& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& 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
& Now Amazon's Alexa Can Show You Things By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:49:00 +0000 Instead of just yelling at you, Amazon's Alexa now can show you things with a new flashy screen. Here's WIRED's review of the Amazon Echo Show. Full Article
& How the Internet Tricks You Into Thinking You're Always Right By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:58:37 +0000 A guide to busting through confirmation bias, the cognitive fallacy that's destroying our discourse. Full Article
& WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Steve Carell & Kristen Wiig Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0000 'Despicable Me 3' stars Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. Full Article
& WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Will Ferrell & Amy Poehler Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:40:00 +0000 'The House' stars Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. Full Article
& Inside the High-Tech Flag Football League That's Taking on the NFL By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:30:00 +0000 Jeff Lewis, a former Wall Street guy, is the founder of the American Flag Football League. It’s a new, teched-out version of the game and he believes it's the future of football. Full Article
& A Timeline of Uber's Unfolding By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Uber's crises have come so fast that they've piled on top of one another. We've laid out some of the companies most infamous milestones. Full Article
& Stunt Coordinator Breaks Down 'Atomic Blonde' Fight Scene By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0000 'Atomic Blonde' stunt coordinator and second unit director Sam Hargrave breaks down every stunt in the film's Berlin flat fight scene. Full Article
& WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Al Gore Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions on Climate Change By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0000 Politician and activist Al Gore answers the Internet's most searched questions about climate change. Full Article
& Elon Musk's Master Plan Culminates in the Tesla Model 3 By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000 The Tesla Model 3 isn’t just a new electric car, it’s the culmination of over a decade of careful strategic planning to achieve Elon Musk’s goal: to accelerate humanity’s transition to sustainable energy. Full Article
& Leaked Audio of Q&A With Jared Kushner By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Trump administration senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke to congressional interns in an off the record meeting, including about his work in the Middle East. Full Article
& Full Leaked Audio of Jared Kushner Q & A By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 22:14:21 +0000 Trump administration senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke to congressional interns in an off the record meeting, including about his work in the Middle East. Full Article
& WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Matthew McConaughey & Idris Elba Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:00:00 +0000 "The Dark Tower" stars Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. Full Article
& Wanna See the Solar Eclipse? Here's What You Have to Know By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000 On August 21, darkness will wash over America. But in a good way, we promise. Here's everything you need to know if you want to catch a glimpse of the solar eclipse. Full Article
& Shaping Smarter Cities - Porto's Roving Hotspots By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:21:25 +0000 The city of the future calls for more connectivity. Porto company Veniam is leading that charge by incorporating a wifi mesh network to this old-world city. Produced for Mouser Electronics by the WIRED Brand Lab Full Article
& Plankton 'Mucus Houses' Could Pull Microplastics From the Sea By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:24:26 +0000 Watch the jellyfish-like larvacean capture tiny floating bits of plastic, enabling the pinkie-sized critter to eliminate the plastic as waste that falls to the seafloor. Full Article
& Instagram's Bold Plan to Block Hateful Comments Using AI By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED Editor-in-chief Nick Thompson sits down with Instagram CEO, Kevin Systrom, to talk about the platform's bold plan to use AI to block hateful comments posted by trolls. Full Article
& Here's What Humanity Will Learn from the Solar Eclipse By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 19:33:46 +0000 America just witnessed the most fantastic celestial phenomenon human eyes can witness: a total solar eclipse. It was a national spectacle, but also a huge opportunity for science. Full Article
& Why It's Almost Impossible to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Spanish freediver Aleix Segura held his breath for 24 minutes and 3 seconds in 2016. How is that possible? Here's how. Full Article
& Tech Support - Bungie's Luke Smith Answers Destiny Questions From Twitter By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:00:00 +0000 Bungie's Luke Smith, design director of Destiny 2, answers Twitter's burning questions about the Destiny franchise. What if the loot cave still existed? How will characters transfer to Destiny 2? Did the wizard really come from the moon? Full Article
& Why Two-Legged Robots Aren't a Total Disaster | HardWIRED By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 23:49:29 +0000 Nothing in robotics is as unintentionally hilarious as watching a biped fall. But roboticists are making progress- like with this machine named Cassie. Full Article
& How Nuclear Weapons Have Evolved Since the 1940's By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Today’s bombs are smaller in size but more powerful. They are also more likely to be delivered via intercontinental ballistic missiles, rather than dropped from aircraft. Here's how they've evolved into weapons that could wipe out entire cities. Full Article
& 'The Current War' First Trailer By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:39:08 +0000 Electricity powerhouses Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse race to bring electricity to the world in 'The Current War,' hitting theaters Nov. 24. Full Article
& First Drive Review of Nissan's New Leaf Electric Car By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:03:32 +0000 Nissan’s new Leaf is an OK electric car—and that’s a great thing. The original Leaf was a global best seller. Now the 2018 LEAF has to compete with Chevy's Bolt and Tesla's Model 3. WIRED takes the car, and its semi-autonomous features, for a spin. Full Article
& WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Dave Franco, Kumail Nanjiani and Fred Armisen Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:00:00 +0000 The LEGO Ninjago Movie stars Dave Franco, Fred Armisen, and Kumail Nanjiani take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. Full Article
& 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
& WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Tom Cruise & Doug Liman Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0000 'American Made' star Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. Full Article
& First Look at the 2018 Ford Mustang GT's Futuristic Dashboard By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +0000 Rev it up with a choice of gauge styles. The 2018 Ford Mustang GT has an innovative digital display that could be the future of dashboards. Full Article
& WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Josh Brolin & Taylor Kitsch Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000 'Only the Brave' stars Josh Brolin and Taylor Kitsch take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. 'Only the Brave' premieres in theaters October 20th. Full Article
& Oculus' John Carmack Explains Virtual Reality in 5 Levels of Difficulty By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:27:00 +0000 The technology behind modern virtual reality is rapidly evolving, but what exactly helps create a better sense of realism and immersion? WIRED has challenged Oculus CTO John Carmack to explain the concept of realism in virtual reality to 5 different people; a child, a pre-teen, a college student, a grad student and a VR expert. Full Article
& Robot Love: How Design Studio Elastic Built WIRED's November Cover By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000 For WIRED's November cover about love in the time of robots the magazine turned to Elastic, the design firm behind the opening credits for Game of Thrones, True Detective, and Westworld. Full Article
& Review: Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL Smartphones By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000 You Can't Buy a Better Android Phone Than the Pixel 2. In almost every way, the Pixel 2 is the iPhone of Android phones. And that's a compliment. Full Article
& Driving Design - The Technology Shaping Tomorrow's Innovation By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:00:00 +0000 Explore the tech moments that redefine what's possible with Designer Thomas Meyerhoffer, from the birth of the Internet to tomorrow's cutting-edge innovations. Full Article
& Zoom Through Seattle's Nearly Completed SR-99 Tunnel By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:47:14 +0000 Now that Bertha's done digging, the new underground highway is nearly ready for human travelers. Fly through the project from a drone's perspective. Full Article
& WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Matt Damon & Julianne Moore Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0000 'Suburbicon' stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. Full Article
& Watch the 1000 mph Bloodhound Rocket Car's First Run By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000 The Bloodhound is a truly super supercar. It's designed to punch right through the sound barrier to over 1,000 miles per hour. Full Article