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Silicon Valley's Favorite Shoe Company Has Some New Kicks

Last year, the San Francisco startup Allbirds released a shoe it calls the Wool Runner. This eco-friendly, merino wool sneaker exploded in popularity in Bay Area. Now, Allbirds is unveiling its second product, the Wool Lounger.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Chris Evans Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

'Gifted' star Chris Evans takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself. 'Gifted' co-star Mckenna Grace joins Chris, and together they find out that the Internet is obsessed with Chris Evans' driving skills.




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A Marsupial Robot Is What You Need in an Explosive Situation

Flying a drone indoors is risky business. But a new kind of robot combines a tracked vehicle and a tethered quadcopter to explore things like decommissioned chemical plants.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

'Going in Style' stars Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Anne Hathaway & Jason Sudeikis Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

'Colossal' stars Jason Sudeikis and Anne Hathaway answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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Flight Lab - Check Out the New Far-Out Fliers of NASA's Famed X-Plane Program

For seven decades experimental X-planes have been developed and flown in the Mojave desert. NASA is now building the future of flight like an all electric plane and a quieter supersonic jet.




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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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How Hip-Hop Producer Steve Lacy Makes Hits With ... His Phone

Steve Lacy is a pretty big deal. He's part of the band The Internet, he's a producer for J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar, and he just put out his first solo album which he made on his iPhone.




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5 of the Most Iconic 'Fast & Furious' Cars From the Guy Who Built Them

Dennis McCarthy, the man behind all of the cars from the Fast and the Furious franchise, gives us his insights on five iconic cars from the films.




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All of the Big News from Facebook's F8 2017

Everything you need to know from Facebook's F8 from augmented reality filters to messenger bots to virtual selfie sticks.




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What Can Facebook Do About Live Murders and Suicides?

Steve Stephens recorded himself murdering an innocent victim and then uploaded the footage to Facebook. The horrific act has put Facebook under immense pressure to do something, but can the company prevent broadcasting acts of violence without fundamentally changing the purpose of the social media platform. WIRED explores Facebook's limited options.




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Tech Support - Bill Nye Answers Science Questions From Twitter

Bill Nye uses the power of Twitter to answer some common science questions. Check out Bill's new show on Netflix "Bill Nye Saves The World" premiering April 21st!




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NASA Is Sending Cassini out with a Funeral Fit for Scientific Royalty

Twenty years ago, the Cassini spacecraft blasted off from earth on an epic journey to find out more about Saturn. Now that journey comes to a glorious end.




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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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If Robots Want to Work with Us, We Must Fix Four Problems

In the not too distant future, a robot could be working right beside you and that means human and machine need to learn how to interact seamlessly. Researchers at UC Berkeley are working on solving four fascinating problems with human-robot interactions.




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The Robot Will See You Now – AI and Health Care

Artificial intelligence is now detecting cancer and robots are doing nursing tasks. But are there risks to handing over elements of our health to machines, no matter how sophisticated?




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How NASA Visualizes Stunning Worlds Without Ever Seeing Them

Every time a new exoplanet is discovered, the announcement is accompanied by an artist’s rendering of that world. So when scientists recently discovered the seven exoplanets of Trappist-1, NASA's visual artists had their work cut out for them.




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The Unsettling Performance That Showed the World Through AI’s Eyes

Artist Trevor Paglen is best known for images of the security state – drones, spy satellites and rendition planes – For a new work commissioned by the Cantor Arts Center he's collaborated with Kronos Quartet and Obscura Digital to look under the hood of artificial intelligence and machine vision.




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Robots & Us: When Machines Take the Wheel

Autonomous driving technology could make getting around safer, more efficient, and less expensive. What will it mean for the millions of people who drive for a living and is it really ready for the road?




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Meet the Cute Little Robot That'll Soon Float Around with Astronauts

The Astrobee is a brilliant little robot that'll use puffs of air to autonomously float around the International Space Station.




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Why It's Almost Impossible to Run a Two-Hour Marathon

One of the world's finest distance runners came so close to achieving the greatest feats of athleticism in history: a sub two-hour marathon. To do it, the Eliud Kipchoge should have maintained an average pace of at least 13.1 miles per hour. So, we timed how long WIRED staffers could run at that speed. Needless to say, we didn't last long. Here's why only a handful of people in the world could ever come close to a two-hour marathon.




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What is a DDoS Hack and How Do You Avoid Them?

DDoS! It stands for distributed denial of service, a kind of attack that turns insecure, internet-connected devices into a sort of zombie army. So here's how you can avoid being part of that zombie army.




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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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Robots & Us: How Food-Bots Are Changing How We Eat

Artificial intelligence and advanced automation are everywhere including our farm fields and kitchens. How will robots change the way we grow, harvest and cook our food?




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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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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Amy Schumer & Goldie Hawn Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

'Snatched' stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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Watch the Little Robot That Taught the Big Robot Something New

Robots can learn to do tasks just fine. Getting different kinds of robots to share knowledge, though, is another challenge entirely.




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This Is What $250 Billion Actually Looks Like

Apple recently announced that they have a $250 billion in the bank. This is what that amount of money actually looks like.




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Mysterious Fungi Bring a West Virginia Forest Back to Life

In West Virginia, the Nature Conservancy is bringing back forests with the help of a very special fungus.




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The Wind-Slicing GT Puts Ford Back in the Supercar Game

The new Ford GT is the spiritual successor to the GT40 which dominated the 24 hours of Le Mans races in the 1960s.




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What is Ransomware and How Do You Deal With It?

Ransomware. It's malware but worse. It takes the contents of your device hostage and demands Bitcoin as a, you guessed it, ransom. Here's how to avoid it and what to do if your laptop gets locked.




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Watch Steve Jobs Pitch the Cupertino City Council on Apple Park

In his last public appearance, Steve Jobs makes his pitch for Apple's new campus at a June 2011 Cupertino City Council meeting.




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Tech Support - Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan Answers Overwatch Questions From Twitter

Game designer Jeff Kaplan uses the power of Twitter to answer some common "Overwatch" questions.




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How a Bunch of Students Set a New Rocket Record

A group of students from USC have set a new rocket record and they aren't stopping there.




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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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AlphaGo Wins First Go Game in China with New AI Architecture

DeepMind's AlphaGo artificial intelligence system beat the world's top Go player in Wuhzen, China with a new architecture that the company says is more efficient in both energy use and computing power.




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Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Whales Are So Big

According to a new study, whales didn't grow big just because they could. They did it because of climate change.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Trying Stand-Up Comedy Using Only Siri, Echo, Cortana and Google Assistant

Brent Rose takes Google Assistant, Amazon Echo, Microsoft Cortana and Apple's Siri out for the ultimate test drive; which AI has the best sense of humor? How will a human audience respond to a stand-up set written entirely by smart gadgets?




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Google's AlphaGo Notches Another Win for AI

Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence system edged out the best human Go player for a 2-0 win. But it is also playing with and against teams of professional human players.




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Worried About Your Weak Passwords? Here's How to Fix Them

Look, we get it. Remembering dozens and dozens of different passwords for different sites is next to impossible. But that doesn’t mean you should be reusing your passwords. That’s just asking for trouble.




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Inside the Absurd Distillery Where They Make '20-Year' Rum in Six Days

Obsessive distiller Bryan Davis invented a contraption for aging booze fast. His goal: to create highly engineered, rapidly prototyped sprits that are unlike any you've tasted before.




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Welcome to Salinas! The Farming Town Where Robots Reign

In Salinas Valley, about an hour and a half south of San Francisco, farmers and tech types are joining forces to turn this place into a kind of Silicon Valley for agriculture.




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How to Make Your Browsing Data More Private than a Thousand Incognito Windows

Thanks to an assist from Congress, your cable company has the legal right to sell your web-browsing data without your consent. This is how to protect your data from preying eyes.




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How To Battle Trolling Ad Hominem Attacks Online

An internet troll's favorite way to argue? Ad hominem, of course! This is your guide to spotting bad arguments on the internet and how to fight them.




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Here's Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2017

At Apple's annual WWDC conference CEO Tim Cook and others unveiled its most powerful Mac yet, a long-awaited Siri speaker, and tons of new software upgrades across all of the Apple platforms.




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Meet HomePod, Apple's New Siri-Enabled Speaker

Apple has unveiled the HomePod, a $350 wireless speaker with Siri baked right in.




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Women Engineers On the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley

Five female engineers discuss the sexism of the tech industry and why greater diversity and inclusion makes better products for everyone.




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Google's Plan to Use Ads to Sway ISIS Recruits | WIRED BizCon

Yasmin Green leads a team at Google which has developed tools to help journalists stay secure in authoritarian regimes, to combat cyber bullying, and to help people before they become radicalized by extremist ideology. At the WIRED business conference, Green shared the company's strategies to sway ISIS recruits before it's too late.




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The Story Behind Google's Super Chip | WIRED BizCon

Five years ago, as its voice recognition tech took off, Google realized it would have to double its server space to handle even three minutes of speech from every Android user. Even Google couldn't afford that. So Urs Hözle and his team built a super chip to parse all that data more efficiently.




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AI Won't Replace Doctors, It'll Help Them | WIRED BizCon

Google is poised to begin a grand experiment in using machine learning to widen access to healthcare. If it is successful, millions of people with diabetes could avoid losing their sight. Lily Peng from Google Brain explained at the WIRED Business Conference how technology like this would help doctors, not replace them.