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Project Fifth Mode - Episode 3: A Matter of Seconds

How will SpaceX ’s engineers view team rLoop’s work?




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Robot Queen Simone Giertz Tours Her Mad Laboratory

Swedish robotics enthusiast Simone Giertz is known for her inventive contraptions that may or may not work as intended. Simone takes us through her workshop and gives an extended look at some of her most outlandish machines.




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To Understand How a Squid Changes Color, You Gotta Get Inside Its Head

Squid use a remarkable array of skin patterns to communicate. How? It's all a matter of getting inside their heads.




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Here Are LG’s New Smartwatches

The Watch Sport and Watch Style from LG are the first to market with the newest improvements from Android Wear 2.0.




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Meet the Robot that Presses Vinyl in 30 Seconds

These machines are the next-gen record presses our 21st century vinyl revolution has been waiting for.




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These Futuristic Boots Will Prevent Astronauts From Tripping on Mars

Falling can be fatal when exploring another planet, that's why these MIT researchers are creating boots that help astronauts "feel" the ground beneath them to avoid any accidents.




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Making the Astral Forms of ‘Doctor Strange’

Here’s how the VFX team behind ‘Doctor Strange’ made the movie’s astral forms.




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How Hyperloop Can Reshape the Future of Transportation

Hyperloop: a bunch of tubes, right? Well, that, plus some crazy engineering, magnetic levitation, giant vacuums and yep, tubes that could someday fling us around at near supersonic speeds.




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Meet the Bird That Soars Thousands of Miles at a Time

The albatross has an 11-foot wingspan and a serious wanderlust, flying thousands of miles nonstop.




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Here’s How Fake News Works (and How the Internet Can Stop It)

Many fake news peddlers didn’t care if Trump won or lost the election. They only wanted to pocket money. But the consequences of what they did shook the world. This is how it happened.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Tracy Morgan Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

"Fist Fight" star Tracy Morgan answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself.




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Project Fifth Mode - Episode 4: We’re Still Here

Behind the scenes with team rLoop before the Hyperloop competition.




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Inside the Fake News Factory of Macedonia

In the aftermath of the US elections, documentary photographer Guy Martin travelled to Veles, Macedonia to find out why this small town became the heart of the fake news scandal. These are the photos he took.




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These Autonomous Wheelchairs Are the Future of Mobility

At MIT, they are creating an autonomous wheelchair that can navigate streets and buildings to allow people with limited mobility to travel without having to worry about obstructions or other hazards.




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Step Into the VOID, Where VR Merges With the Real World

At the Utah-based "hyperreality" startup, they don't want to make the real world disappear—they want to bring it into your headset for a an all-new kind of adventure.




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You Can Now Talk to Barbie. Oh, and She's a Hologram

Hello Barbie Hologram is a small box containing an animated projection of the doll that responds to voice commands. It combines motion-capture animation with Amazon Echo-style voice interactions. So of course we had to give it a try.




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Take a 360-Video Tour of a Magnus Walker's Sweet Porsches

Magnus Walker doesn't just collect Porsches, he reinterprets them. Tuning their engines, modifying their bodies, painting them in vivid racing livery, and installing bespoke tartan seat panels. So what's stopping you? Immerse yourself into his garage.




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The Here One Buds Versus Apple's AirPods

It's gonna be an interesting race between the AirPods and the Here Ones. Both have some great pros, but they both also have some serious cons. Here's a closer look the top two wireless earphones.




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UPS Has a Mother-Truck of a Delivery Drone Idea

UPS's futuristic delivery drones will be loaded inside the truck then fly out of and return to a roof port that would make any Bond villain jealous.




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Design FX - How 'Rogue One' Recreated Grand Moff Tarkin

Industrial Light & Magic used "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" to push the boundaries of visual effects, especially in the area of digital humans. Design FX dives into the incredible techniques used to recreate one of the Star Wars universe's most terrifying figures, Grand Moff Tarkin.




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Allison Williams & Daniel Kaluuya Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones

"Get Out" stars Allison Williams & Daniel Kaluuya gather up their courage and show us the last things they did with their phones.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - The Cast of 'Sesame Street' Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

Elmo, Big Bird, Count von Count, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie, Grover, Rosita, Abby Cadabby, and Oscar the Grouch hang with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about 'Sesame Street' and themselves. New episodes of Sesame Street’s 47th season air every Saturday on HBO, and viewers can watch Sesame Street everyday on HBO Family and PBS Kids.




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This Drone is Designed to Save Lives Then Disappear

The Everfly APSARA drone is an origami-like disposable drone made to deliver essential supplies in a humanitarian or disaster situation.




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Meet the Little Star Trappist-1 and Its Exhilarating Planets

Astronomers have discovered seven dwarf planets orbiting a star 40 light years away from us. Not impressed? How about this — the planets may just be able to harbor life.




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Microsoft's Surface Studio Is All Beauty and a Little Bit of Brains

David Pierce reviews the new all-in-one PC from Microsoft. It's a joy to use, especially if you like drawing with a pen on a massive touchscreen.




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Inside the World's Largest Wind Tunnel

It’s 80 feet high, 120 feet wide, that's large enough to hold a Boeing 737. Now trucking companies are using the wind tunnel to make their massive machines more efficient.




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So Cellphones Cause Cancer, Right? That Ain't What Science Says

Your grandparents might have warned you that cellphones cause brain cancer. Well, that's not at all what science says.




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Tech Support - Gordon Ramsay Answers Cooking Questions From Twitter

Gordon Ramsay uses the power of Twitter to answer some common cooking questions.




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The 1955 Citroën DS Still Feels Ahead of Its Time

The 1955 Citroën DS is the auto industry's platypus: bizarre, delightful, innovative, and, if not inimitable, never imitated. WIRED's Jack Stewart took both the DS and SM for a spin.




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Check Out Beautiful Sonar Images of the Seafloor Near Hawaii

Scientists have mapped the seafloor near Hawaii with huge blasts of sonar. It's beautiful AND educational!




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Design FX - How They Animated 'The Lego Batman Movie'

'The Lego Batman Movie' uses an impressive style of animation that replicates the look of real lego bricks. These digital bricks abide by all the rules of real Lego bricks, so they cannot bend or move in an impractical way. Mike Seymour breaks down a few of the most remarkable scenes, where numerous complex techniques were used to create a believable image.




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Planet Earth II : Exclusive Clip From Episode 3 ‘Jungles’

An exclusive clip from the upcoming BBC America film Planet Earth II.




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What the What Is Quantum Computing? We've Got You Covered

Thanks to the superposition principle, a quantum machine has the potential to become an exponentially more powerful computer. If that makes little sense to you, here's quantum computing explained.




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Meet Baxter, the Charming Robot That Can Read Your Mind

You don't have to tell the Baxter robot that it's doing something wrong. You Just have to think it.




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Blackjack Expert Explains How Card Counting Works

There's a lot more to counting cards in Blackjack than meets the eye. Mike Aponte, former member of the infamous MIT Blackjack Team, takes us through the complicated process of counting cards.




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The Satellite That Spies on America's Lightning

The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite are giving NOAA National Weather Service forecasters richer information about lightning that will help them alert the public to dangerous weather.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Samuel L. Jackson Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

"Kong: Skull Island" star Samuel L. Jackson answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself.




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The Shoe That Could Make a Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Possible

Meet the Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4%. It's the shoe Nike claims can make any runner 4% more efficient. The company is trying to prove this by attempting to break the last barrier in running: a sub-two-hour marathon.




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Project Fifth Mode - Episode 5: Everything is Possible

Team rLoop wins the Innovation Award at SpaceX’s Hyperloop competition.




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Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty

The Connectome is a comprehensive diagram of all the neural connections existing in the brain. WIRED has challenged neuroscientist Bobby Kasthuri to explain this scientific concept to 5 different people; a 5 year-old, a 13 year-old, a college student, a neuroscience grad student and a connectome entrepreneur.




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Flight Lab - Suit Up and Fly High in NASA's Science Spy Plane

Suit up with a NASA high altitude ER-2 pilot as he prepares for a scientific research mission flying as high as 70,000 feet in the agency's modified U-2 spy plane.




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Are You Ready to Switch for Nintendo?

Nintendo's latest game machine is half living-room, half handheld. Get you a console that can do both.




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Danny McBride and Katherine Waterston Talk 'Alien: Covenant' at SXSW

Ridley Scott returns to direct the prequel to his 1979 Alien. Actors Danny McBride and Katherine Waterston joined WIRED at SXSW to talk about the film and some of the rumors that fans are sharing ahead of the Alien: Covenant premier.




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Self-Driving Cars Won't Save Everyone. In Fact, They'll Kill

Self-driving cars will totally eliminate traffic deaths, right? Nope. In fact, on rare occasions they'll choose to kill.




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SF’s Wild SoundBox Is a Symphony Like You’ve Never Heard Before

San Francisco’s renowned orchestra has turned an acoustically disastrous rehearsal space into the city’s hottest classical music venue.




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Star Wars Fans Wait for Days to See This Bonkers SXSW Poster Exhibit

Star Wars fans waited for days to get into the Mondo Gallery in Austin, for an exhibition of limited edition prints from a galaxy far, far away by artist Michael Mitchell.




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Flight Lab - Climb Aboard a Boeing 747 That NASA Turned Into the World's Biggest Flying Telescope

To get the best space observations possible, NASA scientists fly around the world in a highly modified 747 carrying a giant telescope.




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Scientists May Have Solved the Secret of the Water Bear

Researchers claim to have figured out why the tiny little water bear is so darn tough.




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Celebs Guess Real or Fake Tech News at SXSW

It's hard to tell what's real or fake today. Celebrities at SXSW sat down with WIRED and tried their best to guess which headlines from the tech news world are real and which are fake. Sad!




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Meet the Remarkable Robot That Communicates Like No Other

Iorek the robot not only understands your commands and gestures, but it asks for clarification if it's confused.