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Three Things to Know About Apple Music

WIRED senior writer David Pierce explains how Apple, the most powerful company in music, is shaking up listening again with its new Music platform which combines streaming audio, worldwide human-curated radio and a social network of artists and fans.




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All Work and All Play With Career Coach Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones works. A lot! She took a break from acting, producing and writing to talk to WIRED about how to stay inspired at the office, good career advice and her fantasy jobs.




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"Geeks Who Drink" Teaser

Time to turn up and represent your inner nerd. Watch #GeeksWhoDrink on @Syfy this Thursday, starting at 11/10c.




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"Geeks Who Drink" Teaser 2

Sharpen your minds with @Syfy's latest nerdy trivia gameshow #GeeksWhoDrink. Tune in this Thursday at 11/10c.




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Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It

Two hackers have developed a tool that can hijack a Jeep over the internet. WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg takes the SUV for a spin on the highway while the hackers attack it from miles away.




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Alpha Geek | Capt. Katie Higgins of The Blue Angels

Marine captain Katie Higgins is the first female pilot to fly in the Blue Angels stunning air shows. She pilots “Fat Albert” a C-130 cargo transporter that is a crowd favorite for its low passes, dives and backwards taxi.




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Think Like a Tree - Using Live Oak Trees as a Blueprint for Surviving Hurricanes

With sturdy, spiral trunks and deep roots that intertwine with neighboring trees, a live oak is a force to be reckoned with. Find out how architects and engineers are starting to think like a tree when designing safe and resilient structures.




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Absurd Creatures | This Leech is a Pain in the Butt for Hippos

Hippos are tough animals with tough hides. So tough that there's a species of leech that has evolved to live and feed in the only part of the hippo where the sun don't shine. Ladies and gentlemen, the life and times of the hippo butt leech.




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The Ludicrously Fast Tesla Model S P90D | Zero to 60 at Supercar Speeds

The Tesla P90D is the fastest Tesla on the market. WIRED associate editor Alex Davies gets behind the wheel to test out "ludicrous mode" which uses both of the car's electric motors for acceleration speeds normally only experienced in supercars from the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini.




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Think Like a Tree - Using Shark Skin to Fight Against Bacteria

Scientists are looking to an unlikely source for new ways to fight bacteria. Could the skin of a Galapagos shark hold the key to warding off hospital-born bacteria and superbugs?




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Think Like a Tree - How Coral Reefs and Carbon Dioxide Can Change the Future

Most people think of carbon dioxide as a poison, but in nature it’s a building block. Find out how we can imitate coral reef by using CO2 as a raw material for the creation of concrete.




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Absurd Creatures | Meet the Weta, an Insect as Big as a Gerbil

The tree weta, which looks like a cricket, is not cricket sized, it is the heaviest confirmed insect on earth. Males throw that weight around fighting for females, mostly by trying to dismember each other with their giant pincers.




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Think Like a Tree - Can Namib Desert Beetles Help Us Solve Our Drought Problems?

Namib desert beetles live in an area with little ground water, so how is it that they have no trouble finding H2O? Find out how the resourceful insects use their wing scales to absorb water droplets from fog, and how we can use them as a model for combating water shortages.




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Eli Roth Explains “The Green Inferno”—His New Cannibalistic Horror Film

Following Cabin Fever and Hostel, The Green Inferno is the latest film in Eli Roth’s travel trilogy. The director explains what inspired his new cannibalistic horror movie, and how he achieved a realistic look and feel while shooting on set in the Amazon.




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Anki Overdrive is What You Always Wished Your Hot Wheels Could Be

Anki Overdrive combines the nostaligic toy race car fun of Hot Wheels with the smartphone control and artificial intelligence of Sphero. It's fun, really fun, but not without a few wrong turns.




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Google Wants to Take the Wheel With Its Self-Driving Car

Google's self-driving car may look and sound like a giant Roomba but they may also be part of the future of automobile transportation.




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Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K Aerial Footage

To test the image quality and picture stability of the Q500's 4K camera, we flew the drone around in Athens, Georgia.




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Meet the Superhero of Cosplay

Costume and prop-maker Shawn Thorsson shows us how he creates impressive life-size replicas of movie and comic-book characters.




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Cyborg Nation - This Robotic Hand Can Touch and Feel, Just Like a Human Hand

Imagine robotic fingers that can feel vibrations, textures, and temperatures. For those with prosthetic hands, it’s no longer a dream, it’s reality. Find out how one company is disrupting the prosthetic hand field by mimicking the sensation a hand feels with synthetic fingernails and fingerprints.




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Cyborg Nation - This Technology Wants to Make Wheelchairs Obsolete

Ekso Bionics has a simple premise: create robotics that help people. And the company is doing just that with its wearable exoskeleton. Using a combination of weight-activated sensors and battery-powered motors, the bionic suit is helping wheelchair-bound users learn how to walk again.




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Think Like a Tree - What Termites Can Teach Architects About Skyscraper Design

Sure, they’re pesky critters but termites can teach architects a thing or two when it comes building design. When creating giant mounds the insects build channels within them to help with ventilation. See how architects are attempting to replicate that process to create better heating and air conditioning systems in giant skyscrapers.




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Think Like a Tree - What Can a Humpback Whale Teach a Wind Turbine?

One’s in the water and one’s in the air, but they share one thing in common: both are trying to reduce drag along their surfaces. Find out why scientists are studying humpback whales as they look to create more efficient wind turbines.




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Think Like a Tree - How Sea Organisms Are Changing the Way We Make Glue

Your new kitchen cabinets might contain a glue in them that was inspired by mussels. Explore the chemistry that mussels use when attaching to boats and find out how that science is being imitated to develop strong adhesives that don’t rely on toxic formaldehyde.




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Think Like a Tree - How Moth Eyes Inspired the Camera Lens

Find out how camera lenses take after moths by mimicking the way they absorb and hold in light.




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I Went to the Drone World Expo and Saw the Future. It Sounds Like Bees

This is the first annual Drone World Expo, 75 exhibitors and over 2,000 drone pros in the San Jose Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley.




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Think Like a Tree - Did You Know the Eiffel Tower Was Inspired by Your Femur?

Find out how human bones inspired the Eiffel Tower through the design principle of structural hierarchy.




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Think Like a Tree - How a Dog Inspired Velcro and a Bat Inspired Radar

How can we move toward a more sustainable world? By looking to nature where many of our problems have already been solved. Find out how inventors and scientists developed things like velcro and radar by looking at—and imitating—dogs and bats.




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How to Build a Death Star According to a NASA Engineer

NASA’s Brian Muirhead explains how to build a Death Star and tells us what it would really be like to fly past a flurry of asteroids.




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Meet the Star Wars Fans Who Lined Up Two Weeks Before the Premiere

We caught up with fans who lined up for tickets nearly two weeks before the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. From keeping your job to keeping your marriage, the cosplay-dressing superfans break down the rules to waiting in line.




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Absurd Creatures | The Voracious Fish That Looks Like a Pug and Stings Like a Bee

The stargazer spends its entire life looking like it just walked in on something...unseemly. The fish, which ambushes prey from the sea floor, also sports venomous spines and an electric shock.




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WIRED Lab - Meet the NASA Scientist Who Tracks Dangerous Asteroids in Earth’s Orbit

As a physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marina Brozovic studies and measures near-earth asteroids—you know, the ones that can potentially cause catastrophic damage. Watch as Brozovic explains how her team tracks the orbit of these large masses and how NASA would prepare if one were to come barreling towards earth.




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The Super Bowl 2016 Ads Were All About Your Small Screen

The Super Bowl is as much about the commercials as it is the football, but this year the ads weren't made for your big TV.




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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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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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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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Jeff Nichols: The Evolution of a Film Career

Writer and director Jeff Nichols takes us through his three previous films and his upcoming film Midnight Special.




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App Pack | 5 DIY Apps for Mastering Your Weekend Projects

Doing some home improvement, but you're hoping to avoid a trip to urgent care? These apps will help you with those DIY projects.




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Meet the Model 3, Tesla's Most Important Car

The $35,000 TESLA Model 3 is finally here. It is sleek, quick, more affordable and it's the most important car that Tesla has built.




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Meet the Itsy-Bitsy Spider With a Bear Trap for a Mouth

Trap-jaw spiders may be tiny but their unusual jaws pack a serious and lightning fast punch. Researchers using high-speed cameras recently discovered how speedy and lethal the spiders' bite can be.




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Canon's Spendy New Movie Camera Can Truly See in the Dark

Canon's new ME20F-SH has bananas low-light capabilities. We shot some footage to show off its see-in-the-dark skills but be warned it'll cost you over $20K.




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Exclusive Footage of What It’s Like to See Through Magic Leap

An exclusive WIRED clip of what daily computing with Magic Leap technology could be like. Recorded directly through Magic Leap technology.




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App Pack - All the Apps You Need to Make This 420 the Best 420 EVAR

It's 420, a day of unabashed weed revelry. But it's also 2016, and your regular pot smoking routine just won't cut it. Watch above to get all the apps you'll need to make this 420 the best 420 ever (that is, given it's legal where you are).




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A New Crop of Marijuana Geneticists Build Better Weed

There are thousands of strains of weed. Cracking their genetic codes may be the key to transforming pot from a budding business to a high-flying industry and a cannabis analytics lab is trying to unlock the true potential of weed. Pictures by Preston Gannaway.




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Visit a Roiling Deep-Sea Vent in Glorious VR

The promise of virtual reality is that it can transport you to places you’d prefer not to go, like the roiling vents at the bottom of the deepest oceans, where crushing pressures and searing heat make an environment fit only for robots.




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Make A Cold Beer On a Mountain Top With This Clever Kit

If you're a hiker and a beer fanatic this $50 starter kit from Pat's Backcountry Beverages could make your day. Clever engineering and technology make brews light enough for even extended backpacking trips. Cheers! TIRED Beer concentrates and the carbonator make brews that can be good, but they aren't great. Then again, you might not care after a long day of hiking.




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This Mer-Bot Can Swim, Grab Stuff, and Looks Like the Jason of the Deep

Stanford University's new Ocean One is a humanoid undersea robot designed for deep diving and extreme manipulation, thanks to its haptic feedback controls.




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How They Filmed the Wildest Snowboard Series You’ve Ever Seen

The crew behind the snowboarding series Higher TV went to some incredible lengths to get footage of Jeremy Jones plunging down snowy cliffs in the Himalayas, Wyoming and Alaska.




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DIY: How To Burn a Silkscreen and Print at Home

Screen printing is the pinnacle of DIY culture. We're going to show you how to make your own design and screen it onto whatever you'd like. You’ll need to block out a few hours, and you'll need to have a design or logo in mind to print.




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Absurd Creatures | Three-Foot-Wide Coconut Crab Will Eat Your Soul and Maybe Kittens

Our childhood hermit crab has a rather more … sizable cousin: the 3-foot-wide, 9-pound coconut crab that can rip coconuts and sometimes, well, kittens to pieces.




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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.