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October 15, 2018

Houseparty adds Facemail, a way to send recorded video chats to friends

Houseparty, which makes an app for hosting live video chats with your friends and family, is taking a step toward video voicemail. Today, the company introduced Facemail, a way to record and share 15-second snippets of chats to your friends within the app. The company hopes it will extend Houseparty into more facets of its users’ lives by moving away from communication focused strictly on presence to include more traditional, asynchronous messaging.

Facemail, which is rolling out today on Houseparty’s apps for iOS and Android, is designed to let you know you’re thinking of people who aren’t currently in the chat, says Ben Rubin, Houseparty’s CEO. The company found that 40 percent of the time a user went to interact with one of their…

October 15, 2018

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Climate Change Might Double the Cost of a Beer

More extreme droughts and heat waves will hit barley especially hard, so growers are trying to hack the grain to make it more resistant.

October 15, 2018

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The Pixel Buds’ translation feature is coming to all headphones with Google Assistant

The Pixel Buds’ flagship feature, its ability to translate languages at the press of a button, appears to be coming to every pair of headphones that have Google Assistant built in, reports Droid-Life. The functionality was quietly announced via a change in the text of Google’s support page for the Pixel Buds, which now reads: “Google Translate is available on all Assistant-optimized headphones and Android phones.”

The feature, which was previously exclusive to Google’s own Pixel Buds, allows you to translate between 40 different languages. You can then use an Android handset as a speaker to translate your responses.

The update means that an increasing number of Google Assistant-enabled headphones, including the Bose QC35 II and Sony…

October 15, 2018

Rolls-Royce Wants to Fill the Seas With Self-Sailing Ships

The vision starts with helping humans stay safe at sea, but could put fully robo-boats into action as ferries in just a few years.

October 15, 2018

5 Michelin-Starred Chefs Show You How to Slow-Cook Anything

Watch Michelin-starred chefs as Ramsey, Boulud and Blanc teach you how to slow-cook anything: fish, lamb, beef, chicken and pork.

October 15, 2018

Getting ‘The Band’ Together: Questions For Nicholas Eames

Author Nicholas Eames’s series The Band is a joyous mashup of classic rock and fantasy tropes — because if there were monsters, why wouldn’t there be bands of celebrity mercenaries to slay them?

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October 15, 2018

When, Exactly, Did Politics Become a Tech Story?

Early WIRED could ignore politics because its writers were focused on imagining the future. Today, the digital revolution is upon us, so WIRED writers have a larger task: helping readers understand what is happening in the present.

October 15, 2018

Oscar-Winner Damien Chazelle Talks About His New Film ‘First Man’

Rachel Martin talks to director Damien Chazelle about his film First Man, which retells Neil Armstrong’s dramatic story leading up to the Apollo 11 flight that landed him on the moon.