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Bentley Gives the World Its First Ultra-Luxury SUV

The Bentley Bentayga sets a new standard of opulence for millionaires and billionaires who demand gobs of power, acres of leather, and the ability to tower over plebeians while fording rivers or scaling dunes.




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Design FX - How Designers Created a Nazi-Run World in “The Man in the High Castle”

Amazon Studios’ “The Man in the High Castle” take places in an alternate history, set in a post-WWII world where the Axis powers ended up victorious. To create the look of a United States run by Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, Zoic Studios was tasked with creating difficult visual effects and environment work. Find out how they did it.




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Breaking Through - Why a 30-Second, $5 Million Super Bowl Ad Isn’t Enough

It was the biggest ad day of the year, but if you thought your company’s 30-second Super Bowl spot was enough, you’re wrong. Digital marketers behind top advertising agency Droga5 explain how a Super Bowl ad is only step one when it comes to today’s 360-degree, digitally innovative marketing campaigns.




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Detection of Gravitational Waves Opens a New Window on the Universe

For the first time, scientists have confirmed detection of gravitational waves. The finding not only validates Einstein's theory of relativity but also opens a new window on our knowledge of the universe.




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App Pack | The Best Mobile Apps for Skiing and Snowboarding

Hit the slopes with these apps that give you snow forecasts, buddy tracking, and resort maps all at your fingertips.




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Star Wars Announces Episode VIII in Production

Star Wars Announces Episode VIII




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How to be the Fastest Man on the Planet: Jesse Owens & “Race”

Stephan James, star of the new Jesse Owens biopic “Race,” explains how he prepared to star as the once-fastest man on the planet. Co-star Jason Sudeikis and Owens two daughters also talk about the superstar athlete who broke numerous records and won four gold medals at the controversial 1936 Berlin Olympics.




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Space Is Hard | The Gear of Exoplanet Exploration

When humans touch down on an exoplanet they'll need some new tools—like NASA's prototype mining robot and the Z-2 suit made for Martian hiking trips.




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Space Is Hard | How NASA Will Science Its Food and Drink for Interplanetary Travel

Growing food in space is hard. Keeping a limited supply of water clean and drinkable is no easy task either. Here's how NASA is going to science meals for interplanetary travel.




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Space Is Hard | There Is No GPS in Space

There is no mapping app for deep space, at least not yet. If we're going to explore there we'll need new navigation tools. Here's how NASA is going to keep its rockets on target.




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Data Attack - Do You Have a Normal Sex Life?

The average person will kiss 21.5 people in their lifetime. And while guys lose their virginities at 16.8 years old, women will hold out a little longer until 17.2 years old. Find out how you stack up between the sheets as we run through the stats of an average sex life, as told with sex dolls.




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This Room-Size VR Game Makes You Into an Actual Action Hero

Thanks to "room-scale" VR, full-body gaming is coming. WIRED's Peter Rubin tries out "Raw Data," a first-person shooter that turns players into jumping, shooting, crouching, katana-slicing action heroes. Your living room will never be the same again.




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The Witch Trailer

The Witch follows a Puritan family in 17th century New England as they try to build a life on the edge of a forest believed to be occupied by—yes‐witches.




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Design FX - It Took 5 Actors to Create "Deadpool's" Colossus

And one was nearly 7 feet tall.




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Inside the LSD Museum That the DEA Somehow Hasn’t Nuked

Welcome to the Institute of Illegal Images, San Francisco's museum of LSD blotter paper art.




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Virgin Galactic's New SpaceShipTwo Puts it Back in the Space Race

Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo shuttle designed to more safely bring tourists on sub-orbital space flights.




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Forget Filters - 19th Century Tintype Photography Still Rules

Filters are fun and yes, quick. But as an Oakland tintype portrait photographer proves filters can't come close to the original craft developed in the mid 1800's. It'll cost you around $60 to get your portrait done, that's a bit more than a filter pack, but so worth it.




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Wow! Haha! Angry! Facebook Finally Has Emoji Reactions

Facebook just expanded the “Like” button with a feature it calls Reactions---six animated emoji the company hopes will let users to respond with more emotional nuance to the posts in their news feeds.




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Message in a Bottle

What if you could raise awareness of the oceans’ trash problem by throwing a message in a bottle into the sea? That’s one artist’s mission.




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How to Keep Your iPhone’s Security Countermeasure From Obliterating Your Data

One of the iPhone’s hallmark security features could leave you locked out if you forget your password too many times. Here’s how to keep your data saved, in case you can't always trust your short-term memory.




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WIRED Lab - Why the Human Body Isn’t Ready to go to Mars…Yet

Technologically we may be close to sending astronauts to Mars, but is the human body ready for it? Dr. Camille Alleyne from the International Space Station Program describes how the six to eight month trip to Mars could cause vision impairment, muscle atrophy, and bone density loss, and she explains how scientists plan to counteract those issues.




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Behind the Scenes of ‘My Mother’s Wing’

Go behind the scenes of the virtual reality film “My Mother’s Wing” with United Nations senior advisor and filmmaker Gabo Arora and his crew.




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Gerard Butler Answers Everything You’ve Ever Wondered About Gerard Butler

No, he’s not Irish. Yes, he’s still alive. And no, he’s not engaged. “London Has Fallen” star Gerard Butler answers questions to the most common searches about him on the Internet.




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The Avegant Glyph is a Movie Theater on Your Face

Avegant's Glyph is a personal movie theater, a screen only you can say that you can use to watch movies, play video games, and anything else you want. Just don't expect people not to stare.




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Angela Bassett Answers Your Pressing Google Questions About Angela Bassett

“London Has Fallen” actress Angela Bassett is still alive, thank you very much. The Oscar-nominated actress answers the most googled questions about herself, including whether she’s a vegan and if she starred in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video—(hint: No.)




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Welcome to the Robot Hotel - Please See the Velociraptor for Check-In

Tired of having to talk to hotel staff? Welcome to the automated future at Japan's robot hotel.




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5-Year-Olds Ask an Astronaut What It’s Like to Be in Outer Space

Why don’t space shuttles float away? How do you know when to go to sleep? Astronaut Kjell Lindgren answers questions about life in space from a few intrepid kindergartners.




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The On-the-Job Film-Schooling of Jeff Nichols

For each of his films, Jeff Nichols gives himself a set of directorial challenges that he wants to master. He's learning the skills that he'll need to someday make a gazillion-dollar blockbuster.




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Absurd Creatures | Good Luck Going in the Ocean Ever Again

There's a terrifying hunter lurking on the bottom of tropical seas. It's called the bobbit worm, and it can destroy.




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Boeing's Self-Cleaning Bathroom Would Nuke Germs with UV Rays

The plane maker has a prototype bathroom that uses ultraviolet light to zap 99.99 percent of germs in just three seconds.




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NASA Wants to Make a Supersonic Jet With No Boom

The Concorde jet could go Mach 2 but it was so loud that it was banned from flying over land. Now NASA engineers think they have a design that could muffle the boom and might usher in the two-and-half hour New York to LA flight.




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Behind the Scenes: MythBusters' Final Stunt Plows Through 14 Years of Epic Science

A look behind the scenes of the final stunt of the final Mythbusters show. Thanks for all the cool science nerdery, guys!




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Wired Movie Review | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

It might seem like a blunder to try to wring comedy out of a very serious conflict, but in Tina Fey's new movie, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, she walks the line between humor and heart expertly. The film isn’t the whole picture of the war in Afghanistan, but what it does show, it shows in very sharp focus.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Watch Brent Rose Epically Fail NASA’s Astronaut Test

In light of the current open application for new astronauts, Brent Rose heads out to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to meet with real astronauts and try out real training facilities–let's see if he has what it takes to make it to space.




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Everything We Know About MH370 in 170 Seconds

Two years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared somewhere over the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board. What then grew into humanity's largest, most expensive search operation has also been among its most frustrating and beguiling.




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Design FX - The Special Effects Behind Zero Matter in "Agent Carter"

We go behind the scenes to show you how visual effects company Double Negative created the dark energy Zero Matter in ABC's "Agent Carter."




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App Pack | Don’t You Dare Vacation Without These Must-Have Apps

Got a vacation coming up this spring? WIRED has all the best apps you'll need for a fuss-free trip.




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Tesla's Summon Feature Is Like Knight Rider. Kinda

Summon is fundamental to Tesla's goal of making driverless cars—and it won't stay a party trick forever.




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Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War trailer




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Don’t Freak Out Over Google’s AI Beating a Go Grandmaster. It’s a Good Thing

The match between Google's AlphaGo and a top ranked human player is a way of judging the suddenly rapid progress of artificial intelligence that may show how far these technologies have come—and how far they may go.




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Absurd Creatures | The Tarsier Leaps Like a Superhero, Looks Like Yoda

Meet the tarsier, the wide-eyed staring contest champ of the animal world. Its eyes have evolved to be so enormous, it can’t even move them in its head. Which means you can say whatever you want to a tarsier and it can’t roll its eyes at you.




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WIRED Movie Review | 10 Cloverfield Lane

Like "Cloverfield", the plot of "10 Cloverfield Lane" was very guarded. We won’t spoil anything, but we will tell you that it’s exhilarating—and very fun.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Riding the New Hendo Hoverboard 2.0 Is Like Levitating the Gnar

In 2014, startup Arx Pax made headlines with the Hendo Hoverboard. With some helpful input from Tony Hawk and others, now we have the Hendo Hoverboard 2.0, and Brent Rose just scored the first ride on it.




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"Batman v Superman": The… Rom-Com?

We’re not the first people consider a Clark Kent-Bruce Wayne romance, but since we also have a crack video team, we decided to tweak the “Batman v Superman” trailer to see what a rom-com between the two would look like. Behold: “Batman Meets Superman: Dawn of Just Us”!




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WIRED Lab - Top Gun for Astronauts: The Legendary T-38 Jet

Two NASA astronauts take us on a tour of the T-38 plane, which can fly faster than the speed of sound and has been used to train astronauts since 1961.




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Game of Clouds: Dropbox Declares Independence From Amazon

Half-a-billion people store their files on Dropbox. But until recently, those were sitting in Amazon's cloud. Now Dropbox has cut out the middleman and built its own super servers, challenging the internet’s biggest cloud computing companies.




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App Pack | All You Need for a Festive St. Patrick's Day

St. Paddy’s Day gives anyone a great excuse to wear green and go drink beer. These apps are just the thing you need to celebrate the foremost patron saint of Ireland.




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Data Attack - Are You Addicted To Your Phone?

On a typical day, the average person checks their phone 85 times. In total, we spend about 5 hours on our phones each day. Here we explore the fine line between normal phone use and device addiction.




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Award-Winning Chef Takes on NASA Space Food

We brought a renowned Houston chef to NASA's Food Lab so he could try and provide a fine dining experience using only space food.




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Inside the Factory Where Acura Builds the NSX Supercar

Acura's NSX hybrid supercar is capable of a blistering 191 mph but to make a car this fast, you have to build it slowly and precisely.