The concept won even though it quite deliberately did not include space for people, or even cargo. The post MIT Students Just Won a Competition to Design a Hyperloop Pod appeared first on WIRED.

Although the method of a hack attack can be deciphered, the culprits often remain a mystery -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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A congressional hearing about climate change gave a glimpse of each party's strategy with regards to climate change. The post The House Science Committee Thinks the Paris Climate Agreement Stinks appeared first on WIRED.

In an unassuming research lab, Volkswagen is solving problems that Tesla and Google haven't come close to cracking.We were rolling eastward across the San Mateo Bridge in an Audi A7 at a dutiful 55 miles per hour, and I was riding shotgun accompanied by two of the car's engineers. With a sticker price topping $70,000, the A7 is a fancy car, but not an uncommon one along the stock-option-paved highways of Silicon Valley. I looked around at the drivers around us, knowing they hadn't a clue about what was happening right beside them. Traffic was getting thick, as rush hour approached. Outside the window, the water of the San Francisco Bay was a dull green, like patinated copper, pitted by tiny waves. A bright blue sky. Our car's test driver was smiling pleasantly, hands on his thighs, not touching the steering wheel at all.Read Full Story

Google-owned company DeepMind have created an artificial intelligence which can beat a professional at the ancient Chinese boardgame of Go - a feat thought to be a decade away. This article was... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

There's nothing new about the coin flip that was used in Monday night's Iowa caucus, except our ability to document it. The post Relax, Twitter. Iowa’s Caucus Coin Flip Is Perfectly Normal appeared first on WIRED.

How Patty McCord created what Sheryl Sandberg called "the most important document ever to come out of the Valley."It's easy to forget that before it became the streaming giant it is today with hits like Making a Murderer, House of Cards, and Orange Is the New Black, Netflix was a DVD-by-mail business. It's hard to imagine now that the world's largest subscription streaming video service keeping television networks on their toes was once a retail business disrupting Blockbuster.Read Full Story

Flexible plastic sensor sends molecular test results to a smartphone -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com