LIFT videos: like being there without the Swiss fondue

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

Instagram’s long-form video update is more than a swipe at YouTube. It’s an attempt to capture the clip economy.

The data drop includes photographs, audio, video, and astronauts’ notes that will be used to study the moon and prepare for future human missions.

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.

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.

The comedian sees being online as similar to visiting the zoo. “I don’t need to interact with that,” he says. “It’s just a thing that I enjoy, and then I walk away.”

As coastlines change, so do surf breaks. That may spell the end for premier waves and the tourist economies that depend on them.

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

Though scaled back from initial plans of landing, the voyage will serve as a dress rehearsal for when humans return to the moon’s surface.

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

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.