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A month-by-month look at 2025 through Gen Z and Gen Alpha memes, slang, scandals, and trends—from TikTok refugees to 6-7, protest costumes, and millennial optimism.

Keanu Reeves helped bring Johnny Mnemonic to life, and it's a must-watch movie before Apple TV's 2026 cyberpunk show, Neuromancer.

For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok. The new feature is starting with the Reels tab but will eventually come ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

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It’s Thanksgiving week, so the entertainment news cycle has largely gone dormant, late-night television is on hiatus, and there aren’t many big releases between Wicked: For Good and the final season ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.