ow 4-Foot LEGO Super Star Destroyer - How We Smashed It By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 04 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED destroys a massive LEGO Super Star Destroyer. Full Article
ow Don't Throw Away That Chickpea Water! Make a Cocktail Instead By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 05 May 2016 02:02:57 +0000 You know the water in a can of chickpeas? Well, it can be used as a viable substitute for egg. That's a food hack worth noting, so yes, we made a pisco sour using 'bean juice'. Full Article
ow The SFMOMA’s New App Will Forever Change How You Enjoy Museums By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 05 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The renovated SFMOMA is now one of the most considered gallery spaces in the world. But it's not just the museum that got a redesign. The SFMOMA has also reimagined the audio tour experience with it’s new app. Full Article
ow How They Filmed the Wildest Snowboard Series You’ve Ever Seen By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 13 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The crew behind the snowboarding series Higher TV went to some incredible lengths to get footage of Jeremy Jones plunging down snowy cliffs in the Himalayas, Wyoming and Alaska. Full Article
ow DIY: How To Burn a Silkscreen and Print at Home By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Screen printing is the pinnacle of DIY culture. We're going to show you how to make your own design and screen it onto whatever you'd like. You’ll need to block out a few hours, and you'll need to have a design or logo in mind to print. Full Article
ow The Independence Day: Resurgence Spaceship Has Its Own Gravity. By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 May 2016 15:00:00 +0000 In the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence, the alien spacecraft seems to rip buildings from the ground using gravitational force. Is that physically possible? Nope. But that didn't stop us from calculating the mass it would need in order to destroy Earth. Full Article
ow Say "Hello" to Allo, Google's New AI-Powered Messaging App By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 May 2016 22:49:39 +0000 Google's new Ai-powered messaging app, Allo, lets you chat with Google while you chat with your friends. It's the first step toward making Google truly conversational. Full Article
ow Google Lets You Use Apps Without Having to Download Them By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 20 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Google wants to give you a way of using an app without actually downloading it. It's called Instant Apps and Google says it'll be available in a few months. Full Article
ow The Crazy Plan to Use Swallowable Origami to Fish Batteries Out of Tummies By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 25 May 2016 00:38:12 +0000 Kids swallow a lot of batteries. But now MIT researchers are developing swallowable origami to fish the nasty foreign objects out. Full Article
ow Our Very Own X-Men: Apocalypse Red Band Trailer (Parody) By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 27 May 2016 13:00:00 +0000 If Deadpool taught Hollywood anything, it’s that audiences want more hard-R superheroes. Wade cursed, you paid, and 20th Century Fox listened. Here’s the (unfortunately not real) trailer for the studio’s much more NSFW X-Men: Apocalypse. Full Article
ow Data Attack - How the 3-Pointer Is Changing The NBA By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The NBA is undergoing a radical shift based on the Moreyball approach and an obsession with Points Per Possession. We take a deeper look at the trend with actual cut-up construction paper. Full Article
ow How ILM Manscaped the Orcs of Warcraft By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:10:24 +0000 Think orcs don’t have barbers? Think again. Gaelle Morand and her team at Industrial Light & Magic spent hours perfecting the hair on all of Warcraft’s characters. Here’s how they made “Haircraft” happen. Full Article
ow How iOS Actually Changed the World By www.wired.com Published On :: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 With iOS10 on its way, we thought we’d look back at the way iOS changed the world. But the most pivotal thing in iOS history is something Apple got right on its very first try. Full Article
ow Hey Thanks Apple: Siri May Now Actually Be Useful By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 23:28:14 +0000 Siri's been little more than a slightly sassy sidekick for iPhone users, but now Apple has made some big moves to make the voice assistant work for more people. Full Article
ow Now You Can Yell at Siri on Your Mac By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:00:00 +0000 Siri is the most important feature coming to your Mac this fall, so of course we put it to the test. Full Article
ow Design FX - How The Rock Face Swapped with Vine Star Sione in 'Central Intelligence' By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects in Central Intelligence used to de-age The Rock and Kevin Hart into high school, teenaged versions of themselves. Weta digital puts the The Rock’s face onto Vine star Sione’s body for an amazing locker room shower dance scene you won’t want to miss. Full Article
ow How a Deaf-Run Pizzeria Takes Your Order Over the Phone By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Mozzeria is a 100 percent deaf owned and operated pizzeria in a crowded San Francisco restaurant scene. So to stay afloat, it relies on a remarkable technology. Full Article
ow NASA’s Testing Its Biggest Flame Thrower, Er, Rocket Ever By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:33:54 +0000 If humans are going to get to Mars, they're going to need rockets with some serious liftoff power. NASA’s Space Launch System is the most powerful rocket in the world and engineers are going to blast it, for testing purposes, of course. Full Article
ow 'Swiss Army Man' Directors Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 In ‘Swiss Army Man’ a guy stranded in the wilderness gets by thanks to a corpse and a dying cell phone. The Daniels came to the WIRED office, so we asked them to show us what was on their smartphones. Full Article
ow Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza & Adam DeVine Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, and Adam Devine from 'Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates' show us the most recent items on their phones - from texts, to safari pages, to emojis, videos, alarm clocks and more! Full Article
ow Design FX - Roland Emmerich Breaks Down the Visual Effects Used in "Independence Day: Resurgence" By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:58:00 +0000 Mike Seymour sits down with "Independence Day: Resurgence" director Roland Emmerich and discusses the astonishing visual effects used in his newest picture, as well as the revolutionary new N-Cam system. Full Article
ow WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Slow Mo Guys, MatPat, AsapSCIENCE, and Burnie Burns Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 02:48:00 +0000 MatPat, AsapSCIENCE, The Slow Mo Guys and Burnie Burns answer the internet's most searched questions about YouTube, influencers, fame, and of course themselves. Full Article
ow Social Exercise: How the Cultish November Project Uses Hugs and Social Media to Get Fit By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:00:00 +0000 A workout with the social media-powered November Project San Francisco tribe who explain the bounce, dropping verbals, and the dreaded "We Missed You." Full Article
ow NASA Explains How the Juno Probe Got to Jupiter By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 13:21:22 +0000 The experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory explain the incredibly precise, solar-powered Juno mission to the radiation-strewn planet Jupiter. Full Article
ow How Darpa Is Making Hacking Into a Spectator Sport By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 DARPA, the Department of Defense research arm, is trying to make its biggest hacking challenge into a visually exciting competition, complete with color commentary. Full Article
ow Apple IIe vs Modern iMac Throwdown By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 In this episode, watch as we tear down Apple’s //e and 27” iMac. We pull them apart, compare them, and give interesting tech, cultural details and statistics. Full Article
ow How Juno Will Reveal the Secrets of Our Solar System By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Find out how NASA’s Juno Mission will help unlock the mysteries of our planet and our solar system. Full Article
ow 4 Things You Need To Know About Lab Grown Meat By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The four things you need to know about lab grown meat! Full Article
ow How Motorola Made Modular Smartphones a Reality By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 A team within Motorola has been working on a crazy plan: to let users decide how their smartphone should look, and how it should work. The result is called the Moto Z, and it’s about to hit stores. Full Article
ow Science of Food | Make Your Own Soft Serve With Dry Ice–And Sweet, Sweet Science By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 You might think that you can only get soft serve at the ice cream parlor—not true! Let us and our friends at ChefSteps prove that all it takes is some dry ice and a little science to make your own ice cream at home. Full Article
ow Flight Mode | What It’s Like to Narrowly Avert Disaster in an $18M Simulator By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Pilots spend hours in multi-million dollar simulators, preparing for the worst cast scenario. In this episode Flight Mode, WIRED's Jack Stewart gets a taste of what pilots go through. Full Article
ow Star Trek’s Sofia Boutella Shows Us the Last Thing on Her Phone By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:19:58 +0000 Sofia Boutella, who plays Jayla in Star Trek Beyond, shows us the most recent items on her phone - from texts, to music, to emojis, videos, instagram and more! Full Article
ow Science of Food | How to Make a Latte Without Milk or a Fancy Espresso Machine By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Lactose intolerant folks rejoice! You can make a latte without milk. All you need is a bit of science and some xanthan gum. Full Article
ow Science of Food | How to Make Super-Classy Culinary Foam, Even if You Aren’t Classy By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Nothing says fancy dining quite like a blob of foam. So soothing, such a great mouth feel. And get this: you can easily make it at home, expensive restaurants be damned! Full Article
ow See How an Insane 7-Circle Roundabout Actually Works By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:48:00 +0000 Your first thought upon seeing Swindon's 'magic roundabout' might be: man, the Brits have really lost the plot lately. But this thing—which is actually seven roundabouts in one—has been working for 60 years. Full Article
ow Here's How to Fight Zika: With More Mosquitoes By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Scientists in California are breeding and releasing mosquitos into Zika hotspots. While it may seem like they're making matters worse, they are actually releasing a kind of biological trojan horse. Full Article
ow Nokia 3310 vs iPhone 6s Throwdown By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000 In this episode, watch as we tear down Nokia's 3310 and the iPhone 6s. We pull them apart, compare them, and give interesting tech, cultural details and statistics. Full Article
ow Liquids Are So 2015. Here’s How to Package Them in Spheres By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Liquids. They’re so… liquidy. But our friends at ChefSteps have a quick and easy way to trap them, in beautiful delicious little spheres. Full Article
ow How to Pressure-Cook With Steam—and Good-Old Science By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The pressure cooker. It sounds, well, terrifying. But not only is it a perfectly safe way to cook if you’re not screwing around, thanks to the laws of physics, it’s a perfectly speedy way to cook too. Full Article
ow How Tesla's Self-Driving Autopilot Actually Works By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:05:00 +0000 Exploring everything from the radars and camera to the Mario Kart easter egg, our roadtrip shows Tesla’s autopilot works well—but it's no self-driving wunderkind. Full Article
ow No, the Ocean Didn’t Grow Hair. It’s the Garden Eel! By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The garden eel is harmless and actually pretty cute. But get a bunch of them together and things start looking a wee bit creepy. Full Article
ow Teens Explain How to Flirt on Social Media By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Teens explain how to use snaps, likes, emojis, and follows to get the attention of a crush. Full Article
ow Learn How to Fly Like a Pro From a Master Freestyle Drone Pilot By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:32:51 +0000 Carlos “Charpu” Puertolas is regarded as one of the best freestyle drone pilots in the world. WIRED spent an afternoon with him in an abandoned oil refinery to get some tips on how to fly drones like a pro. Full Article
ow Now You Can Control BB-8 With a Flick of Your Wrist By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 01:46:54 +0000 We’re willing to bet your wearable doesn’t come with the power of the Force? Sphero’s launching a special edition of the BB-8 toy that'll allow you to control the little droid with hand gestures. Full Article
ow The Incredible Bike That’s Rocketing a Paralympian Toward Glory By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:11:00 +0000 Krige Schabort is gearing up for his ultimate paratriathlon at his sixth and final Paralympics in Rio. WIRED takes a look at the high tech bike that's going to get him over the finish line. Full Article
ow 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
ow 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
ow 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
ow 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
ow 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