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Let me freak you out for a second. You know what bitcoin is, right? I mean, no, but quickly, it’s a “cryptocurrency” that’s basically secret computer money. One bitcoin, which doesn’t actually have a real, physical form, is worth at this moment upwards of $16,000. But to get one, you either have to buy them…

It's Thursday, which means it's time once again for The Monitor, WIRED's look at all the news coming out of the world of pop culture. What's hot today? Well, Chris Hemsworth is set to play Hulk Hogan, The Wandering Earth is coming to Netflix, and Idris Elba is set to host Saturday Night Live. Pretty…

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A meme of two angry men recently stampeded across the internet. It’s a scene from the reality show American Chopper, broken out into stacked panels, like a comic strip. The still images are pulled from a scene in which one man is firing the…

Every December, it comes: Cinephile Thunderdome. Movie critics, Twitter users, and Rotten Tomatoes commenters All Fire up their keyboards for a nettle royale over the best films of the year. It's much the same this year, except the front of the pack looks a little different than it did in 2017. Last year, moviegoers had…

Peter Bierhorst’s machine is no pinnacle of design. Nestled in the Rocky Mountains inside a facility for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the photon-generating behemoth spans an entire building. Its lasers, mirrors, and lenses are split among three laboratories, two of them at opposite ends of the L-shaped building. The whole thing is…

Hello, Hollywood? I know I said I wouldn’t call again, but I can’t sleep, and it’s all your fault. For ages, summer—the season during which I flee the heat by watching superheroes punch superbaddies in AC-blessed theaters—has marked a very specific period in my equinoctial year. You began unraveling the cycle back in 2008, when…

On Monday at its annual developer's conference, Apple unveiled several new features designed to help users understand and manage the time they spend on their iOS devices. There's new time-and location-based Do Not Disturb modes; a suite of notification-management tools; and a clever lock screen feature that organizes your push alerts into tidy little topic-specific…

In a recent episode of Mythbusters, Brian and Jon (the new MythBusters) wanted to see what happens when you shoot an arrow straight up into the air. It will obviously come back down—but would it still be moving fast enough to kill you? If you are a MythBuster, the best option is to actually shoot…

Montecito is coming back to life this morning. The 9,000 person town to the east of Santa Barbara has been empty since Tuesday, when mandatory evacuations forced residents out of their homes for the fifth time in four months. This week it was a channel of tropical moisture called the Pineapple Express, dumping bands of…

Elite athletes are always looking for an edge. Anything—a better training program, new equipment, improved nutrition—is worth the chance to shave off a few milliseconds. Some athletes are simply born with a natural advantage over their competitors, like tall basketball players and high-altitude marathoners. But as biological science progresses, it's possible for athletes to mimic…