The FAA expects over 1 million drones to be sold at Christmas but hasn’t figured out how legal they are
The US congress in 2012 mandated that the Federal Aviation Administration have regulations in place for how to integrate drones into US airspace by Sept. 30, 2015. It’s now October, and no such regulations are on the books.
October 5, 2015 at 12:12PM
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Why Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Save Twitter
What some think is crazy, Dorsey believes to be fulfilling.
October 5, 2015 at 09:52AM
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How Elon Musk’s Super-Efficient Rooftop Panels Will Help US Solar Thrive
SolarCity, the Elon Musk-chaired clean energy company, says it’s about to start mass-manufacturing “the world’s most efficient rooftop solar panel.” Naturally, the combination of keyphrases “Elon Musk,” “World’s Most,” and “Solar Panels” have set the internet aflutter — and, for once, it’s probably warranted.
October 5, 2015 at 08:41AM
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Uber’s Long Road Into Las Vegas
The Las Vegas taxi industry used every political maneuver in its arsenal to keep Uber and Lyft off the strip. It didn’t work.
October 5, 2015 at 06:36AM
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science’s most prestigious prize. This year, one prediction was unusual: a genome-editing tool so hyped that it even got on the cover of Wired. The tool is also mired in controversy.
October 4, 2015 at 08:57PM
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LeVar Burton Takes A Ride In A Driverless Car On ‘Reading Rainbow’
Self driving car videos often focus on the possible fun of rider experiences or the usefulness of computerized driving, but we’d also like to know more about the technology. How do driverless cars avoid crashing into things around them?
October 4, 2015 at 07:35PM
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Meet The Telescopes Of The Future
The BBC brings you an animated look at the far our telescopes of the future. They’re so large that one of them is called “The Extremely Large Telescope.”
October 4, 2015 at 02:07PM
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How To Make Your Facebook Profile Picture Into A Looping Video
Facebook has a new feature for some users that lets them turn their profile picture into a GIF and Wired is here to show you how to do it. Go forth and animate!
October 4, 2015 at 12:38PM
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The Worst Nuclear Testing You’ve Never Heard Of
From 1949 to 1989, the USSR secretly conducted over 400 nuclear tests in Kazakhstan, exposing hundreds of thousands of people to dangerous levels of radiation.
October 4, 2015 at 11:13AM
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Google’s ‘Don’t be evil’ creed disappears as company morphs into Alphabet
“Don’t be evil” has been part of Google for over a decade, and it’s the very first line of the search company’s code of conduct. While Alphabet isn’t using the well-known phrase in its new code of conduct, the intention is arguably still there.
October 4, 2015 at 08:05AM
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