The insanity of gas-delivery startups and what they say about inconvenience inflation."Every day, in every way, the things that matter to our lives are coming to us," begins the pitch for an on-demand fuel startup called WeFuel that is launching on Tuesday. "But there's something that still forces us to get in our car, fight traffic, and go through a ritual that is more than 100 years old. Filling up our cars with gas."Read Full Story

Physics, which decades ago seemed capable of answering the deepest mysteries of existence, is now just recycling once-exciting ideas -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Memoire is a typeface that degrades with every use. The post The ‘Memoire’ Typeface Changes Like a Memory as You Use It appeared first on WIRED.

Chat and project-management platforms like Slack and Basecamp blurred work-life boundaries. Here's how they are putting them back.Most of work doesn't have to be done in an office anymore. And in many situations that's a good thing. Technology enables remote work when regular routes are shut down (like during a snowstorm). Between a smartphone and home-based WiFi, most workers can at least answer email and get basic stuff done. Add a little Slack chat or Basecamp project management, and many of the daily tasks can be tackled.Read Full Story

In the far reaches of the solar system, a hidden planet larger than Earth may be lurking -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The companies whose infrastructure connects the world is looking to Facebook's open source model for building better data centers. The post Telecoms Look Past Cisco and HP to Open Source Hardware appeared first on WIRED.

Move over, blue verified checkmark, an ad-free timeline is the new status symbol.For years the most coveted status you could attain on Twitter was verification. People who are "verified" by Twitter have a blue checkmark over their profile picture, which means that the social media giant deems you a very important person: a politician, actor, musician, even a journalist (but not all journalists…). Twitter verification was the highest social media status symbol you could attain. Until now...Read Full Story

A preview by our editor in chief of the February 2016 issue of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

At the first Super Bowl, ushers tore tickets. At Super Bowl 50, they scanned them. At Super Bowl 100, fans were retina-scanned on the way in. The post Imagining Football’s Future Through the Super Bowl of 2066 appeared first on WIRED.

(Plus four more questions we hope its executives answer.)Amazon will report its fourth-quarter earnings this Thursday, which will answer two burning questions for investors:Read Full Story