entertainment WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Amy Schumer & Goldie Hawn Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 09 May 2017 19:00:00 +0000 'Snatched' stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. Full Article
entertainment Watch the Little Robot That Taught the Big Robot Something New By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 10 May 2017 14:00:00 +0000 Robots can learn to do tasks just fine. Getting different kinds of robots to share knowledge, though, is another challenge entirely. Full Article
entertainment This Is What $250 Billion Actually Looks Like By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 10 May 2017 22:11:17 +0000 Apple recently announced that they have a $250 billion in the bank. This is what that amount of money actually looks like. Full Article
entertainment Mysterious Fungi Bring a West Virginia Forest Back to Life By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 In West Virginia, the Nature Conservancy is bringing back forests with the help of a very special fungus. Full Article
entertainment The Wind-Slicing GT Puts Ford Back in the Supercar Game By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 12 May 2017 04:05:00 +0000 The new Ford GT is the spiritual successor to the GT40 which dominated the 24 hours of Le Mans races in the 1960s. Full Article
entertainment What is Ransomware and How Do You Deal With It? By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 12 May 2017 23:17:40 +0000 Ransomware. It's malware but worse. It takes the contents of your device hostage and demands Bitcoin as a, you guessed it, ransom. Here's how to avoid it and what to do if your laptop gets locked. Full Article
entertainment Inside LAX During the Most Ambitious Airport Move, Ever By www.wired.com Published On :: Sun, 14 May 2017 23:33:40 +0000 We’re behind-the-scenes at Los Angeles’ airport, which is in the middle of five days of upheaval as 21 airlines swap terminals in the dead of night. Full Article
entertainment Robots & Us: The Augmented Self By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 15 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Technology – from steel to server farm – has always changed what it means to be human. But what happens as we meld with ever more capable machines? Full Article
entertainment 8 People Test Their Accents on Siri, Echo and Google Home By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Andy Wood and Matt Kirshen test the limits of everyday AI against a variety of accents in linguistics tests designed to determine which AI is the best at understanding the most people. Featuring Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Siri. Full Article
entertainment Watch Steve Jobs Pitch the Cupertino City Council on Apple Park By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 16 May 2017 11:30:00 +0000 In his last public appearance, Steve Jobs makes his pitch for Apple's new campus at a June 2011 Cupertino City Council meeting. Full Article
entertainment Tech Support - Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan Answers Overwatch Questions From Twitter By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 17 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Game designer Jeff Kaplan uses the power of Twitter to answer some common "Overwatch" questions. Full Article
entertainment All the Slick Stuff From Google I/O 2017 By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 18 May 2017 00:32:51 +0000 From Google Lens to the the company's new artificial intelligence chip here are the big announcements from Google I/O 2017's first day. Full Article
entertainment How a Bunch of Students Set a New Rocket Record By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 19 May 2017 11:00:00 +0000 A group of students from USC have set a new rocket record and they aren't stopping there. Full Article
entertainment Robots & Us: The Future of Work in the Age of AI By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Robot co-workers and artificial intelligence assistants are becoming more common in the workplace. Could they edge human employees out? What then? Full Article
entertainment Phishing Scams Aren't Just for Gullible Grandparents Anymore By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 23 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Phishing scams are getting more and more sophisticated, to the point where they’re fooling even security experts. Here's how to avoid them. Full Article
entertainment AlphaGo Wins First Go Game in China with New AI Architecture By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 23 May 2017 21:26:38 +0000 DeepMind's AlphaGo artificial intelligence system beat the world's top Go player in Wuhzen, China with a new architecture that the company says is more efficient in both energy use and computing power. Full Article
entertainment Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Whales Are So Big By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 23 May 2017 23:00:00 +0000 According to a new study, whales didn't grow big just because they could. They did it because of climate change. Full Article
entertainment Biologist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - CRISPR By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 CRISPR is a new biomedical technique that enables powerful gene editing. WIRED challenged biologist Neville Sanjana to explain CRISPR to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and a CRISPR expert. Full Article
entertainment Out of Office with Brent Rose - Trying Stand-Up Comedy Using Only Siri, Echo, Cortana and Google Assistant By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 25 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Brent Rose takes Google Assistant, Amazon Echo, Microsoft Cortana and Apple's Siri out for the ultimate test drive; which AI has the best sense of humor? How will a human audience respond to a stand-up set written entirely by smart gadgets? Full Article
entertainment Time To Ditch Our Cars and Start Riding Cargo Bikes By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 25 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Utility bikes really have the potential to be the future of transport in American cities. Here's why. Full Article
entertainment Google's AlphaGo Notches Another Win for AI By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 26 May 2017 19:00:48 +0000 Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence system edged out the best human Go player for a 2-0 win. But it is also playing with and against teams of professional human players. Full Article
entertainment Worried About Your Weak Passwords? Here's How to Fix Them By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 29 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Look, we get it. Remembering dozens and dozens of different passwords for different sites is next to impossible. But that doesn’t mean you should be reusing your passwords. That’s just asking for trouble. Full Article
entertainment Inside the Absurd Distillery Where They Make '20-Year' Rum in Six Days By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 30 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Obsessive distiller Bryan Davis invented a contraption for aging booze fast. His goal: to create highly engineered, rapidly prototyped sprits that are unlike any you've tasted before. Full Article
entertainment Welcome to Salinas! The Farming Town Where Robots Reign By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 31 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 In Salinas Valley, about an hour and a half south of San Francisco, farmers and tech types are joining forces to turn this place into a kind of Silicon Valley for agriculture. Full Article
entertainment How to Make Your Browsing Data More Private than a Thousand Incognito Windows By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Thanks to an assist from Congress, your cable company has the legal right to sell your web-browsing data without your consent. This is how to protect your data from preying eyes. Full Article
entertainment How To Battle Trolling Ad Hominem Attacks Online By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 An internet troll's favorite way to argue? Ad hominem, of course! This is your guide to spotting bad arguments on the internet and how to fight them. Full Article
entertainment Here's Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2017 By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:18:52 +0000 At Apple's annual WWDC conference CEO Tim Cook and others unveiled its most powerful Mac yet, a long-awaited Siri speaker, and tons of new software upgrades across all of the Apple platforms. Full Article
entertainment Meet HomePod, Apple's New Siri-Enabled Speaker By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Apple has unveiled the HomePod, a $350 wireless speaker with Siri baked right in. Full Article
entertainment Women Engineers On the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Five female engineers discuss the sexism of the tech industry and why greater diversity and inclusion makes better products for everyone. Full Article
entertainment Google's Plan to Use Ads to Sway ISIS Recruits | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:09:45 +0000 Yasmin Green leads a team at Google which has developed tools to help journalists stay secure in authoritarian regimes, to combat cyber bullying, and to help people before they become radicalized by extremist ideology. At the WIRED business conference, Green shared the company's strategies to sway ISIS recruits before it's too late. Full Article
entertainment The Story Behind Google's Super Chip | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:15:29 +0000 Five years ago, as its voice recognition tech took off, Google realized it would have to double its server space to handle even three minutes of speech from every Android user. Even Google couldn't afford that. So Urs Hözle and his team built a super chip to parse all that data more efficiently. Full Article
entertainment AI Won't Replace Doctors, It'll Help Them | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:14:58 +0000 Google is poised to begin a grand experiment in using machine learning to widen access to healthcare. If it is successful, millions of people with diabetes could avoid losing their sight. Lily Peng from Google Brain explained at the WIRED Business Conference how technology like this would help doctors, not replace them. Full Article
entertainment Amazon Now Considers Itself an AI Company | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:14:05 +0000 Speaking at the WIRED Business Conference, Amazon SVP of Devices, David Limp confessed that if Amazon is to continue to thrive in the future, it has to consider itself an AI company. Full Article
entertainment The One Thing the Architect of Apple's New HQ Would Change | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:19:50 +0000 Ask Norman Foster what, if anything, he’d like to change about Apple’s new headquarters, and he’ll need a moment to think. The famed architect, whose firm spent the last eight years perfecting plans for Apple’s massive campus, is mostly pleased with the results. But there is one thing he'd change. Full Article
entertainment Crispr Is Already Changing the Food We Eat | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 19:45:52 +0000 At the WIRED Business Conference, Jennifer Doudna, Co-Inventor of CRISPR-Cas9, shared some of the ways the gene editing tool is already changing agriculture. Full Article
entertainment Lamborghini Toasted the World's Toughest Track with Air Instead of Horsepower By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Supercars are usually super thanks to monstrous power. The engineers at Lamborghini turned to some smart air scooping tricks to send the production Huracan around the Nurburgring track in record time. Full Article
entertainment Meet 4 of NASA's Newest Astronaut Candidates By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 16:38:32 +0000 Twelve new astronaut candidates just joined the ranks of those with the right stuff. Picked from a pool of 18,000 they may be among the first to journey to Mars. Four spoke with WIRED about getting the call and what they hope to accomplish. Full Article
entertainment The Psychology Behind Video Game Sounds (1972-1998) By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0000 Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds. Featuring sounds from Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, Contra, Street Fighter II, Doom and more! Full Article
entertainment Why We Love the New Microsoft Laptop By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:00:00 +0000 The Microsoft Surface Laptop is a great-looking, light and super usable notebook. Here's more about why we love it. Full Article
entertainment Tech Support - Nick Offerman Answers Woodworking Questions From Twitter By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +0000 Nick Offerman uses the power of Twitter to answer some common woodworking questions. Nick's book Good Clean Fun and film The Hero are both out now. Full Article
entertainment Obsessed - Meet the 89-Year Old Who Built a Train in His Backyard By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 The future of train transportation might be pneumatic tubes and magnets. Meet the 89-year old entrepreneur who wants to disrupt the railroad with a modern twist on a very old train idea. Full Article
entertainment The Psychology Behind Video Game Sounds (1998-2017) By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0000 Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds. Featuring sounds from the Legend of Zelda, Half-Life, The Sims, Minecraft, Dota 2 and more! Full Article
entertainment Video Game Sounds Explained By Experts By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds. Full Article
entertainment Why You Can Never Argue with Conspiracy Theorists By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Alex Jones is not the only guy making a career out of conspiracy theories. They are everywhere on the internet and here's why you have no choice but to ignore them. Full Article
entertainment The Fascinating Robot That Teaches Itself How to Grab New Objects By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Researchers have loaded a robot with AI that lets it scan an object and determine how best to grab it. Full Article
entertainment Vsauce Answers the 100 Most Googled Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Michael, Kevin, and Jake from Vsauce attempt to answer the 100 most Googled questions. Full Article
entertainment Watch the F-35 Fighter Jet Make Its First Public Flight By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 04:00:00 +0000 The F-35 is the most expensive weapons system, ever. After years of delays, the fighter jet just made its first public flight at the Paris Air Show. Full Article
entertainment Watch How Hackers Took Over a Ukrainian Power Station By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Watch as hackers take over the mouse controls of Ukrainian grid operators, part of a breach that caused a blackout for a quarter million people. Full Article
entertainment Techies Are Using Ketamine to Fight Their Depression By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Sean Spencer is a pretty successful entrepreneur in LA's startup community but he also struggles with depression. He and many others use ketamine to help with their lows. Full Article
entertainment Why You Should Care About Net Neutrality By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 A world without net neutrality might end up meaning that you have to pay more to access the internet content that you want. But it also might crush innovation. Full Article