It happens to almost anyone. Get caught up in a storm on a Thursday a couple of times and you start half-believing that the weather knows what day of the week it is today. While this obviously doesn’t fit any meteorological finding known to man, it can feel really convincing. If it happens again after […]

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A sky-splitting boom rarely hurts anyone, and that one fact upends most of the arguments people have about it. The rattled windows, the pets losing their minds, the neighbor swearing something fell out of the sky — that part is real. What comes next, the confident theories about the source and who owes whom, is […]

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Willy Myco has made over 120 videos showing people his exact process for making everything from LSD to DMT vapes. Not everyone’s a fan of his methods.

Fleet maintenance software is usually adopted for practical, straightforward reasons. Vehicles need servicing, downtime is expensive, and tracking repairs manually eventually becomes unsustainable. Those motivations are clear enough. What often surprises companies, however, is how quickly the impact spreads beyond the maintenance shop. Once the data begins flowing and processes align, the software influences scheduling, […]

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Many young men are driven to resentment and are financially exploited as influencers sell them classes, pills, and the illusion of clout, a new report reveals.

AboFlah talks about his new goals, streaming for charity, and when it’s time to log off.

AboFlah talks about his new goals, streaming for charity, and when it’s time to log off.

An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partners.

MAGA-coded adult content playing off immigration crackdowns, white supremacy, and obeying the “natural order” is finding rabid audiences on X.

The risks are real. But banning children from the internet could create new problems without solving the ones that really matter.

Despite positioning itself as an anti-hookup app, users tell WIRED that Goose has fake profiles, harsh acceptance standards, and problems with inclusivity.

Despite positioning itself as an anti-hookup app, users tell WIRED that Goose has fake profiles, harsh acceptance standards, and problems with inclusivity.

The restrictions, which can be turned off, will include a crackdown on “addictive” app features and will be in addition to a total ban on children under 16 accessing platforms like TikTok and YouTube.

A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

Ask someone to picture a car crash, and you get the standard cast: a distracted driver, a slick road, a red light run at the wrong second. Some of the strangest wrecks start somewhere else entirely. They start in the sky. A boom nobody can source. A flash on the horizon followed by a low […]

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The city of neon lights, casinos, and nonstop shows holds not only stories of success and the rush of gambling. Beyond the Strip’s glossy façade lives a whole stratum of folklore, woven from rumors, tall tales, and accounts from “eyewitnesses.” Underground stormwater tunnels, the National Atomic Testing Museum, the Little Church of the West chapel, […]

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This article brings together publicly reported cases of major losses in casinos, betting, and other forms of gambling. The figures are estimates and are based on publicly available sources, which span different years and gambling formats. All amounts are given in U.S. dollars, though the original reports may have used other currencies. Quick navigation: from […]

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For young people, the trend removes the stigma of being unmarried and alone, and recasts it as something to aim for, not avoid.

For young people, the trend removes the stigma of being unmarried and alone, and recasts it as something to aim for, not avoid.

The crypto platform claims you can “pay anyone to do anything,” from quitting a job on camera to getting a memecoin-themed tattoo. But it mostly seems like people trying to scam each other.