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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 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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We Drive an All-Electric Ferrari, the Car that Shouldn’t Exist

Ferrari boss Sergio Marchionne is on record as saying an electric Ferrari is an obscene concept, but that didn't stop a group of guys in California from turning the 308 GT into an EV.




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Our Very Own X-Men: Apocalypse Red Band Trailer (Parody)

If Deadpool taught Hollywood anything, it’s that audiences want more hard-R superheroes. Wade cursed, you paid, and 20th Century Fox listened. Here’s the (unfortunately not real) trailer for the studio’s much more NSFW X-Men: Apocalypse.




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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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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - The Cast of Warcraft Answer The Web's Most Searched Questions

Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, and Robert Kazinsky answer the web's most searched questions about themselves and World of Warcraft.




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The Roots of Dirt | The Design Evolution of the Early Mountain Bike

In the 1970's a group of California hippies built a new technology that changed the world. Computers? Nope. They were building the earliest commercial mountain bikes.




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Duncan Jones Made Warcraft For Both Gamers and Movie Buffs

For gamers, World of Warcraft represents a massive universe in which they’ve spent many hours. But for many moviegoers, WoW’s Azeroth is a completely foreign place they know nothing about. So for his new movie, Warcraft, director Duncan Jones—a gamer himself—had to create a world that would bring in new fans and make long-time WoW players feel like they were coming home. In this interview with WIRED, he explains how he worked with Industrial Light & Magic to make that happen.




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How ILM Manscaped the Orcs of Warcraft

Think orcs don’t have barbers? Think again. Gaelle Morand and her team at Industrial Light & Magic spent hours perfecting the hair on all of Warcraft’s characters. Here’s how they made “Haircraft” happen.




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Absurd Creatures | That Fish That Attaches to Sharks? It's Actually Pretty Righteous

It’s called a remora, and you’ve probably seen it before. It attaches to fish and marine mammals all the time. But get this: It doesn’t attach with its mouth. It’s got a suction cup it wears as a hat.




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Magic Leap Partners With Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB

Magic Leap, the mixed-reality company, is joining forces with Lucasfilm’s most forward-looking division: xLab.




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Narcos | Season 2 - Official Trailer | Netflix

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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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Absurd Creatures | Silly Tree Kangaroo, You’re Not Supposed to Be Up There

The tree kangaroo may have shrunken hind legs, but hey, at least it can walk backwards unlike regular roos. Oh, also: It can plummet out of trees and not suffer the consequences.




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'Swiss Army Man' Directors Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones

In ‘Swiss Army Man’ a guy stranded in the wilderness gets by thanks to a corpse and a dying cell phone. The Daniels came to the WIRED office, so we asked them to show us what was on their smartphones.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Slow Mo Guys, MatPat, AsapSCIENCE, and Burnie Burns Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

MatPat, AsapSCIENCE, The Slow Mo Guys and Burnie Burns answer the internet's most searched questions about YouTube, influencers, fame, and of course themselves.




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How Darpa Is Making Hacking Into a Spectator Sport

DARPA, the Department of Defense research arm, is trying to make its biggest hacking challenge into a visually exciting competition, complete with color commentary.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Dana Carvey Answers the Web’s Most Searched Questions

Dana Carvey, star of the upcoming film 'The Secret Life of Pets,' answers the internet's most searched questions about himself.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Mr. Robot's Carly Chaikin Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

Carly Chaikin, star of MR. ROBOT, answers the internet’s most searched questions about herself.




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Absurd Creatures | The Bizarre Sea Spider Won’t Bite. We Promise.

The sea spider isn’t actually a spider, but it’s genitals are on its legs. Which is nice.




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More People are Catching Pokemon than Dates on Tinder

In just one week Pokemon Go has almost the same number of daily active users as Twitter. So what's got millions of people running around with their phones trying to catch fantastical creatures? Well, it's pretty clever.




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How Juno Will Reveal the Secrets of Our Solar System

Find out how NASA’s Juno Mission will help unlock the mysteries of our planet and our solar system.




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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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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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NASA Fact-Checks Star Trek's Starship Enterprise

Warp speed, deflector shields, teletransportation-- what's real and what's not in Star Trek? No one better to tell us than NASA's engineers at the Jet Propulsion Lab.




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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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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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Want to Save the Whales? Start Studying Krill

Scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Fulmar study the marine heath of the waters off San Francisco by sampling water and krill–humpback and blue whales' favorite meal.




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Star Trek’s Sofia Boutella Shows Us the Last Thing on Her Phone

Sofia Boutella, who plays Jayla in Star Trek Beyond, shows us the most recent items on her phone - from texts, to music, to emojis, videos, instagram and more!




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Design FX - Inside Star Trek Beyond’s Amazing Visual Effects

Design FX dives into the incredible special effects of Star Trek Beyond. From the digital construction of the Starship Enterprise all the way down to the extraterrestrials themselves, Mike Seymour takes us into warp drive as he breaks this successful franchise down to its DNA.




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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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The Fastest Electric Car Ever Isn't a Tesla—It's a Converted Corvette

A 2006 Corvette Z06 has been converted to an all electric drivetrain and it just beat the land speed record for an street legal EV at 205.6 mph. You can buy one, but it's gonna cost you.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Cara Delevingne Answers the Web’s Most Searched Questions

Cara Delevingne, star of Suicide Squad and Luc Besson’s much anticipated Valerian, hangs with WIRED to answer the Internet’s most searched questions about herself.




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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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DC vs. Marvel: Box Office Battle | Data Attack

Data Attack reveals the history of DC and Marvel films and how they’ve created Hollywood’s biggest franchises. Animation by Eric Power




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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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Driving the Karma Revero, The Electric Car That's Back From the Dead

We hop behind the wheel of the resurrected Revero—formerly known as the Fisker Karma—to see if the electric car can make its second chance at life a success.




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Science of Sport: Archery

WIRED takes an in-depth look at the science and mathematics behind Olympic Archery with Brady Ellison and Mackenzie Brown.




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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer 2

The official trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in which a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story arrives in theaters December 16, 2016.




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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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The Art of Animating Kubo's Epic Opening Scene

The first moments of the new animated film Kubo are breathtaking. WIRED spoke to LAIKA animation studio about how they made it all possible.




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No, the Ocean Didn’t Grow Hair. It’s the Garden Eel!

The garden eel is harmless and actually pretty cute. But get a bunch of them together and things start looking a wee bit creepy.




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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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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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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.