3D Printing Is the Future of Factories (for Real This Time)

A technology that for years has been good for making prototypes and tchotchkes promises to usher in a new industrial revolution.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-jason-pontin-3d-printing

How a Startup Is Using the Blockchain to Protect Your Privacy

Oasis Labs is working with Uber as it aims to cure some of the ills of the internet.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-startup-is-using-the-blockchain-to-protect-your-privacy

Looking for a pair of sturdy, sweatproof, wireless buds to help you rock your inner jock? We have you covered.
Source: https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-wireless-workout-headphones

Apps like Bellhop and RideGuru allow riders to find the best deal—highlighting the uncomfortable truth that price is the bottom line for ride-sharing companies
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/uber-and-lyfts-never-ending-quest-to-crush-price-comparison-apps

A new generation of air-quality sensors is making it easier for citizen groups and residents to monitor the air around them.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/cheap-portable-sensors-are-democratizing-air-quality-data

Research conducted in LA shows that Lyft reaches almost every neighborhood, regardless of race or income, but black riders still wait longer to be picked up.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/race-good-and-bad-ride-share

Loon and Wing, X's internet balloon and drone delivery ventures, are emerging from the super-secret incubator—and demonstrating what an ever expanding Google means for the world.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/alphabet-google-x-innovation-loon-wing-graduation

Xiaolang Zhang allegedly took more than 40 GB of Apple intellectual property with him when he left in April to work for China’s Xpeng Motors.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/ex-apple-employee-accused-of-stealing-self-driving-car-tech

Of course, $664,000—the maximum penalty under UK law—isn’t much of a punishment for a company like Facebook, which is valued at more than $584 billion.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/uk-regulators-may-fine-facebook-over-cambridge-analytica

Mercedes parent company Daimler has struck the partnerships it thinks it needs to keep up in the race for autonomy.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/mercedes-will-launch-self-driving-taxis-in-california-next-year