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Nice Storm: The Blizzard of 2016 Is a Scientific Classic

Winter Storm Jonas is hitting the East Coast hard. Yeah, you’ve heard this before and been burned, but too many forecasts are aligning for this one to be a fluke.




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An AR Rock Climbing Game

Jon Cheng and the Brooklyn Boulder Gym are working together on a real life video game for rock climbers.




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3 Valentine’s Day Gifts for the Tech Guy in Your Life | Sponsored Content

Still stumped on what to get your guy for Valentine’s Day? Check out three techie-approved gifts, perfect for any guy on your list. Brought to you by eBay




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This Robo-Roach Might Someday Save Lives

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a robotic cockroach capable of squeezing through tight spaces. Someday swarms of robo-roaches could be sent into disaster areas like earthquake rubble to search for survivors.




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This is What It’s Like to Race a Drone at Full-Throttle

If you’re not crashing, you’re not flying. At least that’s the idea behind the Drone Racing League—a relatively new organization where drone pilots compete by racing high-performance aircrafts through tight and intricate courses. Find out what it’s like to fly one of the technically advanced drones from the pilots who are paving the way.




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Breaking Through - Why a 30-Second, $5 Million Super Bowl Ad Isn’t Enough

It was the biggest ad day of the year, but if you thought your company’s 30-second Super Bowl spot was enough, you’re wrong. Digital marketers behind top advertising agency Droga5 explain how a Super Bowl ad is only step one when it comes to today’s 360-degree, digitally innovative marketing campaigns.




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Data Attack - Do You Have a Normal Sex Life?

The average person will kiss 21.5 people in their lifetime. And while guys lose their virginities at 16.8 years old, women will hold out a little longer until 17.2 years old. Find out how you stack up between the sheets as we run through the stats of an average sex life, as told with sex dolls.




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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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5-Year-Olds Ask an Astronaut What It’s Like to Be in Outer Space

Why don’t space shuttles float away? How do you know when to go to sleep? Astronaut Kjell Lindgren answers questions about life in space from a few intrepid kindergartners.




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The On-the-Job Film-Schooling of Jeff Nichols

For each of his films, Jeff Nichols gives himself a set of directorial challenges that he wants to master. He's learning the skills that he'll need to someday make a gazillion-dollar blockbuster.




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Tesla's Summon Feature Is Like Knight Rider. Kinda

Summon is fundamental to Tesla's goal of making driverless cars—and it won't stay a party trick forever.




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Absurd Creatures | The Tarsier Leaps Like a Superhero, Looks Like Yoda

Meet the tarsier, the wide-eyed staring contest champ of the animal world. Its eyes have evolved to be so enormous, it can’t even move them in its head. Which means you can say whatever you want to a tarsier and it can’t roll its eyes at you.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Riding the New Hendo Hoverboard 2.0 Is Like Levitating the Gnar

In 2014, startup Arx Pax made headlines with the Hendo Hoverboard. With some helpful input from Tony Hawk and others, now we have the Hendo Hoverboard 2.0, and Brent Rose just scored the first ride on it.




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Absurd Creatures | A Bird Impaling Its Victims Is So Metal I Can't Even Stand It

The shrike may look like a songbird but the only tunes it knows are METAL! The cute little bird kills its prey then impales them on spikes.




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Up Close and Personal With the New Little iPhone SE

The cute little iPhone SE offers the components of the bigger iPhone 6S with a 4-inch screen and a form factor in line with the iPhone 5s.




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'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW)

Mozido? Nutanix? We gave the Silicon Valley cast the names of real startups and asked them to guess what they do. This is NSFW, so put those headphones on.




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Silicon Valley Mourns Andy Grove, a Titan of Tech

Grove is routinely mentioned as part of the same pantheon that includes Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs. And with good reason.




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App Pack | These Apps Offer Relief During Tax Season

Tax season really snuck up on you again, didn't it? You still have until Monday, April 18 to file and pay your taxes, and while that's plenty of time to get all your paperwork in order, you might need a little help with these apps.




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Everything You Missed at Silicon Valley Comic Con

For the first time ever Silicon Valley hosted its very own Comic Con. It didn't quite measure up to the San Diego incarnation that dominates entertainment headlines every year, but it shows promise.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Melissa McCarthy & Kristen Bell Answer The Web’s Most Searched Questions

At The Boss junket, Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell answer a Google Autocomplete interview together.




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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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A Brain Implant Brings a Quadriplegic’s Arm Back to Life

Ian Burkhart is paralyzed from the neck down, but thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in his brain he's able to swipe credit cards and play video games with his own hands.




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Lux Noctis – How Photographer Reuben Wu Lit Landscape With a Drone

Behind the scenes of Reuben Wu's 'Lux Noctis' photographs made with the Phase One camera and Fiilix's new drone-mounted AL250 LED light.




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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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AR, VR, MR: Making Sense of Magic Leap and the Future of Reality

The age of virtual realty is here but augmented reality and its cousin mixed reality are making strides. WIRED senior editor Peter Rubin breaks down the new platforms.




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Absurd Creatures | This Squid Has One Little Eye and One Giant Eye

Hey listen, we’re all lopsided. You’d look weird as hell if you were perfectly symmetrical. But the strawberry squid is really lopsided, with one tiny eye and one giant eye.




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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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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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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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Take an Epic Drone Flight Through Seattle's SR-99 Tunnel

Washington State's Department of Transportation flew a drone through Seattle's SR-99 tunnel created by the Big Bertha boring machine.




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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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3 Million LEGO Bricks in One Room

Robbie McCarthy and Bill Gowdy, two of LEGO's Master Builders, show us LEGOLAND's model shop packed with more than 3 million bricks in 70 different colors. Robbie also gives us an exclusive look at LEGO's proprietary 3D modeling software.




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Silicon Valley Opens 1-3

Three opens from Silicon Valley. Courtesy HBO.




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Absurd Creatures | The Vicious Fish With a Strike Like You Wouldn't Believe

The frogfish is a vicious hunter that swallows its victims whole, but it doesn’t really bite its prey. By rapidly expanding its mouth to 10 times its normal volume, the predator creates a vacuum that sucks victims in.




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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Narcos | Season 2 - Official Trailer | 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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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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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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We Tested A Real-Life Iron Man Glove

A fun look at all the things that are possible when wielding the powerful Iron Man glove. Iron Man glove designed and built by Patrick Priebe - http://www.laser-gadgets.com/




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Flight Mode | The Bunker-Like Vault Where Jet Engines Prove Their Worth

Before takeoff, jet engines must prove they're safe, reliable, and capable. In episode two of WIRED's Flight Mode we step into the massive bunkers where engineers test and maintain these mighty beasts, all to keep you up in the air.




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The Beauty of Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner on Display

Watch Boeing maneuver this All Nippon Airways 787-9 Dreamliner through the skies as it practices for the 2016 Farnborough Airshow.




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GM's RoboGlove Will Turn Workers Into Tool-Slinging Cyborgs

GM's building a power-assisted glove that will make spinning a wrench a whole lot easier.