Click: Cardi B has never lacked clarity. In 2015, as a recent addition to the New York cast of VH1’s reality show Love & Hip Hop, she uploaded a video to Instagram—a sneakily inspiring clip that teemed with vulnerability and candor and Bronx bite. “My manager been having me take media training class for interviews,” […]
In Black Panther, the future is female. Sure, the titular hero is the man-king T’Challa, but his bodyguards, advisers, and chief technologist are all women. Same goes for the crew behind the camera: The design of the movie’s setting—the fictional African nation of Wakanda—mostly comes from production designer Hannah Beachler (Moonlight, Beyoncé’s Lemonade) and costume […]
Face it: You’ll probably never be able to skate like Tony Hawk. That dude’s been grinding for decades. But what you can do, is seek his advice—and maybe learn a thing or two. In the latest episode of WIRED's Tech Support—this time dubbed Skate Support—the 49-year-old pro skater answered questions from Twitter about how to […]
Misha Euceph was nervous. The public radio producer had started a podcast as a side project in early 2017, and the exploration of her experience as a Pakistani-American immigrant had taken off faster than she’d ever imagined, making its way to the top 50 in the Society & Culture category on Apple’s Podcasts chart and […]
In 2014, I made a prediction. Virtual reality, I believed, would be the future of filmmaking. I was mostly correct; I was also terribly wrong. I was right in that dozens of filmmakers were going to embrace the 360-degree, immersive world of VR—this was obvious even from the half-dozen or so experiences tucked away in […]
It’s been a long time since the first season of Jessica Jones. Not like I thought this was the future, why do I have to wait six months for a new show? long, but actually long. More than two years long. Sure, Jones herself showed up in The Defenders, but in the time since she […]
Kaiju aren't real. Like, not really. But as with many things birthed from genre films, they have a canon. There are rules, man. And if you're the star of a major kaiju movie like, say, this weekend's Pacific Rim Uprising, then it behooves you to know a thing or two about them. So how do […]
This past weekend, tourists milled around St. Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest sites in the world, snapping selfies and experiencing Michelangelo's art through their phone’s camera lens. A few hundred meters away, in a 500-year-old palazzo, 120 students coded for 36 hours straight at the Vatican’s first-ever hackathon. This, it would seem, is the […]
In 2014, a Rolling Stone poll declared Bob Dylan’s "Masters of War" the best protest song of our time. Recorded in April of 1963, during that fierce spell of racial and economic tumult, Dylan, in his folksy pragmatism, rages against the Cold War and the military industrial complex, singing: "You play with my world/ Like […]
“Strange” is a hard adjective to earn in 2018. Whatever the content, the safe bet is that audiences have seen stranger. This poses a special challenge for nature documentaries, whose charter has often been illuminating the world in new, exciting ways. Via the magic of telephoto lenses, viewers have vicariously ridden fiber optic cables into […]