ac Science of Teams: How NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Used Teamwork to Reach Saturn By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 11:00:00 +0000 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses teamwork every day to accomplish incredible scientific feats. Full Article
ac Remembering Space Pioneer John Glenn: 1921-2016 By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 23:11:17 +0000 In 1962 astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. The feat paved the way to US dominance in the space race and the mission to the moon. Glenn, ever a champion of human exploration, died December 8, 2016. Full Article
ac The Incredible Gecko That Looks Exactly Like a Tree By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Meet the leaf-tailed gecko, which deploys some of the most astounding camouflage in the animal kingdom. Full Article
ac The Enduring Mystery of What the Hell's in LaCroix By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:00:00 +0000 LaCroix is the fizzy water of the moment. It's just H2O, CO2, and natural flavor. But what's "natural flavor" and is it safe to consume by the daily 12-pack? Asking for a friend. Full Article
ac See Everything That Happens When a Package is Shipped By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Ever wonder what happens to a package when it gets shipped? We stuck a GoPro in a clear acrylic box, had it filming the entire time, and got a chance to see what the package went through on its way to your doorstep. Full Article
ac Look Inside a Pig’s Face While It Eats By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000 Thanks to XROMM technology scientists can see moving bones inside animals in real time. It's perfect for seeing inside a repaired knee or for figuring out how dinosaurs may have moved. Full Article
ac This Spinach Plant Can Actually Detect Explosives By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000 Can plants really detect explosives? At MIT, a new technology is being developed that can make dangerous chemicals in the soil easier to detect. Full Article
ac CES 2017 - Forget Phones, Blackberry Is Getting Into the Car Business By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000 The former phone maker is taking its software expertise to the world of self-driving cars. Full Article
ac Boeing Blue is the Latest in a Long Line of Space Suits By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000 Boeing Blue, the new space suit designed for the company's Starliner capsule, is the most recent update to a linage of suits that go back to the beginning of the space age. Full Article
ac Ever Trip Too Long on Acid? Here's What Happened in Your Brain By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:00:00 +0000 After decades of research, scientists have finally figured out why an LSD high lasts so damn long. That could help turn it into a therapy drug in the future. Full Article
ac If the Tin Man Actually Had a Heart, It'd Look Like This By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000 A robotic heart points the way to a future where soft robots help us heal. Full Article
ac How Trump's Immigration Crackdown Will Hurt Silicon Valley By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:04:07 +0000 Immigrants founded half of the billion dollar startups in the US. Now many worry that Trump's current travel ban and any future restrictions to work visas could hamper growth in Silicon Valley. Full Article
ac WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Tracy Morgan Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:09:00 +0000 "Fist Fight" star Tracy Morgan answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself. Full Article
ac Inside the Fake News Factory of Macedonia By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000 In the aftermath of the US elections, documentary photographer Guy Martin travelled to Veles, Macedonia to find out why this small town became the heart of the fake news scandal. These are the photos he took. Full Article
ac Microsoft's Surface Studio Is All Beauty and a Little Bit of Brains By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:49:41 +0000 David Pierce reviews the new all-in-one PC from Microsoft. It's a joy to use, especially if you like drawing with a pen on a massive touchscreen. Full Article
ac Blackjack Expert Explains How Card Counting Works By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 20:00:00 +0000 There's a lot more to counting cards in Blackjack than meets the eye. Mike Aponte, former member of the infamous MIT Blackjack Team, takes us through the complicated process of counting cards. Full Article
ac WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Samuel L. Jackson Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 11:00:00 +0000 "Kong: Skull Island" star Samuel L. Jackson answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself. Full Article
ac Self-Driving Cars Won't Save Everyone. In Fact, They'll Kill By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Self-driving cars will totally eliminate traffic deaths, right? Nope. In fact, on rare occasions they'll choose to kill. Full Article
ac Ridley Scott Reveals the Origin of His AI Characters in the Alien Saga By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Director Ridley Scott has featured several AI characters in his films. His most recent is Walter in Alien: Covenant. WIRED caught up with Ridley, his son Luke and the President of AMD to talk about AI. Full Article
ac After 4 Years, Seattle's Giant Tunneling Machine Finally Breaks Through By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:57:46 +0000 Bertha, the largest boring machine in North America, has reached the light at the end of the tunnel, after getting stuck, and sitting motionless underneath the city for two years. Full Article
ac Technique Critique - Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages From Film & TV By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:00:00 +0000 Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes some of the most famous "constructed languages" in movie and television history. Which real-life languages inspired "conlangs" like Klingon and Dothraki? Full Article
ac How Hip-Hop Producer Steve Lacy Makes Hits With ... His Phone By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Steve Lacy is a pretty big deal. He's part of the band The Internet, he's a producer for J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar, and he just put out his first solo album which he made on his iPhone. Full Article
ac All of the Big News from Facebook's F8 2017 By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:40:05 +0000 Everything you need to know from Facebook's F8 from augmented reality filters to messenger bots to virtual selfie sticks. Full Article
ac What Can Facebook Do About Live Murders and Suicides? By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:42:59 +0000 Steve Stephens recorded himself murdering an innocent victim and then uploaded the footage to Facebook. The horrific act has put Facebook under immense pressure to do something, but can the company prevent broadcasting acts of violence without fundamentally changing the purpose of the social media platform. WIRED explores Facebook's limited options. Full Article
ac Robots & Us: When Machines Take the Wheel By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 01 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Autonomous driving technology could make getting around safer, more efficient, and less expensive. What will it mean for the millions of people who drive for a living and is it really ready for the road? Full Article
ac What is a DDoS Hack and How Do You Avoid Them? By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 05 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 DDoS! It stands for distributed denial of service, a kind of attack that turns insecure, internet-connected devices into a sort of zombie army. So here's how you can avoid being part of that zombie army. Full Article
ac 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
ac 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
ac 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
ac 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
ac 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
ac 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
ac 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
ac 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
ac 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
ac 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
ac 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
ac How the iPhone Became the Everything Machine By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:50:21 +0000 The iPhone is 10 years old! Take a look back at how the smartphone grew from gadget to essential. Full Article
ac How Nike Nearly Cracked the Perfect Marathon By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Runners have been trying to break through the 2 hour marathon mark for decades. Here's the incredible science behind how Eliud Kipchoge came within 25 seconds in Nike's Breaking2 project. Full Article
ac Cadillac Challenges Tesla with a Super Smart Self-Driving Sedan By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Cadillac's new self-driving car isn't just watching the road, it's watching the driver. The system it calls "super cruise" is designed to crack the so-called "hand-off" problem. Full Article
ac Watch the Tesla Model S Fail to Ace Its Latest Crash Test By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Tesla is having a rough week. The company's stock price fell 20% in just a few days and now the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced the Tesla Model S sedan failed to earn its best rating, the Top Safety Pick. Full Article
ac Watch a Homemade Robot Crack a Safe in Just 15 Minutes By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Nathan Seidle’s wife gave him this already locked safe as a gift with no combination. Weird present, but he loves a good challenge. So he built a safecracking robot. Full Article
ac The Full Video of a Robot Cracking a Safe By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Watch this safe-cracking robot open a safe in 15 minutes. Full Article
ac How a Hacker Fired a Locked Smart Gun with $15 of Magnets By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:32:00 +0000 The Armatix iP1 pistol and its RFID watch, are sold as one of the most secure firearm systems available. But a hacker, who goes by 'Plore', has found flaws in the Armatix that entirely defeat its security measures. Full Article
ac Reuniting With Dawn, the Ion-Powered Spacecraft in the Asteroid Belt By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000 How did Dawn orbit two protoplanets? The same way Darth Vadar annihilated the rebel fleet. Sort of. Full Article
ac Technique Critique - Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down Actors Playing Real People By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:00:00 +0000 Dialect coach Erik Singer takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. To best break down this concept, Erik analyzes some actors playing real people. Just how close was Jamie Foxx's Ray Charles? What about Cate Blanchett's portrayal of Bob Dylan? Is Daniel Day-Lewis' Lincoln accurate? Check out more from Erik here: http://www.eriksinger.com/ Full Article
ac Inside the Studio Where Aerial Photography Turns into Prints That Last Forever | My Space By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Artist Justin Guariglia uses a high-tech printer to create art that documents Earth's melting glaciers. Full Article
ac Blade Runner 2049: Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling Talk Acting, Blade Running, and Their Pecs By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:55:00 +0000 Blade Runner 2049 stars Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling on their roles as Blade Runners, physically demanding parts, and the first time they met on set. Full Article
ac Tech Support - Jackie Chan & Olivia Munn Answer Martial Arts Questions From Twitter By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:06:00 +0000 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie' stars Jackie Chan and Olivia Munn use the power of Twitter to answer some common martial arts questions. Jackie also teaches Olivia how to karate chop some pieces of wood and defend herself from knife attacks. Full Article
ac The Jean Jacket of the Future By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Remember Marty's jean jacket from "Back to the Future"? Well Levi's Commuter Trucker Jacket with Jacquard by Google is better. We got a glimpse into what might happen when we start connecting our clothes to the internet. Full Article