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1 month ago | wired.me | Angela Watercutter

|     Culture     |    April 14 During The Last of Us’ second-season premiere, Ellie gets called a homophobic slur. Craig Mazin tells WIRED it highlights what happens when humanity stops moving forward. On Sunday’s second season premiere of The Last of Us, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) experienced something familiar to queer folks of almost any generation.

1 month ago | wired.me | Megan Farokhmanesh

|     Culture     |    30s ago Players of the mega-popular battle-royale game have a particular way of speaking. Unlearning it can be a challenge. Everyone has an accent. Typically, it’s a marker for where someone grew up, or in some celebrity cases, a bored rich person trying on a new persona. But did you know Fortnite players have their own accent too?

1 month ago | wired.me | Angela Watercutter

|     Culture     |    46s ago President Trump’s tariffs don’t hit streamers like Netflix directly. But they could impact what streaming services release—and how much people are willing to pay for it. If the US is headed for a recession, or even if Americans think it might be, the amount of income they want to spend on monthly streaming subscriptions might see a dip, analysts tell WIRED.

1 month ago | wired.me | Will Knight

“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the birth of the world’s first scalable, mass-manufacturable, and energy-efficient probabilistic computing platform,” says Guillaume Verdon, CEO of Extropic and the man behind the wildly popular, provocative, and sometimes controversial online persona Based Beff Jezos.

1 month ago | wired.me | Reece Rogers |Victoria Turk

Sora had particular challenges with the prompt “An interracial relationship.” In seven out of 10 videos, it interpreted this to simply mean a Black couple; one video appeared to show a white couple. All relationships depicted appeared heterosexual. Sap says this could again be down to lacking portrayals in training data or an issue with the term “interracial;” perhaps this language was not used in the labeling process.