Category: Tech news

 Drug production is generally a matter of big factories churning out millions of aspirin or ibuprofen tablets a day, but there’s a lot to be said for manufacturing common drugs on a small scale, close to where they’re used. Researchers from the Netherlands have created an efficient and simple method for doing so that uses a method much like plants have for making their own resources. Read More

 It’s that time of the season again. Here are my Top 10 predictions for digital media in 2017. Read More

The venerable brand’s new desktop speakers are really something special. The post Review: Audioengine HD3 Premium Powered Desktop Speakers appeared first on WIRED.

Everything (well, almost everything) you need in one box so you can make five gallons of beer, complete with instructions to make it simple, for just 50 bucks. The post Review: Midwest Supplies ‘Beer. Simply Beer.’ Brewing Kit appeared first on WIRED.

This $20 gadget lets you cook rice, oatmeal, and other grains in the microwave. The post Review: Joseph Joseph M-Cuisine Microwave Rice Cooker appeared first on WIRED.

The billionaire founder of GoDaddy wanted to make a better golf club, no matter the cost. The post Review: PXG Golf Clubs appeared first on WIRED.

With the Pizza Dome on top of this efficient camp stove, your camping menu gets a little more diverse. The post Review: BioLite Basecamp and PizzaDome Bundle appeared first on WIRED.

 At 10pm on June 23, 2016, the polls closed in the UK on a referendum on EU membership and the counting began. The next morning Europeans woke to the news that the British public had voted to leave the 28 Member State bloc called the European Union. The ugly word Brexit — coined during the campaign as a shorthand media conflation for ‘British exit’ — was apparently… Read More

 Everyone loves to joke how venture capital is the “Dark Side,” and most of the VCs I know are good-natured about simply accepting the comparison. It’s probably better than “vulture capital,” which was how we were ridiculed when I first started in the business in the early 90s. At my prior fund, my DFJ Frontier co-founder David Cremin coined the term… Read More

 Copycats are a dying breed. Each month the gap shrinks between a new digital service emerging in the U.S. and it being copied in other markets. This trend has big implications for global businesses, forcing them to rethink investment and innovation strategies. Read More

 For your weekend consumption I present Find my Phone, a 30 minute film about a stolen phone. The filmmaker, Anthony van der Meer, rigged an Android cellphone with Cerebus, a command-and-control system for Android that can survive a memory wipe. The app allowed van der Meer to record video, take photos, and even listen in on calls – all while tracking the phone around Amsterdam. Van der… Read More

 One has to appreciate how Paul Graham built Y Combinator into the world’s flagship accelerator. In fact, I have yet to meet a founder who regrets joining the program. But after stepping away from the YC scene for five years and then returning to observe the last two demo days, I wonder if some of the views Paul shared in his original, widely read Essays are being taken to absurd extremes. Read More

 We’re in the mid-digital age, but we live with the legacy of analog systems, technology and thinking that’s only embellished by the technologies of our new era. Read More

Gamers will be happy to get a comfortable and good-sounding headphone that doesn’t make their eyes bleed. The post Review: Sennheiser GSP 300 appeared first on WIRED.

 This, if you squint and adjust your tinfoil hat in just the right way, is the real story of the US election: the Russian candidate defeated the Saudi Arabian candidate. Why them? Because they’re more desperate than anyone else. Both are failed, fragile petrostates propped up only by oil money; so both see cleantech, and climate-change concern — ie Elon Musk — as the real… Read More