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

Hillary Clinton, too. The post What Debate? Bing Predicts Trump Will Win Iowa Anyway appeared first on WIRED.

France's iconic Chauvet cave holds mysterious spray-shaped imagery, made around the time when nearby volcanoes were spewing lava -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

And using psychological tricks to influence the behavior of passengers, too.Uber has begun tracking how some of its users drive in order to see if they are operating their vehicles at unsafe speeds or driving aggressively, reveals The Guardian. The paper says that Uber has been tracking potential dangerous drivers in a limited pilot in Houston, Texas since "late 2015." The Guardian adds that users in Houston weren't made aware that their driving methods were being tracked and were only notified when Uber needed to access their smartphone data after a customer complaint, although the company's privacy statement clearly makes drivers aware that Uber logs their trips and has a right to access their geolocation data.Read Full Story

This might make you less sad you're watching it at home. The post The Cameras That’ll Make the Super Bowl Way More Interesting This Year appeared first on WIRED.

A new study shows that much of the heat from global warming is reaching deep into the ocean -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Non-employees, meet your coworkers.Drivers for on-demand services like Uber and Lyft have no easy way to find their coworkers, but a new app called Pulse aims to change that.Read Full Story

Existing off-the-shelf components are all you need to spy like the NSA, says a UC Berkeley researcher. The post How to Make Your Own NSA Bulk Surveillance System appeared first on WIRED.

The number of reported Lyme disease cases in the U.S. has more than tripled since the late 1990s -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The new video shows off the car's Autopilot and Summon features.The great thing about electric vehicles is that many of their features are software-based, which means that your car can gain new capabilities with just a simple download, much the way your smartphone does. To that end, Tesla has released a slick new promo video that shows off some of the features Model S owners will get once they upgrade to Tesla's version 7.1 software.Read Full Story

Dreams of Dalí, a new VR experience up at The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, takes you inside a surrealist desertscape dreamland. The post Oculus Rift Takes You Inside the Wild Mind of Salvador Dalí appeared first on WIRED.

Knowledge about the drug's structure would help researchers understand what happened -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The traditional path to happiness doesn't work for many, so here's how to bring more meaning into your everyday life.The "standard" blueprint for a happy life usually reads something like this: Go to college. Get a job in a big corporation that provides good benefits. Find a partner. Have children. Buy a house. Raise your children. Retire and hope to go on a cruise (before you die of a heart attack.)Read Full Story

As recently as this month, top AI experts outside Google questioned whether such a victory could be achieved anytime soon. The post In a Huge Breakthrough, Google’s AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go appeared first on WIRED.