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Insane 'Swooping' Skydiving Makes Your Tandem Jump Look Lame

These skydivers are no ordinary adrenalin junkies. In the National Championships of Canopy Piloting competitors fly swoop in inches above the ground at close to 100 miles per hour. It’s an extremely technical sport that punishes any tiny mistakes.




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App Pack | Take Command of the Kitchen With These Cooking Apps

There are apps to help you convert measurements from tablespoons to cups, apps that help you balance out your noodle-to-sauce ratio, recipe apps that can offer suggestions of what you should cook tonight based on what's hiding in your fridge. And of course, if you like to cook but hate to shop, there are apps that will have uncooked ingredients delivered to you. All you have to do is bring the heat.




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Absurd Creatures | The World’s Silkiest Anteater Is Not–I Repeat, Not–Stoned

The silky anteater isn't high. It's just tired, because this proficient nocturnal hunter has no business being up during the day.




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4-Foot LEGO Super Star Destroyer - How We Smashed It

WIRED destroys a massive LEGO Super Star Destroyer.




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Don't Throw Away That Chickpea Water! Make a Cocktail Instead

You know the water in a can of chickpeas? Well, it can be used as a viable substitute for egg. That's a food hack worth noting, so yes, we made a pisco sour using 'bean juice'.




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Why Women Earn Less Than Men

We’ve all heard about the Gender Pay Gap, but how prevalent is it? Find out how women compare to men in workplace compensation and what we can do about the glass ceiling. Directed/Produced by Jared Neumark Animated by Yoriko Murakami and Kim Blanchette Shot by Mika Levin Written by Roya Rastegar Edited by Mike Russell




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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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Make A Cold Beer On a Mountain Top With This Clever Kit

If you're a hiker and a beer fanatic this $50 starter kit from Pat's Backcountry Beverages could make your day. Clever engineering and technology make brews light enough for even extended backpacking trips. Cheers! TIRED Beer concentrates and the carbonator make brews that can be good, but they aren't great. Then again, you might not care after a long day of hiking.




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Movie Review | Captain America: Civil War

Civil War is a rock-’em-sock-’em stand-off that features no fewer than four massive fights and, even at 146 minutes, feels gargantuan but never over-stuffed. It’s a Captain America movie, yes, but it’s more about the struggle between consent and dissent.




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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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This Startup Wants to Use Drones to Drop Blood, Not Bombs

A California startup is testing a fleet of delivery drones in the hope of deploying them to deliver blood in rural Rwanda.




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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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How They Filmed the Wildest Snowboard Series You’ve Ever Seen

The crew behind the snowboarding series Higher TV went to some incredible lengths to get footage of Jeremy Jones plunging down snowy cliffs in the Himalayas, Wyoming and Alaska.




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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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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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DIY: How To Burn a Silkscreen and Print at Home

Screen printing is the pinnacle of DIY culture. We're going to show you how to make your own design and screen it onto whatever you'd like. You’ll need to block out a few hours, and you'll need to have a design or logo in mind to print.




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What the AI Behind AlphaGo Teaches Us About Humanity

When Google's AI beat the world's Go champion 4-1, it stirred a certain sadness in many people. But the reality is the technologies at the heart of AlphaGo are the future. So it's a time to be excited not scared.




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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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Say "Hello" to Allo, Google's New AI-Powered Messaging App

Google's new Ai-powered messaging app, Allo, lets you chat with Google while you chat with your friends. It's the first step toward making Google truly conversational.




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Here's Everything New From Google

Google made several announcements at its annual developers conference. As expected the tech giant’s progress with Artificial Intelligence is at the core of many it’s innovations




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Google Lets You Use Apps Without Having to Download Them

Google wants to give you a way of using an app without actually downloading it. It's called Instant Apps and Google says it'll be available in a few months.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - HoloLens + NASA = Amazing

Brent Rose tries out a new “Mixed Reality” software developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The software allows virtual elements to be merged with the user’s actual environment, creating a world in which real and virtual objects can interact. Brent stress tests the HoloLens and shows us how much the new tech can really do.




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Absurd Creatures | Three-Foot-Wide Coconut Crab Will Eat Your Soul and Maybe Kittens

Our childhood hermit crab has a rather more … sizable cousin: the 3-foot-wide, 9-pound coconut crab that can rip coconuts and sometimes, well, kittens to pieces.




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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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The Crazy Plan to Use Swallowable Origami to Fish Batteries Out of Tummies

Kids swallow a lot of batteries. But now MIT researchers are developing swallowable origami to fish the nasty foreign objects out.




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The Beautiful Relationship Between Physics and Jazz

Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, but he's also a jazz fanatic whose musical obsession has helped him better understand the world of cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics.




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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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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World Trailer

Werner Herzog's (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) new film examines the technologically connected world we have built.




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Data Attack - How the 3-Pointer Is Changing The NBA

The NBA is undergoing a radical shift based on the Moreyball approach and an obsession with Points Per Possession. We take a deeper look at the trend with actual cut-up construction paper.




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Strandbeests: Giant Sculptures That Eat Wind Descend on San Francisco

Kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen brings his mesmerizing wind-powered creatures made of PVC-pipe to the San Francisco Exploratorium.




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Social Media 101 From The Lonely Island Crew

At the top of the list of people who know how to rule social media there are two very important groups: comedians and celebrities. The Lonely Island team—Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer—actually belong to both of those groups. So WIRED asked them for hot tips on how to rule Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.




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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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WIRED Lab - Soccer Playing Robot Predicts the Euro Cup Winner

Who better to predict the winner of this year's Euro Cup than a robot created by UCLA's Robotics and Mechanisms Lab (RoMeLa)? Special thanks to Dr. Dennis Hong and his incredible team at UCLA’s Robotics & Mechanisms Lab. To learn more about RoMeLa visit: http://www.romela




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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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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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Hey Thanks Apple: Siri May Now Actually Be Useful

Siri's been little more than a slightly sassy sidekick for iPhone users, but now Apple has made some big moves to make the voice assistant work for more people.




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Check Out Everything Apple Debuted at WWDC 2016

Apple kicked its developers' conference off with some big announcements.




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iOS 10: All The New Features Coming to Your iPhone

Apple's iOS 10 has some cool new features. WIRED's David Pierce runs down the mobile software's updates and overhauls.




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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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If Robots Take Our Jobs, What Will Be Left for Humans to Do?

Speakers at the WIRED Business Conference grapple with how AI will transform the job market.




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Inside the Massive Factory Where Siemens Builds Trains

Inside the massive Siemens train factory near Sacramento, Ca, building one of the most advanced, and fastest, trains in the US.




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Absurd Creatures | Behold the Super Weird Face-to-Face Sex of the Springtail

For a tiny arthropod called a globular springtail, life is about being generally spherical and generally pissed-looking.




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NASA’s New X-Plane Looks Goofy But Packs Some Serious Tech

The X-57 will be essentially like flying a Tesla. It's part of NASA’s goals to reduce fuel use, emissions, and noise with innovative aircraft design.




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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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The Weird-Looking Drone That Inspects Boilers

Need to inspect a piping hot boiler? Why send a human in there, when you can send a drone instead.




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Now You Can Yell at Siri on Your Mac

Siri is the most important feature coming to your Mac this fall, so of course we put it to the test.




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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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How a Deaf-Run Pizzeria Takes Your Order Over the Phone

Mozzeria is a 100 percent deaf owned and operated pizzeria in a crowded San Francisco restaurant scene. So to stay afloat, it relies on a remarkable technology.