• The Only Victor in the Search for MH370? Ocean Science

    And if it doesn't, it's still good news for science. The post The Only Victor in the Search for MH370? Ocean Science appeared first on WIRED.
  • AT&T CEO muses about 20-minute mobile versions of Game of Thrones

    AT&T CEO muses about 20-minute mobile versions of Game of Thrones
    TV series are shaped by the format of TV network programming — half-hour or one-hour blocks, with or without space for commercial breaks, depending on the network. But more and more people are watching them on mobile phones and tablets, while TV companies are becoming more and more closely intertwined with mobile carriers. So what does the marriage of TV and smartphone look like? AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson offered some hints in a speech this week.
    At JPMorgan’s Global Te
  • Xbox Game Pass launches today for Gold members (and everyone else June 1)

    Xbox Game Pass launches today for Gold members (and everyone else June 1)
    Microsoft is today officially launching its Xbox Game Pass, a $9.99 Netflix-like service for gamers. Well, if you subscribe to Xbox Gold, anyway. For those not familiar, Xbox Game Pass allows you to play “over 100” Xbox One and 360 games for your $10 fee. That list of games will constantly change, with some games entering and exiting the pool over time. But unlike services like PlayStation Now, Game Pass isn’t simply streaming video footage through an internet connection.
  • Netflix is bringing Ellen DeGeneres back to standup

    Netflix is bringing Ellen DeGeneres back to standup
    Netflix is becoming a comedy juggernaut, showing just how much the network has grown compared to its competition. Variety reports that the company is working with Ellen DeGeneres for a standup special. The effort would be DeGeneres’ first special in 15 years, and adds fuel to the argument that Netflix is now the new go-to for top-tier comics.
    “It has been 15 years since I did a stand-up special. 15 years,” DeGeneres said in an official statement. “And I’m writing it
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  • Sweden lists all of its free public spaces on Airbnb

    Sweden lists all of its free public spaces on Airbnb
    Sweden has listed its public parks and beaches on Airbnb to promote its national policy on free-roaming. In a collaboration with VisitSweden, the country’s official tourism site, Airbnb has listed “the entire country” on a separate portion of its site, “to make this home available to everyone.” Sweden’s philosophy of “Allemansrätten,” allows anyone to experience Swedish nature without having to pay: The freedom to roa
  • The Splash Drone 3 is the Aquaman of drones

    The Splash Drone 3 is the Aquaman of drones
    There are lots of drones out there that can do all sorts of things like fly around, take pictures and video, or even lift a human. But how many can swim?Meet the Splash Drone 3, the latest drone from SwellPro. It’s fully waterproof, and while it can’t quite swim, it can float, which is pretty neat. It’s actually an updated edition of the original Splash Drone, which the company released two years ago, but this model adds a redesigned gimbal with a new 4K camera, stronger motors
  • You Spider-Can be Spider-Man with your very own Spider-Drone

    You Spider-Can be Spider-Man with your very own Spider-Drone
    Science fiction never had a problem with plopping magical floating orb robots into a scene. But now that real drones exist, it's become fashionable to put real-ish drones into sci-fi movies, books, and video games whenever the writers are straining for a modicum of plausibility.
    The latest example is the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming, where Spider-Man has a cute little Spider-Drone built into his suit, which he can presumably deploy to solve Spider-Man-type problems.And of course you can buy a
  • Injury rates at Tesla’s auto factory were 31 percent higher than the industry average, report finds

    Injury rates at Tesla’s auto factory were 31 percent higher than the industry average, report finds
    Worker safety at Tesla’s flagship auto plant have been called into question again — this time in a report that analyzes three years of federal records — as the US automaker tries to fend off attempts at unionization and undergoes a rapid expansion to produce the Model 3, an electric vehicle for the masses.Worksafe, a worker safety advocacy group found injury rates at the plant were well above the industry average in 2014 and 2015, according to its independent review of work-rel
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  • Time to say ‘I told you so’: cannabis can treat seizures

    Time to say ‘I told you so’: cannabis can treat seizures
    Ancient Chinese and Persian medical texts — and modern anecdotes — suggest that cannabis is useful for treating seizures. Research has been scant, but a new study of cannabidiol, a molecule in cannabis, has given some credence to these claims. Kids with a severe form of epilepsy had 39 percent fewer seizures per month after taking the substance, also called CBD. Three people stopped having seizures altogether.In a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, research
  • Facebook reportedly orders original video shows from BuzzFeed and Vox

    Facebook reportedly orders original video shows from BuzzFeed and Vox
    Facebook’s plan to seed the service with television-like shows now has some names behind it. BuzzFeed and Vox are among the media companies that have signed deals with the company to create short-form series, according to Reuters. The shows, which were originally expected to debut next month, are now expected to arrive closer to the end of summer.
    Reuters reports there will be two types of shows: 20- to 30-minute shows that Facebook will own outright, and 5- to 10-minute shows that will be
  • Flexible retail startup Bulletin raises $2.2M

    Flexible retail startup Bulletin raises $2.2M
     Bulletin, the startup that describes itself as “WeWork for retail space,” is announcing that it has raised $2.2 million in seed funding. The idea is to give businesses — particularly online brands — access to brick-and-mortar retail space without the cost or commitment of a traditional lease. Read More
  • Sony is discontinuing its midrange Xperia lines to focus on its flagship smartphones

    Sony is discontinuing its midrange Xperia lines to focus on its flagship smartphones
    Changes are on the way to Sony’s smartphone lineup. The company is discontinuing its Xperia X and Xperia X Compact lines of devices, which it considers “premium standard” (midrange), Sony announced at its investor conference, according to XperiaBlog.Sony has decided to shift its focus to its flagship devices, and says it will launch at least two new devices that fit into that category before the end of the year under the Xperia name. Given the trend of smartphones and Sony&rsqu
  • Air New Zealand imagines flight attendants using HoloLens to read your emotions

    Air New Zealand imagines flight attendants using HoloLens to read your emotions
    American air travel is miserable in almost every possible way, from increasingly onerous security procedures to the threat of literally having your teeth knocked out. But based on the video above, I’m going to cling to the notion that things are better in New Zealand, because airlines there are apparently busy figuring out how to let flight attendants read your emotions with augmented reality.
    The project is a collaboration between Air New Zealand and Dimension Data, using the Microsoft Ho
  • Google Photos now makes it easy to hide your nudes

    Google Photos now makes it easy to hide your nudes
    A new update to Google Photos will now let you archive photos from the main feed and hide them away, helping you declutter and privatize some personal photos. First spotted by 9to5Google, all you have to do is hold the photo(s) and hit the “...” menu on the right side to bring up the archive option. Later, when you want to revisit those photos, you can find them on the left side menu under a separate folder.
    While it might not seem as buzzworthy as, say, Instagram’s implementat
  • Facebook redesigns Trending topics to make news easier to find

    Facebook redesigns Trending topics to make news easier to find
    Facebook is introducing a couple of changes today that make it easier to spot trending topics and the coverage around them. First up, there’s a bit of a visual redesign. Previously, clicking on a trending topic would highlight a story from one publication, and you’d have to scroll down past a live video section to view related stories. Facebook is replacing that system with a simple carousel, which does a better job of showing you different coverage options. To be cle
  • 5 Entrepreneurial Skills Parents Must Teach Their Child For Future

    5 Entrepreneurial Skills Parents Must Teach Their Child For Future
    Being a parent is one of the most wonderful feelings in this world. Seeing a child grow imbibing different skills is the dream of every parent. While living this dream, most of the parents fail to teach their child certain entrepreneurial skills that can help them in leading a successful life in future. It is very important to develop the entrepreneurial mindset in children at early ages. Kids learn things at tender age quickly. They have enough time to implement and experience what they have l
  • How the tech world would change if net neutrality is abolished

    How the tech world would change if net neutrality is abolished
    The FCC recently posted a notice about a proposed piece of legislation that would, essentially, roll back the Open Internet Order of 2015, which established the concept of net neutrality. These are publicly available documents, and you can read them for yourself. Of course, the documents are also wordy and complicated, so I’m going to distill them down into something we can all understand here. Here’s what such proposed legislation would mean for the internet—and for the futur
  • Imzy, the nicer Reddit, is shutting down

    Imzy, the nicer Reddit, is shutting down
    As quietly as it came, community site Imzy is shutting down after just over a year of operation. @imzyhq 3/3 – But for today, I am heartbroken to say, that @imzyhq is shutting down. https://t.co/JQBxXxPisCThanks for the support everyone. — Dan McComas (@kickme444) May 24, 2017 Imzy was created by former Reddit employees Dan McComas and Jessica Moreno as a safer, friendlier version of the popular community site. This approach doesn’t seem to have served Imzy well in t
  • Facebook redesigns Trending Topics on mobile to show more news sources

    Facebook redesigns Trending Topics on mobile to show more news sources
    Today, Facebook announced an update to its Trending Topics section that will make the list of news stories easier to parse on mobile with a more diverse list of sources. Now, when you click on a news topic from the search bar on an iPhone, you’ll get multiple stories from different outlets that can be swiped through in a carousel format, as well as the standard posts from friends and prominent celebrity and public figure pages you follow. The company plans to roll the redesign out to Andro
  • Here are the microbes you can pick up at the hospital — and those you leave behind

    Here are the microbes you can pick up at the hospital — and those you leave behind
    I don’t like going to hospitals. I’m always wondering about what kind of bacteria are floating around and what pathogens I’m going to pick up. Well, my abstract fears have just gotten a little bit more real. A new study shows what kinds of organisms you encounter in hospitals — and how patients and the hospital rooms they’re in exchange these organisms with one another.
    Researchers took thousands of samples from a hospital in Chicago for two months before it opened
  • Far Cry 5 promises to be controversial, but not for the usual reasons

    Far Cry 5 promises to be controversial, but not for the usual reasons
    For fans, the Far Cry series is known for beautiful sprawling locales, heavy weapons, and strong voice acting performances. But it’s also notorious for continually sending players to “exotic” nations, and encouraging them to murder the local people of color. Previous settings include the islands of the South Pacific, an unnamed African country, an Asian-Pacific archipelago, and a fictional country tucked into the Himalayas. Far Cry 5 will be presented next month at the annual E
  • Pokémon GO update trolls cheaters with common monsters

    Pokémon GO update trolls cheaters with common monsters
    Pokémon GO developer Niantic has discovered an insidious new way to ruin a cheater’s day: give them stuff they don’t want. First spotted by the Pokémon GO subreddit The Silph Road, the changes rolled out last weekend. This new approach flags a cheater’s account, “shadowbanning” them so that they can still play — they’ll just only be able to see common Pokémon. Scanners show Pokémon GO players where ra
  • Polar's new fitness tracker will monitor your heart rate and sleep for $179

    Polar's new fitness tracker will monitor your heart rate and sleep for $179
    Polar’s latest fitness tracker is the A370, and like the company’s other wearables, it’s capable of fitness tracking, heart rate monitoring, and sleep tracking. In an upgrade from the previous model A360, which only took heart rate readings during active exercise, the A370 continuously senses your heart rate every five minutes.Continuously senses your heart rate every five minutes
    And... that’s basically the update. Otherwise, it’s a pretty well-rounded fitness band
  • Cool Spacewalk, Right? Get Ready for More—ISS Will Need Fixin’

    Cool Spacewalk, Right? Get Ready for More—ISS Will Need Fixin’
    Tuesday's contingency spacewalk could signal the beginning of more frequent repairs on the aging space station The post Cool Spacewalk, Right? Get Ready for More—ISS Will Need Fixin' appeared first on WIRED.
  • Virus Hunters Draw a Map of Zika’s Spread With DNA

    According to new genetic evidence, public health efforts to contain and fight the disease could have—and should have—gotten started much sooner. The post Virus Hunters Draw a Map of Zika's Spread With DNA appeared first on WIRED.
  • The new Game of Thrones season 7 trailer shows war is about to begin

    The new Game of Thrones season 7 trailer shows war is about to begin
    We’re only a few short months away from the return of Game of Thrones, and after months of speculation and teasers, HBO has finally released a full trailer showing off some of what we can expect from the new season.
    In short: Queen Cersei is rallying troops for battle, Jon Snow is preparing for war in the North, and of course, Daenerys and her dragons are finally making their way back to Westeros with an eye on the Iron Throne.Game of Thrones is set to return for its seventh season on July
  • Boeing will make the military’s new hypersonic spaceplane

    Boeing will make the military’s new hypersonic spaceplane
    For the last few years, the US military has been looking to make an entirely new hypersonic spaceplane — one that can be reused frequently over a short period of time to deliver multiple satellites into orbit. And now the Department of Defense has picked Boeing to turn that spaceplane into a reality. DARPA, the agency that tests new advanced technologies for the military, has picked Boeing’s design concept, called the Phantom Express, to move forward as part of the agency’s Exp
  • Amazon dominates every market it touches — now it’s coming for fashion

    Amazon dominates every market it touches — now it’s coming for fashion
    Last week, Amazon gave Chicago Bulls shooting guard Dwyane Wade his own boutique of sorts. “Bringing my style game to @amazonfashion with my own online store,” said Wade in an Instagram post blasted to his 9.2M followers. Wade’s Amazon hub houses a suite of brands he’s collaborated with — Mission activewear, Stance socks, Tie Bar accessories — as well as his own sneaker label, Way of Wade. It doesn’t sound revolutionary, but creating a shop strictly made
  • How this nano technology has quietly infiltrated several consumer products

    How this nano technology has quietly infiltrated several consumer products
    In nature, because water is a polar molecule, it naturally forms clusters that end up being about 1 micron in size. These water clusters are absorbed easily throughout the digestive system into the blood.  In the blood, some water molecules that are loosely bound to these large clusters are pulled off for use in cells. The large clusters themselves are too large to enter a cell. Cells struggle to get adequate water molecules by robbing them from passing large clusters. Hydrozomes (a new na
  • Breaking down the FCC’s proposal to destroy net neutrality

    Breaking down the FCC’s proposal to destroy net neutrality
    Last week, the Federal Communications Commission voted to start a proceeding to repeal the 2015 network neutrality rules and the legal authority underlying it, Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. The rules ensure that internet users can access the online content and services of their choosing without interference from ISPs like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Charter.
    Yesterday the FCC made its final proposal to repeal the rules public. This document, known as a Notice of Proposed Rulema
  • The Vaio Z Mercedes-Benz special edition laptop makes a car noise when it boots up

    The Vaio Z Mercedes-Benz special edition laptop makes a car noise when it boots up
    "Vroom vroom" is a special sound only cars make, but now you can hear it every time your laptop boots up if you buy this new Mercedes-Benz special edition Vaio Z for the Japanese market. To make sure you grabbed the correct Vaio Z, the one that's only for car lovers and makes car noises, there's a picture of a car on the lid, a Mercedes logo on the trackpad, and a few other hidden Mercedes logos elsewhere on the laptop that probably only people who saw The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in th
  • DJI’s New Palm-Sized Drone Responds To a Wave of Your Hand

    DJI’s New Palm-Sized Drone Responds To a Wave of Your Hand
    DJI unveiled a new drone today, and isn't it just the cutest little thing? The post DJI's New Palm-Sized Drone Responds To a Wave of Your Hand appeared first on WIRED.
  • The new Michael Crichton novel has dinosaur bones and gunslingers, but it lacks a soul

    The new Michael Crichton novel has dinosaur bones and gunslingers, but it lacks a soul
    Michael Crichton passed away in 2008, but his work has only become more popular since. A revival of his Jurassic Park franchise broke global box office records, while the HBO adaptation of his original film Westworld became one of 2016’s most exhaustively discussed TV shows. Until this month, Crichton’s work has lived on as inspiration. That changes with Dragon Teeth, one of the author’s unfinished novels, which was published by his estate this month. A fun thriller that echoes
  • Circle with Disney raises $10 million for its parental control device for families

    Circle with Disney raises $10 million for its parental control device for families
     Circle Media, the company behind Circle with Disney – a device that helps parents enforce their home’s internet rules and restrictions – has raised $10 million in Series A funding, the company announced this morning. The round was led by early stage venture fund Relay Ventures. There was another private equity investment in the round, but the parties didn’t want to… Read More
  • Need a Memorial Day to Remember? Ice-Bike the Northwest Passage

    Need a Memorial Day to Remember? Ice-Bike the Northwest Passage
    Just make sure the tires are big enough. The post Need a Memorial Day to Remember? Ice-Bike the Northwest Passage appeared first on WIRED.
  • Facebook Claims It Has a Better Way to Prove Ads Work on Facebook

    The plan? Convince advertisers that metrics don't matter. The post Facebook Claims It Has a Better Way to Prove Ads Work on Facebook appeared first on WIRED.
  • SoftBank’s Nvidia stake is reportedly worth $4BN

    SoftBank’s Nvidia stake is reportedly worth $4BN
     Bloomberg is today reporting the size of SoftBank’s stake in Nvidia is $4 billion, for 4.9 per cent of the company, which it says would make it the fourth largest investor in the chipmaker. Read More
  • Sphero’s New Cars Toy Is the Fanciest RC Car You Ever Did See

    Take Lightning McQueen for a spin with this app-controlled toy. The post Sphero’s New Cars Toy Is the Fanciest RC Car You Ever Did See appeared first on WIRED.
  • Review: Origin PC EON15-S Gaming Laptop

    A solid gaming configuration, starting at just $999. The post Review: Origin PC EON15-S Gaming Laptop appeared first on WIRED.
  • The Tricky Ethics of Big Pharma Soft-Selling on Soap Operas

    Medical professionals have raised concerns about whether General Hospital's plotline blurred the lines between disease awareness and advertisement. The post The Tricky Ethics of Big Pharma Soft-Selling on Soap Operas appeared first on WIRED.
  • This coffee butter-chugging startup just pulled in $19 million more in funding

    This coffee butter-chugging startup just pulled in $19 million more in funding
     Dave Asprey, the man famous for encouraging Silicon Valley execs to put butter in his special blend of coffee, has raised another $19 million to keep on doing just that. His company and lifestyle brand Bulletproof 360 claims to make coffee free of something called mycotoxins, which is, basically, mold and can make you very ill if ingested. Asprey says about 75 percent of other brands are full… Read More
  • Intel’s Plan to Thunderbolt 3 All of the Things

    Two years after Intel embraced USB-C for Thunderbolt 3, it's taking another big step toward the mainstream. The post Intel's Plan to Thunderbolt 3 All of the Things appeared first on WIRED.
  • Fairystring vs. Luminoodle: battle of the whimsically named USB light strips

    Fairystring vs. Luminoodle: battle of the whimsically named USB light strips
    I'm weirdly obsessed with lighting. I automated the lights in my home way before companies like Philips made it easy to do so. Now I find myself wanting to add lighting to family picnics at the beach or camping getaways. Traditionally, I'd have opted for propane-powered lamps, or a rechargeable light like the Hue Go if I wanted to get fancy. But what I really want is something super compact and versatile that can easily be tucked into a backpack. That's when I stumbled upon a few portable lighti
  • GREE Ventures closes $67M fund for deals in Japan, India and Southeast Asia

    GREE Ventures closes $67M fund for deals in Japan, India and Southeast Asia
     GREE Ventures, the Singapore-based VC firm connected to Japanese games firm GREE, has closed its newest $67 million fund for early stage investments in Asia.
    AT-II — the firm’s second fund — sees GREE Ventures spread its focus of deals in Japan and Southeast Asia to cover India for the first time. The fund has so far made 10 investments across Asia, which includes New… Read More
  • PolicyGenius raises $30 million from Norwest Venture Partners

    PolicyGenius raises $30 million from Norwest Venture Partners
     Consumers increasingly are going online to search for insurance, and when they do, PolicyGenius wants to be right there to help them find the right policy. To expand its offerings and support more customers, the company raised a $30 million Series C funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Read More
  • Pinterest opens up autoplay videos in home feed and search with new measurement tools

    Pinterest opens up autoplay videos in home feed and search with new measurement tools
     Pinterest is adding another ad to its array of products, now allowing advertisers to publish video advertising that will automatically play in the home feed and search, as it continues to bulk up and woo advertisers with a different pitch from Facebook and Google. Pinterest has had to make the argument to advertisers that its 175 million users behave differently on Pinterest when compared… Read More
  • Garmin’s new 360-degree camera is waterproof and records 3D audio

    Garmin’s new 360-degree camera is waterproof  and records 3D audio
    Garmin is expanding its action camera lineup into the world of 360-degree video. Today the company announced the VIRB 360, a waterproof spherical camera packed with bleeding edge specs. The new camera offers features that most other 360-degree cameras lack, but that comes at a price: the VIRB 360 will cost $799 when it goes on sale in June.The VIRB 360 shoots spherical video at up to 5.7K, and it can take 15-megapixel stills, good enough to make it one of the highest-resolution consumer 360 came
  • Apply for the TechCrunch Tel Aviv Meetup + Pitch-off now

    Apply for the TechCrunch Tel Aviv Meetup + Pitch-off now
     As you may have noticed TechCrunch is coming back to Israel with a Meetup + Pitch-off in Tel Aviv because we had a great time last year. The event will be on June 28, at Trask, between 6-10 p.m.
    Israel is one of the world’s fastest-growing and most impressive startup ecosystems, and we simply can’t resist coming back. If you feel you have the chops to compete in the Pitch-off… Read More
  • Jon Stewart isn’t doing an animated HBO show anymore

    Jon Stewart isn’t doing an animated HBO show anymore
    Last year, it was reported that Jon Stewart was developing a shortform animation series for HBO, as part of a four-year deal he signed with the network after leaving The Daily Show. Now, as The New York Times reports, that project has been shelved.
    In a joint statement provided to the Times, Stewart and HBO said they “have decided not to proceed with a shortform digital animated project,” citing “technical issues in terms of production and distribution that proved too difficult
  • Apple targets community college students with new a Swift coding course

    Apple targets community college students with new a Swift coding course
     Apple’s found a fair bit of success with Swift Playgrounds since launching it last year at WWDC. According to the company, the educational program has enlisted some one million users into its ranks. And while the dead simple offering is primarily aimed at youngsters, there’s apparently been a fair bit of interest across demographics. Today’s announcement extends… Read More