Ask the Mad Scientist Who Dreamed Up Viagra Ice Cream Anything

Ask the Mad Scientist Who Dreamed Up Viagra Ice Cream Anything

Earlier this week, we gave you a brief glimpse into the wildly inventive mind of Charlie Francis—the man behind everyone’s favorite erection-inducing ice cream . Today, Charlie has been kind enough to stop in to answer all your burning questions about the world of an ice cream-concocting visionary.

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​We Have an Irish Whiskey Master Here: Ask Him Whatever You Want

​We Have an Irish Whiskey Master Here: Ask Him Whatever You Want

Check your job title at the door—unless it happens to be "Master of Whiskey" for the oldest licensed distillery in the world. In that case, we’d like to know a little more.

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Q&A with an Astrophysicist from Stanford's Particle Accelerator

Q&A with an Astrophysicist from Stanford's Particle Accelerator

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is one of those places that makes magic . Originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, this facility is where many modern discoveries about how matter works were made. Six researchers have earned Nobel prizes for their work at SLAC. It’s also where the first website in North America was built.

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The 5 Best Answers From a Fascinating Q&A With an Ex-TSA Agent

The 5 Best Answers From a Fascinating Q&A With an Ex-TSA Agent

Over on Slashdot yesterday, ex-TSA agent and controversial blogger extraordinaire Jason Harrington answered users’ questions about the life of a TSA agent. And as one of the TSA’s most outspoken critics, Harrington isn’t one for tiptoeing around sensitive issues —which, much to TSA’s dismay, makes for wonderfully fascinating Q&As.

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Ask The Guy Who Built a 207 MPG Car in His Barn Anything You Want

Ask The Guy Who Built a 207 MPG Car in His Barn Anything You Want

Last week, we showed you the Illuminati Motor Works Seven, a home-built electric car and Automotive X Prize competitor that gets an utterly astounding 207 MPGe. Today, we’re hosting a live Q&A with Kevin Smith, who built the car, and journalist Jason Fagone, whose book Ingenious tells the engrossing story of the X Prize and the wily inventors who competed in it.

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How Sennheiser Designs Serious Headphones For a Smartphone Generation

How Sennheiser Designs Serious Headphones For a Smartphone Generation

For decades, German audio company Sennheiser has made some of the best headphones you can buy, regardless of whether you’re trying to keep it thrifty or splurge. In recent years, though, the legacy brand has had to adapt its technology to an era when how consumers listen to music has radically changed.

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Sony’s Phil Molyneux On How to Weird Your Way Back to Greatness

Sony's Phil Molyneux On How to Weird Your Way Back to Greatness

Sony is a consumer electronics beast with a lot of clout, but not necessarily a great product roster to back up its legendary status. Today, it’s hardly the company that put a Walkman in every backpack and a color TV in every living room.

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Killing the Fail Whale With Twitter’s Christopher Fry

Killing the Fail Whale With Twitter’s Christopher Fry

WIRED sits down with Twitter’s SVP of Engineering to talk about how the service will continue to grow, what keeps him up at night, and to find out whatever happened to the Fail Whale.

    



Ask Us Anything About the PS4

Ask Us Anything About the PS4

We have a PS4! We gave our first impressions here, but we’re still poking and prodding at it as more features become available. So tell us: What do you want to know about Sony’s next generation console?

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Q&A With the Chicago Tribune Editors Who Put a Cat on Their Homepage

Q&A With the Chicago Tribune Editors Who Put a Cat on Their Homepage

Earlier today, visitors to the Chicago Tribune‘s homepage were greeted not with traditional lead story or splash image. Instead, there was an adorable kitty, a placeholder headline, and the word test over and over again. While it was a welcome break from the the usual gloom and doom, it was also very clearly a mistake. One that Trib Social Media and SEO Manager Amy Guth was kind enough to dissect for us over email.

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