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Dating apps from Feeld to Match have become ground zero for aging singles to unlock their newfound sexual appetites—and a bolder sense of self.

When The Tortured Poets Department leaked, some Taylor Swift fans swore it must be AI. Expect that to be a common refrain.

From The Sympathizer to Conan O’Brien Must Go, here's everything you need to be watching on Max this month.

A new app called Delta that lets iPhone owners play old Nintendo games is available on the App Store. Apple removed a similar emulator Monday.

The title character of Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley scares cops and destroys park signs in the latest game adaptation of Tove Jansson’s creation.

Sci-fi fiends have a long history of saving their darlings. Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis, 40 years in the making, could be their biggest save yet.

Civil War is a big and loud and visually arresting film, but its politics are confused and potentially radicalizing.

Taylor Swift has seemingly reached a deal with TikTok to get her music back on the platform, just in time for the release of The Tortured Poets Department.

Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan’s new show keeps Fallout’s gallows humor. He also packed the first season because “you have to be careful not to leave too much down the road.”

A new study found that song lyrics are now angrier, more repetitive, and vain. Consensus wavers, but what remains incontestable is social media’s impact on the music we hear most.

Where’s the last place you want to be during an earthquake? For Justin Allen, it was the urology clinic.

Drew Goddard, who has worked on everything from The Martian to The Good Place, will write and direct the new film. Your simulated future is about to look very different.

When Vera Drew set out to make The People’s Joker her goal was to tell a trans coming-of-age story using characters that had inspired her since Batman Forever. When she was done, things got weird.

When you play The Crush House, it’s your job to capture the drama and please “the butt guys.” Get ready for a new kind of game.

From The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin to Constellation, here’s everything you need to be watching on the streamer.

Abubakar Salim lost his father a decade ago. The actor and creative director embraced "gamifying" grief while making Tales of Kenzera: Zau.

WIRED investigates how artificial intelligence tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, currently portray members of the LGBTQ community. Hint: It’s a lot of purple hair.

The release of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter exposes the tenor of online fandom today—and the fiction of a shared internet.