Homer Simpson is not one of the answers. You can cross that one off immediately.  Disney Another day, another Wordle knockoff. But this time it’s not for grammar nerds or math ones, but for baseball fans. WARdle is a stats-heavy guessing game, inspired by Wordle and sports game Poeltl,... Read more

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Bob Chapek, The New York Times wrote this week, needed to emerge from “a crisis of his own making.” It’s been a long week for the... Read more

Meta’s decision reflects intense anti-Russia reaction over the war in Urkaine, including this March 5 protest in New York City’s Times Square. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Facebook parent company Meta said Thursday that it will allow some violent speech against Russian invaders that would normally violate its rules because it views... Read more

Steven Levy covers the gamut of tech subjects for WIRED, in print and online, and has been contributing to the magazine since its inception. His newest column, Plaintext, will soon only be available to subscribers; sign up here. He has been writing about technology for more than 30 years,... Read more

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Elden Ring is not just buzz anymore. The game is out and is a certified blockbuster success, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. And it is also part of a... Read more

Like a lot of Americans, Sandy Carter has been getting into crypto. She’s already amassed an impressive assortment of cryptocurrency and NFTs, and she even has a Lazy Lion, an NFT illustration of a lion that’s probably worth at least a few thousand dollars on its own. It was... Read more

Meta and Google’s deal is under scrutiny. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images Facebook parent company Meta and fellow tech giant Google are under scrutiny in Europe yet again. The EU and UK on Friday launched a parallel investigation into the companies, which will look into concerns that together they hampered... Read more

Someone at a robot company once told me a story about one of its bomb disposal machines. The soldiers who had been using the robot in Afghanistan were dismayed after it returned from repairs. They said that the robot’s shiny new parts and casing—lacking the bullet holes and blast... Read more

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. It comes down to simple physics and cost: In cloud computing, high availability and sub-second response times are nearly impossible, or at least unfeasibly expensive. This drawback has given rise to edge computing, which moves computing resources... Read more

Death is just a poorly calculated leap away. FromSoftware Almost everything in Elden Ring will try to kill you — mercilessly, repeatedly, in creative and often unavoidable ways. More often than not, they’ll succeed. And once you get past the inevitable rage and frustration, you’ll probably love it. In... Read more