Culture

Death Rattle

Snake Bros Keep Getting Bitten by Their Lethal Pets. Only Zoos Can Save Them

Your venomous serpent bites you, and the clock is ticking. America’s zookeepers—and a cooler full of rare antivenom—are your best chance of survival.

Claire McNear

Money Talks

Trump’s Economy Has Come for Sugar Babies

Jason Parham

Samsung TVs

Samsung's New Frame and OLED TV Models Have Landed, and They're Looking Pretty

Ryan Waniata

Digital Culture

I Took RFK Jr.’s Advice and Ate Nothing but High-Protein Foods for a Week

From forcing down chewy, bacon-flavored Man Cereal to vomiting at the office, buying into the MAHA protein craze was a challenging endeavor.

Miles Klee

Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day

The extremely online journalist and content creator doesn’t believe in tech hygiene and yearns for a world where “inbox infinity” is celebrated.

Alana Hope Levinson

Woke Isn't Back

Progressives are dreaming about “Woke 2”—a new political order that rights the wrongs of the Trump administration. Does it have a shot?

Miles Klee

‘She’s Never Going to Age’: Porn Stars Are Embracing AI Clones to Stay Forever Young

AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.

Jason Parham

Video Games

Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True

From the global RAM shortage driving up console prices to job loss in the industry, gaming is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties.

Helen Vogelsong-Donahue

Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess

Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.

David Gilbert

The Avatar Game Is So Good, They Don’t Need to Make the Movies Anymore

See the new movie Avatar: Fire and Ash if you’d like. But if you really want to experience the big blue world of Pandora, the video game is where it’s at.

Boone Ashworth

A New Las Vegas Attraction Serves Up Alien Foxes, Exoplanets, and VR Carl Sagan

Interstellar Arc is an immersive sci-fi experience that uses recent advances in headset tech to break new ground in virtual reality. And it all happens inside an empty-looking room in Las Vegas.

Ben Dowsett

Movies and TV

‘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

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

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