Why your train fares will never stop increasing

Right on time, the UK's train prices are set to be increased. The increases are linked to inflation and unless this is changed by the government, they'll always keep happening | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

How the hell did Uber just lose $5B in three months?

Uber just posted the biggest loss in its history. It has turned into "the magical money burning machine," says one analyst – and to turn things around, it needs to expand into industries where customers are more loyal | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Batteries stopped the UK's power cut being a total disaster

On Friday afternoon, Britain's power grid fell apart when two power plants went offline. But a handful of battery firms preventing things getting much worse | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

TikTok is fuelling India's deadly hate speech epidemic

In small-town India, TikTok videos are a new hate speech minefield. Thousands of videos are being removed as users exploit the wild growth of the social network | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Monzo stored banking customers' PINs in plain text log file

App interaction logs gave Monzo engineers unauthorised access to customer card PINs, HTC has withdrawn all its smartphones from sale in the UK | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Deepmind's Mission to Solve Science's Trickiest Problem

DeepMind's AI has beaten chess grandmasters and Go champions. But founder and CEO Demis Hassabis now has his sights set on bigger, real-world problems that could change lives. First up: protein folding | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Scandinavia's reign as the happiest place on Earth is ending

For nearly 100 years policymakers and progressives have looked to Scandinavian countries as model nations, but despite their best branding efforts, the region's hold on happiness is slipping | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe

The shadowy display mode has leagues of fans claiming it helps reduce eye strain, lengthen battery time and improve sleep. But dark mode isn't quite the screen saviour it's made out to be | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Airbnb is massively failing travellers with disabilities

It's simple to find properties on Airbnb, but if you are disabled things aren't as straightforward. Wheelchair users complain of inaccessible properties and rude hosts. What is the company really doing to address this? | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Monday briefing: Siri recordings are listened to by Apple contractors

Contractors working with Siri recordings hear sexual encounters, doctors' appointments and identifying data, the British hacker who defeated WannaCry avoids jail in the US | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

High-flying CEOs are trying to brain-zap their way to happiness

At a clinic on the coast of Spain, business leaders and high-powered diplomats come to unwind and relax with healthy food, spa treatments, and brain zapping | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

The science behind Nike's new shock absorbing running shoe

Nike's new Joyride Run Flyknit have 10,000 beads stuffed into four cavities. The aim? To help runners recover faster | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Boris Johnson has an alarming track record of technology stunts

Johnson doesn't really care about science and technology, but he loves a vanity project | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Sweden: SQL injection attempt on a write-in election ballot

In Sweden's recent election, a small collection of crafty programmers appear to have attempted to hack the voting database with a pen-and-paper attack | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

What if video games could help fight climate change? No, really

The games of today still often focus on victory at all costs. A growing collaboration between scientists and game developers could mean the games of the future take realism to a whole new level | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Zero-waste stores aren't always better for the environment

Ditching single-use plastic has environmental benefits, but if you really want to shop eco-friendly there are more important things to take into account | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Tuesday briefing: The UK will not exclude Huawei from its 5G networks

The Science and Technology Select Committee has found no technical or security reasons to ban Huawei telecoms hardware, US politicians oppose Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

£40 headphones accessory is a bonafide long-haul flight hero

RHA's nifty Wireless Flight Adapter is one for airplane movie aficionados who refuse to load up the iPad before flying | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Vaccine for Alzheimer's on the verge of becoming a reality

For decades, research into Alzheimer's has made slow progress, but now a mother and daughter team think they have finally found a solution – a vaccine that could inoculate potential sufferers | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

The obscure London startup that made Facebook's Libra possible UK

Why Facebook hired a team of UCL privacy experts to build its new cryptocurrency | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

The disturbing return of scientific racism

Angela Saini's Superior charts the rise of race science that's being enabled by technology and genetics research. Discover the worrying new trend in this extract | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Losing ARM Is a Disaster for Huawei

Huawei can't just go and develop its own chip designs. If ARM halts its business with the Chinese firm for good, there will be trouble ahead. Huawei's future lies in the hands of Donald Trump | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Our addiction to big beef ended up ruining the planet

Beef produces more carbon than any other meat, yet we still can't get enough of the stuff. But can drastic changes in how we farm and eat turn things around? | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Can tiny Finland find niche leadership in Artificial Intelligence?

The small Nordic country is betting on education to give it a decisive edge in the age of AI | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Margrethe Vestager fined Google and Apple billions, now she may lead Europe

When EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager took office in 2014 fines for big tech were rare. Now, as she eyes Europe's top job, popular opinion has shifted. Are we ready to break-up big tech? | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Why does Facebook recommend friends I've never even met?

Facebook's People You May Know algorithm is shrouded in mystery – even within the company itself. But its suggestions have often led to dark consequences | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

How AI is radically changing our definition of human creativity

Machine learning systems are trained on data that's linked to human activity. But what they can output is often beyond the realms of our minds | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Bluetooth is serially insecure. Here's how to protect your devices

Bluetooth has a chequered security history, but it's easy to protect yourself but updating promptly and following security best practice | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Elon Musk just ignited the race to build the space internet

SpaceX's Starlink launch is the start of a race to bring the entire Earth’s population online, but who will actually use the space internet? | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

3D-printed guns are back, and this time they are unstoppable

A decentralised network of gun-printing advocates is mobilising online, they're anonymously sharing blueprints, advice and building a community. There's no easy way they can be halted | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Google broke Nest. Now it's trying to fix it

Google is rebranding its smart-home products as Nest, but it's been a tumultuous journey from startup to major Google brand | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

It's time you stopped worrying so much about video game addiction

The science around gaming addiction is still far from settled, but by concentrating on time spent gaming we risk overlooking its more worrying aspects, such as loot boxes | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Revolut says it's cleaning up its act. Evidence suggests otherwise

Leaked internal messages show senior staff attacking critics while recent job applicants complain of onerous recruitment processes | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

A bitter turf war is raging on the Brexit Wikipedia page

Wikipedia editors are battling to tell the story of Brexit as it happens. And on such a hotly-debated page, every edit is controversial and suspicions run wild | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

A British upstart forged a sustainable T-shirt revolution

Born in a garden shed, Rapanui has grown into a T-shirt behemoth. How? Automation and printers | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

London's tech scene, as told by those who built it

Over the past decade, thousands of fast-growth startups have flourished in Britain. Now the founders of the UK's biggest startups are telling that story in their own words | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Forget about artificial intelligence, extended intelligence is the future

We should challenge the cult of Singularity. AI won't take over the world | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Revolutionary light-based computer uses magnets to solve complex problems (2016)

The Stanford team has built what's called an Ising machine named after the mathematical model of magnetism | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Are the algorithms that power dating apps racially biased?

Can dating apps fix built-in bias? | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Nasa's twin study puts us a step closer to sending humans to Mars

Nasa's study into the long-term effects of space travel on twins has been completed. And having more data about astronauts is only useful | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Later today, Israel's Beresheet craft will touch down on the Moon

After leaving Earth on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in February, Israel's Beresheet spacecraft is about to become the first privately-funded mission to land on the Moon | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

New data shows London's property boom is a money laundering horror

The “weak link” in Britain’s money laundering defences is weaker than previously thought | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

The grim reality of life under Gangs Matrix, London's predictive policing tool

AI and machine learning software was meant to make policing fairer and more accountable – but it hasn't worked out that way | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

How the first cable was laid across the Atlantic (2011)

The first transatlantic transmission marked the culmination of 19 years of dreams, plans and hard work | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

The European Parliament has voted in favour of Article 13

Critics argued that Article 13, and related legislation passed today by MEPs, risked infringing on freedom of speech | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

'Next Big Things' Don't Appear from Nowhere. Just Look at the iPhone UK

The notion of the maverick individual is one that the tech world likes to mythologise, but the truth is that every “next big thing” is created on the shoulders of others | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

Raspberry Pi just opened its first bricks-and-mortar shop UK

The store in Cambridge will sell Raspberry Pi kit and accessories and showcase projects created using the hardware | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago

DeepMind’s superhuman AI is rewriting how we play chess

DeepMind's AlphaZero doesn’t play chess like a machine – it plays it like a human grandmaster, but better | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 5 years ago