CultureSan Francisco's housing market is going off the rails again, and the culprit is exactly who you'd expect: tech employees cashing out fortunes from some of the world's most valuable private companies.
CultureYouTube's recommendation algorithm keeps serving Russian-language content to children in Kyrgyzstan - even when they're actively searching in Kyrgyz. No conspiracy required, just cold, indifferent market logic doing what it does best.
CultureIsaiah Rashad is dropping cover art, tracklists, and merch like he has a personal vendetta against slow rollouts, while Lana Del Rey becomes a Bond girl because of course she does.
CultureChoosing to wear natural hair as a Black woman sounds simple until the whole internet - and your auntie - has opinions about it. Dazed Digital explores the messy, political, deeply personal conversation around Black hair in 2024.
CultureIKEA's new PS collection is raising uncomfortable questions for the design industry, while a colossal Utah data centre and Paris's tall-building drama round out a chaotic week in design news.
CultureSwedish architect Ulf Mejergren has built a forest hut wrapped around a living spruce tree, using bark salvaged from beetle-damaged trees. It's equal parts ecological statement and dream hideout.
CultureLos Angeles magazine used AI-generated likenesses of real mayoral candidates for its election issue cover - and the internet responded with a collective 'hire a damn artist.'
CultureGen Z didn't break their relationship with truth - the internet they grew up in handed them a completely different one. Wired digs into how facts and feelings have fused for the first truly online generation.
CultureSomeone spent $181 million on a Jackson Pollock at Christie's record-breaking $1.1 billion auction - and the art world has absolutely no idea who did it.
CultureOver 1,000 Hollywood creatives including Joaquin Phoenix and Denis Villeneuve have signed an open letter opposing the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, warning it will kill jobs and shrink major studios down to just four.
CultureYour company says you're empowered. Your approval queue, your sign-off chain, and your third 'alignment meeting' this week all disagree. Fast Company is calling out the gap between empowerment rhetoric and workplace reality.
CultureODDO Architects expanded Hanoi's TH House into a 2.5-metre-wide neighbouring plot, drawing on the social energy of urban alleyways to create flexible spaces around dramatic vertical voids.
CultureApp fatigue is real and it's ruining perfectly good love lives. Mashable tested the biggest dating apps of 2026 - Hinge, Tinder, Match and more - to figure out which ones actually work and for whom.
CultureStudents at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts built an adjustable stool inspired by a traditional Japanese string game - and it might be the most charming furniture concept we've seen all year.
CultureIKEA's 'Food for Thought' exhibition at Milan design week pairs designers with chefs to explore how cooking and eating rituals should shape the spaces we live in. It's a collab that's long overdue.
CultureJohn Pawson, the British designer synonymous with minimalism, revealed at a Gaggenau Milan Design Week talk that he never actually planned to become an architect - and his accidental path is kind of inspiring.
CultureAI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the banner of efficiency, but as Wired argues, what's being traded away might be the entire point of journalism.
CultureTechnical skill gets you in the door, but a completely different kind of thinking is what gets you promoted. Here's why the most competent people in the room are often passed over for leadership roles.
CultureSwiss appliance brand V-ZUG is dismantling decommissioned washing machines and turning their components into home furniture, with a new collection of poufs and tables that give old appliances an unexpected second life.
