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TheHeated Rivalry Fandom Is Tearing Itself Apart
The breakout hockey romance has sparked legions of enthralled fans, along with obsessive, parasocial behavior that’s starting to get called out.

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Inside the New York City Date Night for AI Lovers
EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help making AI-human relationships a “new normal.”
Bidets Are Confusing Visitors at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Bidets are extremely common in northern Italy, where the Milano Cortina Games are being played. They’re less familiar to the people visiting.

Inside Bad Bunny’s Historic Super Bowl Halftime Show
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.

Right-Wing Gun Enthusiasts and Extremists Are Working Overtime to Justify Alex Pretti’s Killing
Donald Trump has appeared to undermine Second Amendment rights in statements about Alex Pretti’s killing. Many in the firearms community are going along with it.

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.

The Avatar Game Is So Good, They Don’t Need to Make the Movies Anymore
See the new movieAvatar: 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.

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.

Horses, the Most Controversial Game of the Year, Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype
First it was banned. Then its sales blew up. ButHorses fails to meet the lofty goals of its own ideas.

My Favorite TV to Watch the Winter Olympics Is on Sale
Forget the Super Bowl, Samsung’s Fantastic S90F QD-OLED TV is on a sweet sale just in time for the Winter Olympics.

Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue
Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year.

‘She Has a Presence’: TheMelania Superfans Who Turned Up for Opening Weekend
WIRED attended two documentary screening parties—one on each coast—for the First Lady’s film. What a time.

5 Movies You Must Watch Before the 2026 Winter Olympics
Want to get warmed up to watch a bunch of cold competition? Here are five films you should watch right now, fromI, Tonya toCool Runnings.

Turning Point USA’s Halftime Show Was Exactly What You’d Expect
“The All-American Halftime Show,” born out of outrage over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, fell short of the hype. From Kid Rock’s poor lip synching to Erika Kirk being MIA, it was simply dull.

An ‘Intimacy Crisis’ Is Driving the Dating Divide
In his bookThe Intimate Animal, sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need for human intimacy, which is the real issue at the root of the loneliness epidemic.

You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel
Millions of words. Thousands of authors.The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise.

Margaret Atwood on Doomscrolling: ‘I Want to Keep Up With the Latest Doom’
On this week’s episode ofThe Big Interview, the author ofThe Handmaid’s Tale talks about Elon Musk, political resistance, and why she still has hope for America’s future.
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