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The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.
For decades, cinemas have earned more from concessions than ticket sales. But can their current business model survive in the streaming age?
Million Stories
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
6mins
Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
John Templeton Foundation
Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.
7mins
We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
In the future, driving an app across a bridge could let engineers know how safe it is.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
Astronomers have been looking for radio waves sent by a distant civilization for more than 60 years.
Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.
Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.
The future of American jobs isn't only services and tech.
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
5mins
Don’t take the prodigy pathway. Become a broad thinker instead.
3mins
Economist Tyler Cowen says there are good reasons to be crypto-skeptical.
Innovation training encourages the kind of creativity and problem solving that can lead to breakthroughs in business.
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
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Expert Matthew Ball explains how the Metaverse is a golden opportunity to fix the internet.
You might think it's impossible to run out of wind, but Europe's "wind drought" proves otherwise. And it's only going to get worse.