It doesn’t take much to make people nostalgic anymore. With the rapid pace of technological advancement, folks get whimsical for even their clunky cell phones from 2005, or a defunct video service that went away just four years ago. Nostalgia sells—especially when you imbue a familiar screen with a bleeding-edge, high-tech foldable display. Companies are…
DetailsThe US Department of Justice has filed lawsuits (PDF and PDF) against two small telecommunications providers that have allegedly connected hundreds of millions of fraudulent robocalls from Indian call centers to US residents. The Feds want a New York federal judge to cut off the companies’ access to the US telephone network. The government says…
DetailsIn the new anime movie Weathering With You, a teenager named Hina treks up 10 flights to a rooftop where a makeshift shrine sits in a rare beam of sunlight. Tokyo is rain-soaked, and as it continues to pour, she walks toward the shrine and, praying hard, steps through the shrine gate. The rain halts…
DetailsJust the box, no console… by Ryan Craddock 3 hours agoGet this… and nothing elseIf you’ve been anywhere near the internet over the past few hours, we imagine you’ve already seen the recently-announced Animal Crossing-themed Switch console. Isn’t it just the loveliest thing you’ve ever seen? Anyway, if you can’t quite afford this latest model,…
DetailsA new Final Fantasy 7 Remake trailer dropped and it’s full of the sorts of details we’ve all been waiting for. This trailer fully revealed some of the models we saw from a previous demo leak, including Cloud’s attempt at cross-dressing, which appears to have a whole flashy dance number surrounding it. There’s also a…
DetailsI need your help. When I get anxious, I like to buy things. I’ve been good about it for the last few years. I buy a couch—because I need a couch. Or I buy a new computer case because my old one is too big for the space where I’m putting the computer. Sometimes, I’ll…
DetailsMore often than not, when people buy books online, they do so by clicking little thumbnails of novels and essay collections on Amazon’s website. Those thumbnails then materialize as physical copies on their doorsteps in a matter of days. Easy-peasy. The online retailer is the most dominant force in American bookselling today, accounting for over…
DetailsWhen Twitter suddenly announced it was shutting down Vine in 2016, fans immediately started campaigning to bring the beloved short-form video app back. Dom Hofmann, one of the original cofounders, has been working on doing just that for years. After a few stops and starts, his new app Byte finally launched last week. It already…
DetailsHello, and welcome to the latest edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s culture news roundup. What’s been happening this week? Well, we’ve got some horrific meme news (that’s a good thing, for once) and also some updates on Disney+ and The Batman. Here we go!Seth Rogen Is Working on a Movie About a Killer MemeIn the…
DetailsRepresentative Steve King (R-Iowa) wanted supporters to fund his memes—but he may end up paying for them instead. On Monday, King and his campaign for reelection to the House of Representatives received a cease-and-desist letter from the attorneys of Laney Griner, the mother of 2011’s most ubiquitous meme, Success Kid: a baseball-shirted cherub clasping a…
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