li Nice Storm: The Blizzard of 2016 Is a Scientific Classic By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:03:19 +0000 Winter Storm Jonas is hitting the East Coast hard. Yeah, you’ve heard this before and been burned, but too many forecasts are aligning for this one to be a fluke. Full Article
li An AR Rock Climbing Game By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:30:00 +0000 Jon Cheng and the Brooklyn Boulder Gym are working together on a real life video game for rock climbers. Full Article
li 3 Valentine’s Day Gifts for the Tech Guy in Your Life | Sponsored Content By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Still stumped on what to get your guy for Valentine’s Day? Check out three techie-approved gifts, perfect for any guy on your list. Brought to you by eBay Full Article
li This Robo-Roach Might Someday Save Lives By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a robotic cockroach capable of squeezing through tight spaces. Someday swarms of robo-roaches could be sent into disaster areas like earthquake rubble to search for survivors. Full Article
li This is What It’s Like to Race a Drone at Full-Throttle By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:00:00 +0000 If you’re not crashing, you’re not flying. At least that’s the idea behind the Drone Racing League—a relatively new organization where drone pilots compete by racing high-performance aircrafts through tight and intricate courses. Find out what it’s like to fly one of the technically advanced drones from the pilots who are paving the way. Full Article
li Breaking Through - Why a 30-Second, $5 Million Super Bowl Ad Isn’t Enough By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:30:22 +0000 It was the biggest ad day of the year, but if you thought your company’s 30-second Super Bowl spot was enough, you’re wrong. Digital marketers behind top advertising agency Droga5 explain how a Super Bowl ad is only step one when it comes to today’s 360-degree, digitally innovative marketing campaigns. Full Article
li Data Attack - Do You Have a Normal Sex Life? By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:00:00 +0000 The average person will kiss 21.5 people in their lifetime. And while guys lose their virginities at 16.8 years old, women will hold out a little longer until 17.2 years old. Find out how you stack up between the sheets as we run through the stats of an average sex life, as told with sex dolls. Full Article
li How to Keep Your iPhone’s Security Countermeasure From Obliterating Your Data By www.wired.com Published On :: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:44:03 +0000 One of the iPhone’s hallmark security features could leave you locked out if you forget your password too many times. Here’s how to keep your data saved, in case you can't always trust your short-term memory. Full Article
li 5-Year-Olds Ask an Astronaut What It’s Like to Be in Outer Space By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Why don’t space shuttles float away? How do you know when to go to sleep? Astronaut Kjell Lindgren answers questions about life in space from a few intrepid kindergartners. Full Article
li The On-the-Job Film-Schooling of Jeff Nichols By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:00:00 +0000 For each of his films, Jeff Nichols gives himself a set of directorial challenges that he wants to master. He's learning the skills that he'll need to someday make a gazillion-dollar blockbuster. Full Article
li Tesla's Summon Feature Is Like Knight Rider. Kinda By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:00:00 +0000 Summon is fundamental to Tesla's goal of making driverless cars—and it won't stay a party trick forever. Full Article
li Absurd Creatures | The Tarsier Leaps Like a Superhero, Looks Like Yoda By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Meet the tarsier, the wide-eyed staring contest champ of the animal world. Its eyes have evolved to be so enormous, it can’t even move them in its head. Which means you can say whatever you want to a tarsier and it can’t roll its eyes at you. Full Article
li Out of Office with Brent Rose - Riding the New Hendo Hoverboard 2.0 Is Like Levitating the Gnar By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:40:00 +0000 In 2014, startup Arx Pax made headlines with the Hendo Hoverboard. With some helpful input from Tony Hawk and others, now we have the Hendo Hoverboard 2.0, and Brent Rose just scored the first ride on it. Full Article
li Absurd Creatures | A Bird Impaling Its Victims Is So Metal I Can't Even Stand It By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The shrike may look like a songbird but the only tunes it knows are METAL! The cute little bird kills its prey then impales them on spikes. Full Article
li Up Close and Personal With the New Little iPhone SE By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:53:55 +0000 The cute little iPhone SE offers the components of the bigger iPhone 6S with a 4-inch screen and a form factor in line with the iPhone 5s. Full Article
li 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW) By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Mozido? Nutanix? We gave the Silicon Valley cast the names of real startups and asked them to guess what they do. This is NSFW, so put those headphones on. Full Article
li Silicon Valley Mourns Andy Grove, a Titan of Tech By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:30:20 +0000 Grove is routinely mentioned as part of the same pantheon that includes Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs. And with good reason. Full Article
li App Pack | These Apps Offer Relief During Tax Season By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Tax season really snuck up on you again, didn't it? You still have until Monday, April 18 to file and pay your taxes, and while that's plenty of time to get all your paperwork in order, you might need a little help with these apps. Full Article
li Everything You Missed at Silicon Valley Comic Con By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:27:32 +0000 For the first time ever Silicon Valley hosted its very own Comic Con. It didn't quite measure up to the San Diego incarnation that dominates entertainment headlines every year, but it shows promise. Full Article
li WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Melissa McCarthy & Kristen Bell Answer The Web’s Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 At The Boss junket, Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell answer a Google Autocomplete interview together. Full Article
li Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:00:00 +0000 WhatsApp just made the scope of the Apple-FBI encryption battle look kinda small. WIRED's senior staff writer, Cade Metz, breaks down exactly why this is a big deal. Full Article
li A Brain Implant Brings a Quadriplegic’s Arm Back to Life By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:00:00 +0000 Ian Burkhart is paralyzed from the neck down, but thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in his brain he's able to swipe credit cards and play video games with his own hands. Full Article
li Lux Noctis – How Photographer Reuben Wu Lit Landscape With a Drone By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:30:00 +0000 Behind the scenes of Reuben Wu's 'Lux Noctis' photographs made with the Phase One camera and Fiilix's new drone-mounted AL250 LED light. Full Article
li Exclusive Footage of What It’s Like to See Through Magic Leap By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 An exclusive WIRED clip of what daily computing with Magic Leap technology could be like. Recorded directly through Magic Leap technology. Full Article
li AR, VR, MR: Making Sense of Magic Leap and the Future of Reality By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The age of virtual realty is here but augmented reality and its cousin mixed reality are making strides. WIRED senior editor Peter Rubin breaks down the new platforms. Full Article
li Absurd Creatures | This Squid Has One Little Eye and One Giant Eye By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Hey listen, we’re all lopsided. You’d look weird as hell if you were perfectly symmetrical. But the strawberry squid is really lopsided, with one tiny eye and one giant eye. Full Article
li Designers Reimagine the Task Light—And It’s Gorgeous By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:30:00 +0000 You probably don’t give your lamp much thought when you switch it on. But the San Francisco design firm Box Clever recently spent two years thinking about a lamp perfect for designers. Full Article
li Visit a Roiling Deep-Sea Vent in Glorious VR By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:50:00 +0000 The promise of virtual reality is that it can transport you to places you’d prefer not to go, like the roiling vents at the bottom of the deepest oceans, where crushing pressures and searing heat make an environment fit only for robots. Full Article
li J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda Rap in Jabba the Hutt’s Language By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 04 May 2016 16:38:34 +0000 Film director J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda surprised people waiting for tickets to see Miranda's Broadway hit 'Hamilton' with an acoustic version of the new Star Wars cantina song, 'Jabba Flow.' Full Article
li Take an Epic Drone Flight Through Seattle's SR-99 Tunnel By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 06 May 2016 18:01:07 +0000 Washington State's Department of Transportation flew a drone through Seattle's SR-99 tunnel created by the Big Bertha boring machine. Full Article
li This Mer-Bot Can Swim, Grab Stuff, and Looks Like the Jason of the Deep By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 06 May 2016 20:32:04 +0000 Stanford University's new Ocean One is a humanoid undersea robot designed for deep diving and extreme manipulation, thanks to its haptic feedback controls. Full Article
li 3 Million LEGO Bricks in One Room By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Robbie McCarthy and Bill Gowdy, two of LEGO's Master Builders, show us LEGOLAND's model shop packed with more than 3 million bricks in 70 different colors. Robbie also gives us an exclusive look at LEGO's proprietary 3D modeling software. Full Article
li Silicon Valley Opens 1-3 By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 13 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Three opens from Silicon Valley. Courtesy HBO. Full Article
li Absurd Creatures | The Vicious Fish With a Strike Like You Wouldn't Believe By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 16 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The frogfish is a vicious hunter that swallows its victims whole, but it doesn’t really bite its prey. By rapidly expanding its mouth to 10 times its normal volume, the predator creates a vacuum that sucks victims in. Full Article
li The Largest Plane in the World Stops Traffic in Australia By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 May 2016 21:45:52 +0000 The Antonov An-225 is the biggest plane in the world. It's such a sight that 20,000 people flocked to the Perth airport in Australia to see this thing land. Full Article
li Absurd Creatures | Fish Think They're Safe From Birds But the Kingfisher Is Like LOL By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:00:00 +0000 For a bird called the kingfisher, stealth, dive-bombing and impalement is a way of life. Full Article
li Maybe It's Time to Move the Three-Point Line By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 02:12:58 +0000 For decades the slam dunk reigned as the number one crowd pleaser in basketball. Not anymore. The three-pointer is the new star but some argue it's ruining the game and want the NBA to move the line further back. Full Article
li Absurd Creatures | This Bearcat (Yeah, It's Real) Smells Like Popcorn By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The binturong has a prehensile tail, crazy feet, and excretes a scent that smells like popcorn. Just call it Orville Smellenbacher. Full Article
li The Next List: The Future of Business Is Anything But Bleak By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Tech bubble? What tech bubble. The future looks bright, especially when you sit down to talk with these four people. Full Article
li Magic Leap's Next Move? Bringing C-3PO to Your Living Room By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:05:00 +0000 This video of Star Wars characters C-3PO and R2-D2 recorded through Magic Leap's technology isn't just cool—it also shows the nearly unlimited potential of a new partnership between Lucasfilm and the mixed-reality company. Full Article
li Exclusive Clip: ‘The BFG' By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Not-so-friendly giant Fleshlumpeater visits the BFG in this exclusive clip from Steven Spielberg’s new movie. Full Article
li Narcos | Season 2 - Official Trailer | Netflix By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 04:00:00 +0000 Produced by Netflix Full Article
li Out of Office with Brent Rose - The Ultimate Liquid Nitrogen Destruction Video By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Armed with 20 gallons of liquid nitrogen, Brent Rose super freezes objects the Internet has never seen frozen and uses a Phantom high-speed camera to record their destruction in super slo-motion. Full Article
li Alliance Data Drop Off By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 23:43:13 +0000 A video rendering of an electric autonomous shuttle dropping Buckeyes off at work. Full Article
li 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
li Flight Mode | Inside the NASA-Inspired Room That Guides 5,000 Airplanes By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 01:50:00 +0000 In the first episode of the new series Flight Mode, WIRED takes you into a wildly complex mission control where Delta monitors thousands of flights 24/7. Full Article
li We Tested A Real-Life Iron Man Glove By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:55:12 +0000 A fun look at all the things that are possible when wielding the powerful Iron Man glove. Iron Man glove designed and built by Patrick Priebe - http://www.laser-gadgets.com/ Full Article
li Flight Mode | The Bunker-Like Vault Where Jet Engines Prove Their Worth By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Before takeoff, jet engines must prove they're safe, reliable, and capable. In episode two of WIRED's Flight Mode we step into the massive bunkers where engineers test and maintain these mighty beasts, all to keep you up in the air. Full Article
li The Beauty of Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner on Display By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Watch Boeing maneuver this All Nippon Airways 787-9 Dreamliner through the skies as it practices for the 2016 Farnborough Airshow. Full Article
li GM's RoboGlove Will Turn Workers Into Tool-Slinging Cyborgs By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 GM's building a power-assisted glove that will make spinning a wrench a whole lot easier. Full Article