con App Pack | Apps To Help You Survive and Conquer Valentine's Day By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:00:00 +0000 Whether you're celebrating Valentine's Day with a long-term partner or just trying to spare your single self a little heartache, there's an app to go along with your plans. Full Article
con 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
con Everything We Know About MH370 in 170 Seconds By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Two years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared somewhere over the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board. What then grew into humanity's largest, most expensive search operation has also been among its most frustrating and beguiling. Full Article
con 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW) By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Mozido? Nutanix? We gave the Silicon Valley cast the names of real startups and asked them to guess what they do. This is NSFW, so put those headphones on. Full Article
con Silicon Valley Mourns Andy Grove, a Titan of Tech By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:30:20 +0000 Grove is routinely mentioned as part of the same pantheon that includes Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs. And with good reason. Full Article
con Everything You Missed at Silicon Valley Comic Con By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:27:32 +0000 For the first time ever Silicon Valley hosted its very own Comic Con. It didn't quite measure up to the San Diego incarnation that dominates entertainment headlines every year, but it shows promise. Full Article
con Silicon Valley Opens 1-3 By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 13 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Three opens from Silicon Valley. Courtesy HBO. Full Article
con 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
con 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
con 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
con 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
con Everything We’re Dying to See at Comic-Con 2016 By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 20:10:58 +0000 Comic-Con has kicked off in sunny San Diego and boy is there a lot to see. Full Article
con Catching Comic-Con 2016: Pokémon Go IRL By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 If you think catching Pokemon from your couch is easy, try catching all the cosplayers at Comic Con. You can't catch 'em all! Full Article
con The Fastest Electric Car Ever Isn't a Tesla—It's a Converted Corvette By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 A 2006 Corvette Z06 has been converted to an all electric drivetrain and it just beat the land speed record for an street legal EV at 205.6 mph. You can buy one, but it's gonna cost you. Full Article
con Now You Can Control BB-8 With a Flick of Your Wrist By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 01:46:54 +0000 We’re willing to bet your wearable doesn’t come with the power of the Force? Sphero’s launching a special edition of the BB-8 toy that'll allow you to control the little droid with hand gestures. Full Article
con Design FX - How Orphan Black Creates Convincing Clones By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:40:00 +0000 Design FX dives into the incredible special effects of BBC America's Orphan Black. Mike Seymour breaks down how the team at Intelligent Creatures and Emmy Award nominated actress Tatiana Maslany work together to create convincing clones; with a combination of visual effects, rotoscoping, and incredible acting ability. Full Article
con 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
con How Oculus Designed Its Touch VR Controllers By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Oculus Touch controllers are here – finally putting our hands in the same virtual space as our heads. Touch was years and scores of prototypes in the making. Watch to see how the form and function came together. Full Article
con [Branded Content] Working Together for a Common Goal; The Science of Teams: Atlassian By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 11:00:00 +0000 Produced for Atlassian by the WIRED Brand Lab. The process of team work is all around us. From construction, to music, to food, the greatest achievements are born out of teams. On its surface, collaboration is a seemingly simple process, but there is much more underneath. WIRED teams up with the experts and uses science to showcase the mechanics behind working as a team. Full Article
con Airbus' Futuristic Jet Concept Comes With Flying Spas and Bars By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:00:00 +0000 The Transpose concept uses modular architecture to keep life in the sky fresh and comfortable. Full Article
con Meet the Blind Man Who Convinced Google Its Self-Driving Car Is Finally Ready By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:30:00 +0000 Google is getting serious about self-driving cars. So serious that it put a legally blind man in one that drove him around safely on his own. The successful trip means that the tech giant can now launch its own self-driving car company, which it's calling Waymo. Full Article
con CES 2017 - One Remote to Control All Your Smart Devices By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 19:04:03 +0000 The Smart Remote is an intuitive and simple solution to controlling all the smart devices in the modern home. Full Article
con Inside the YouTube-Fueled, Teenage Extravaganza That Is Beautycon By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000 A look at the industry-shaking in real life meet up of beauty world influencers, their fans and the brands that compete for their attention. Full Article
con 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
con Project Fifth Mode - Episode 3: A Matter of Seconds By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:12:43 +0000 How will SpaceX ’s engineers view team rLoop’s work? Full Article
con Meet the Robot that Presses Vinyl in 30 Seconds By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000 These machines are the next-gen record presses our 21st century vinyl revolution has been waiting for. Full Article
con Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 18:00:00 +0000 The Connectome is a comprehensive diagram of all the neural connections existing in the brain. WIRED has challenged neuroscientist Bobby Kasthuri to explain this scientific concept to 5 different people; a 5 year-old, a 13 year-old, a college student, a neuroscience grad student and a connectome entrepreneur. Full Article
con 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
con 5 of the Most Iconic 'Fast & Furious' Cars From the Guy Who Built Them By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:14:17 +0000 Dennis McCarthy, the man behind all of the cars from the Fast and the Furious franchise, gives us his insights on five iconic cars from the films. Full Article
con Biologist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - CRISPR By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000 CRISPR is a new biomedical technique that enables powerful gene editing. WIRED challenged biologist Neville Sanjana to explain CRISPR to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and a CRISPR expert. Full Article
con Women Engineers On the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Five female engineers discuss the sexism of the tech industry and why greater diversity and inclusion makes better products for everyone. Full Article
con Google's Plan to Use Ads to Sway ISIS Recruits | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:09:45 +0000 Yasmin Green leads a team at Google which has developed tools to help journalists stay secure in authoritarian regimes, to combat cyber bullying, and to help people before they become radicalized by extremist ideology. At the WIRED business conference, Green shared the company's strategies to sway ISIS recruits before it's too late. Full Article
con The Story Behind Google's Super Chip | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:15:29 +0000 Five years ago, as its voice recognition tech took off, Google realized it would have to double its server space to handle even three minutes of speech from every Android user. Even Google couldn't afford that. So Urs Hözle and his team built a super chip to parse all that data more efficiently. Full Article
con AI Won't Replace Doctors, It'll Help Them | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:14:58 +0000 Google is poised to begin a grand experiment in using machine learning to widen access to healthcare. If it is successful, millions of people with diabetes could avoid losing their sight. Lily Peng from Google Brain explained at the WIRED Business Conference how technology like this would help doctors, not replace them. Full Article
con Amazon Now Considers Itself an AI Company | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:14:05 +0000 Speaking at the WIRED Business Conference, Amazon SVP of Devices, David Limp confessed that if Amazon is to continue to thrive in the future, it has to consider itself an AI company. Full Article
con The One Thing the Architect of Apple's New HQ Would Change | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:19:50 +0000 Ask Norman Foster what, if anything, he’d like to change about Apple’s new headquarters, and he’ll need a moment to think. The famed architect, whose firm spent the last eight years perfecting plans for Apple’s massive campus, is mostly pleased with the results. But there is one thing he'd change. Full Article
con Crispr Is Already Changing the Food We Eat | WIRED BizCon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 19:45:52 +0000 At the WIRED Business Conference, Jennifer Doudna, Co-Inventor of CRISPR-Cas9, shared some of the ways the gene editing tool is already changing agriculture. Full Article
con Why You Can Never Argue with Conspiracy Theorists By www.wired.com Published On :: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Alex Jones is not the only guy making a career out of conspiracy theories. They are everywhere on the internet and here's why you have no choice but to ignore them. Full Article
con WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Matthew McConaughey & Idris Elba Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:00:00 +0000 "The Dark Tower" stars Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. Full Article
con The Priority Continuum Onyx Is a City Bike That Doesn’t Suck By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000 The Priority Continuum Onyx sports a continuous variable transmission hub, a grease-free belt drive and powerful disk brakes. It's the sort of solid, non-fussy town bike that turns casual riders into commuters. Full Article
con Meet Taurus, the VR Controlled Bomb Disposal Robot By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000 This is Taurus, SRI’s tele-operated robot, which ventures where human beings dare not. Full Article
con Watch Us Build a 7,500 Piece Lego Millennium Falcon By www.wired.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000 WIRED staffers, and some family, built the largest and most expensive lego set to date, the Millennium Falcon. Of course, we made a time-lapse of us putting this behemoth together. Full Article
con This Construction Digger Drives Itself By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000 Built Robotics, a San Francisco startup, is developing an autonomous skid-steer loader that can be set loose to dig a trench, no operator needed. Full Article
con How to Control What Alexa and Google Assistant Do With Your Voice Data By www.wired.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:00:00 +0000 Virtual assistants like Google Home and Amazon Alexa can be amazing but what are they doing with all of your questions? Here's how to control all of that data. Full Article
con Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - Blockchain By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:00:00 +0000 Blockchain, the key technology behind Bitcoin, is a new network that helps decentralize trade, and allows for more peer-to-peer transactions. WIRED challenged political scientist and blockchain researcher Bettina Warburg to explain blockchain technology to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert. Full Article
con Sesame Street Puppeteers Explain How They Control Their Puppets By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Ever wonder how the puppets on Sesame Street operate? The puppeteers for some of Sesame Street's most famous characters share their insights on how they bring their iconic characters to life. The puppeteers for Elmo, Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Abby Cadabby, and Rudy explain the various functions and features of their Muppets. You can catch Snuffy and all his friends in the new season of Sesame Street on HBO or everyday on HBO Family or PBS Kids. Full Article
con Meet the Crime-Fighting Robot That's Stirring Up Controversy By www.wired.com Published On :: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +0000 Five-foot-tall, 400-pound robots are on a mission to take a bite out of crime. The path there, though, is fraught with ethical pitfalls. Full Article
con Musician Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:00:00 +0000 23-year-old musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier explains the concept of harmony to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a professional, and jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Full Article
con Six Degrees of Automation: How an Empty Parking Lot Will Change the Banking Industry | Branded Content By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:01:00 +0000 Welcome to Six Degrees of Automation – a docu-series dedicated to analyzing the impact intelligent automation is having on various industries, produced in collaboration between IBM Services and Wired Brand Lab. In our inaugural episode, we explore how intelligent automation is transforming the banking industry. Follow Bill on his journey to receive a home loan, a seemingly simple process, but one that is being transformed by automation. Full Article
con Tech Today and Tomorrow Presented by DXC Technology - Why Cybersecurity is So Critical | Branded Content | Tech Today and Tomorrow | Ep. 4 By www.wired.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:15:00 +0000 Security teams used to be able to patrol on-site to ensure their company’s premises were kept safe – now it’s about building teams that can predict potential cyber threats and sabotage from individuals, companies or even hostile nations. In Part 4 of this series, WIRED Brand Lab aims to uncover what businesses can do to evolve their security techniques within a digitally enabled business world. Produced by WIRED Brand Lab for DXC Technology. Full Article