b WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - NASA Astronauts Answer The Web’s Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Jeff Williams and European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake are currently living on board the International Space station and answer the internet’s most searched questions in the latest installment of WIRED’s Autocomplete Interview. Full Article
b Ted Cruz Gets a Bronx Welcome By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:44:38 +0000 The morning after his big win in the Wisconsin primary, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took his campaign to New York's Bronx borough. Full Article
b Meet the Itsy-Bitsy Spider With a Bear Trap for a Mouth By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:00:00 +0000 Trap-jaw spiders may be tiny but their unusual jaws pack a serious and lightning fast punch. Researchers using high-speed cameras recently discovered how speedy and lethal the spiders' bite can be. Full Article
b WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Ice Cube Answers The Web’s Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Ice Cube takes WIRED's Autocomplete Interview, answering the world's most searched questions about himself. Full Article
b Absurd Creatures | This Fly Is So Horrifying We Had to Put Cute Baby Goats in This Video By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:30:00 +0000 Fair warning. This video is about the botfly's horrific larvae, which grow and feed in human flesh. Don't say we didn't warn you. Full Article
b WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Common Answers The Web’s Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Common takes WIRED's Autocomplete Interview, answering the most searched questions about him. Full Article
b Moog’s DIY Kit Is a Fantastic Crash Course for Synth Noobs By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The Werkstatt-01 from Moog Music is a synthesizer you build yourself. It's also a valuable tool for learning how these mystical analog machines work. It'll cost you around $200. Full Article
b 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
b WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Eve Answers The Web’s Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Eve takes WIRED's Autocomplete Interview, answering the most searched questions about herself. Full Article
b Data Attack - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Star Wars' BB-8 By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Here is everything you ever wanted to know about Star Wars' latest beloved droid. BB-8 goes to LAX to greet his very own BB-8 ANA Jet. ANA Star Wars plane: http://ana-sw.com/ Full Article
b 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
b App Pack | These Apps Will Make You a Better Human (Environmentally Speaking) By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 You’re worried about your impact on the environment. Maybe you just want to recycle more, or eat greener. Well, good on you. These handy apps can help. Full Article
b Out of Office with Brent Rose - How to Make VR Porn | OOO with Brent Rose By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 It’s been reported that porn will be one of the biggest content offerings driving demand for VR. But what actually goes into making the porn experience full dimensional and real for the viewer? Brent Rose goes on set of a VR porn production shoot to find out how porn is evolving with new technology. Special thanks to KinkVR.com Full Article
b Absurd Creatures| The Nudibranch Says, ‘Hey, I’m Super Colorful. So No Touchy' By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Look at the nudibranch. Beautiful, right? That's its way of saying it will mess you up. You see, the nudibranch packs a punch–in a very unusual way Full Article
b Stanford Is About to Have the Dopest Map Collection on Earth By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Some would call David Rumsey a cartophile, while others may put it more bluntly and say he’s obsessed. Over 30 years he’s personally accumulated over 150,000 maps and he's just donated them all to Stanford University. Full Article
b App Pack - All the Apps You Need to Make This 420 the Best 420 EVAR By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 It's 420, a day of unabashed weed revelry. But it's also 2016, and your regular pot smoking routine just won't cut it. Watch above to get all the apps you'll need to make this 420 the best 420 ever (that is, given it's legal where you are). Full Article
b A New Crop of Marijuana Geneticists Build Better Weed By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:00:00 +0000 There are thousands of strains of weed. Cracking their genetic codes may be the key to transforming pot from a budding business to a high-flying industry and a cannabis analytics lab is trying to unlock the true potential of weed. Pictures by Preston Gannaway. Full Article
b Where the Sounds From the World's Favorite Movies Are Born By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED gets a tour from veteran Foley artist John Roesch of the Skywalker's custom built soundstage. Roesch reveals some of the strangest audio props that were used in films like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit,' 'Back to the Future' and 'Braveheart’. Full Article
b 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
b First Look at the New Ninjago Legoland | Giant LEGO NINJAGO Brick Battle! By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED gets a first look at the brand new Ninjago section of Legoland’s California park. Ninjago at Legoland opens May 5th. Full Article
b 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
b The Nostalgist: A Sci-fi Short Based on a Story From the Author of Robopocalypse By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 03 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Full Article
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b Absurd Creatures | Hail Hydra, the Incredible Critter That May Be Immortal By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 09 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 The hydra's got kind of a jellyfish thing going on, with tentacles it uses to snag prey. But this tiny freshwater creature regenerates itself over and over again. Full Article
b 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
b 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
b Uncharted 4 Hides A Beautiful Easter Egg By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 14 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Sony's pirate-themed adventure makes multiple references to another classic video game pirate. Full Article
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b 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
b Sacramento Is About to Have the Most High-Tech Basketball Stadium By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 When the new Kings basketball stadium is completed this fall, they hope it’ll be so outrageously technologically advanced that it will even wow fans from Silicon Valley. Full Article
b 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
b 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
b The Roots of Dirt | The Design Evolution of the Early Mountain Bike By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:00:00 +0000 In the 1970's a group of California hippies built a new technology that changed the world. Computers? Nope. They were building the earliest commercial mountain bikes. Full Article
b 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
b 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