/Top Stories/ Last Updated: Thu, May 23rd, 2024 @ 1:25pm EDT

Wired Top Stories

Leah Feiger

Twitter Is Dead, Long Live the Portal

The NYC-Dublin portal gives us a peak into the future of online community building in the wake of Twitter's demise.

The Verge

Andrew Webster

The Nintendo Switch has turned into an excellent Mario RPG machine

Paper Mario: The Thousand-year Door. | Image: Nintendo

When it comes to Mario’s traditional platforming adventures, the story is mostly set dressing. There’s an intro about Peach being captured or Bowser turning into a sentient castle, and then you get on with the jumping and exploring. But there’s a rich and interesting world that goes underexplored — which is where Mario’s roleplaying spinoffs come in. Since the original Super Mario RPG on the SNES, these games have not...

The Verge

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Samsung’s smart fridges mistakenly warned users its free TV service was ending

A notification on my Samsung Family Hub smart fridge told me my favorite feature was going away. Apparently, it was wrong. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Yesterday morning, I woke up to a notice on my fridge alerting me that one of my favorite features was going away. No, it wasn’t about to stop making ice. Instead, my Samsung Family Hub smart fridge told me I would no longer be able to watch Samsung TV Plus on its built-in screen. And while that turned out not to be...

The Verge

Mia Sato

TikTok says it disrupted more than a dozen influence campaigns this year

Illustration: The Verge

TikTok says it disrupted more than a dozen covert influence campaigns on the platform since January, including one originating from China.

In a blog post, the company announced it would begin publicly reporting on influence campaigns, where networks of accounts engage in coordinated efforts to sway political discourse. TikTok will share details of campaigns it detects and removes, saying it hopes it will “increase transparency about our work to aggressively...

SBNation.com

Mark Schindler

Marquesha Davis could be the steal of the 2024 WNBA Draft

Photo by Erica Denhoff/NBAE via Getty Images

The New York Liberty might have just gotten better... again.

If I had to bet on a player in the 2024 WNBA Draft that we wind up looking back on in half a decade and saying “How did she fall out of the lottery?” about, New York Liberty rookie Marquesha Davis would be my pick.

Davis snuck under the radar this season as Ole Miss dealt with numerous injuries that forced them to play without a traditional point guard for almost the entire...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

George Russell remains focused on ‘progress’ at F1 Monaco Grand Prix

Speaking at the FIA Press Conference, Mercedes driver George Russell addressed the continued ‘progress’ from the team

Coming out of last weekend’s Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, “progress” was the theme coming from Mercedes. The team brought the second half of their upgrades for the W15 — a process that began at the Miami Grand Prix — and with Lewis Hamilton finishing sixth and George Russell finishing seventh and picking up a bonus point for the fastest lap, the...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Max Verstappen concedes ‘things have closed up’ ahead of F1 Monaco Grand Prix

Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images

The Red Bull driver remains the favorite each week, but the gap is closing fast

Just when it looked like the 2024 Formula 1 season would be a carbon copy of the 2023 campaign, which saw Max Verstappen and Red Bull run away from the field in the Drivers’ Championship and the Constructors’ Championship, respectively, everything changed.

Lando Norris stormed to his maiden F1 victory at the Miami Grand Prix and, in the closing laps of last weekend’s...

Mashable

Scientists discovered a Venus-like world that might not be a hellhole

Based on what scientists have said about Venus, finding a world similar to it may not seem like a thrilling breakthrough in space research: Our neighboring planet's surface is a hot, toxic world, with sulfuric acid rain and volcanoes.

But Venus might once have been an ocean world much like Earth before it devolved into a hellhole. Now two teams of international scientists have found a Venus-like planet not far from our own solar system, and they're eager to know if it's habitable. 

The...

Mashable

Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT

A Microsoft outage has affected Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT.

According to DownDetector (which shares Mashable's parent company Ziff Davis), outage reports for DuckDuckGo and Bing surged around 1 am ET and have stayed high all morning. Microsoft is aware of the outage and is "working to isolate the cause of the issue," said the company in a post on X.

Tweet may have been deleted

The Bing.com site and Copilot features that require internet search are rendering...

Mashable

'The Witcher' gave a first look at Liam Hemsworth's Geralt and people have thoughts

For fans of The Witcher, the subject of recasting of Geralt of Rivia from Henry Cavill to Liam Hemsworth will likely start a tavern brawl.

And now, there's a visual to fuel the fire, with Netflix dropping a first look at Hemsworth as the titular Witcher. It's a quick peek, but it's been enough to get the internet talking again.

SEE ALSO: How does Henry Cavill finish up as Geralt in 'The Witcher'?

On Wednesday, Netflix dropped a pretty short...

Mashable

How do we navigate climate disinformation online?

Climate disinformation has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. But is the Internet to blame?

BuzzFeed - Latest

34 New Movies Coming Out This Summer That You'll Actually Want To See

A Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron rom-com is exactly what this summer ordered.

View Entire Post ›

Wired Top Stories

Louryn Strampe

22 Best Memorial Day Sales (2024): TVs, Office Chairs, and Ebikes

Not all discounts—or gadgets—are equal. We’ve rounded up the best deals on WIRED-tested gear.

Wired Top Stories

Will Knight

Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing

Research at Microsoft shows it’s possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts. The technique could open up new use cases for AI.

Wired Top Stories

Matt Burgess

A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come

Thousands of fingerprints and facial images linked to police in India have been exposed online. Researchers say it’s a warning of what will happen as the collection of biometric data increases.

The Verge

Ash Parrish

Atari acquires longtime rival Intellivision

Image: Atari

Imagine if Nintendo woke up one day and decided to buy Sega — that’s essentially what’s happened today as Atari has announced it has acquired Intellivision, ending one of the longest company rivalries in the video game industry. According to the announcement, Atari will take over the Intellivision brand and over 200 games from its library.

“Atari will seek to expand digital and physical distribution of legacy Intellivision games, potentially create new games, and...

The Verge

Emma Roth

Apple’s foldable MacBooks rumored to ship in 2026

Image: The Verge

More details have emerged about the MacBook-like foldable Apple has supposedly been working on. A new report from Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo estimates that Apple could ship more than 1 million devices with a 20-inch folding display in 2026, a shift from his previous projection that it would start shipping in 2027.

Even though past rumors suggest that Apple will go with a 20-inch display, Kuo says that Apple is also considering an 18.8-inch panel. When...

The Verge

Sheena Vasani

You can buy an LG OLED TV starting at just $736

LG’s C3 OLED TV may not be as bright as its successor, but it’s still a top-notch gaming TV. | Image: LG

TVs have nothing to do with Memorial Day, but clearly, retailers never got the memo. Every year, almost like clockwork, they drop some excellent TV deals around the holiday, and 2024 is no exception. Right now, you can buy various LG C4 OLED TVs at all-time low prices starting at $1,299.99 ($100 off) for the 42-inch model (Best Buy, LG). If you want to save even more, its...

The Verge

Justine Calma

Get ready for a rough hurricane season

In this NOAA image taken by the GOES satellite, Hurricane Lee crosses the Atlantic Ocean as it moves west on September 8th, 2023. | Image: Getty Images

The Atlantic Hurricane season starts on June 1st, and it’s forecast to be rough. A record number of strong storms could form with a shift from El Niño to La Niña this summer and unusually warm waters churning in the Atlantic Ocean.

There’s an 85 percent chance of an “above normal” season, according to the National Oceanic...

The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program.
The time or date displayed (including in the Timeline of Articles feature) reflects when an article was added to or updated in LooksNeat.