Alexa just learned how to play 29 million more songs. The post Amazon Echo Will Now Play Your Spotify Jams Without a Phone appeared first on WIRED.

The layoffs primarily affect marketers, engineers, and customer service teams, according to sources.Practice Fusion, a health-technology startup with more than $150 million in financing, laid off approximately 75 people—30 of them engineers, according to a source familiar with the matter. The company was reportedly preparing for a possible IPO.Read Full Story

Two mosquitoes that are known to transmit Zika virus in tropical areas also live in the southeastern region of the United States. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Host Sarah Koenig will cover Adnan Syed's post-conviction relief hearing in Baltimore, providing daily updates that will run alongside Season Two. The post Don’t Look Now, But Serial Just Became a Must-Listen Again appeared first on WIRED.

The Rural Studio's 20K House is so cheap and has such innovative design that it's changing the entire housing system—from mortgages to zoning laws.For over a decade, architecture students at Rural Studio, Auburn University's design-build program in a tiny town in West Alabama, have worked on a nearly impossible problem. How do you design a home that someone living below the poverty line can afford, but that anyone would want—while also providing a living wage for the local construction team that builds it?Read Full Story

Democrats push clean energy, Republicans vow to dismantle emissions cuts -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

If you like it should you put a ring on it? The post Everyone Wants to Make Smart Rings—But No One Knows What For appeared first on WIRED.

The path from idea to page to screen for one of Sundance's most buzzed-about movies.Actress and producer Sarah Megan Thomas is married to a banker. For years, she'd go out to Wall Street events, and she became consistently interested in what she calls "the one woman at every work event we went to." Why hadn't anyone made a movie about them, she wondered?Read Full Story

Meet the Möbius band, the topological space with the most poignant storytelling potential. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The "quality of life" sleep-tracking health and fitness device that Nintendo announced in 2014 "isn't ready to become a product," its president says. The post Nintendo Puts Its Sleep-Tracking Gizmo on Hold Indefinitely appeared first on WIRED.

Some brands have already dropped the spot, while others are still clinging to the marketing mystery and hoping we care.As the Super Bowl approaches, just days away, the anticipation is building. This kind of competition only comes around once a year and teams have to be prepared to bring the best of their best game if they want to win. And that's just the advertisers, amirite? Okay, okay, we all know the drill. People still love the ads. Despite the invention of the DVR, proliferation of streaming, cord-cutting, ad-blocking and everything else about human behavior that points to a direction of hating ads, the Super Bowl remains one of the last real-time broadcasting events in which people will actively sit through the commercials.Read Full Story

PDCO will synchronize U.S. efforts and coordinate with international agencies to deal with large asteroids and comets on a collision course with Earth -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Bethesda Softworks' reboot of the classic shooter series is coming out May 13, the company announced today. And it released a new trailer, to boot. The post The New DOOM is Coming in May appeared first on WIRED.

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