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The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on the True Meaning of Star Trek

POTUS is a Trekkie! WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss the original Star Trek series and what it reveals about our common humanity.




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The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on What AI Means for National Security

WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss the challenges of cyber security in the age of artificial intelligence.




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The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on the Future of AI

President and WIRED guest editor Barack Obama discusses the future of artificial intelligence with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito.




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Playing ‘Who Said It?’ with Issa Rae

Issa Rae loves female comedies. So we decided to quiz her on some of the funniest lines from Girlfriends, Living Single, and Sex and the City.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - GoPro Karma vs DJI Mavic Pro Full Review

*UPDATE* We have looked into the focus issues and have altered our choice accordingly. Please read the updated review at WIRED.com for the full explanation: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/gopro-karma-vs-dji-mavic-pro/ GoPro has entered the drone game, delivering a sleek, foldable device that can fit inside a backpack. Brent Rose compares GoPro's offering with the Mavic Pro; DJI's impressive new foldable drone.




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WIRED Review: The New Macbook Pro With Touch Bar

The new Macbook Pro is great, but it isn't worth rushing to the Apple store to drop $1,800 if you don't need a new computer this minute. Here's why.




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Look, Ma! I'm Flying a Plane With Only My Thoughts

Without a pilot’s license, or frankly, any experience, WIRED's Jack Stewart flew a plane using just his thoughts. Thanks to new technology developed by Honeywell Aerospace, a King Air C90 can be controlled, in simple terms, by the human brain.




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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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Surviving Family Occasions with Tips From Google's Mindfulness Mentor

Family occasions are stressful especially around the holidays.Google's Chade-Meng Tan shares some mindfulness tricks that'll keep you sane.




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Airbus' Futuristic Jet Concept Comes With Flying Spas and Bars

The Transpose concept uses modular architecture to keep life in the sky fresh and comfortable.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Brent Rose's Ultimate Survival Bag

Bug-out bags/survival kits are a controversial topic. Everybody has a different philosophy about what makes a good one. This is Brent's. While bigger and heavier than a lot of the bags you'll see online, you can keep it in the closet by your front door or the trunk of your car, and you'll be prepared for an emergency that could last many days. Brent's kit doubles as a slick backpacking setup, so you'll get to know your gear extremely well, and you get to have fun with it, too.




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Struggling with Dry January? Here Are Awesome Non-Alcoholic Alternatives

After a boozy holiday season quitting alcohol for January sounds like a good idea, but it's not that easy. We've found some legitimate, non-alcoholic drinks for your beer, wine and spirit cravings.




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CES 2017 - Get Up Close With Faraday Future's Bonkers Luxury Limousine

Faraday Future revealed its luxury electric limousine at CES. The company plans to sell it for as much as a Bentley, but it has more than a few hurdles to overcome to make the transition from stunning concept to real-life road car.




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The 100-Foot Sea Critter With a Gnarly Sting

The siphonophore may look like a jellyfish, but it's something entirely different: a colony of clones that packs a serious punch.




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Behind the Scenes of MTV’s ‘Stranded With a Million Dollars’

How do you sneakily film 10 people trapped on a remote island for 40 days? Very carefully—and with a lot of equipment.




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The Adorable Little Fish With a Suction Cup for a Belly

Meet the lumpsucker, the tiny fish that sucks at swimming but is great at suctioning.




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The Evolution of the Selfie With Nina Dobrev

In xXx: Return of Xander Cage, The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev plays tech geek Becky Clearidge. So, who better to take us through the history of selfies? Using phones like the infamous Nokia brick and the modern iPhone, Nina tries her best to snap her way through camera phone history.




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Step Into the VOID, Where VR Merges With the Real World

At the Utah-based "hyperreality" startup, they don't want to make the real world disappear—they want to bring it into your headset for a an all-new kind of adventure.




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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lamborghini Toasted the World's Toughest Track with Air Instead of Horsepower

Supercars are usually super thanks to monstrous power. The engineers at Lamborghini turned to some smart air scooping tricks to send the production Huracan around the Nurburgring track in record time.




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Why You Can Never Argue with Conspiracy Theorists

Alex Jones is not the only guy making a career out of conspiracy theories. They are everywhere on the internet and here's why you have no choice but to ignore them.




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Cadillac Challenges Tesla with a Super Smart Self-Driving Sedan

Cadillac's new self-driving car isn't just watching the road, it's watching the driver. The system it calls "super cruise" is designed to crack the so-called "hand-off" problem.




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Meet Salto, the Tiny Robot With a Giant Leap

Salto is a tiny robot with an incredible leap and a bright future in rescue operations.




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How a Hacker Fired a Locked Smart Gun with $15 of Magnets

The Armatix iP1 pistol and its RFID watch, are sold as one of the most secure firearm systems available. But a hacker, who goes by 'Plore', has found flaws in the Armatix that entirely defeat its security measures.




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Leaked Audio of Q&A With Jared Kushner

Trump administration senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke to congressional interns in an off the record meeting, including about his work in the Middle East.




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How to Live with Robots

Sophisticated companion robots have arrived. But we need to be very careful about how we interact with them.




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This Plane is Trying to Fly to 90,000 Feet Without an Engine

The Perlan II, a specially designed glider meant to climb to higher than any plane has ever flown, is attempting to reach altitudes of 90,000 feet.




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Reuniting With Dawn, the Ion-Powered Spacecraft in the Asteroid Belt

How did Dawn orbit two protoplanets? The same way Darth Vadar annihilated the rebel fleet. Sort of.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - The Best Ways to Watch an Eclipse

WIRED's Brent Rose goes over some of the best ways to watch a total eclipse.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - What High-Tech Gear is Best for the Ultimate Camping Trip

Want to take your upcoming camping trip to the next level? Brent Rose packs a car full of high-tech gear and attempts to pull off the ultimate camping trip. Correction: The jacket is actually called Eddie Bauer EverTherm Down Jacket. We regret the error.




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Up Close and Personal With the New iPhone X

The New iPhone X packs more new stuff into any device since the original iPhone. It's the most complete redesign of the product ever, and even offers a glimpse at what the iPhone might become when the world no longer wants smartphones.




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Visit an Audio Installation That Surrounds You With Sound

Envelop at the Midway is an experimental sound installation that promotes technology for making spatial audio. It’s also a performance space that fosters listening as a community.




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The Unrelenting Weirdness of Interacting With Robots

Welcome to the world of human-robot interaction, in which people have to adapt to the machines as much as the machines have to adapt to us.




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Hands On with the Meta AR 2

The Meta 2 AR headset brings virtual objects into your real world and is designed to replace your computer monitor altogether.




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How to Control What Alexa and Google Assistant Do With Your Voice Data

Virtual assistants like Google Home and Amazon Alexa can be amazing but what are they doing with all of your questions? Here's how to control all of that data.




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VW's Back With the All-Electric Buzz Bus, Baby!

VW's working to put the dieselgate emissions scandal behind it, with three all new, all-electric, vehicles, including one that will appeal to your inner hippie.




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The Self-Driving Truck Race Heats Up With a Driverless Test

Starsky heat up the competition for driverless trucks with its first closed road test of a completely driverless car.




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Let’s Catch Up With Pepper, the Dancing, Surprisingly Helpful Humanoid

Pepper is part of the first wave of intelligent machines that promise to not only make our lives easier, but to bring a strange new form of interaction into being.




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How One Artist Balances Form and Function with His Light Sculptures

Produced by WIRED Brand Lab for Perry Ellis. Jason Krugman is a light sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. His lighting designs often use their physical structure to conduct electricity to the light sources, which eliminates the need for insulated wiring and connectors allowing thousands of lights to sit softly amongst minimal wire forms. Currently, he works out of the New Lab space which is a community of entrepreneurs working in advanced technology.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - How to Master This Summer's Wildest Watercraft

Why ride on a normal personal watercraft when you could go extreme? Brent Rose splashes and crashes the Seabreacher and Jetovator, two of the wildest watercraft on the market.




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Dive Under the Ice With the Brave Robots of Antarctica

Sending a robot into the icy depths and getting it back alive can be more challenging than communicating with a Mars rover millions of miles away.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - GoPro Hero7 Black vs. Hero6 vs. Sony X3000

Tech Writer Brent Rose reviews the new GoPro Hero7 Black for WIRED, testing it against the Hero6 Black and the SONY X3000, and reviewing its "hypersmooth" image stabilization, audio capture, timelapse, SuperPhoto stills and more. Read more at WIRED.com: https://www.wired.com/review/gopro-hero7-black-2018