• Watch Elon Musk explain how SpaceX will colonize Mars in under five minutes

    Watch Elon Musk explain how SpaceX will colonize Mars in under five minutes
    As Elon Musk is wont to do, he took the stage in front of a rabid crowd this afternoon to lay out an extraordinarily ambitious vision of the future that at times felt inspiring, brilliant, and unbelievable, if not all at once. This time around, Musk was outlining the first details for how SpaceX planned to bring people to and from Mars and ultimately facilitate human colonization of the Red Planet. The full presentation lasted an hour — longer if you count the bizarro Q&A that fol
  • “Good guy” loan startup LendUp fined $6.3M for overcharging

    “Good guy” loan startup LendUp fined $6.3M for overcharging
     LendUp was supposed to be different than the payday loan sharks that rip off the poor when they need emergency cash. But in its early days, LendUp charged customers illegal fees, miscalculated interest rates, falsely advertised loans nationwide that weren’t available there and misled people that borrowing from LendUp would boost their credit score. Now LendUp will have to pay $6.3… Read More
  • The OX is a flat-pack truck for the developing world

    The OX is a flat-pack truck for the developing world
     The Global Vehicle Trust has revealed its OX prototype, a truck that can be flat-packed into itself for transportation anywhere in the world. When it arrives at its destination, the OX can be unpacked and assembled by a trained team of three professionals in about 12 hours. (Insert your own favorite IKEA joke here.) The GVT was founded five years ago by British businessman and… Read More
  • The Crown Trailer: Netflix Goes Big-Budget Across the Pond

    The Crown Trailer: Netflix Goes Big-Budget Across the Pond
    The biographical series covering Queen Elizabeth II's life aims to compete with historical dramas in the UK and appeal to American Anglophiles. The post The Crown Trailer: Netflix Goes Big-Budget Across the Pond appeared first on WIRED.
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  • Google’s Got a Plan to Unify the World’s Wi-Fi Hotspots

    Google’s Got a Plan to Unify the World’s Wi-Fi Hotspots
    Google will help anyone build a public Wi-Fi hotspot, complete with a Google-based login. The post Google’s Got a Plan to Unify the World's Wi-Fi Hotspots appeared first on WIRED.
  • BlackBerry’s next rumored Android phone, the DTEK60, passed through the FCC

    BlackBerry’s next rumored Android phone, the DTEK60, passed through the FCC
    BlackBerry released its DTEK50 last month (pictured above) as a its second Android phone following the Priv.We heard rumors that the company would be launching more Android devices, possibly one for each quarter for the next two quarters. This might be true given that a new Android phone, the DTEK60, just passed through the FCC. The filing doesn’t give us many details, but does confirm the phone’s existence.
    BlackBerry reportedly leaked the phone’s specs on its own website earl
  • Everything you need to know about SpaceX’s plan to colonize Mars

    Everything you need to know about SpaceX’s plan to colonize Mars
     All eyes were on Elon Musk today as he gave a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Conference in Mexico. Musk said he was going to detail SpaceX’s plans to colonize Mars and make humans an interplanetary species, and he delivered – at least, in part, since we still have a number of big questions that need answering. Read More
  • Congress Will Soon Lose These Crucial Science Advocates

    Congress Will Soon Lose These Crucial Science Advocates
    A number of science-minded members of Congress are retiring after this term, and that means crucial initiatives could be in jeopardy. The post Congress Will Soon Lose These Crucial Science Advocates appeared first on WIRED.
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  • Why Last Night’s Debate Looked So Mercifully, Refreshingly Boring

    Why Last Night’s Debate Looked So Mercifully, Refreshingly Boring
    "Visually, the Presidential Debate Commission wants them to be as boring as possible." The post Why Last Night's Debate Looked So Mercifully, Refreshingly Boring appeared first on WIRED.
  • People tried to kiss Elon Musk and give him gifts at his Mars event

    People tried to kiss Elon Musk and give him gifts at his Mars event
    Elon Musk's Mars event today, where he outlined plans to turn the human race into a multi-planetary species, was a serious affair. Using the language of explorers, and playing up the future of civilization that hangs in the balance, Musk used grandiose terms to convince viewers around the world that we must leave Earth and realize our destiny. This message, it turns out, brings out all of the weirdos.
    During the Q&A session after Musk's presentation, a number of not-so-serious crowd mem
  • Elon Musk might name his first Mars-bound spaceship after Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Elon Musk might name his first Mars-bound spaceship after Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Today, Elon Musk revealed his ambitious multi-decade roadmap for human colonization of Mars, including the Interplanetary Transport System he believes will get us there. But while the event was full of technical detail on the new rocket and ship, it appears the crafts have yet to be named.
    "We're thinking about names," Musk told the crowd. "The first ship that goes to Mars, my current favorite for it is Heart of Gold from The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy." Continue reading…
  • Why didn't Elon Musk mention where colonists will live on Mars?

    Why didn't Elon Musk mention where colonists will live on Mars?
    During his hour-long announcement of the Space X Mars colonization plan, CEO Elon Musk didn't say where exactly Martian colonists will live once they arrive on the planet — and how exactly they'll survive given the harsh environment.
    Musk seemed particularly unconcerned about solar radiation. "The radiation thing is often brought up, but it’s not too big of a deal," he says. There is a "slightly increased risk" of cancer, he says, and there will probably be some sort of shielding. He
  • SpaceX wants to be the railroad of the future

    SpaceX wants to be the railroad of the future
    SpaceX's plans for getting people to Mars are big and still a bit vague. Its plan for helping colonists actually live there for long periods of time is even more nebulous. But company founder Elon Musk suggests the latter part is by design — because SpaceX's job is to be the railroad of the space age, opening up the Martian frontier to people who will make the most of living there. "The goal of SpaceX is really to build the transport system. It's like building the Union-Pacific Railroad,"
  • This connected dog collar is a GPS and a fitness tracker

    This connected dog collar is a GPS and a fitness tracker
    I’m not surprised a luxury leather smart dog collar exists.
    One of my most humbling life moments happened when I was leaving work on a rainy night and came across a dog dressed in a raincoat and wearing booties. He was dressed more appropriately for the weather than me, and that made me feel insufficient. Dog owners keep their pets at the top of their game, everyone. So a dog collar that works not only asa fitness tracker but also as a GPS and light isn’t surprising.
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  • Elon Musk wants to collect fuel on Mars to send spaceships back to Earth

    Elon Musk wants to collect fuel on Mars to send spaceships back to Earth
    Elon Musk wants SpaceX to send people to Mars and then bring them back to Earth on the same rocket they came in on. Nothing has ever been launched from Mars before, and Musk didn't go into all that much detail about how SpaceX would accomplish it. But he did says that it would all hang on one thing: methane.
    Rather than carrying fuel from Earth for use on Mars, Musk wants SpaceX to create fuel when it gets there. Musk says SpaceX would rely on methane — "deep cryo-methalox," to be specific
  • Elon Musk: First humans who journey to Mars must 'be prepared to die'

    Elon Musk: First humans who journey to Mars must 'be prepared to die'
    Elon Musk just wrapped up an intricate and thorough presentation that covered his and SpaceX's vision of humans building a city on the surface of Mars. But throughout that talk, he didn't actually address exactly who should go. During the Q&A session that followed, the question inevitably came up: what sort of person does Musk think will volunteer to get strapped to that big rocket and fired toward the Red Planet? "Who should these people be, carrying the light of humanity to Mars for all of
  • Debate Night Hillary Clinton is basically Jeff Goldblum's character in Jurassic Park

    Debate Night Hillary Clinton is basically Jeff Goldblum's character in Jurassic Park
    At the beginning of the 1993 film Jurassic Park, you are not meant to like Jeff Goldblum’s character. He embodies the type of aggressive intellectualism that kills fun and makes other people feel stupid. He comes off as snarky, where he would like to come off as charming. While the film’s other scientists are paleontologists and botanists — colorful, tangible sciences that children admire! — he is a chaos theorist, and his job is to drop philosophical bombs all over our p
  • Google unleashes deep learning tech on language with Neural Machine Translation

    Google unleashes deep learning tech on language with Neural Machine Translation
     Translating from one language to another is hard, and creating a system that does it automatically is a major challenge, partly because there are just so many words, phrases and rules to deal with. Fortunately, neural networks eat big, complicated data sets for breakfast. Google has been working on a machine learning translation technique for years, and today is its official debut. Read More
  • The Oppo HA-2SE is the perfect DAC/amp for iPhone 7 users

    The Oppo HA-2SE is the perfect DAC/amp for iPhone 7 users
    A USB DAC/amp is one of the best ways to get great performance out of your music, and Oppo’s HA–2 is considered to be one of, if not the best portable headphone amplifier and DAC on the market. Of course, there’s always room for improvement, so Oppo is releasing an updated successor to the HA–2, the HA–2SE. Continue reading…
  • Elon Musk made a South Park joke at his Mars colonization announcement

    Elon Musk made a South Park joke at his Mars colonization announcement
    How will Elon Musk and SpaceX fund its ambitious plan to go to Mars? The question was a big one coming into today's announcement, and Musk opted to suggest some kind of "public-private partnership" would generate the necessary cash. But first, he made a South Park joke.
    When talk turned to funding, Musk moved along to a slide that started with "Steal Underpants" and ended with "Profit." (In between: "Kickstarter.") The slide was a reference to a season two episode of South Park, w
  • SpaceX’s planned Mars rocket will be reused 1,000 times

    SpaceX’s planned Mars rocket will be reused 1,000 times
    SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has unveiled the design for the giant rocket booster he wants to build in order to colonize Mars. It is part of what SpaceX is referring to as the "Mars Vehicle" — the rocket booster and the Mars spaceship combined — and Musk announced it on stage in Guadalajara, Mexico at the 67th International Astronautical Conference.
    SpaceX teased the rocket in a promo video released shortly before Musk's talk. The massive, single-core rocket will be responsible for laun
  • Elon Musk’s proposed spaceship can send 100 people to Mars in 80 days

    Elon Musk’s proposed spaceship can send 100 people to Mars in 80 days
    Today, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Mars vehicle — the spaceship his company plans to build to transport the first colonists to Mars. The spaceship is meant to launch from Earth on top of the booster and then travel the rest of the way on its own to the Red Planet.
    The company's interplanetary spaceship — informally know as the BFS, or "Big Fucking Spaceship” — will have a diameter of 17 meters. The plan is to send about 100 people per trip, though he hopes to ultima
  • Elon Musk says it would take 40 to 100 years to build a self-sustaining civilization on Mars

    Elon Musk says it would take 40 to 100 years to build a self-sustaining civilization on Mars
    Elon Musk thinks that it would take between 40 and 100 years for humanity to go from landing a ship full of colonists on Mars to establishing a self-sustaining civilization. At his company SpaceX's event today, Musk laid out how a fleet of ships that could carry a minimum of 100 people, flying every two years, could populate a Martian city:If we say the minimum threshold for a self-sustaining city on Mars, or civilization, would be a million people, and you can only go every two years, if you ha
  • Elon Musk says the only reason he wants to make money is to colonize Mars

    Elon Musk says the only reason he wants to make money is to colonize Mars
    Elon Musk's ambitious plan to turn the human race into a multi-planetary species, starting first with the colonization of Mars, will cost a lot of money. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who laid out his Mars plans today at a press conference, hopes to eventually make the cost of taking a trip to Mars equal that of the average US home, at around $200,000 per ticket. Still, there's a long road ahead to funding the complex architecture of a stable Earth-Mars transportation system.
    To cement his
  • Meet Vic Berger, the Genius Behind This Election’s Dopest Viral Videos

    Meet Vic Berger, the Genius Behind This Election’s Dopest Viral Videos
    Vic Berger makes hilarious, delirious videos taking on everyone from Donald Trump to Jeb Bush. Here's how he raced to make a satire of last night's debate. The post Meet Vic Berger, the Genius Behind This Election's Dopest Viral Videos appeared first on WIRED.
  • Elon Musk is talking about going to Mars like it’s an Apple event

    Elon Musk is talking about going to Mars like it’s an Apple event
    Elon Musk is holding a massive event today to reveal his plans to eventually travel to and colonize Mars, and while his real audience was NASA and the government, that didn’t stop him from going all-out in production value. Specifically, the similarities between Elon presenting his plans and the way Steve Jobs presented the technology decisions that went into various iconic Apple products was note-perfect — just look at how Elon compared the various options for propellants and h
  • Beyond Good & Evil 2 Teased on Michel Ancel’s Instagram

    Beyond Good & Evil 2 Teased on Michel Ancel’s Instagram
    Long-in-the-works sequel to the 2003 classic adventure game could finally be happening. The post Beyond Good & Evil 2 Teased on Michel Ancel's Instagram appeared first on WIRED.
  • If Europa Has Ice Plumes, Maybe They Work Like Earth’s Volcanoes

    If Europa Has Ice Plumes, Maybe They Work Like Earth’s Volcanoes
    Europa joins a growing list of planetary bodies that likely have ice volcanism and possibly liquid water. The post If Europa Has Ice Plumes, Maybe They Work Like Earth’s Volcanoes appeared first on WIRED.
  • Google's new Pixel smartphones show up in leaked images

    Google's new Pixel smartphones show up in leaked images
    We're just one week away from the unveiling of Google's newest smartphones and VentureBeat has got its hands on a clear image of the gadgets. Supposedly called the Pixel, the device is said to replace Google's Nexus line with two different sized devices and fresh brand names.
    According to Android Police, one will be a 5-inch smartphone called the Pixel X, to replace last year's LG-made Nexus 5X (seemingly pictured above), while a 5.5-inch model called the Pixel XL &mdash
  • Elon Musk says taking a Mars trip should cost the same as buying a house

    Elon Musk says taking a Mars trip should cost the same as buying a house
    One day many, many years from now, Elon Musk believes the cost of taking a trip to Mars will be about the same as buying a house. During today's keynote, the SpaceX CEO said that visiting Mars should be equal to the median cost of a home in the United States, which is around $200,000. Musk said that reaching such a price through the use of "traditional methods" for space travel would be impossible. Using those established means, it would be closer to $10 billion per person, which is completely o
  • Google's iOS app now lets you lock incognito searches behind Touch ID

    Google's iOS app now lets you lock incognito searches behind Touch ID
    Google will now let you privately search the web in its core app on iOS. The ability to search in incognito mode is being added in an update to the Google app that's coming out today.
    But the more interesting part of the update isn't incognito mode on its own — private searches are already available in both Chrome and Safari, so that's nothing new — it's how Google is making them even more secure. Google will let you lock up private searches using Touch ID, so that if someone el
  • DJI Launches the Mavic Pro, a Significantly More Foldable Drone

    DJI Launches the Mavic Pro, a Significantly More Foldable Drone
    Not to be out-droned by the foldable Karma, DJI has today announced the Mavic Pro, its own less-expensive drone that folds up into a cute little rectangle. The post DJI Launches the Mavic Pro, a Significantly More Foldable Drone appeared first on WIRED.
  • Occipital launches $500 dev kit to turn your iPhone into a room-scale tracked VR headset

    Occipital launches $500 dev kit to turn your iPhone into a room-scale tracked VR headset
     For iOS or Mac users interested in VR, there isn’t a lot you can do right now without migrating to the dark sides of Android or Windows. Occipital is aiming to get people on the iOS platform access to some more cool VR opportunities. Today, the company opened up a $500 development kit today that brings room-scale motion tracking to iOS (as well as Android) smartphones, Upload reports.… Read More
  • WIRED’s Cheat Sheet to the Feisty First Presidential Debate

    WIRED’s Cheat Sheet to the Feisty First Presidential Debate
    Here's how the candidates stacked up on topics related to security, innovation, tech jobs, climate change, and other issues impacting the WIRED world. The post WIRED's Cheat Sheet to the Feisty First Presidential Debate appeared first on WIRED.
  • IBM releases DataWorks to give enterprise data a home and a brain

    IBM releases DataWorks to give enterprise data a home and a brain
     While the gears of research are turning fast developing new methods of machine intelligence, another, perhaps more impactful, trend is brewing in the field. Open source frameworks like Apache Spark are hitting their stride at the ideal time to put data analytics in the hands of the business development analyst without forgetting about the needs of the data scientist. IBM’s new… Read More
  • Honeywell’s new HomeKit and Alexa compatible smart thermostat runs $149

    Honeywell’s new HomeKit and Alexa compatible smart thermostat runs $149
     Honeywell’s been doing its thing for well over a century now, with its thermostatic roots stretching back even further to the 19th century days of coal heating. The company’s connected thermostat history, meanwhile dates roughly back to 2013, with the simply named WiFi Smart Thermostat, released following a bit of a patent dustup with Nest. Announced today, Honeywell’s… Read More
  • Elon Musk’s Mars mission: all the news from the big announcement

    Elon Musk’s Mars mission: all the news from the big announcement
    On September 27, Elon Musk announced a bold new plan to establish a permanent human habitation on Mars with his company SpaceX. It's one of the most ambitious schemes Musk — or humanity in general — has ever attempted, relying on huge advances in both rocketry and spaceship construction. Follow along here for the latest news about the project, and whether Musk can succeed in his longheld dream of bringing humanity to Mars.Developing. Check out our SpaceX Mars Colonization liveblog fo
  • Airbnb revamps its app with new tools for hosts, improved messaging

    Airbnb revamps its app with new tools for hosts, improved messaging
     Airbnb may not be ready to unveil its new travel services app, Airbnb Trips, just yet, but in the meantime the company is giving its flagship application a big makeover. The upcoming version of the main Airbnb app will introduce a number of new features for hosts, including things like message templates for quicker replies and a calendar that lets them easily see who’s staying when,… Read More
  • SolarCity accused of misappropriating solar company Cogenra’s trade secrets

    SolarCity accused of misappropriating solar company Cogenra’s trade secrets
     Solar company Cogenra is suing Elon Musk’s SolarCity over the use of shingling technology the company alleges SolarCity took from Cogenra and used to create a world-record breaking solar panel.
    Cogenra says it shared its “most precious and confidential trade secrets, manufacturing processes, and other intellectual property with Silevo and SolarCity” between 2010 and… Read More
  • ClassPass sacrifices 10% of customers in pursuit of healthier margins

    ClassPass sacrifices 10% of customers in pursuit of healthier margins
     Classpass, the subscription service for fitness classes, became a household name because of one simple innovation. The business model. Combining the breadth of a marketplace with a subscription pricing structure sparked a handful of similar startup launches (like Vive, which does the same thing with hair blowouts). But more importantly, it was the turning point for the company, putting it… Read More
  • Live from Elon Musk’s Mars colonization announcement

    Follow along with our SpaceX liveblog hereContinue reading…
  • Google's AI translation system is approaching human-level accuracy

    Google's AI translation system is approaching human-level accuracy
    Google is one of the leading providers of artificial intelligence-assisted language translation, and the company now says a new technique for doing so is vastly improving the results. The company’s AI team calls it the Google Neural Machine Translation system, or GNMT, and it initially provided a less resource-intensive way to ingest a sentence in one language and produce that same sentence in another language. Instead of digesting each word or phrase as a standalone unit, as prior methods
  • Slack Integrates With Salesforce in a Bid to Win Over Suits

    Slack Integrates With Salesforce in a Bid to Win Over Suits
    Slack has a plan to take its white hot chat app mainstream. The post Slack Integrates With Salesforce in a Bid to Win Over Suits appeared first on WIRED.
  • SpaceX unveils the Interplanetary Transport System, a spaceship and rocket to colonize Mars

    SpaceX unveils the Interplanetary Transport System, a spaceship and rocket to colonize Mars
    Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released a video that details its long-awaited "Interplanetary Transport System." The video was published less than an hour before CEO Elon Musk was scheduled to detail the system at the International Astronautical Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico.
    The video appears to show SpaceX's new rocket — the BFR, or "Big Fucking Rocket" — as well as the company's interplanetary spaceship — the BFS, or "Big Fucking Spaceship."
    The rocket appea
  • Record labels sue popular YouTube audio-ripping site

    Record labels sue popular YouTube audio-ripping site
    A group of record labels, including UMG, Sony Music, and Warner Bros., have filed a copyright infringement claim against a YouTube stream-ripping website, the BBC reports. The website, youtube-mp3.org, converts YouTube streams to mp3 audio files. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls the stream-ripping site the "world's largest," with more than 60 million users per month. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has given YouTube-mp3 "formal notice of intended legal acti
  • An Infusion of AI Makes Google Translate More Powerful Than Ever

    An Infusion of AI Makes Google Translate More Powerful Than Ever
    Internet giant has unveiled a English-Chinese translation system built entirely on deep neural networks, saying it reduces error rates by 60 percent. The post An Infusion of AI Makes Google Translate More Powerful Than Ever appeared first on WIRED.
  • What do you get when you add AI to an egg timer?

    What do you get when you add AI to an egg timer?
    The HelloEgg is a voice-activated kitchen assistant from RnD64 that looks to combine the functionality of an Amazon Echo and an egg timer in a single device. Continue reading…
  • How two network comedies about death teach us to live a better life

    How two network comedies about death teach us to live a better life
    In case you haven’t heard, 2016 is the worst year ever.
    That certainly sounds true, as far as manifestos that can be condensed down to five words and a number go. The evidence is certainly abundant in tragedies, election updates, a peppering of celebrity divorces and deaths. In our disturbingly polarized culture, all parties seem to share a general sense of impending doom.
    Even America’s go-to dealer of sugar-coated escapism, the network television comedy, has been infected by our na
  • Honeywell is introducing another HomeKit-compatible smart thermostat

    Honeywell is introducing another HomeKit-compatible smart thermostat
    Honeywell introduced a new version of its Lyric smart thermostat at CES this year, and less than a year later it’s already bringing us another iteration. The new Lyric T5 Wi-Fi thermostat is similar to its CES brethren in that it’s controlled through Honeywell’s Lyric app, is compatible with Apple’s HomeKit and Amazon's Alexa, can use your phone to set up a geofence, and will send you notifications when there are changes in humidity or temperature. So you’ll be able
  • The Best Memes From the First Presidential Debate

    The Best Memes From the First Presidential Debate
    Sniff. Shimmy. Shake. The post The Best Memes From the First Presidential Debate appeared first on WIRED.