li Struggling with Dry January? Here Are Awesome Non-Alcoholic Alternatives By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000 After a boozy holiday season quitting alcohol for January sounds like a good idea, but it's not that easy. We've found some legitimate, non-alcoholic drinks for your beer, wine and spirit cravings. Full Article
li CES 2017 - Get Up Close With Faraday Future's Bonkers Luxury Limousine By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000 Faraday Future revealed its luxury electric limousine at CES. The company plans to sell it for as much as a Bentley, but it has more than a few hurdles to overcome to make the transition from stunning concept to real-life road car. Full Article
li 2017: The Year Ahead - WIRED's 2017 Predictions: Drug Reform Will Beat Criminalization By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000 WIRED predicts the biggest trends for the year ahead. In this segment, Matt Simon looks at how the drug crisis in the US is being reframed as a health problem instead of a criminal one. Full Article
li Behind the Scenes of MTV’s ‘Stranded With a Million Dollars’ By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:07:01 +0000 How do you sneakily film 10 people trapped on a remote island for 40 days? Very carefully—and with a lot of equipment. Full Article
li Dear Angelica Teaser By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:00:00 +0000 A teaser for Oculus Story Studio's new virtual reality film 'Dear Angelica,' which was made with the company's VR illustration tool, Quill. Full Article
li Women in Tech Marched on Washington for More than Just Gender Equality By www.wired.com Published On :: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 17:10:27 +0000 Women from Silicon Valley joined the thousands that marched on Washington DC to protest the Trump Administration. WIRED joins a group of women in tech on their journey to the Capitol to fight for science, climate change action, immigration rights and equality. Full Article
li Science of Teams: How MIT Media Lab Builds Cities Using Lego and Augmented Reality By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000 The MIT Media Lab is using innovation to boil efficient teamwork down to a science. With an enhanced ability to communicate across teams, MIT is creating a workplace that shares ideas in unprecedented ways. The Changing Places group at MIT tackles large challenges like fighting pollution and urban modeling; the latter of which is being solved by using a combination of lego bricks and augmented reality. Full Article
li The Adorable Little Fish With a Suction Cup for a Belly By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000 Meet the lumpsucker, the tiny fish that sucks at swimming but is great at suctioning. Full Article
li 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
li Meet America's Newest, High-Techiest Weather Satellite By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 22:45:30 +0000 The GOES-16 atmospheric satellite is a super-powered machine that can predict the future. At least as far as weather is concerned. Full Article
li 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
li 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
li The Scrappy Little Mouse That Turns Venom Into a Painkiller By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000 The grasshopper mouse ain't like any other mouse on Earth, in the sense that it fights scorpions and turns their venom from a toxin into a painkiller. Full Article
li These Autonomous Wheelchairs Are the Future of Mobility By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000 At MIT, they are creating an autonomous wheelchair that can navigate streets and buildings to allow people with limited mobility to travel without having to worry about obstructions or other hazards. Full Article
li UPS Has a Mother-Truck of a Delivery Drone Idea By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:30:00 +0000 UPS's futuristic delivery drones will be loaded inside the truck then fly out of and return to a roof port that would make any Bond villain jealous. Full Article
li Allison Williams & Daniel Kaluuya Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:00:00 +0000 "Get Out" stars Allison Williams & Daniel Kaluuya gather up their courage and show us the last things they did with their phones. Full Article
li This Drone is Designed to Save Lives Then Disappear By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:00:00 +0000 The Everfly APSARA drone is an origami-like disposable drone made to deliver essential supplies in a humanitarian or disaster situation. Full Article
li Meet the Little Star Trappist-1 and Its Exhilarating Planets By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 23:08:37 +0000 Astronomers have discovered seven dwarf planets orbiting a star 40 light years away from us. Not impressed? How about this — the planets may just be able to harbor life. Full Article
li 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
li Planet Earth II : Exclusive Clip From Episode 3 ‘Jungles’ By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:00:00 +0000 An exclusive clip from the upcoming BBC America film Planet Earth II. Full Article
li The Satellite That Spies on America's Lightning By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:19:44 +0000 The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite are giving NOAA National Weather Service forecasters richer information about lightning that will help them alert the public to dangerous weather. Full Article
li Flight Lab - Suit Up and Fly High in NASA's Science Spy Plane By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 12:00:00 +0000 Suit up with a NASA high altitude ER-2 pilot as he prepares for a scientific research mission flying as high as 70,000 feet in the agency's modified U-2 spy plane. Full Article
li Danny McBride and Katherine Waterston Talk 'Alien: Covenant' at SXSW By www.wired.com Published On :: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Ridley Scott returns to direct the prequel to his 1979 Alien. Actors Danny McBride and Katherine Waterston joined WIRED at SXSW to talk about the film and some of the rumors that fans are sharing ahead of the Alien: Covenant premier. Full Article
li SF’s Wild SoundBox Is a Symphony Like You’ve Never Heard Before By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0000 San Francisco’s renowned orchestra has turned an acoustically disastrous rehearsal space into the city’s hottest classical music venue. Full Article
li Flight Lab - Climb Aboard a Boeing 747 That NASA Turned Into the World's Biggest Flying Telescope By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:00:00 +0000 To get the best space observations possible, NASA scientists fly around the world in a highly modified 747 carrying a giant telescope. Full Article
li Meet the Remarkable Robot That Communicates Like No Other By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Iorek the robot not only understands your commands and gestures, but it asks for clarification if it's confused. Full Article
li Flight Lab - Inside NASA's Prototype Lab Where Model Planes Take Flight By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Walk into NASA Armstrong's Sub-scale Research Lab and see the future of flight in miniature. The lab's model airplanes are used to test cutting edge aeronautical ideas like crash-avoidance and more efficient rocket launches. Full Article
li 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
li Flight Lab - We Trained to Become a NASA Research Pilot and It Ain't Easy By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000 It takes a lot of training to become an elite NASA research pilot. WIRED's Jack Stewart gets a crash course in flying and rolling F-18 jets for science, of course. Full Article
li Does Your Phone's Blue Light Dimmer Really Work? Let's Ask Science By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Your phone might automatically dim its blue light at night. But does this really help you fall asleep? Full Article
li Flight Lab - This NASA Drone Flies Over Hurricanes For Better Weather Forecasts By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:53:00 +0000 NASA takes retired Global Hawk military drones and sets them up to fly dangerous missions monitoring some of the most extreme storms for better weather data. Full Article
li Silicon Valley's Favorite Shoe Company Has Some New Kicks By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:03:49 +0000 Last year, the San Francisco startup Allbirds released a shoe it calls the Wool Runner. This eco-friendly, merino wool sneaker exploded in popularity in Bay Area. Now, Allbirds is unveiling its second product, the Wool Lounger. Full Article
li 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
li Flight Lab - Check Out the New Far-Out Fliers of NASA's Famed X-Plane Program By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:00:00 +0000 For seven decades experimental X-planes have been developed and flown in the Mojave desert. NASA is now building the future of flight like an all electric plane and a quieter supersonic jet. Full Article
li The Robot That's Roaming San Francisco's Streets to Deliver Food By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:34:57 +0000 Hungry? But you don't want to deal with a human? If you live in San Francisco's Mission district, you can get your food delivered by a robot named Marble. Full Article
li 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
li Lilium’s Funky ‘Jet’ Could Make Flying Car Dreams a Reality By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0000 The Lilium personal jet is the latest entry in a growing field of what are essentially flying cars. The electric vehicle could soon be ferrying passengers using distributed propulsion. Full Article
li How NASA Visualizes Stunning Worlds Without Ever Seeing Them By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0000 Every time a new exoplanet is discovered, the announcement is accompanied by an artist’s rendering of that world. So when scientists recently discovered the seven exoplanets of Trappist-1, NASA's visual artists had their work cut out for them. Full Article
li The Unsettling Performance That Showed the World Through AI’s Eyes By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Artist Trevor Paglen is best known for images of the security state – drones, spy satellites and rendition planes – For a new work commissioned by the Cantor Arts Center he's collaborated with Kronos Quartet and Obscura Digital to look under the hood of artificial intelligence and machine vision. Full Article
li Meet the Cute Little Robot That'll Soon Float Around with Astronauts By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 02 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 The Astrobee is a brilliant little robot that'll use puffs of air to autonomously float around the International Space Station. Full Article
li Eliud Kipchoge Almost Breaks the Two-Hour Marathon By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 06 May 2017 00:03:13 +0000 Eliud Kipchoge fell short of running a marathon in under two hours. In a special Nike event, the long distance runner beat the current marathon world record coming in at 2 hours and 25 seconds, but because the event wasn't sanctioned it won't count. Here's how Nike controlled every variable in an attempt to break two. Full Article
li 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
li 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
li 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
li 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
li 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
li 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
li 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
li 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
li 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