Not long ago, running a 90-minutes half-marathon seemed impossibly fast. I’ve not only beaten 90 minutes, I’ve demolished it. The post What Happens When You Train Like Nike’s Two-Hour Marathon Runners appeared first on WIRED.
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A new documentary unpacks the mystery over Batman’s creatorship, and in the process raises some important questions about the nature of heroism. The post Who Really Created Batman? It Depends What Batman Means to You appeared first on WIRED.
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Find out which scientific facts “Alien: Covenant,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and even “Baywatch” got wrong.
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On May 25, 1977, “Star Wars” premiered, starring Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. See the original trailer that started it all.
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As open source database architecture continues to grow in popularity, one of the bigger developers in the area has picked up some funding to target the opportunity. MariaDB Corporation, the company that develops solutions and contributes to the open-source SQL fork managed by the MariaDB Foundation, today announced that it has raised €25 million ($27 million) from the European Investment… Read More
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The embattled ride-sharing giant is looking for a new way forward in self-driving cars. The post Uber Hires an AI Superstar in the Quest to Rehab Its Future appeared first on WIRED.
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Urtasun joins Uber in a senior role at Uber’s ATG, at a time when the organizational unit, which drives most of Uber’s work on autonomous driving, is in need of more stability at the top.
Urtasun’s work on self-driving technology in general, and specifically with perception algorithms that help autonomous vehicles take better measure of their surroundings, have made her an… Read More
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There’s good news for foreigners living in, or visiting, China after Didi Chuxing — the local ride-sharing leader — added support for English language and overseas credit cards to its service for the first time.
Didi, which processes more 20 million rides a day across its various services, has always been a tricky one for non-Mandarin speakers and visitors. Personally… Read More
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Seedrs, the U.K.-based equity crowdfunding platform that lets anybody invest in startups, is announcing plans to launch a secondary market later this Summer. Read More
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