gh Ant-Man Director Says Paul Rudd is Just Right as Tiny Marvel Superhero By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:55:00 +0000 Ant-Man director Peyton Reed spoke with WIRED about bringing the tiny superhero to the big screen, some easter eggs for Marvel fans and how Paul Rudd preserved the wry humor of the original comic books. Full Article
gh Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:30:00 +0000 Two hackers have developed a tool that can hijack a Jeep over the internet. WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg takes the SUV for a spin on the highway while the hackers attack it from miles away. Full Article
gh Out of Office with Brent Rose - Rideables Are So Hot Right Now. We Put Them to the Test By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:00:00 +0000 Electric personal transportation devices (aka “rideables”) are everywhere. We’re seeing them under everyone from Justin Bieber to J.R. Smith to Casey Neistat, but are any of them worth a damn? We put four of the most promising rideables to the test and I’ve got the scars to prove it. -Brent Full Article
gh Predicting Hurricanes in High Definition By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:00:00 +0000 In the decade since Hurricane Katrina, tools for tracking and modeling powerful storms have grown in sophistication and detail. Full Article
gh Think Like a Tree - Using Shark Skin to Fight Against Bacteria By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:00:00 +0000 Scientists are looking to an unlikely source for new ways to fight bacteria. Could the skin of a Galapagos shark hold the key to warding off hospital-born bacteria and superbugs? Full Article
gh Think Like a Tree - Can Namib Desert Beetles Help Us Solve Our Drought Problems? By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:00:00 +0000 Namib desert beetles live in an area with little ground water, so how is it that they have no trouble finding H2O? Find out how the resourceful insects use their wing scales to absorb water droplets from fog, and how we can use them as a model for combating water shortages. Full Article
gh Absurd Creatures - Mantis Shrimp Fight Club By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:00:00 +0000 Mantis shrimp have a pair of hammer appendages that pack a powerful punch. They use them to smash prey open and fight each other for territory. Researchers at Duke University set up a mantis shrimp fight club to study their sparring behavior. Full Article
gh Watch Battle Drones Cage Fight By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:00:00 +0000 No longer just for aerial photography and stunt aerobatics, hobbyists have found a new use for drones: making them fight. Full Article
gh Talking Pictures | The Longest Night By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 02:46:30 +0000 Photographer Philip Montgomery narrates a selection of images from "The Longest Night" his project documenting protests in Ferguson, Missouri and the interaction between police and communities of color. Full Article
gh Star Wars Lego Destruction - Star Wars Lego TIE Starfighter Gets Smashed by Asteroids By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:00:00 +0000 In Star Wars Episode III the TIE starfighter suffered a devastating blow from asteroid impact. Watch a slo-mo Lego replica of the crushing scene. Full Article
gh Star Wars Lego Destruction - Behind the Scenes: Star Wars Lego X-Wing Fighter vs. Death Star By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:00:00 +0000 It took two crashes and 1,559 Lego pieces to re-create the X-Wing fighter facing off against the Death Star. See how we pulled it off. Full Article
gh Star Wars Lego Destruction - Star Wars Lego X-Wing Fighter vs. Death Star By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:00:00 +0000 Watch a flaming LEGO X-Wing smash into the Death Star as we re-create the Rebels’ fatal attack. Full Article
gh Cove Puts You In Touch With Your Emotions Through Music By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:30:00 +0000 It turns out emotions are complex (surprise!), and sometimes words just can’t do justice in expressing them. Cove, a new app, helps translate feelings into music. Full Article
gh Lighting Up the World With a One-of-a-Kind Tesla Model S By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:54:13 +0000 In order to cast a light on a global issue like climate change, the team behind the new film Racing Extinction turned a standard Tesla Model S into a “mobile projection vehicle.” See what mods they made, and follow along at www.facebook.com/racingextinction Full Article
gh You Can Actually Duel With These Awesome Custom Lightsabers By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:00:00 +0000 As Star Wars fans have grown up, so have their lightsabers. Forget cheap plastic toys, these sabers are bespoke laser blades that light up, buzz, and are made for Jedi dueling. Full Article
gh SB 100 - Imagining Football's Future Through The Super Bowl Of 2066 By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:30:00 +0000 As Super Bowl 100 played out in all its enormity last night, Super Bowl 50 looked tiny by comparison, the way the Earth now looks to our colonists in space. And yet it’s instructive to look back on that long-ago spectacle in the San Francisco Bay Area to see just how far the game has come, and society with it. Full Article
gh 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
gh Design FX - How Designers Created a Nazi-Run World in “The Man in the High Castle” By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Amazon Studios’ “The Man in the High Castle” take places in an alternate history, set in a post-WWII world where the Axis powers ended up victorious. To create the look of a United States run by Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, Zoic Studios was tasked with creating difficult visual effects and environment work. Find out how they did it. Full Article
gh 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
gh Behind the Scenes: MythBusters' Final Stunt Plows Through 14 Years of Epic Science By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:00:00 +0000 A look behind the scenes of the final stunt of the final Mythbusters show. Thanks for all the cool science nerdery, guys! Full Article
gh 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
gh Learning the Art of Sound Effects Is Weirder Than You Might Think By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000 WIRED senior editor Peter Rubin learns the Foley ropes at Lucasfilm's new state-of-the-art sound lab. Full Article
gh 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
gh 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
gh 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
gh 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
gh Absurd Creatures | That Fish That Attaches to Sharks? It's Actually Pretty Righteous By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000 It’s called a remora, and you’ve probably seen it before. It attaches to fish and marine mammals all the time. But get this: It doesn’t attach with its mouth. It’s got a suction cup it wears as a hat. Full Article
gh 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
gh 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
gh Ghostbusters Director Paul Feig Plays ‘Real or Fake Ghost?’ By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Now that he’s made a ‘Ghostbusters’ movie, director Paul Feig should be an expert in spirits. So WIRED asked him about a series of spooks, both real and fake, to see if he could tell us which were based on actual ghost stories and which we totally made up. Full Article
gh Flight Mode | The Fancy Tech That's Making It Harder for Airlines to Lose Your Luggage By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:05:00 +0000 Lost luggage is down by 65% thanks to some new tech. Follow the roller coaster ride that your bags make into the bowels of the airport. Full Article
gh Here’s the Untold Backstory of the Iconic Slimer From Ghostbusters By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 It never made it into the new reboot of ‘Ghostbusters,’ but writer Katie Dippold and director/co-writer Paul Feig definitely wrote a backstory for one of the franchise’s most beloved characters: Slimer. Full Article
gh Live Social Media Is Going To Be Huge During The Olympics | Breaking Through By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:07:41 +0000 Social Media and Live are going to be huge during the olympics this year. Watch as Sam Olstein leads a marketing team at GE pioneering new experiences at the 2016 Olympics across all forms of social media. Full Article
gh Flight Mode | What It’s Like to Narrowly Avert Disaster in an $18M Simulator By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Pilots spend hours in multi-million dollar simulators, preparing for the worst cast scenario. In this episode Flight Mode, WIRED's Jack Stewart gets a taste of what pilots go through. Full Article
gh Facebook's Grand Plan to Connect Every Corner of the World Takes Flight By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:37:41 +0000 Facebook’s huge internet-beaming drone finally takes it's first flight and it's all part of the tech giant's plans to provide internet access in remote parts of the world. Full Article
gh Flight Mode | The Fancy Tech Pilots Use to Keep Your Flight Turbulence-Free By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 To avoid severe weather pilots used to carry 40 pound briefcases with piles of paperwork and information for their flight. Not anymore. Full Article
gh Here's How to Fight Zika: With More Mosquitoes By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Scientists in California are breeding and releasing mosquitos into Zika hotspots. While it may seem like they're making matters worse, they are actually releasing a kind of biological trojan horse. Full Article
gh Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Shailene Woodley Say Privacy Is No Longer A Human Right By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 'Snowden' stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley discuss the making of their new movie, and talk about how technology has essentially taken away our right to privacy. Full Article
gh "You Think That's Gonna Go Right?" By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 John McAfee’s security detail talks about their experiences with him in this clip from 'Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee'. Full Article
gh 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
gh Building Games For Virtual Reality Storytelling | Breaking Through By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Virtual Reality is the next frontier in entertainment, but it’s so new that the rules are still being written. No one knows the best way to develop, advertise, or create yet – and that’s what makes it so exciting. Full Article
gh 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
gh Look, Ma! I'm Flying a Plane With Only My Thoughts By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Without a pilot’s license, or frankly, any experience, WIRED's Jack Stewart flew a plane using just his thoughts. Thanks to new technology developed by Honeywell Aerospace, a King Air C90 can be controlled, in simple terms, by the human brain. Full Article
gh These Self-Flying Helicopters Team Up to Fight Fires and Save Lives By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Two Lockheed Martin helicopters, with help from a pair of drones, join forces to fight fires and save lives. Full Article
gh Bumped Off Your Flight? Know Your Travel Rights By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:30:00 +0000 It's bound to happen to you— your flight is cancelled, delayed or the airline bumps you. That's why it's important to know your rights when your travel plans go astray. Full Article
gh Whether It's Farmed or Wild, Here's How to Cook Your Salmon Right By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:00:00 +0000 If you overcooked your pan-seared salmon, you may be tempted to blame it on the type of salmon you bought, but none of that matters if you understand the chemistry of how this colorful fish cooks. Full Article
gh Scientists Create a Light-Guided Robotic Stingray Using Rat Parts By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:00:00 +0000 A team of scientists at Harvard created an artificial stingray out of rat parts, which can be remote-controlled around a tank using light beams as part of the team's ongoing research on how to make artificial organs. Full Article
gh How to Fight the Bad Logic of the Internet | Argument Clinic By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:49:13 +0000 There's a lot of bad logic out there. WIRED's Jason Tanz explains how to spot and fight the dumbest arguments online. Full Article
gh CES 2017 - Carnival’s High-Tech Cruise Wearable Knows Your Every Need By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000 Carnival's new Ocean Medallion wearable tech is designed to anticipate a cruise patron's every need – from a margarita (if that's your thing) to suggestions for activities. Full Article
gh 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