ar Six Scientists Lived in a Tiny Pod for a Year Pretending They Were on Mars By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:56:58 +0000 It sounds nuts, and maybe you have to be, but six scientists completed a yearlong NASA-funded Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in a dome in near isolation. Full Article
ar What It Takes to Turn a Vintage Wreck Into a Racecar By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:23:54 +0000 Dave Hogye spent four and a half years turning a rusted out 1959 Triumph into a beautiful race car. He then risked all that hard work, took it to the track and pushed it full throttle. Full Article
ar Garmin's New Action Cam Versus GoPro's Hero4 By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Must be action cam season again and now Garmin has stepped into the game with it's Virb Ultra 30. It doesn't do a bad job when matched against the GoPro Hero4. Full Article
ar These Aren’t Minions. They’re Robots That Swim Around Solving Mysteries By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:44:17 +0000 Scientists just released robots that look like Minions into the Pacific Ocean. The little bots are on a mission to unravel one of the great mysteries of the sea: what the hell are marine larvae up to? Full Article
ar Food Myths: Are Apple Cores Poisonous? By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:22:31 +0000 There are a lot of food myths out there, so WIRED's decided to look into a few. The first: are apple seeds really poisonous? Full Article
ar 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
ar WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Chelsea Handler Answers the Web’s Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Chelsea Handler hangs with WIRED to answer the internet’s most Googled questions about herself. Full Article
ar Chevy's Electric Car Travels Farther Per Charge Than Tesla's Model S By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:00:00 +0000 General Motors has promised that the Chevrolet Bolt, its affordable, long-range electric car, would deliver at least 200 miles on a charge and cost no more than $30,000. WIRED put it to the test. Full Article
ar 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
ar Climb Inside Uber's Self-Driving Car—Its Next Big Disruption By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The ride-sharing giant is in Pittsburgh for its latest big move: the country’s first autonomous taxi service. Select Uber users can now ride in self-driving cars, with humans at the wheel for an emergency. Full Article
ar This Motoring Mimic Can Become Any Car By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:13:00 +0000 Need a Camaro? A Duesenberg? Maybe a Batmobile? WIRED transportation writer Jack Stewart checks out the Blackbird, the shape-shifting electric vehicle directors use for motoring movie magic. Full Article
ar Meet the Artist: Tom Sachs By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:29:09 +0000 Artist Tom Sachs discusses his latest space program--Mission to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon. His expansive sculpture exhibition will fill Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco from the 16th of September until the 15th of January 2017. Full Article
ar Food Myths: Do Carrots Improve Your Eyesight? By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Your parents always told you to eat your veggies, especially carrots if you want good eyesight. But can they really improve your vision? WIRED takes a look. Full Article
ar 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
ar Tinashe on MTV’s First Live Music Show in 20 Years By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:34:17 +0000 MTV's new live music show 'Wonderland' is their first return to live music programming in 20 years. Headliner Tinashe talks about how the multi-platform broadcast of the show reflects our present media landscape. Full Article
ar Meet the Giant, Toxic Starfish That’s Menacing Reefs By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Get to know the crown of thorns starfish, which grows to two feet wide and wields toxic spines that will definitely ruin your day. Full Article
ar NASA's Starshade Is Like a Giant Visor for the Stars By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has come up with an ingenious solution to take better photographs of ultra-bright stars; a baseball diamond-sized folding shade that blocks out a star's powerful rays. Full Article
ar Step Inside South Park's Most Memorable Scenes By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Ever wanted to be inside an episode of South Park? At the Paley Center in Los Angeles, the South Park 20 Experience lets you do just that. Taking the twenty most iconic moments of the television series, the South Park 20 Experience gives people the opportunity to take pictures and become part of South Park's best episodes. Full Article
ar Did NASA Find a Second Earth? By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 An exoplanet expert tells us if Proxima Centauri B could be another Earth. Full Article
ar Google's Self-Driving Cars Have Clocked 2 Million Miles By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:05:16 +0000 By this point, self driving cars are a common sight in Silicon Valley and Google’s fleet of nearly 60 autonomous cars hit a milestone: They have now clocked more than two million miles of driving on public streets. Full Article
ar WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Blindspot's Jaimie Alexander Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:52:00 +0000 Jaimie Alexander hangs with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about herself. Full Article
ar Absurd Creatures - The Most Stunning Fish in the Sea Are Actually Dragons (Kinda) By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:54:49 +0000 The leafy and weedy seadragons might not breathe fire, but they’re every bit as majestic as real dragons. Full Article
ar The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama Guest-Edits WIRED's November Issue By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:55:00 +0000 Like WIRED, our 44th president is a relentless optimist. President Barack Obama focuses on the future and the next hurdles that humanity will need to overcome to move forward. Full Article
ar The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Jobs By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss how artificial intelligence might up-end economies and how societies can adapt. Full Article
ar The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on Fixing Government With Technology By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama discusses what he’d like to see technology solve in government with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito. Full Article
ar The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on Bureaucracy VS. Moonshots By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss where the center of artificial intelligence research is and where it might be. Full Article
ar The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on How We'll Embrace Self-Driving Cars By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss ethical concerns around artificial intelligence used in self-driving cars. Full Article
ar The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on the True Meaning of Star Trek By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 POTUS is a Trekkie! WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss the original Star Trek series and what it reveals about our common humanity. Full Article
ar The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on What AI Means for National Security By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss the challenges of cyber security in the age of artificial intelligence. Full Article
ar The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on the Future of AI By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 President and WIRED guest editor Barack Obama discusses the future of artificial intelligence with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito. Full Article
ar Nikola Tesla and Wireless Charging By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Telsa was a wacky guy with some far-fetched ideas, but many of theories about how electricity could work would eventually prove to be dead on. Full Article
ar The Capybara May Be Chill, But It Still Says No to Drugs By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Get to know the biggest, most chillest rodent on Earth (all 175 pounds of it). Full Article
ar Musket vs. AR-15: How Do They Compare? By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The Brown Bess musket was a staple during the Revolutionary War, and the AR-15 is currently one of the most popular semi-automatic rifles in the world. What's changed since then? Full Article
ar Secretary of State John Kerry Knows What A Messy Election Feels Like By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 When WIRED sat down with the United States Secretary of State John Kerry right after the second Presidential debate, he shared a few thoughts on what it's like to run for President. Full Article
ar John Kerry on How the Paris Climate Agreement Could Help Fight Terrorism By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:06:15 +0000 US Secretary of State John Kerry discusses the ways that recently signed UN climate agreement will spur innovations in renewable energy across the globe, including terror hotspots. Full Article
ar The World's Largest Telescope By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 China has built the world's largest radio telescope and they're using it to observe outer space. Full Article
ar Meet the Psychedelic Shrimp That Power-Lifts Starfish By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The harlequin shrimp is all dressed up in a festive clown suit…a clown suit of murder. Full Article
ar The Future of Driverless Cars By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Our future may be filled with driverless cars. Here's a look at some of the ingenious ways we can make riding in a driverless car a more engaging experience. Full Article
ar Picking Pumpkins, The Pumpkin Harvest Process By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 McGrath Brothers Great Pacific Pumpkins produce over a million pounds of pumpkins a year. A McGrath Brothers farmhand takes us through a pumpkin's journey; from seed to the store shelves. Full Article
ar Guess What Uber's Promising Now: Flying Cars By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:00:00 +0000 Forget self-driving cars, Uber has a new one for you... flying cars. The company calls it Uber Elevate and within a decade it’ll be a global network of on demand urban electric aircraft that take off and land vertically. Full Article
ar The Amazing Garage Where Robots Do the Parking By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Parking sucks. Looking for a space, driving round and round, trying not to hit a pillar. Fear not, the robots have it covered. Full Article
ar NASA Engineers Show You How To Carve a Pumpkin By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:36:04 +0000 NASA can build rockets and land on the moon, but can they carve the ultimate Halloween pumpkin? Full Article
ar How Fast Are Bats? Faster Than You Even Know By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 You know bats---the flighty mammals that find their way around with sonar and eat bugs. But bats have a little secret I'd like to share with you: They can be astonishingly fast. Full Article
ar Out of Office with Brent Rose - GoPro Karma vs DJI Mavic Pro Full Review By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:53:00 +0000 *UPDATE* We have looked into the focus issues and have altered our choice accordingly. Please read the updated review at WIRED.com for the full explanation: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/gopro-karma-vs-dji-mavic-pro/ GoPro has entered the drone game, delivering a sleek, foldable device that can fit inside a backpack. Brent Rose compares GoPro's offering with the Mavic Pro; DJI's impressive new foldable drone. Full Article
ar This Robot Smokes Cigarettes So Rats Don't Have To By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have built a robot that can smoke cigarettes just like a human to better understand lung diseases. You're welcome, smoking lab rats. Full Article
ar The Art of Designing Public Transit for Anti-Social Commuters By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Subway commuters traveling between San Francisco and Oakland got tired of looking each other in eye. So, the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency redesigned their train cars to give commuters more space. Full Article
ar Polaroid SX-70 vs Canon Rebel T5: How Do They Compare? By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:00:00 +0000 The Polaroid SX-70 was the go-to camera for instant photography, and the Canon Rebel T5 is currently one of the most popular DSLRs on the market. What's changed since then? Full Article
ar Voting From the ISS Is a Cinch. Mars? Not So Much By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 23:23:41 +0000 NASA Astronauts voted from the International Space Station thanks to some nifty legislation, but what about when they are 34 million miles away on Mars? Full Article
ar Google's New VR Headset Is Like Cardboard—Except Comfortable (and Cozy) By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:00:00 +0000 Daydream View, the first mobile headset of Google's new virtual-reality platform, is rock-solid VR at low cost. Full Article
ar Inside Facebook's Quest to Beam the Internet Via Solar Drone By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:00:00 +0000 A WIRED exclusive look at how Facebook will beam the internet with Aquila, a stratospheric solar-powered drone equipped with millimeter wave communications technology. Full Article