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We Drive an All-Electric Ferrari, the Car that Shouldn’t Exist

Ferrari boss Sergio Marchionne is on record as saying an electric Ferrari is an obscene concept, but that didn't stop a group of guys in California from turning the 308 GT into an EV.




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The Crazy Plan to Use Swallowable Origami to Fish Batteries Out of Tummies

Kids swallow a lot of batteries. But now MIT researchers are developing swallowable origami to fish the nasty foreign objects out.




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The Beautiful Relationship Between Physics and Jazz

Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, but he's also a jazz fanatic whose musical obsession has helped him better understand the world of cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics.




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Our Very Own X-Men: Apocalypse Red Band Trailer (Parody)

If Deadpool taught Hollywood anything, it’s that audiences want more hard-R superheroes. Wade cursed, you paid, and 20th Century Fox listened. Here’s the (unfortunately not real) trailer for the studio’s much more NSFW X-Men: Apocalypse.




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Absurd Creatures | Fish Think They're Safe From Birds But the Kingfisher Is Like LOL

For a bird called the kingfisher, stealth, dive-bombing and impalement is a way of life.




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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World Trailer

Werner Herzog's (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) new film examines the technologically connected world we have built.




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Data Attack - How the 3-Pointer Is Changing The NBA

The NBA is undergoing a radical shift based on the Moreyball approach and an obsession with Points Per Possession. We take a deeper look at the trend with actual cut-up construction paper.




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Strandbeests: Giant Sculptures That Eat Wind Descend on San Francisco

Kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen brings his mesmerizing wind-powered creatures made of PVC-pipe to the San Francisco Exploratorium.




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Maybe It's Time to Move the Three-Point Line

For decades the slam dunk reigned as the number one crowd pleaser in basketball. Not anymore. The three-pointer is the new star but some argue it's ruining the game and want the NBA to move the line further back.




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Social Media 101 From The Lonely Island Crew

At the top of the list of people who know how to rule social media there are two very important groups: comedians and celebrities. The Lonely Island team—Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer—actually belong to both of those groups. So WIRED asked them for hot tips on how to rule Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.




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Sacramento Is About to Have the Most High-Tech Basketball Stadium

When the new Kings basketball stadium is completed this fall, they hope it’ll be so outrageously technologically advanced that it will even wow fans from Silicon Valley.




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Absurd Creatures | This Bearcat (Yeah, It's Real) Smells Like Popcorn

The binturong has a prehensile tail, crazy feet, and excretes a scent that smells like popcorn. Just call it Orville Smellenbacher.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - The Cast of Warcraft Answer The Web's Most Searched Questions

Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, and Robert Kazinsky answer the web's most searched questions about themselves and World of Warcraft.




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The Roots of Dirt | The Design Evolution of the Early Mountain Bike

In the 1970's a group of California hippies built a new technology that changed the world. Computers? Nope. They were building the earliest commercial mountain bikes.




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WIRED Lab - Soccer Playing Robot Predicts the Euro Cup Winner

Who better to predict the winner of this year's Euro Cup than a robot created by UCLA's Robotics and Mechanisms Lab (RoMeLa)? Special thanks to Dr. Dennis Hong and his incredible team at UCLA’s Robotics & Mechanisms Lab. To learn more about RoMeLa visit: http://www.romela




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Explore a Mysterious Deep Reef That Shouldn’t Exist

A new exhibit shows off the undersea creatures who populate one of the most mysterious, poorly understood parts of the ocean.




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Inside the Lair of the Custom Sneaker King

In the DIY sneaker world, where custom can mean anything from Sharpie swooshes to complex reconstructions, Ferrato offers a unique service: He dreams up new shoe designs and stitches them together from scratch. That kind of artistry comes at a price. Ferrato's shoes start at $1000.




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Duncan Jones Made Warcraft For Both Gamers and Movie Buffs

For gamers, World of Warcraft represents a massive universe in which they’ve spent many hours. But for many moviegoers, WoW’s Azeroth is a completely foreign place they know nothing about. So for his new movie, Warcraft, director Duncan Jones—a gamer himself—had to create a world that would bring in new fans and make long-time WoW players feel like they were coming home. In this interview with WIRED, he explains how he worked with Industrial Light & Magic to make that happen.




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How ILM Manscaped the Orcs of Warcraft

Think orcs don’t have barbers? Think again. Gaelle Morand and her team at Industrial Light & Magic spent hours perfecting the hair on all of Warcraft’s characters. Here’s how they made “Haircraft” happen.




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How iOS Actually Changed the World

With iOS10 on its way, we thought we’d look back at the way iOS changed the world. But the most pivotal thing in iOS history is something Apple got right on its very first try.




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Absurd Creatures | That Fish That Attaches to Sharks? It's Actually Pretty Righteous

It’s called a remora, and you’ve probably seen it before. It attaches to fish and marine mammals all the time. But get this: It doesn’t attach with its mouth. It’s got a suction cup it wears as a hat.




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Hey Thanks Apple: Siri May Now Actually Be Useful

Siri's been little more than a slightly sassy sidekick for iPhone users, but now Apple has made some big moves to make the voice assistant work for more people.




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Check Out Everything Apple Debuted at WWDC 2016

Apple kicked its developers' conference off with some big announcements.




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The Next List: The Future of Business Is Anything But Bleak

Tech bubble? What tech bubble. The future looks bright, especially when you sit down to talk with these four people.




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iOS 10: All The New Features Coming to Your iPhone

Apple's iOS 10 has some cool new features. WIRED's David Pierce runs down the mobile software's updates and overhauls.




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Facebook Messenger Gets an Upgrade

Need an Uber? Need to make a restaurant reservation? Facebook wants you to do everything in its new messaging app.




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Magic Leap Partners With Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB

Magic Leap, the mixed-reality company, is joining forces with Lucasfilm’s most forward-looking division: xLab.




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Magic Leap's Next Move? Bringing C-3PO to Your Living Room

This video of Star Wars characters C-3PO and R2-D2 recorded through Magic Leap's technology isn't just cool—it also shows the nearly unlimited potential of a new partnership between Lucasfilm and the mixed-reality company.




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If Robots Take Our Jobs, What Will Be Left for Humans to Do?

Speakers at the WIRED Business Conference grapple with how AI will transform the job market.




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Inside the Massive Factory Where Siemens Builds Trains

Inside the massive Siemens train factory near Sacramento, Ca, building one of the most advanced, and fastest, trains in the US.




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Absurd Creatures | Behold the Super Weird Face-to-Face Sex of the Springtail

For a tiny arthropod called a globular springtail, life is about being generally spherical and generally pissed-looking.




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Exclusive Clip: ‘The BFG'

Not-so-friendly giant Fleshlumpeater visits the BFG in this exclusive clip from Steven Spielberg’s new movie.




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NASA’s New X-Plane Looks Goofy But Packs Some Serious Tech

The X-57 will be essentially like flying a Tesla. It's part of NASA’s goals to reduce fuel use, emissions, and noise with innovative aircraft design.




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Narcos | Season 2 - Official Trailer | Netflix

Produced by Netflix




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - The Ultimate Liquid Nitrogen Destruction Video

Armed with 20 gallons of liquid nitrogen, Brent Rose super freezes objects the Internet has never seen frozen and uses a Phantom high-speed camera to record their destruction in super slo-motion.




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The Weird-Looking Drone That Inspects Boilers

Need to inspect a piping hot boiler? Why send a human in there, when you can send a drone instead.




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Now You Can Yell at Siri on Your Mac

Siri is the most important feature coming to your Mac this fall, so of course we put it to the test.




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Alliance Data Drop Off

A video rendering of an electric autonomous shuttle dropping Buckeyes off at work.




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Design FX - How The Rock Face Swapped with Vine Star Sione in 'Central Intelligence'

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects in Central Intelligence used to de-age The Rock and Kevin Hart into high school, teenaged versions of themselves. Weta digital puts the The Rock’s face onto Vine star Sione’s body for an amazing locker room shower dance scene you won’t want to miss.




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How a Deaf-Run Pizzeria Takes Your Order Over the Phone

Mozzeria is a 100 percent deaf owned and operated pizzeria in a crowded San Francisco restaurant scene. So to stay afloat, it relies on a remarkable technology.




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NASA Sets a Fire in Space—For Science!

NASA started a blaze aboard the unmanned Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo vehicle. It’s the Spacecraft Fire Experiment. Seriously, that’s exactly what NASA is calling it.




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NASA’s Testing Its Biggest Flame Thrower, Er, Rocket Ever

If humans are going to get to Mars, they're going to need rockets with some serious liftoff power. NASA’s Space Launch System is the most powerful rocket in the world and engineers are going to blast it, for testing purposes, of course.




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Absurd Creatures | Silly Tree Kangaroo, You’re Not Supposed to Be Up There

The tree kangaroo may have shrunken hind legs, but hey, at least it can walk backwards unlike regular roos. Oh, also: It can plummet out of trees and not suffer the consequences.




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'Swiss Army Man' Directors Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones

In ‘Swiss Army Man’ a guy stranded in the wilderness gets by thanks to a corpse and a dying cell phone. The Daniels came to the WIRED office, so we asked them to show us what was on their smartphones.




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Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza & Adam DeVine Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones

Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, and Adam Devine from 'Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates' show us the most recent items on their phones - from texts, to safari pages, to emojis, videos, alarm clocks and more!




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Design FX - Roland Emmerich Breaks Down the Visual Effects Used in "Independence Day: Resurgence"

Mike Seymour sits down with "Independence Day: Resurgence" director Roland Emmerich and discusses the astonishing visual effects used in his newest picture, as well as the revolutionary new N-Cam system.




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Giants of the Business World Reveal What #CreativityIs

What is creativity to you? In the world of business it's all about bravery and collaboration.




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Flight Mode | Inside the NASA-Inspired Room That Guides 5,000 Airplanes

In the first episode of the new series Flight Mode, WIRED takes you into a wildly complex mission control where Delta monitors thousands of flights 24/7.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Slow Mo Guys, MatPat, AsapSCIENCE, and Burnie Burns Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

MatPat, AsapSCIENCE, The Slow Mo Guys and Burnie Burns answer the internet's most searched questions about YouTube, influencers, fame, and of course themselves.




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Social Exercise: How the Cultish November Project Uses Hugs and Social Media to Get Fit

A workout with the social media-powered November Project San Francisco tribe who explain the bounce, dropping verbals, and the dreaded "We Missed You."