Design Fiction: Hunger Games and Design Observer

Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.

In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.

The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what types of stories we tell ourselves about who has economic and political power.

Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

The comedian sees being online as similar to visiting the zoo. “I don’t need to interact with that,” he says. “It’s just a thing that I enjoy, and then I walk away.”

Barbarian, The Fly, and Altered States are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month.

Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wheel.

Missed our latest WIRED@Night event? Enjoy an evening of podcasting in San Francisco right here.

Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.

Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.

A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.