
The 50 Best Movies on Netflix, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)
Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway, Frankenstein, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.
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Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway, Frankenstein, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.

Did you want the TikTok-popular X100VI, but with an interchangeable lens? The Fujifilm X-E5 has you covered.

True ANC on a set of open-ear earbuds would be a game changer. Shokz’s OpenFit Pro give us a taste of what that might be like.

Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.

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South Africa has officially lost its title as Africa’s largest vehicle production market.

New cars were scant at CES this year, largely because the center of gravity for the auto world has moved—technologically and geographically—to China.
Scientists are putting Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant to the test. While researchers found no evidence that light’s speed changes with energy, this null result dramatically tightens the constraints on quantum-gravity theories that predict even the tiniest violations. ScienceDaily reports: Special relativity rests on the principle that the laws of physics remain the same...

Dr. Yasam Ayavefe believes the fight against forest fires must move beyond outdated methods and into a new era of technology-driven prevention. In recent years, wildfires have displaced families, caused the death of countless animals, and placed biodiversity under serious threat, turning forest protection into one of the most urgent environmental priorities of our time. […]

UK Financial Ltd today announced the successful exchange-level execution and acceptance of MayaCat Regulated Security Token (SMCAT), the world’s first exchange-traded security token built on the ERC-3643 regulated asset standard, now live within the CATEX Exchange environment. This announcement confirms completion of Part One of a deliberately phased deployment process: compliant issuance,...

A veteran television analyst has explained whether Canal+’s takeover of MultiChoice can help save DStv.

As the crypto market moves closer to sustained bullish momentum, investor sentiment is shifting, with investors moving out of established tokens and into emerging utility tokens for explosive gains. Large-cap tokens like Bitcoin already have high market caps, meaning significant capital must be invested for upward price movement. At the same time, low-cap, fundamental tokens […]
Meta has signed long-term nuclear power deals totaling more than 6 gigawatts to fuel its data centers: “one from a startup, one from a smaller energy company, and one from a larger company that already operates several nuclear reactors in the U.S,” reports TechCrunch. From the report: Oklo and TerraPower, two companies developing small modular reactors (SMR), each signed agreements with Meta to...

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Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lake
Manoel Dixon had just finished dinner one night last May when a phone dinged nearby with a Facebook message.
Dixon, 26, was at his family’s hunting camp near their northern Quebec home town of Waswanipi. They knew the fellow hunter who was messaging Dixon’s father, but...

Ynys Môn (Anglesey): The wolf moon is spectacular enough, but look east and you’ll see a celestial titan the size of a pinprick
As unmissable as new year’s fireworks, the wolf moon held the heavens for the first few nights of January, casting an unearthly radiance over everything, night almost as bright as day. Now, as that moon wanes, prepare to be wowed by a true planetary A-lister:...
The German automaker’s sales in the United States plunged last year, hit by tariffs and the end of tax credits for electric vehicles.

The 2026 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) once again saw many of the world’s leading tech companies and a few upstarts showcase many innovative and peculiar products.
Experts interviewed by NBC News warn that the rapid spread of AI-generated images and videos is accelerating an online trust breakdown, especially during fast-moving news events where context is scarce. From the report: President Donald Trump’s Venezuela operation almost immediately spurred the spread of AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos across social media. On Wednesday, after...
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company is “going big time” into its 14A (1.4nm-class) process, signaling confidence in yields and hinting at at least one external foundry customer. Tom’s Hardware reports: Intel’s 14A is expected to be production-ready in 2027, with early versions of process design kit (PDK) coming to external customers early this year. To that end, it is good to hear Intel’s...