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CES 2016 - Four Gadgets That Could Make Life More Convenient

WIRED executive editor Joe Brown checks out a temperature regulating coffee cup, a connected flowerpot, a remote pet food dispenser and a very loud speaker that doubles as a beverage cooler.




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CES 2016 - WIRED's Favorite Gadgets of CES

CES is a seemingly endless bonanza of product debuts. Everything from cars and drones to headphones and televisions is on display and in mind-boggling quantities. These products are WIRED's favorites.




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CES 2016 - WIRED's Top Gadget Trends from CES

Drones, throwback gadgets and the ever growing world of connected Internet of Things gear topped WIRED's CES 2016 trends.




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King Tides Show Us How Climate Change Will Threaten Coastal Cities

Seawall-topping king tides occur when extra-high tides line up with other meteorological anomalies. In the past they were a novelty or a nuisance. Now they hint at the new normal, when sea level rise will render current coastlines obsolete.




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WIRED Lab - The NASA Illustrator Who Hides Sci-Fi Easter Eggs in Official Images of Space

Visualization specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robert Hurt, tells us how he balances scientific accuracy and creativity when creating stunning pieces of art that double as realistic depictions of space.




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SB 100 - Coming Soon for Artificial Intelligence? Coaching Football

The application of artificial intelligence to play-calling is already upon us. Last spring, two students at North Carolina State built a model to predict whether an NFL team would pass or run, information that would hugely benefit defensive coordinators.




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How to Dismantle a Bridge

The Bay Bridge, which links San Francisco and Oakland, is being methodically dismantled, piece by incredibly heavy piece. Here's how 2,500 ton truss supports will be removed.




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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everything We’re Pretty Sure Has Happened in Divergent So Far

Not only have we never seen the Divergent movies, but no one we know has, either. (Seriously—we asked everyone!) So instead, we watched all the trailers we could, and made our best guesses as to what actually happens in these things.




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Oculus Rift Review: The Age of VR Has Begun

Three years after that first devkit came out it’s showing up at people’s houses starting now. The Oculus Rift proves that this is not a phase. This is the first real step into the world of VR.




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3D-Printed Egg Could Help Save Endangered Birds

Researchers have packed a 3D-printed egg with sensors to gather data about bird incubation so they can better raise endangered chicks.




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Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People

WhatsApp just made the scope of the Apple-FBI encryption battle look kinda small. WIRED's senior staff writer, Cade Metz, breaks down exactly why this is a big deal.




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Ted Cruz Gets a Bronx Welcome

The morning after his big win in the Wisconsin primary, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took his campaign to New York's Bronx borough.




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How to Get Out of the Worst Traps in Movie History - NSFW

Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier and actor Anton Yelchin play a game with WIRED. We asked them how they’d get out of trapped situations depicted in other films. It gets pretty crude, so this is NSFW.




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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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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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Rolls-Royce's New Droptop Roof Is Gorgeous and Silent

The droptop on the new Dawn is the epitome of Rolls-Royce: a robustly engineered system that feels as though it’s not even there.




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Designers Reimagine the Task Light—And It’s Gorgeous

You probably don’t give your lamp much thought when you switch it on. But the San Francisco design firm Box Clever recently spent two years thinking about a lamp perfect for designers.




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J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda Rap in Jabba the Hutt’s Language

Film director J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda surprised people waiting for tickets to see Miranda's Broadway hit 'Hamilton' with an acoustic version of the new Star Wars cantina song, 'Jabba Flow.'




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The SFMOMA’s New App Will Forever Change How You Enjoy Museums

The renovated SFMOMA is now one of the most considered gallery spaces in the world. But it's not just the museum that got a redesign. The SFMOMA has also reimagined the audio tour experience with it’s new app.




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The Age of the Hyperloop Has Arrived. Well, for the Most Part

Hyperloop One successfully tested its propulsion system in the Nevada desert. It's an important step, but the journey to making the Hyperloop a reality has just begun.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Seth Rogen & Rose Byrne Answer The Web’s Most Searched Questions

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, stars of upcoming film 'Neighbors 2,' answer the internet’s most searched questions in WIRED's Autocomplete interview.




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The Independence Day: Resurgence Spaceship Has Its Own Gravity.

In the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence, the alien spacecraft seems to rip buildings from the ground using gravitational force. Is that physically possible? Nope. But that didn't stop us from calculating the mass it would need in order to destroy Earth.




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The Largest Plane in the World Stops Traffic in Australia

The Antonov An-225 is the biggest plane in the world. It's such a sight that 20,000 people flocked to the Perth airport in Australia to see this thing land.




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Apple Stores Are Getting a Full Makeover

Apple's new flagship San Francisco store is a redesign of the brand's shopping experience. Giant glass doors bring the outdoors inside to the new tree-lined Genius Grove where Creative Pros assist with music and photography apps and accessories.




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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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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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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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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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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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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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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."




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Absurd Creatures | The Oddly Shaped Peanut Bug Is Sick of Getting Beat Up, Guys

In South America, the peanut bug ambles around with a goofy-ass head. And that’s not its only clever defense against the bullies of the rainforest.




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Flight Mode | The Fancy Tech That's Making It Harder for Airlines to Lose Your Luggage

Lost luggage is down by 65% thanks to some new tech. Follow the roller coaster ride that your bags make into the bowels of the airport.




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Live Social Media Is Going To Be Huge During The Olympics | Breaking Through

Social Media and Live are going to be huge during the olympics this year. Watch as Sam Olstein leads a marketing team at GE pioneering new experiences at the 2016 Olympics across all forms of social media.




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The Long-Awaited DB11 Is Aston Martin's Bid for the Digital Age

The $212,000 coupe is the first all-new model from a new regime leading the famed British automaker.




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Liquids Are So 2015. Here’s How to Package Them in Spheres

Liquids. They’re so… liquidy. But our friends at ChefSteps have a quick and easy way to trap them, in beautiful delicious little spheres.




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Who Said it? Luke Cage or Nic Cage

It’s surprisingly easy to get the two confused. Both are tall badasses known for saying outlandish things. So we threw some quotes at Mike Colter, who plays Luke Cage in Netflix's new series, and asked him to guess who said them—Nic Cage or Luke Cage.




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Sausage Party Ain't Great, But It'll Be a Stoner Classic

The raunchy animated feature from the minds of Seth Rogen and Jonah Hll unfortunately lives up its name, but there's enough gleeful filth and silliness to guarantee plenty of smoke-filled midnight movie sessions.




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To Save an Endangered Fox, Humans Turned Its Home into a War Zone

To save the endangered island fox and its home off the coast of California, scientists went to war on invasive species like feral pigs and aggressive ants.




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Breaking the World Record for Largest Aerial Projection Screen

To promote the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards, a pair of helicopters cruised over the Hudson. One towed a 250-foot-wide banner, and a second flew behind it at an angle, beaming video onto the banner from a few hundred feet away.




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What It Takes to Turn a Vintage Wreck Into a Racecar

Dave Hogye spent four and a half years turning a rusted out 1959 Triumph into a beautiful race car. He then risked all that hard work, took it to the track and pushed it full throttle.