With TV programming now spread out across a variety of services beyond traditional network TV, it can be hard to know what to watch next and what’s popular, given how much great content there is to choose from. An app called TV Time is helping with that, by allowing TV fans to track shows they’re watching, discover new programs and socialize with fellow fans following each episode. Read More
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Apple orders first animated show from ‘Bob’s Burgers’ creator
Apple has more original content news: It picked up two seasons of a new musical animated comedy from Loren Bouchard, the creator of Bob’s Burgers. The series is called Central Park, and is co-written by Josh Gad and Nora Smith in addition to Bouchard, and it follows a group of caretakers who live and work in the titular location in New York. The show also stars Gad, as well as Titus… Read More
VHacks: Inside the Vatican’s First-Ever Hackathon
This is the Holy See of the 21st century.
Twilio launches Flex, a fully programmable contact center
Earlier this year we reported that Twilio was going to launch a full contact center solution called Flex on March 12 — lo and behold, today is March 12 and Twilio today announced the launch of Flex at the Enterprise Connect conference in Orlando. Flex brings together virtually every part of the existing Twilio infrastructure and platform for developers that already power nearly 40… Read More
Maybe Election Poll Predictions Aren’t Broken After All
An analysis of polls from 32 countries since 1942 finds that they are no more—or less—accurate at predicting election winners than they used to be.
The Physics of the Speeder Chase in ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’
How do you pull off a banking turn if there’s no road to bank off?
How Creative DDOS Attacks Still Slip Past Defenses
While some major distributed-denial-of-service attacks have been thwarted this month, the threat remains as critical as ever.
Carbon Taxes Are Coming, and We Have Colleges to Thank
It turns out universities provide a fantastic model for how politicians should start thinking about this on a state or even national level.
Star Wars News: Is ‘Solo’ in Even More Trouble?
Want to know what’s happening with the next Star Wars standalone movie—and everything else coming out of Lucasfilm? Click here.
Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s China Twitter Tariff Tiff
Real talk: Imposing tariffs and fees on the import and export of cars is unlikely to make things better.
How to Build a 3-D-Printed House in the Developing World
A non-profit has successfully built the US’s first 3-D-printed home, and now plans to bring it to the world’s poorest regions.
For News Publishers, Facebook Is a Less Reliable Friend
As Facebook’s share of traffic to news sites has been falling sharply since early last year—and will only decline more—Google AMP has been on the rise.
Scrolls, Trolls, and Rickrolls: The Crisis of Online Harassment
WIRED columnist Virginia Heffernan on what the history of online harassment can tell us about today’s contrarian crisis.
‘Wolverine: The Long Night’: In Marvel and Stitcher’s New Podcast, Sound Design Has Never Mattered More
Marvel’s first foray into podcasts conveys mystery through meticulously placed voices and sounds.
Sam Nunberg’s Media Tour Tops This Week’s Internet News Roundup
The only way you *didn’t* see former Trump aide Sam Nunberg last week was if you didn’t turn on a TV or look at the internet.