It may not have the shine it once did, but Max (previously HBO Max) is still home to some of the best TV shows of the past 25 years, from  The Sopranos and  The Wire to  Game of Thrones  and  The Leftovers . Max has gotten into the original content game too, with highly acclaimed

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED With the news that Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking program, we dig into the future of content moderation. From Community Notes to automated systems, how do you

Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a longstanding defeat that caused some wearers to sustain burns. The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company paying a $12.25 million penalty for the issues surround its Ionic smartwatch. The issue dates back to 2018, continuing on into 2020. Fitbit agreed to recall

While Meta lures TikTok creators to Instagram and Facebook with cash bonuses, its X competitor Instagram Threads is now making things easier for creators, brands, and others who need more professional tools to manage their presence on the app. On Thursday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced a small handful of new features coming to Threads

A printed Playboy magazine is set to hit newsstands for the first time in years—raising once again the question of whether people will read it for the articles, or something else.  The issue’s publication had already been announced by PLBY Group (PLBY), which said it would be an “annual edition,” last year. On Thursday, the

Key Takeaways Travel is expected to get more expensive in 2025, which could explain why more people are planning to take a smaller number of bucket-list trips, according to a survey from trip insurance marketplace Squaremouth. Those pricier trips also come with a greater risk of losing money in the event of a missed flight

OpenAI is letting some users try a new ChatGPT feature that uses its artificial intelligence to operate a web browser to book trips, buy groceries, hunt for bargains, and do many other online chores. The new tool, called Operator, is an AI agent: It relies on an AI model trained on both text and images