SXSW 2017: all the news, panels, and brand activations

Rob Mockler’s surreal film Like Me explores loneliness through YouTube culture

It’s somewhere between social commentary and a horror movie about a criminal getting kicks for clicks

The Disaster Artist is a hilarious meta-commentary on filmmaking and misplaced ambition

James Franco takes a sharp, funny look inside The Room, one of the worst films of all time

Atomic Blonde cements Charlize Theron as an action star

John Wick’s director and Max Max: Fury Road’s star team up for an intense spy thriller with a killer soundtrack

How director Darren Lynn Bousman created The Tension Experience

How to build your own personal Westworld

How escape rooms became the future of advertising

Getting locked up with brands in Austin, Texas

Kesha is done making internet trolls her ‘higher power’

The musician shares the lessons she learned in a very difficult time

At this year’s SXSW, the hard questions have all gone unanswered

The festival’s biggest talks are also its safest

America may miss out on the next industrial revolution

Preparing for automation means investing in robotics

The co-writer of WarGames says he didn’t anticipate the dark side of hacking

The SXSW chatbot doesn’t want me to die

The FBI’s SXSW talk was criminally bland

Sony’s Motion Sonic wristband lets your dance moves manipulate music

Good dance moves required

Atomic Blonde is a good movie improved by an exceptional soundtrack

Its SXSW debut did not disappoint

Sure, slap an Android touchscreen on some headphones. Why not?

In an infinite universe, everything must happen

People are asking futurists if humans will one day swim as fast as sharks

The answer is probably no

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Baby Driver is the ultimate expression of Edgar Wright’s madcap creative genius

The director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz is back, with a genre mash-up that’s part heist drama, part musical romance

Sony’s touchscreen projector technology feels like the future of interactivity

A touchscreen without a display

Google and Levi’s Project Jacquard jacket has restored my faith in wearables

Technology you wear on your sleeve — literally

The new Pennywise terrified the young cast of Stephen King’s IT reboot

It hits theaters on September 18th, 2017

A short film gets to the heart of being targeted by an internet mob

Autonomous car startup NIO unveiled its self-driving concept vehicle

The company hopes to sell the cars in the US in 2020

American Gods’ creators say their show has new meaning in ‘a climate that vilifies immigrants’

Come see The Vergecast Live at SXSW on March 12th and 14th!

Things will probably happen!