Nov 13, 2006 12:37 AM

The Ultimate Face of Comedy: Ricky Gervais

Taking a hodge podge of facial features from the astonishing sample of twenty comedians, Dr. Anthony Little programmed them into a computer which decided that the assembled face most likely to produce laughs looked precisely like Ricky Gervais. Because soulless machines? They’re expert judges of comedy. Discussing the results, Dr. Little pseudoscientifically blithered: “The features […]

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Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat Almost Makes Corporate Culture Seem Fun

The Amazon Prime prank series amplifies the hijinks of workplace dynamics, while showing how people find purpose—and community—in their jobs despite impossible situations.

Jason Parham

MAGA Media Seems to Have Hit Its Breaking Point Over Iran

“The online right wasn’t supportive and there wasn’t anything that was going to change that,” says one person familiar with the Republican influencer pipeline.

Makena Kelly

John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can’t Forget

Watching Love Story brought back a surreal evening in 1994.

Steven Levy

I Watched a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters to Confront My Dwindling Attention Span

Sátántango is considered a holy rite for hardcore cinephiles. In a packed screening with no cellphones in sight, it also offered a salve for brain rot.

John Semley

The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook.

Miles Klee

Can Tinder Fix The Dating Landscape It Helped Ruin?

With more than a dozen new features, including analyzing users’ camera rolls and astrology-based matches, Tinder is trying to lure Gen Z—and bring back those burned out from dating apps.

Jason Parham

A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

First heard as US and Israeli strikes on Iran began, the shortwave broadcast has since been traced to a US military base in Germany—but its purpose and its operator remain unclear.

Ruchi Kumar

Iran War Puts Global Energy Markets on the Brink of a Worst-Case Scenario

“This will be so, so, so, so, so bad,” one analyst says.

Molly Taft

FCC Enforcement Chief Offered to Help Brendan Carr Target Disney, Records Show

Last year, as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel monolog, a civil servant overseeing West Coast stations privately pledged support, according to emails obtained by WIRED.

Dell Cameron

There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

With female AI fruit being fart-shamed and even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.

Kat Tenbarge

I Tried DoorDash’s Tasks App and Saw the Bleak Future of AI Gig Work

I recorded videos of myself doing laundry, scrambling eggs, and walking around the park in DoorDash’s new Tasks app, where gig workers are paid to train AI.

Reece Rogers

‘Thank You for Generating With Us!’ Hollywood's AI Acolytes Stay on the Hype Train

Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy was one of the few skeptics at the Runway AI Summit, where AI was compared to fire and the printing press just a week after Sora’s death.

John Semley