monitor is One weekly column Commit to everything that happens wired The world of culture, from movies to memes, from TV to Twitter. Joe Hunting’s camera consistently captures his subjects. They wander... Read more »

All of this raises key questions about the ethics of near-term virtual worlds. How should users act in the virtual world? In such a space, what is the difference between right and... Read more »

After years of wrangling, HP has won its civil fraud case against Autonomy founder and chief executive Mike Lynch. The rulingthe biggest civil fraud trial in UK history, could also increase the... Read more »

When the real world’s a mess, the metaverse that Facebook (er, Meta) is might seem like a welcome refuge. Just strap on a headset and play some VR games in a sprawling... Read more »

From January 27th, England gave up almost all Coronavirus disease. Anyone can walk into any store without a mask; work-from-home guidance has been lifted; all demand for vaccine passports has been suppressed.England... Read more »

This week, Spotify removed the musical catalog of Neil Young from its platform. On Monday, the legendary rocker published a letter decrying the Swedish streamer for spreading false information about Covid-19 vaccines.... Read more »

Sometimes it’s hard to predict the future. Other times it’s really easy: Back in the spring of 2020, it was incredibly obvious that by paying Joe Rogan a ton of money for... Read more »

Statistics help tell stories, and one often touted by technologists and engineers and police officers and even the federal government told a tale. The statistic: 94 percent of US traffic crashes are... Read more »