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Science of Food | The Truth About Grilling With Charcoal

Few things get grillers more riled up than arguing about gas versus charcoal. Let us and our friends at Chefsteps settle this debate once and for all.




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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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Here’s the Untold Backstory of the Iconic Slimer From Ghostbusters

It never made it into the new reboot of ‘Ghostbusters,’ but writer Katie Dippold and director/co-writer Paul Feig definitely wrote a backstory for one of the franchise’s most beloved characters: Slimer.




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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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How Motorola Made Modular Smartphones a Reality

A team within Motorola has been working on a crazy plan: to let users decide how their smartphone should look, and how it should work. The result is called the Moto Z, and it’s about to hit stores.




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Flight Mode | What It’s Like to Narrowly Avert Disaster in an $18M Simulator

Pilots spend hours in multi-million dollar simulators, preparing for the worst cast scenario. In this episode Flight Mode, WIRED's Jack Stewart gets a taste of what pilots go through.




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Facebook's Grand Plan to Connect Every Corner of the World Takes Flight

Facebook’s huge internet-beaming drone finally takes it's first flight and it's all part of the tech giant's plans to provide internet access in remote parts of the world.




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Believe It: Segway’s New ‘Hoverboard’ Is Actually Kinda Cool

You know those people you see on guided Segway tours? You know how you laugh at them and swear you’ll never do that? Well, Segway may have the answer to its ‘uncool’ problem with its new MiniPro.




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Werner Herzog on Emoji: ‘Let Them Keep Smiling. I Don’t Care’

WIRED asked Werner Herzog, whose new film 'Lo and Behold' examines the information age of the Internet, to weigh in on tech manners.




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Flight Mode | The Fancy Tech Pilots Use to Keep Your Flight Turbulence-Free

To avoid severe weather pilots used to carry 40 pound briefcases with piles of paperwork and information for their flight. Not anymore.




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Science of Food | How to Make Super-Classy Culinary Foam, Even if You Aren’t Classy

Nothing says fancy dining quite like a blob of foam. So soothing, such a great mouth feel. And get this: you can easily make it at home, expensive restaurants be damned!




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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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Meet the Tiny Foxes That Shouldn’t Be Alive

A decade ago the tiny island fox was on the brink of extinction. Now, thanks to a radical reordering of its California island ecosystem, the fox is coming off the Endangered Species List.




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Teens Explain How to Flirt on Social Media

Teens explain how to use snaps, likes, emojis, and follows to get the attention of a crush.




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Meet the 5 Fancy Cars Sold for Millions

A single car sold for 18 million dollars at one of the fanciest auto shows in the United States. Here are the five most notable vintage cars on auction at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.




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The First Glimpse of a Sunken WWII Aircraft Carrier

Human eyes haven’t seen the USS Independence, which fought ferocious battles in the Pacific Theater, for 65 years. But now, thanks to the wonders of remotely operated vehicles, it’s coming into view off the coast of San Francisco.




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Learn How to Fly Like a Pro From a Master Freestyle Drone Pilot

Carlos “Charpu” Puertolas is regarded as one of the best freestyle drone pilots in the world. WIRED spent an afternoon with him in an abandoned oil refinery to get some tips on how to fly drones like a pro.




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Six Scientists Lived in a Tiny Pod for a Year Pretending They Were on Mars

It sounds nuts, and maybe you have to be, but six scientists completed a yearlong NASA-funded Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in a dome in near isolation.




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Now You Can Control BB-8 With a Flick of Your Wrist

We’re willing to bet your wearable doesn’t come with the power of the Force? Sphero’s launching a special edition of the BB-8 toy that'll allow you to control the little droid with hand gestures.




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Climb Inside Uber's Self-Driving Car—Its Next Big Disruption

The ride-sharing giant is in Pittsburgh for its latest big move: the country’s first autonomous taxi service. Select Uber users can now ride in self-driving cars, with humans at the wheel for an emergency.




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Tinashe on MTV’s First Live Music Show in 20 Years

MTV's new live music show 'Wonderland' is their first return to live music programming in 20 years. Headliner Tinashe talks about how the multi-platform broadcast of the show reflects our present media landscape.




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Building Games For Virtual Reality Storytelling | Breaking Through

Virtual Reality is the next frontier in entertainment, but it’s so new that the rules are still being written. No one knows the best way to develop, advertise, or create yet – and that’s what makes it so exciting.




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The Numbers Don't Lie: America's Got a Gun Addiction

America’s gun addiction is bad. But to understand just how bad it is, you’ve got to see the numbers.




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NASA's Starshade Is Like a Giant Visor for the Stars

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has come up with an ingenious solution to take better photographs of ultra-bright stars; a baseball diamond-sized folding shade that blocks out a star's powerful rays.




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NASA Creates Robots That Can Climb Walls

We take a look at some of the new robotic technology being developed at JPL's Robotics Lab, including robots that use "gecko" technology to grip walls and climb 90 degree surfaces.




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Google's Self-Driving Cars Have Clocked 2 Million Miles

By this point, self driving cars are a common sight in Silicon Valley and Google’s fleet of nearly 60 autonomous cars hit a milestone: They have now clocked more than two million miles of driving on public streets.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Blindspot's Jaimie Alexander Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

Jaimie Alexander hangs with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about herself.




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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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Data Reveals the American Dream Is Alive and Well—in Canada

At the White House Frontiers Conference, Raj Chetty, an economist at Stanford University described where the 'American dream' is thriving the most and seems like it's across US the border.




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Secretary of State John Kerry Knows What A Messy Election Feels Like

When WIRED sat down with the United States Secretary of State John Kerry right after the second Presidential debate, he shared a few thoughts on what it's like to run for President.




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Immigration in America Isn’t What the Politicians Tell You

Politicians make a lot of wild claims about undocumented immigrants in the United States. Our advice? Take a deep breath and have a look at what the numbers tell you.




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John Kerry on How the Paris Climate Agreement Could Help Fight Terrorism

US Secretary of State John Kerry discusses the ways that recently signed UN climate agreement will spur innovations in renewable energy across the globe, including terror hotspots.




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Meet the Psychedelic Shrimp That Power-Lifts Starfish

The harlequin shrimp is all dressed up in a festive clown suit…a clown suit of murder.




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Uber's Self-Driving Truck Delivers 50,000 Beers

A truck carrying 50,000 beers spent two hours driving itself down a Colorado highway.




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The Art of Designing Public Transit for Anti-Social Commuters

Subway commuters traveling between San Francisco and Oakland got tired of looking each other in eye. So, the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency redesigned their train cars to give commuters more space.




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Google's New VR Headset Is Like Cardboard—Except Comfortable (and Cozy)

Daydream View, the first mobile headset of Google's new virtual-reality platform, is rock-solid VR at low cost.




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For the Lowly Dung Beetle, Life Doesn't Always Stink

Poop rules everything around the dung beetle, including its sex life.




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These Self-Flying Helicopters Team Up to Fight Fires and Save Lives

Two Lockheed Martin helicopters, with help from a pair of drones, join forces to fight fires and save lives.




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Bumped Off Your Flight? Know Your Travel Rights

It's bound to happen to you— your flight is cancelled, delayed or the airline bumps you. That's why it's important to know your rights when your travel plans go astray.




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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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Scientists Create a Light-Guided Robotic Stingray Using Rat Parts

A team of scientists at Harvard created an artificial stingray out of rat parts, which can be remote-controlled around a tank using light beams as part of the team's ongoing research on how to make artificial organs.




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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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How to Take a Great Holiday Family Photo

Family photos can be stressful. Let WIRED come to the rescue.




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Rhett & Link Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones

Internetainers Rhett & Link gather up their courage and show us the last things they did with their phones. "Rhett and Link's Buddy System" Good Mythical Morning @rhettandlink




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How to Make Deliciously Safe Eggnog With Raw Eggs and Booze

You wish you liked eggnog more than you do, right? Well, with this recipe and a few science tricks, you'll make eggnog that is not only delicious but brilliantly boozy too.




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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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Science of Teams: How Prologue Brings Its Visual Effects to Virtual Reality

Visual Effects house Prologue has worked on some of the biggest movie franchises around. The different teams at Prologue deftly work together to bring some of their most familiar assets over to the virtual space.




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Meet the Blind Man Who Convinced Google Its Self-Driving Car Is Finally Ready

Google is getting serious about self-driving cars. So serious that it put a legally blind man in one that drove him around safely on his own. The successful trip means that the tech giant can now launch its own self-driving car company, which it's calling Waymo.




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How to Fight the Bad Logic of the Internet | Argument Clinic

There's a lot of bad logic out there. WIRED's Jason Tanz explains how to spot and fight the dumbest arguments online.




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WIRED's Gift Guide for the Outdoorsy Type in Your Life

A few of WIRED's favorite gifts to make any outdoor outing more fun.