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From Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 to James Gunn’s Superman, these are the movies we’re most excited to see next.

From MAGA to Moo Deng, fans had more power in 2024 than ever before.

Villains were everywhere and more relatable than ever. Across pop culture, social media, and IRL, the phenomenon went full-on main character.

Natcha Wongchanglaw’s Couchsurfing photos explore how travel turns transient encounters into meaningful—and vulnerable—moments.

Harassment, hate, and other social harms feel like an online inevitability, but developers are finally addressing their impact in a meaningful way.

Thanks to a bunch of game-makers who were still teens when Toontown Online disappeared, the beloved online world lives on as Toontown Rewritten.

From layoffs to the return of Gamergate, video games—and the people who make and play them—had a rough year.

Accused, Say Nothing, and What We Do in the Shadows are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.

Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain, Carry-On, and Emilia Pérez are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.

Squid Game, Jentry Chau vs the Underworld, and Missing You are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.

Somebody Somewhere, Dune: Prophecy, and The Sex Lives of College Girls are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on Max this month.

It’s past time we applauded the creative skills of LLMs—and it might make us appreciate humans more too.

Warsaw University Library stylishly connects the past and present.

Want to hear two robots chat about your music taste? This Wrapped season, Spotify and Google teamed up to make that dream (or nightmare) a reality.

Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection, peers into the soul of millennial disorder in the way that no one else does.

Lauren Greenfield, director of the docuseries Social Studies, says we have to have empathy for teens growing up online. “It's not fair to ask them to self-regulate when the apps have been designed to be addictive.”

“I was loath to jump into it,” Black List founder Franklin Leonard says of expanding into publishing. “It’s not a great look to be like, ‘I'm from Hollywood and I'm here to save you.’”

“That appointment—that relationship—is everything,” says audio executive Eric Eddings. But that doesn't mean the industry isn't innovating.

Even if TikTok doesn't get banned in the US next year, it'll still be far from the zone-out place it once was.

Online, lots of people have ideas about what could happen if the murder suspect’s life were given the Hollywood treatment. Let’s make sure that idea gets a red light.

Once an internet cause célèbre, this year lots of folks turned cold on Spotify Wrapped. TikTok’s year in review also felt unsurprising. Maybe our platforms know less about us than we think.

From Bop Spotter to his collection of long-lost and rarely-seen YouTube videos, Riley Walz makes the future of the internet look like its past.