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In Doppelgängers³, three look-alikes, including director Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, go to a cave in Spain to figure out ways Earthlings could avoid repeating history’s mistakes on other planets.

Here’s how to stream the best sci-movies of all time, from Dune: Part Two to The Matrix.

The 96th Academy Awards ceremony celebrating major movies, like Oppenheimer, will air on ABC this Sunday and be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

The devs behind Yuzu have shut down the Switch emulator, which they now say is “primarily designed” to break DRM.

Following in the footsteps of Netflix and Disney+, streaming service Max plans to start restricting password-sharing later this year.

It’s hard to imagine a weirder film version of Dune than the one David Lynch released in 1984, but Frank Herbert found a way.

More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements. Sound clips are ready for their big break.

Frank Herbert’s Dune is a sci-fi classic with more than a few problems. Denis Villeneuve’s stunning movie adaptation addresses them.

Paul Connell, who portrayed “Willy McDuff” at Willy’s Chocolate Experience, talks to WIRED about the Unknown, jelly beans, and an impossible vacuum cleaner trick.

Next year, SenLinYu’s Harry Potter fic Manacled will disappear from Archive of Our Own. They don’t want to take it down, but it’s the only way to keep others from profiting off of the work.

If you’ve ever seen a lightsaber at a Disney park or marveled at BB-8, you’ve seen Lanny Smoot’s work. Now, the man with over 100 patents wants you to be able to walk in VR.

Announced during Tuesday’s Pokémon Day, Legends: Z-A’s release date sparked a new wave of speculation that new Switch consoles will arrive next year.

Completing a game of Vertex takes just 15 minutes, but I’ve started calling that time my smooth-brain hours.

From Mr. and Mrs. Smith to Bosch, these are our picks for what you should be watching on the streamer.

The book, from Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite, follows an activist who tries to stop Amazon from taking over her Detroit neighborhood.

Charlotte, a round stingray that lives in a male-free tank in North Carolina, currently serves as TikTok’s Good News mascot amidst a Bad News week.

Square Enix’s latest installment in the Final Fantasy VII reboot trilogy raises the stakes with huge open-world maps, more side-quests—and of course, chocobo.

Beyoncé’s new single seems tailor-made for viral dance crazes. It also comes at a time when Universal Music Group artists are still muted on the platform.

Colossal Biosciences has started work on a five-year-long docuseries that follows its de-extinction efforts. That’s just the beginning of its small-screen plans.

The X competitor is now open to the public—but until the platform establishes an identity, it will be more of the same.

Microsoft says it wants to bring its games to any screen. Let’s start with a screen we can play on in bed.

Jon Stewart is back, and Super Bowl 2024 had 123 million US viewers. Live TV is making a comeback, and it has streaming to thank.