w Insane 'Swooping' Skydiving Makes Your Tandem Jump Look Lame By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 These skydivers are no ordinary adrenalin junkies. In the National Championships of Canopy Piloting competitors fly swoop in inches above the ground at close to 100 miles per hour. It’s an extremely technical sport that punishes any tiny mistakes. Full Article
w App Pack | Take Command of the Kitchen With These Cooking Apps By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 There are apps to help you convert measurements from tablespoons to cups, apps that help you balance out your noodle-to-sauce ratio, recipe apps that can offer suggestions of what you should cook tonight based on what's hiding in your fridge. And of course, if you like to cook but hate to shop, there are apps that will have uncooked ingredients delivered to you. All you have to do is bring the heat. Full Article
w Absurd Creatures | The World’s Silkiest Anteater Is Not–I Repeat, Not–Stoned By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 02 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The silky anteater isn't high. It's just tired, because this proficient nocturnal hunter has no business being up during the day. Full Article
w 4-Foot LEGO Super Star Destroyer - How We Smashed It By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 04 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED destroys a massive LEGO Super Star Destroyer. Full Article
w Don't Throw Away That Chickpea Water! Make a Cocktail Instead By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 05 May 2016 02:02:57 +0000 You know the water in a can of chickpeas? Well, it can be used as a viable substitute for egg. That's a food hack worth noting, so yes, we made a pisco sour using 'bean juice'. Full Article
w Why Women Earn Less Than Men By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 05 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 We’ve all heard about the Gender Pay Gap, but how prevalent is it? Find out how women compare to men in workplace compensation and what we can do about the glass ceiling. Directed/Produced by Jared Neumark Animated by Yoriko Murakami and Kim Blanchette Shot by Mika Levin Written by Roya Rastegar Edited by Mike Russell Full Article
w The SFMOMA’s New App Will Forever Change How You Enjoy Museums By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 05 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The renovated SFMOMA is now one of the most considered gallery spaces in the world. But it's not just the museum that got a redesign. The SFMOMA has also reimagined the audio tour experience with it’s new app. Full Article
w Make A Cold Beer On a Mountain Top With This Clever Kit By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 06 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 If you're a hiker and a beer fanatic this $50 starter kit from Pat's Backcountry Beverages could make your day. Clever engineering and technology make brews light enough for even extended backpacking trips. Cheers! TIRED Beer concentrates and the carbonator make brews that can be good, but they aren't great. Then again, you might not care after a long day of hiking. Full Article
w Movie Review | Captain America: Civil War By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 06 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Civil War is a rock-’em-sock-’em stand-off that features no fewer than four massive fights and, even at 146 minutes, feels gargantuan but never over-stuffed. It’s a Captain America movie, yes, but it’s more about the struggle between consent and dissent. Full Article
w 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
w This Startup Wants to Use Drones to Drop Blood, Not Bombs By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 09 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 A California startup is testing a fleet of delivery drones in the hope of deploying them to deliver blood in rural Rwanda. Full Article
w The Age of the Hyperloop Has Arrived. Well, for the Most Part By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 11 May 2016 21:56:00 +0000 Hyperloop One successfully tested its propulsion system in the Nevada desert. It's an important step, but the journey to making the Hyperloop a reality has just begun. Full Article
w How They Filmed the Wildest Snowboard Series You’ve Ever Seen By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 13 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The crew behind the snowboarding series Higher TV went to some incredible lengths to get footage of Jeremy Jones plunging down snowy cliffs in the Himalayas, Wyoming and Alaska. Full Article
w WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Seth Rogen & Rose Byrne Answer The Web’s Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 16 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, stars of upcoming film 'Neighbors 2,' answer the internet’s most searched questions in WIRED's Autocomplete interview. Full Article
w 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
w DIY: How To Burn a Silkscreen and Print at Home By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Screen printing is the pinnacle of DIY culture. We're going to show you how to make your own design and screen it onto whatever you'd like. You’ll need to block out a few hours, and you'll need to have a design or logo in mind to print. Full Article
w What the AI Behind AlphaGo Teaches Us About Humanity By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 When Google's AI beat the world's Go champion 4-1, it stirred a certain sadness in many people. But the reality is the technologies at the heart of AlphaGo are the future. So it's a time to be excited not scared. Full Article
w The Independence Day: Resurgence Spaceship Has Its Own Gravity. By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 May 2016 15:00:00 +0000 In the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence, the alien spacecraft seems to rip buildings from the ground using gravitational force. Is that physically possible? Nope. But that didn't stop us from calculating the mass it would need in order to destroy Earth. Full Article
w 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
w Say "Hello" to Allo, Google's New AI-Powered Messaging App By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 May 2016 22:49:39 +0000 Google's new Ai-powered messaging app, Allo, lets you chat with Google while you chat with your friends. It's the first step toward making Google truly conversational. Full Article
w Here's Everything New From Google By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 19 May 2016 01:12:21 +0000 Google made several announcements at its annual developers conference. As expected the tech giant’s progress with Artificial Intelligence is at the core of many it’s innovations Full Article
w Google Lets You Use Apps Without Having to Download Them By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 20 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Google wants to give you a way of using an app without actually downloading it. It's called Instant Apps and Google says it'll be available in a few months. Full Article
w Out of Office with Brent Rose - HoloLens + NASA = Amazing By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 20 May 2016 14:42:00 +0000 Brent Rose tries out a new “Mixed Reality” software developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The software allows virtual elements to be merged with the user’s actual environment, creating a world in which real and virtual objects can interact. Brent stress tests the HoloLens and shows us how much the new tech can really do. Full Article
w Absurd Creatures | Three-Foot-Wide Coconut Crab Will Eat Your Soul and Maybe Kittens By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 23 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Our childhood hermit crab has a rather more … sizable cousin: the 3-foot-wide, 9-pound coconut crab that can rip coconuts and sometimes, well, kittens to pieces. Full Article
w We Drive an All-Electric Ferrari, the Car that Shouldn’t Exist By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 24 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Ferrari boss Sergio Marchionne is on record as saying an electric Ferrari is an obscene concept, but that didn't stop a group of guys in California from turning the 308 GT into an EV. Full Article
w The Crazy Plan to Use Swallowable Origami to Fish Batteries Out of Tummies By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 25 May 2016 00:38:12 +0000 Kids swallow a lot of batteries. But now MIT researchers are developing swallowable origami to fish the nasty foreign objects out. Full Article
w The Beautiful Relationship Between Physics and Jazz By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 25 May 2016 00:40:57 +0000 Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, but he's also a jazz fanatic whose musical obsession has helped him better understand the world of cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics. Full Article
w Our Very Own X-Men: Apocalypse Red Band Trailer (Parody) By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 27 May 2016 13:00:00 +0000 If Deadpool taught Hollywood anything, it’s that audiences want more hard-R superheroes. Wade cursed, you paid, and 20th Century Fox listened. Here’s the (unfortunately not real) trailer for the studio’s much more NSFW X-Men: Apocalypse. Full Article
w Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World Trailer By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 31 May 2016 17:00:00 +0000 Werner Herzog's (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) new film examines the technologically connected world we have built. Full Article
w Data Attack - How the 3-Pointer Is Changing The NBA By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The NBA is undergoing a radical shift based on the Moreyball approach and an obsession with Points Per Possession. We take a deeper look at the trend with actual cut-up construction paper. Full Article
w Strandbeests: Giant Sculptures That Eat Wind Descend on San Francisco By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen brings his mesmerizing wind-powered creatures made of PVC-pipe to the San Francisco Exploratorium. Full Article
w Social Media 101 From The Lonely Island Crew By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 23:50:16 +0000 At the top of the list of people who know how to rule social media there are two very important groups: comedians and celebrities. The Lonely Island team—Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer—actually belong to both of those groups. So WIRED asked them for hot tips on how to rule Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. Full Article
w WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - The Cast of Warcraft Answer The Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, and Robert Kazinsky answer the web's most searched questions about themselves and World of Warcraft. Full Article
w WIRED Lab - Soccer Playing Robot Predicts the Euro Cup Winner By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Who better to predict the winner of this year's Euro Cup than a robot created by UCLA's Robotics and Mechanisms Lab (RoMeLa)? Special thanks to Dr. Dennis Hong and his incredible team at UCLA’s Robotics & Mechanisms Lab. To learn more about RoMeLa visit: http://www.romela Full Article
w Duncan Jones Made Warcraft For Both Gamers and Movie Buffs By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:00:00 +0000 For gamers, World of Warcraft represents a massive universe in which they’ve spent many hours. But for many moviegoers, WoW’s Azeroth is a completely foreign place they know nothing about. So for his new movie, Warcraft, director Duncan Jones—a gamer himself—had to create a world that would bring in new fans and make long-time WoW players feel like they were coming home. In this interview with WIRED, he explains how he worked with Industrial Light & Magic to make that happen. Full Article
w How ILM Manscaped the Orcs of Warcraft By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:10:24 +0000 Think orcs don’t have barbers? Think again. Gaelle Morand and her team at Industrial Light & Magic spent hours perfecting the hair on all of Warcraft’s characters. Here’s how they made “Haircraft” happen. Full Article
w How iOS Actually Changed the World By www.wired.com Published On :: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 With iOS10 on its way, we thought we’d look back at the way iOS changed the world. But the most pivotal thing in iOS history is something Apple got right on its very first try. Full Article
w Hey Thanks Apple: Siri May Now Actually Be Useful By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 23:28:14 +0000 Siri's been little more than a slightly sassy sidekick for iPhone users, but now Apple has made some big moves to make the voice assistant work for more people. Full Article
w Check Out Everything Apple Debuted at WWDC 2016 By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 23:36:22 +0000 Apple kicked its developers' conference off with some big announcements. Full Article
w iOS 10: All The New Features Coming to Your iPhone By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:10:00 +0000 Apple's iOS 10 has some cool new features. WIRED's David Pierce runs down the mobile software's updates and overhauls. Full Article
w Magic Leap Partners With Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 13:01:54 +0000 Magic Leap, the mixed-reality company, is joining forces with Lucasfilm’s most forward-looking division: xLab. Full Article
w If Robots Take Our Jobs, What Will Be Left for Humans to Do? By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:43:04 +0000 Speakers at the WIRED Business Conference grapple with how AI will transform the job market. Full Article
w Inside the Massive Factory Where Siemens Builds Trains By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Inside the massive Siemens train factory near Sacramento, Ca, building one of the most advanced, and fastest, trains in the US. Full Article
w Absurd Creatures | Behold the Super Weird Face-to-Face Sex of the Springtail By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 For a tiny arthropod called a globular springtail, life is about being generally spherical and generally pissed-looking. Full Article
w NASA’s New X-Plane Looks Goofy But Packs Some Serious Tech By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The X-57 will be essentially like flying a Tesla. It's part of NASA’s goals to reduce fuel use, emissions, and noise with innovative aircraft design. Full Article
w 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
w The Weird-Looking Drone That Inspects Boilers By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:00:00 +0000 Need to inspect a piping hot boiler? Why send a human in there, when you can send a drone instead. Full Article
w Now You Can Yell at Siri on Your Mac By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:00:00 +0000 Siri is the most important feature coming to your Mac this fall, so of course we put it to the test. Full Article
w 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
w How a Deaf-Run Pizzeria Takes Your Order Over the Phone By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Mozzeria is a 100 percent deaf owned and operated pizzeria in a crowded San Francisco restaurant scene. So to stay afloat, it relies on a remarkable technology. Full Article