Normally Plex is one of those platforms that doesn’t draw much attention to itself. People use it to watch movies and shows every day, and most changes are subtle. Something that’s drawing the wrath of the internet, however, is an incoming price spike for the service’s Lifetime Pass, which is…

Dialog, the private network cofounded by Peter Thiel, grades its event attendees on a hidden scale, ranking them by wealth and fame, tracking their relationships, and using algorithms to help decide who they should meet, who they should sit with, and who no longer belongs, WIRED has learned. The records…

Really, I can’t complain too much about the current TV landscape. When I bought a living room TV a few months ago, there were plenty of 4K HDR sets under $1,000 that would’ve absolutely destroyed $2,000 models released just a few years earlier. Roku OS and Google TV are relatively…

Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google search itself, but there’s also an inescapable feeling that web search isn’t the canonical source of information that it used to be, with just as many people…

I think it’s safe to say that as we approach 2030, wireless tech is increasingly the norm for home theaters rather than the exception. Even if you’ve got an HDMI soundbar as the centerpiece, it might have wireless satellites, or smart functions that let you stream music and podcasts directly…

Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.” Whittaker made those comments in a broader interview with Bloomberg about policy, privacy, and Signal. She acknowledged that she…

We’re living in an increasingly USB-C-centric world, but I don’t have an issue with that. Many of my devices are fully powered by one of these cables now, and while it’s a bit of a nightmare figuring out the power of any given cable, it’s worth the hassle since I…

There are basically two good times to buy an espresso maker or a latte machine: Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday. That’s when these machines go on the biggest sales of any given year—including the two most popular espresso machines on earth, according to Amazon sales figures. The Breville Barista…

There are a lot of picture settings and plenty of ways you can adjust the image on your smart TV to your liking. However, without knowing exactly what each setting does, every attempt to improve the image can actually end up making it worse. Settings like contrast and color temperature…

Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in El Segundo, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for a conversation that kept circling back to a question that doesn’t usually come up at a venture event: How do you know if a fish…