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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 06 November 2012
Having given a captivating talk to the Wired 2012 conference on Tumblr's ability to disrupt the social network model by empowering countless forms of media, Karp spoke to the Wired.co.uk podcast team about life before Tumblr, censorship and becoming a space tourist »
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- By David Cornish
- 05 November 2012
Alongside its extensive list of mind-stretching speakers and jaw dropping tech demos, Wired 2012 witnessed the first live recording of the Wired.co.uk podcast »
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- By David Cornish
- 02 November 2012
The drone group Team Black Sheep created quite a stir with their appearance at Wired 2012 »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 29 October 2012
Wired.co.uk caught up with two out of the 3Beards -- Michael Hobson and Joe Scarboro -- about the most overhyped trends of the year, the power of their beards and the challenges facing the UK startup scene »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 29 October 2012
Paola Antonelli has an incredible breadth of interest -- a useful trait for a senior curator of the New York Museum of Modern Art »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 29 October 2012
As the CEO of Behance, Scott Belsky was the perfect man to curate Wired 2012's trip to "The Creative Edge" »
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- By Liat Clark
- 29 October 2012
Mark Suppes, web developer by day and DIY physicist by night, on why he decided to build a nuclear fusion reactor in Brooklyn »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 29 October 2012
Memory is often placed in opposition to technology when actually technology can be used to enhance memory, argued Ed Cooke, CEO of Memrise, speaking at Wired 2012 »
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- By David Cornish
- 29 October 2012
Covering Heap's hands, arms and back are a series of wires. Two LEDs blink on the back of her hands. This isn't a normal musical performance »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 29 October 2012
US artist Alexa Meade regaled the Wired 2012 audience on the opening day of the conference, explaining how she enjoys "colouring outside the lines" »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 29 October 2012
South Korean artist Hojun Song has been asking a simple question: "is it really possible to launch a satellite as an individual?" »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 26 October 2012
In the past we used to know to know much more about the future, argued Paola Antonelli, senior curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, speaking at Wired 2012 »
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- By David Cornish
- 26 October 2012
Pablos Holman and the team at Intellectual Ventures want to use the way that hackers look at the world »
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- By Liat Clark
- 26 October 2012
Museums and galleries should be using new technologies and media to teach, engage and immerse visitors in the art they are viewing, says Local Projects founder Jake Barton »
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- By David Cornish
- 26 October 2012
Alissa Walker took to the stage during a session of Wired 2012 entitled "The future of the city" -- guest-curated by the Brain Pickings founder Maria Popova -- to share the passion she has for her namesake activity: walking »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 26 October 2012
Light graffiti, trees played like musical instruments, bizarre self-portraits and a new type of creative agency were showcased on stage in a session curated by Behance CEO Scott Belsky at Wired 2012 »
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- By Nate Lanxon
- 26 October 2012
It's "social suicide" for a girl and you join a computer club so we should start teaching kids to code at age seven or eight, says Wired 100 member Emma Mulqueeny »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 26 October 2012
Scientists are more likely to show signs of autism, explained to psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, speaking at Wired 2012 »
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- By Liat Clark
- 26 October 2012
Tod Machover hosts brain operas, invents interactive hyperinstruments and is now composing a Toronto symphony with tweaks, suggestions and additions from the city's own inhabitants »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 26 October 2012
Telefonica's accelerator Wayra is "kissing frogs the whole time, but the frogs are the startups and we are looking for princes," according to CEO Gonzalo Martín-Villa, speaking at Wired 2012 »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 26 October 2012
MIT's Sebastian Seung has turned mapping the neurons of the retina into a social game, all in the name of neuroscience »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 26 October 2012
Wired.co.uk caught up with cyber sleuth Mikko Hyppönen to find out what antivirus companies can expect to battle in the future and whether cybercrime is in fact becoming democratised »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 26 October 2012
Ramesh Raskar and his team at MIT are developing affordable ways to give some of the 1.6 billion people in the developing world who need glasses access to eye exams »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 26 October 2012
Manal Al-Sharif made a video of herself driving her car, with her face uncovered, in her home city of Khobar. Within a day, it was the most popular video on YouTube in Saudi Arabia »
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- By Liat Clark
- 26 October 2012
Jane Chen, founder of Embrace, is using simple, affordable and locally-appropriate healthcare solutions to save premature babies in impoverished areas »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 26 October 2012
Bright and early on the second day of the Wired 2012 conference, Scott Harrison addressed the room on the subject of "redesigning the nonprofit organisation" »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 26 October 2012
Wired.co.uk caught up with Gotye at Wired 2012 to find out just what makes his videos so impressive and what technology he couldn't live without in his studio »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 26 October 2012
Raphael Pirker's company Team Black Sheep attaches cameras to drones to gain a different perspective of cities with beautiful aerial shots. Wired.co.uk caught up with him »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 25 October 2012
Wired.co.uk asks Greg Asner whether environment is doomed, how technology has changed the way he studies ecosystems, and the challenges of motivating behavioural change around climate change »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 25 October 2012
Wired.co.uk caught up with Tim Harford about why companies have to invest in innovation, what he thinks of crowdsourced innovation competitions, and what economic trends will shape 2013 »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 25 October 2012
The Mind Candy founder spoke to Wired 2012 about his failed project Perplex City, and his huge hit Moshi Monsters »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 25 October 2012
Mark Pollock, an author and adventurer left paralysed by a fall in 2010, has pledged to not only walk again, but run »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 25 October 2012
Israeli computer security expert Keren Elazari wants people to realise that they should protect their mobile devices just as thoroughly as they protect their PCs -- so, at Wired 2012, she decides to hack some phones »
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- By Liat Clark
- 25 October 2012
According to cyber security expert Mikko Hyppönen, we might not be in a cyber war but we are in a cyber arms race, and the governments involved are the James Bond of the cyberhacking world -- seemingly unstoppable »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 25 October 2012
Mike Lynch, the UK's most successful tech entrepreneur after selling Autonomy to HP for £7.1bn in October 2011, is excited about what he sees happening the tech world at the moment »
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- By David Cornish
- 25 October 2012
De Backer carried out a simple yet powerful demonstration of the reach of his song Somebody that I used to Know: "Who was already familiar with that song and video?" The entire room raise their hand »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 25 October 2012
Science reporting gets less good when political journalists get hold of it, said Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, speaking at Wired 2012 »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 25 October 2012
You could hear a pin drop in the packed out venue at Wired 2012 as Troy Carter was interviewed by Wired's Tom Cheshire »
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- By David Cornish
- 25 October 2012
"Try to sit up straight and close your eyes. Imagine a blue light, right between your eyes. Inhale deeply... and exhale." »
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- By Liat Clark
- 25 October 2012
Indian artist Raghava KK is working to morph art into a participatory platform that can break bias -- and he's doing it with an EEG headset »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 25 October 2012
By understanding the connections within social networks we can understand how to use network interventions to effect positive change, argued Harvard social scientist Nicholas Christakis at Wired 2012 »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 25 October 2012
The robot apocalypse isn't coming, according to Palantir's Stephen Cohen: "Don't hire a computer to do a human's job," he advised at Wired 2012 »
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- By Liat Clark
- 25 October 2012
People need more tools to acquire information in a virtual space that is conducive to inspiring new ideas, says Ferran Adrià. This, he suggests, can be achieved in every industry and company if they begin creative auditing »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 25 October 2012
Impossible, a platform that encourages people to do things for each other for free, could bring a huge amount of social value, argued founder and former model Lily Cole at Wired 2012 »
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- By Liat Clark
- 25 October 2012
Tumblr continues to remain unique in a world flooded with social networks because it's in the business of empowering through distribution, says its founder David Karp »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 25 October 2012
There’s nothing wrong with failing as long as you fail fast and if you make anything fun, you can radically change behaviour, said Michael Acton Smith, founder of Mind Candy, speaking at Wired 2012 »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 25 October 2012
Organisations need to strike a balance between striving to make marginal improvements to their products and experimenting with radical, risky ideas, says Tim Harford »
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- By Liat Clark
- 25 October 2012
Ajaz Ahmed, founder of digital innovation agency AKQA, says companies should not be afraid to experiment with unknown outcomes -- they make you a better decision maker »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 25 October 2012
Jess Greenwood, of ad firm R/GA, argues at Wired 2012 that tech companies need to stop thinking about how they can make 'a quick buck' and instead consider how to change peoples' lives »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 25 October 2012
Most of existing earth observation tools do not provide the richness of data needed to understand the impact that humans are having on Earth, argued environmental scientist Greg Asner at Wired 2012 »