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There are all kinds of digital subscriptions you can sign up for nowadays—for cloud storage and fitness plans and music streaming and audiobooks—and you simply cannot sign up for every single one. Even if you had the money, you wouldn't…

I reluctantly accept that advertising has to exist. People have to make a living. If you aren’t willing to pay for your service, podcast, mobile game, or article, like this one, then you have to expect some advertisements. Most of us are…

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Last week’s episode of Rap Sh!t featured a scene so smart, so poignant, that it’s incredible it was…

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Netflix’s latest crowd-pleaser, The Gray Man, cost a reported $200 million—a price tag similar to that of…

Netflix Inc's streaming services were back up after facing a brief disruption across all devices, the company said on Wednesday evening. At its peak, there were more than 1,300 incidents of people reporting issues with Netflix, according…

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.This week’s news out of Netflix was bad. But it was also good—thanks to Stranger Things.First, the bad…

If you put down money every month for a streaming service (or seven), then you probably want the best possible video quality your service provides. However, that's not always going to be what you get by default.Here we'll cover the…

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.To start, let me put on my old curmudgeon griping hat. This won’t be a column full of complaining, but…

Early in the second episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, our bearded hero walks into a spice lab in Daiyu City. It’s not his first stop since arriving from Tatooine in pursuit of a kidnapped Princess Leia. Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor, in perhaps the…

By the time I finally got around to watching, and quickly falling in love with, Reservation Dogs—the ethereal dark comedy on FX about four rebellious Indigenous teens who stir up trouble on a small-town Oklahoma reservation—almost a year…