Uncanny Valley Part Two

The team behind director Takashi Yamazaki’s new film created their kaiju roars by setting up speakers on top of an outdoor dam. The people walking by weren’t prepared for what they heard.

Missed our latest WIRED@Night event? Enjoy an evening of podcasting in San Francisco right here.

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

Barbarian, The Fly, and Altered States are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we go behind the scenes of our Nathan Fielder cover story, unpack tech billionaires’ generous promises, and discuss the suspicious letters sent to US election offices.

Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.

Brian K. Vaughan claims he’s seen Dune: Part Three and it’s “a fucking beautiful movie.”

These elusive and reactive particles have been challenging to hold on to and even more challenging to study, but a new method paves the way for tests on the differences between matter and antimatter.

To understand how Elon’s new car hops, glides, and sticks upside down, we need to talk about friction and force.

Crystal Lake, Tip Toe, and Carrie are just a few of the shows you should be watching right now.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.