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The Biggest Bro of the Insect Kingdom: The Rhino Beetle

Rhino beetles love to fight and to hump. They use huge scoops on their heads to joust, launching each other off branches to win the right to mate.




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Your First Look at Jupiter’s Gorgeous North Pole

The Juno spacecraft has snapped the first photo ever of Jupiter’s north pole, revealing some intriguing surprises.




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The Crabs That Stick Camouflage All Over Their Bodies? It’s Called Fashion

Meet the decorator and urchin crabs, crafty little critters that don’t just sit around waiting to get eaten. They deck themselves out with some serious outfits.




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Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Shailene Woodley Say Privacy Is No Longer A Human Right

'Snowden' stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley discuss the making of their new movie, and talk about how technology has essentially taken away our right to privacy.




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Chevy's Electric Car Travels Farther Per Charge Than Tesla's Model S

General Motors has promised that the Chevrolet Bolt, its affordable, long-range electric car, would deliver at least 200 miles on a charge and cost no more than $30,000. WIRED put it to the test.




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Google Just Got Real By Changing Its Gadget Game

The tech giant released a slew of new hardware, including two new smartphones, a VR-headset and a home assistant. Here's everything from the Google event.




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The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Jobs

WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss how artificial intelligence might up-end economies and how societies can adapt.




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The World's Largest Telescope

China has built the world's largest radio telescope and they're using it to observe outer space.




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The Amazing Garage Where Robots Do the Parking

Parking sucks. Looking for a space, driving round and round, trying not to hit a pillar. Fear not, the robots have it covered.




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What Do You Get When a Pig and a Monkey Have a Baby? A Coati

The coati is kind of a raccoon but also maybe a monkey with the nose of a pig. In other words, a critter that can’t seem to figure out what it wants to be.




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Thermal Imaging Tech Helps Protect Endangered Wildlife

World Wildlife Fund is using thermal imaging technology and artificial intelligence to see and capture wildlife poachers as they stalk endangered animals in the dark.




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Jumping Spiders Jump Around, Jump Up, Jump Up, and Get Down

Meet the little spider that goes about life a little differently, in the sense that it actively stalks the hell out of its prey.




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How Billions of Dollars of Goods Get to You

The Port of Los Angeles is one of the busiest ports in the country, and only gets busier during the holidays. With more global shipping now that ever, new technologies are emerging that can mend choke points in the process.




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[Branded Content] Working Together for a Common Goal; The Science of Teams: Atlassian

Produced for Atlassian by the WIRED Brand Lab. The process of team work is all around us. From construction, to music, to food, the greatest achievements are born out of teams. On its surface, collaboration is a seemingly simple process, but there is much more underneath. WIRED teams up with the experts and uses science to showcase the mechanics behind working as a team.




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The Incredible Gecko That Looks Exactly Like a Tree

Meet the leaf-tailed gecko, which deploys some of the most astounding camouflage in the animal kingdom.




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See Everything That Happens When a Package is Shipped

Ever wonder what happens to a package when it gets shipped? We stuck a GoPro in a clear acrylic box, had it filming the entire time, and got a chance to see what the package went through on its way to your doorstep.




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WIRED's Top Gadget Stories of 2016

2016 was the year a lot changed in gear. We lost headphone jacks on iPhones, got Snap's Spectacles and artificial intelligence is now powering a lot of our gadgets.




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The Tiger Beetle Is Here to Murder Anything It Can

Yipes! The tiger beetle, not to be confused with teen magazine Tiger Beat!, is pretty much six-legged death incarnate for spiders, grubs, and even ladybugs. Watch out!




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Some of the Cool Gadgets at CES 2017

CES isn’t just giant TVs and smart washing machines from big brands. Here are a few of the neatest items and accessories we’ve come across this year.




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CES 2017 - The Fridges of the Future Surf the Web and Take Pictures

A fridge should do more than just keep your food cold, right? Samsung and LG think so. Both companies showcased their outrageously smart fridges at CES this year.




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This Simple Paper Centrifuge Could Revolutionize Global Health

A Stanford researcher has created a groundbreaking scientific device using paper and string. It's called a paperfuge and it may be the answer to testing blood samples in places that can’t power, afford, or transport a traditional centrifuge.




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CES 2017 - Get Up Close With Faraday Future's Bonkers Luxury Limousine

Faraday Future revealed its luxury electric limousine at CES. The company plans to sell it for as much as a Bentley, but it has more than a few hurdles to overcome to make the transition from stunning concept to real-life road car.




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CES 2017 - Forget Phones, Blackberry Is Getting Into the Car Business

The former phone maker is taking its software expertise to the world of self-driving cars.




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CES 2017 - Car Designers Remake the Steering Wheel for the Age of Autonomy

In a world where cars drive themselves, the steering wheel must go way beyond 10 and 2.




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No Matter What Trump Says, Your Gadgets Will Still Be Made in China

The massive consumer tech companies from China have come up with a plan for world domination: Make all of the gadgets used by everyone, everywhere.




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Dear Angelica Teaser

A teaser for Oculus Story Studio's new virtual reality film 'Dear Angelica,' which was made with the company's VR illustration tool, Quill.




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Women in Tech Marched on Washington for More than Just Gender Equality

Women from Silicon Valley joined the thousands that marched on Washington DC to protest the Trump Administration. WIRED joins a group of women in tech on their journey to the Capitol to fight for science, climate change action, immigration rights and equality.




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Get Ready for a Coffee Renaissance. Thanks, Genetics!

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the coffee plant and made the data public. That means we're about to see a coffee renaissance.




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Inside the YouTube-Fueled, Teenage Extravaganza That Is Beautycon

A look at the industry-shaking in real life meet up of beauty world influencers, their fans and the brands that compete for their attention.




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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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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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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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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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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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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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It Takes 60,000 Rivets and Two Robots to Build a Boeing 777 Fuselage

It’s tough work for pairs of humans who install each of the 60,000 rivets that keep Boeing's 777 from falling apart in midair, so they’re getting some help from pairs of robots on the plane production line.




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The Single-Celled Stentor Could Hold the Secret to Human Regeneration

Meet the stentor, a gigantic single-celled organism that can regenerate and ink like a squid.




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Technique Critique - Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages From Film & TV

Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes some of the most famous "constructed languages" in movie and television history. Which real-life languages inspired "conlangs" like Klingon and Dothraki?




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Design FX - Creating Scarlett Johansson's Computer-Generated Body Suit

Mike Seymour breaks down the visual effects from the film 'Ghost in the Shell' starring Scarlett Johansson.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Salma Hayek & Eugenio Derbez Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

'How To Be a Latin Lover' stars Salma Hayek and Eugenio Derbez answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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Eliud Kipchoge Almost Breaks the Two-Hour Marathon

Eliud Kipchoge fell short of running a marathon in under two hours. In a special Nike event, the long distance runner beat the current marathon world record coming in at 2 hours and 25 seconds, but because the event wasn't sanctioned it won't count. Here's how Nike controlled every variable in an attempt to break two.




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How to Get Started with Encrypted Messaging

It’s time to start using an encrypted messaging app. Why? Using end-to-end encryption means that no one can see what you’re sharing back and forth.




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Robots & Us: The Future of Work in the Age of AI

Robot co-workers and artificial intelligence assistants are becoming more common in the workplace. Could they edge human employees out? What then?




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The One Thing the Architect of Apple's New HQ Would Change | WIRED BizCon

Ask Norman Foster what, if anything, he’d like to change about Apple’s new headquarters, and he’ll need a moment to think. The famed architect, whose firm spent the last eight years perfecting plans for Apple’s massive campus, is mostly pleased with the results. But there is one thing he'd change.




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Cadillac Challenges Tesla with a Super Smart Self-Driving Sedan

Cadillac's new self-driving car isn't just watching the road, it's watching the driver. The system it calls "super cruise" is designed to crack the so-called "hand-off" problem.




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How Climate Change Is Already Affecting Earth

Though the planet has only warmed by one-degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, climate change's effect on earth has been anything but subtle. Here are some of the most astonishing developments over the past few years.




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What is 5G and When Do We Get It?

5G is the next generation of high-speed wireless communication. It should speed up your phone's data service to the point that it's bonkers fast.




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Incredible Old-School Footage of NASA’s X-Plane Program

NASA has released gobs of archival footage to its Youtube channel for your viewing pleasure. Don't thank us, thank NASA.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Al Gore Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions on Climate Change

Politician and activist Al Gore answers the Internet's most searched questions about climate change.




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Shaping Smarter Cities - Global Challenges

Mouser Electronics Brand Ambassador, Grant Imahara, sat down with our WIRED Brand Lab Editor to identify the global challenges that our major cities are facing. It’s these key challenges that will help dictate where Grant travels to and why. Produced for Mouser Electronics by the WIRED Brand Lab