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An Alien-Hunting Russian Tech Mogul May Help Solve a Space Mystery

KATIA MOSKVITCH

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner has invested a fortune to help SETI find the source of cosmic flashes that emit the energy of 500 million suns.

The Story Universe of Magic: The Gathering Is Expanding

ADAM ROGERS

Can a complicated, nerdy card game turn into a cross-media story? Maybe it already is one.

Don’t hold your breath for the moon

JON EVANS

In the house in which I grew up, a single framed newspaper front page loomed over us. "MAN ON MOON", it declared jubilantly, in an enormous, suitably momentous typeface. Subheadings included "'It's very pretty up here … a fine, soft surface'" and, of course, "A giant leap for mankind." One leap forward, three steps back. […]

A Meditation on Moon Shots, a Mid-Engine Corvette, and More Car News This Week

AARIAN MARSHALL

We debate the use of the term “moon shot,” digitally drive the first mid-engine ’Vette, and check in how on Formula E is fueling an all-electric future.

Watch this paper doll do sit-ups thanks to new kind of “artificial muscle”

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

Flexible material contracts in response to ethanol vapor, relaxes when vapor is gone.

Can Disney’s Circle really deliver a porn-free Internet?

JIM SALTER

Review: We test the second edition of Disney's Circle Internet-filtering service.

Amazon warns customers: Those supplements might be fake

WIRED

Align supplements purchased from Amazon were likely counterfeits.

The Greatest Leap, part 6: After Apollo, NASA still searching for an encore

ERIC BERGER

We need to recognize Apollo as a historical event, not a model for future exploration.

“Rum and Ginger” everywhere—how intellectual property plays out at the bar

NATHAN MATTISE

"A recipe is like a phone book in the eyes of the law—you can't own something so factual."

In healthcare these days, ‘There’s an app for that’… unless you really need it

JONATHAN SHIEBER

Sarah Lisker Contributor Share on Twitter Sarah Lisker is a Program Manager at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and a collaborator in The OpEd Project. She manages SOLVE Health Tech, which bridges private sector innovation with public health expertise to make digital health accessible. When a digital health company announces a new app, everyone seems to think it’s going […]

Lyft’s dockless e-bikes have made their way to SF, but it wasn’t easy

MEGAN ROSE DICKEY

When tech companies sue cities, it's rare to see a resolution — albeit a temporary one — in favor of the tech company happen so quickly, if at all. Lyft sued San Francisco in early June, claiming the city was in violation of a 10-year contract that would give Lyft exclusive rights to operate bike-share […]

Cities must plan ahead for innovation without leaving people behind

JONATHAN SHIEBER

Yung Wu Contributor Yung Wu is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a Toronto-based innovation hub. More posts by this contributor To actually change the world, Big Tech needs to grow up From Toronto to Tokyo, the challenges faced by cities today are often remarkably similar: climate change, rising housing costs, traffic, economic polarization, unemployment. […]

Team TUM wins SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition with record 288 mph top speed

DARRELL ETHERINGTON

SpaceX hosted its fourth annual SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition finals on Sunday at the test tube it built outside its Hawthorne HQ. We were on site for the competition, and watched as Team TUM, from the Technical University of Munich, took home the win thanks to achieving the top speed overall of any team to […]

Elon Musk says next Hyperloop competition will be in a six-mile, curved tunnel

DARRELL ETHERINGTON

Elon Musk planning to change up the Hyperloop student engineering competition that his company SpaceX has run for the past four years. Next year's competition will be done in a tunnel that's over six miles long, the SpaceX CEO said on Twitter on Sunday, with a curve instead of being in a straight line like […]

White Star Capital eyes Asia growth with new Hong Kong office

RITA LIAO

For western startups looking to enter Asia and Asian startups expanding globally, more funding has become available as investors are increasingly looking to export local tech solutions to overseas markets. Globally based venture capital firm White Star Capital has set up a new office in Hong Kong this month to capture entrepreneurs in the budding […]