entertainment Chevy's Electric Car Travels Farther Per Charge Than Tesla's Model S By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:00:00 +0000 General Motors has promised that the Chevrolet Bolt, its affordable, long-range electric car, would deliver at least 200 miles on a charge and cost no more than $30,000. WIRED put it to the test. Full Article
entertainment Zachary Quinto Explains How To Hack An Election By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 'Snowden' star Zachary Quinto goes in-depth on the possibility of a hacked presidential election. Full Article
entertainment Climb Inside Uber's Self-Driving Car—Its Next Big Disruption By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The ride-sharing giant is in Pittsburgh for its latest big move: the country’s first autonomous taxi service. Select Uber users can now ride in self-driving cars, with humans at the wheel for an emergency. Full Article
entertainment Virtual Boy vs Oculus Rift Throwdown By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 In this episode, watch as we tear down Nintendo's Virtual Boy and the Oculus Rift. Virtual reality of the 90's versus virtual reality of today! Full Article
entertainment This Motoring Mimic Can Become Any Car By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:13:00 +0000 Need a Camaro? A Duesenberg? Maybe a Batmobile? WIRED transportation writer Jack Stewart checks out the Blackbird, the shape-shifting electric vehicle directors use for motoring movie magic. Full Article
entertainment Meet the Artist: Tom Sachs By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:29:09 +0000 Artist Tom Sachs discusses his latest space program--Mission to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon. His expansive sculpture exhibition will fill Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco from the 16th of September until the 15th of January 2017. Full Article
entertainment Design FX - How Orphan Black Creates Convincing Clones By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:40:00 +0000 Design FX dives into the incredible special effects of BBC America's Orphan Black. Mike Seymour breaks down how the team at Intelligent Creatures and Emmy Award nominated actress Tatiana Maslany work together to create convincing clones; with a combination of visual effects, rotoscoping, and incredible acting ability. Full Article
entertainment The Glass Frog Isn’t Made of Glass But That Would Be Pretty Cool By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The glass frog is a BIG fan of transparency, in the sense that you can see all of its internal organs through its belly skin. Full Article
entertainment Meet the HyperAdapt, Nike's Awesome New Power-Lacing Sneaker By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Nike's Tinker Hatfield and Tiffany Beers explain the new power-lacing HyperAdapt 1.0 and demonstrate how to charge the sneakers, and tighten and loosen the laces with the touch of a button. Full Article
entertainment Tinker Hatfield Draws WIRED's October Cover By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Nike shoe guru Tinker Hatfield draws WIRED's October cover featuring his design inspirations for the power-lacing HyperAdapt 1.0 shoe. Full Article
entertainment "You Think That's Gonna Go Right?" By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 John McAfee’s security detail talks about their experiences with him in this clip from 'Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee'. Full Article
entertainment Food Myths: Do Carrots Improve Your Eyesight? By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Your parents always told you to eat your veggies, especially carrots if you want good eyesight. But can they really improve your vision? WIRED takes a look. Full Article
entertainment Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart & Mamrie Hart Show Us The Last Thing on Their Phones By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Stars of the upcoming film "Dirty 30", Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, and Mamrie Hart show us the last thing they did on their phones. The Holy Trinity unveils what they last googled, how many alarms they have, and their favorite emojis. Full Article
entertainment First Look: Here’s How Tesla Improved its UI and Autopilot By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:00:00 +0000 One push of a button and 140,000 Tesla owners get a new user interface, improved Autopilot, and some clever new abilities. WIRED takes Tesla's new system for a spin. Full Article
entertainment Tinashe on MTV’s First Live Music Show in 20 Years By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:34:17 +0000 MTV's new live music show 'Wonderland' is their first return to live music programming in 20 years. Headliner Tinashe talks about how the multi-platform broadcast of the show reflects our present media landscape. Full Article
entertainment Review: We Filmed This Entire Video Using the iPhone 7 By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The iPhone 7 Plus is touted as *the* mobile low-light camera. It’s got dual lenses, an f/1.8 aperture, image stabilization, and an even brighter flash. But how much better is it? We tested it out by filming this entire video with iPhone 7. Full Article
entertainment Meet the Giant, Toxic Starfish That’s Menacing Reefs By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Get to know the crown of thorns starfish, which grows to two feet wide and wields toxic spines that will definitely ruin your day. Full Article
entertainment Building Games For Virtual Reality Storytelling | Breaking Through By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Virtual Reality is the next frontier in entertainment, but it’s so new that the rules are still being written. No one knows the best way to develop, advertise, or create yet – and that’s what makes it so exciting. Full Article
entertainment NASA Finds More Evidence of Water Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Europa By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 22:35:46 +0000 It's not aliens. So everyone calm the heck down. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA caught sight of water plumes bursting out from Europa’s icy surface. If any Europeans are lurking beneath the moon's surface, they just got a whole lot easier to reach. Full Article
entertainment The Numbers Don't Lie: America's Got a Gun Addiction By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:41:00 +0000 America’s gun addiction is bad. But to understand just how bad it is, you’ve got to see the numbers. Full Article
entertainment NASA's Starshade Is Like a Giant Visor for the Stars By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has come up with an ingenious solution to take better photographs of ultra-bright stars; a baseball diamond-sized folding shade that blocks out a star's powerful rays. Full Article
entertainment How Boeing Builds a 737 in Just Nine Days By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Boeing's Renton plant builds 737 narrow-body jets at the rate of 42 per month, and climbing. Here's how. Full Article
entertainment A Scientist's Quest to 3D Scan Thousands of Species By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Adam Summers is on a mission to scan all 33,000 species of ray-finned fish—and upload all of that data for anyone to make amazing 3D images, just like we did. Full Article
entertainment Step Inside South Park's Most Memorable Scenes By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Ever wanted to be inside an episode of South Park? At the Paley Center in Los Angeles, the South Park 20 Experience lets you do just that. Taking the twenty most iconic moments of the television series, the South Park 20 Experience gives people the opportunity to take pictures and become part of South Park's best episodes. Full Article
entertainment Inside the Groan-Inducing World of Pun Competitions By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED's Peter Rubin entered a thunderdome of wordplay warfare and came out with schticker shock. This is a field guide to the weapons he deployed. Full Article
entertainment NASA Creates Robots That Can Climb Walls By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:29:21 +0000 We take a look at some of the new robotic technology being developed at JPL's Robotics Lab, including robots that use "gecko" technology to grip walls and climb 90 degree surfaces. Full Article
entertainment Food Myths: Do Oysters Make You Horny? By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Rumor has it that oysters were the fuel behind Casanova’s fire, but are these slimy mollusks actually aphrodisiacs? WIRED cracks into the science behind the old wives’ tale. Full Article
entertainment Meet the Kinkajou, the Tree-Loving Mammal With an Identity Problem By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:48:28 +0000 It may look like a monkey, with its prehensile tail and predilection for chewing with its mouth open—but don't be fooled. Full Article
entertainment Did NASA Find a Second Earth? By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 An exoplanet expert tells us if Proxima Centauri B could be another Earth. Full Article
entertainment Meet the Pixel, Google's Answer to the iPhone By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:29:34 +0000 Google enters the phone fray with the Pixel, a premium Android smartphone with all the features of an iPhone plus Google Assistant and a headphone jack. Full Article
entertainment Google Just Got Real By Changing Its Gadget Game By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:33:46 +0000 The tech giant released a slew of new hardware, including two new smartphones, a VR-headset and a home assistant. Here's everything from the Google event. Full Article
entertainment Google Home Is The Assistant That Will Never Leave You Alone By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:38:34 +0000 Google Home is part Bluetooth speaker, part Google Assistant, all Amazon Echo competitor. For $129, it brings super-powered voice control into every nook and cranny of your house. Full Article
entertainment Google's Daydream View Is a VR Eye Pillow By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:43:22 +0000 Google's new $80 Daydream View isn't just a more integrated VR headset for mobile devices, it's also way comfy. Full Article
entertainment Google's Self-Driving Cars Have Clocked 2 Million Miles By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:05:16 +0000 By this point, self driving cars are a common sight in Silicon Valley and Google’s fleet of nearly 60 autonomous cars hit a milestone: They have now clocked more than two million miles of driving on public streets. Full Article
entertainment WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Blindspot's Jaimie Alexander Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:52:00 +0000 Jaimie Alexander hangs with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about herself. Full Article
entertainment Step Inside Boeing’s Elaborate New 737 Test Plane By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Boeing is putting its newest plane, the 737 MAX, through a grueling series of test flights. Onboard, instead of seats and a meal service, a team of engineers captures data on its performance, and eats snacks from a cooler. Full Article
entertainment Out of Office with Brent Rose - GoPro's New Cameras (Hero5 Black and Session) Full Review By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:30:00 +0000 GoPro's new 4K cameras, the Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session, aim to deliver the best GoPro experience yet. Brent Rose takes them through their paces, and compares the Hero5 to Garmin's impressive Virb Ultra 30. Full Article
entertainment Predators: Chameleons Have Killer Fast Tongues By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:58:08 +0000 Chameleons are deceptively great hunters, with a tongue that can snipe prey in a split-second. Full Article
entertainment Food Myths: Can Hot Foods Really Cool You Down? By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Can eating or drinking hot things really cool you down on a hot day? WIRED investigates. Full Article
entertainment Absurd Creatures - The Most Stunning Fish in the Sea Are Actually Dragons (Kinda) By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:54:49 +0000 The leafy and weedy seadragons might not breathe fire, but they’re every bit as majestic as real dragons. Full Article
entertainment Project Bubbles: The New Frontier of Gaming By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 UCLA’s Dr. Dennis Hong gives us a glimpse into a new project that could change the way we think about interactive gaming. Full Article
entertainment The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama Guest-Edits WIRED's November Issue By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:55:00 +0000 Like WIRED, our 44th president is a relentless optimist. President Barack Obama focuses on the future and the next hurdles that humanity will need to overcome to move forward. Full Article
entertainment The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Jobs By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss how artificial intelligence might up-end economies and how societies can adapt. Full Article
entertainment The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on Fixing Government With Technology By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama discusses what he’d like to see technology solve in government with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito. Full Article
entertainment The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on Bureaucracy VS. Moonshots By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss where the center of artificial intelligence research is and where it might be. Full Article
entertainment The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on How We'll Embrace Self-Driving Cars By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss ethical concerns around artificial intelligence used in self-driving cars. Full Article
entertainment The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on the True Meaning of Star Trek By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 POTUS is a Trekkie! WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss the original Star Trek series and what it reveals about our common humanity. Full Article
entertainment The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on What AI Means for National Security By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss the challenges of cyber security in the age of artificial intelligence. Full Article
entertainment The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on the Future of AI By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 President and WIRED guest editor Barack Obama discusses the future of artificial intelligence with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito. Full Article
entertainment Exploring the Next Frontiers By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:49:33 +0000 Panelists from the White House Frontiers Conference discuss the new frontiers of space, science, medicine, transportation, and cities. And their must haves for frontier expeditions. Full Article