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Amazon Now Considers Itself an AI Company | WIRED BizCon

Speaking at the WIRED Business Conference, Amazon SVP of Devices, David Limp confessed that if Amazon is to continue to thrive in the future, it has to consider itself an AI company.




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The Psychology Behind Video Game Sounds (1972-1998)

Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds. Featuring sounds from Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, Contra, Street Fighter II, Doom and more!




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The Psychology Behind Video Game Sounds (1998-2017)

Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds. Featuring sounds from the Legend of Zelda, Half-Life, The Sims, Minecraft, Dota 2 and more!




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Video Game Sounds Explained By Experts

Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds.




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Inside the High-Tech Flag Football League That's Taking on the NFL

Jeff Lewis, a former Wall Street guy, is the founder of the American Flag Football League. It’s a new, teched-out version of the game and he believes it's the future of football.




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Watch the Hyperloop Complete Its First Successful Test Ride

The Hyperloop is one step closer to becoming a reality. If it works, the new form of transportation could mean a journey from LA to San Francisco would take just 50 minutes.




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The Full Video of a Robot Cracking a Safe

Watch this safe-cracking robot open a safe in 15 minutes.




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Inside the Studio Where Aerial Photography Turns into Prints That Last Forever | My Space

Artist Justin Guariglia uses a high-tech printer to create art that documents Earth's melting glaciers.




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Go Inside the Lab That’s Giving Robots a Sense of Touch

Go inside Syntouch, the laboratory developing a robotic finger that senses pressure, heat, and texture. This handy robot has huge implications for the world of prosthetics and product descriptions, and it may one day change the way we think about and describe our sense of touch.




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Inside the Studio Where Paint and Water Create Mesmerizing Photos | My Space

Kim Keever squeezes paint into a 200 gallon fish tank to make his art. The resulting photographs are vibrant odes to physics.




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Inside a Tornado Modeled By a Supercomputer

Leigh Orf, an an atmospheric scientist, narrates a simulation of a superstorm tornado created by one of the world's most powerful supercomputers.




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Inside Keanu Reeves' Custom Motorcycle Shop

Keanu Reeves gives Wired a tour of Arch Motorcycle, where he and co-founder Gard Hollinger design and build totally custom handmade bikes with the help of virtual reality.




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How a Virtual Reality Journalist Takes Viewers Inside Stories

At Nonny de la Pena's Los Angeles-based Emblematic Group real stories, from melting glaciers to solitary confinement, are made in full virtual reality.




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Inside the Room Housing 46 Million Museum Specimen

Only 2 percent of the California Academy of Sciences’ specimen are on display. The other 98 percent are in environmentally controlled storage. This is how they go from salvage to research specimen.




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CES 2018: Take a Simulated Ride in The Air Taxi of The Future

While engineers figure out how to make flying cars a reality, Bell Helicopter is pushing ahead with the design for the interior of an urban air-taxi service. We try out the concept at CES 2018.




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Inside the Lab That’s Making Sure Your Weed Is Safe

As cannabis use goes recreational in California, producers are facing a reckoning: They’ll either have to clean up their act, or get out of the legal market.




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Go Inside The Dome That Could Give Robots Super Senses

Step inside the Panoptic Studio, a dome at Carnegie Mellon University where researchers are capturing data on human gestures, which will be used to create more lifelike and responsive robots.




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Inside the Lab That's Building a Robot Cat

Like most robots, Kleo the Cat has a tough time moving around. But that could change soon. That's thanks to researchers at USC who are using lessons from biology to create more dexterous machines.




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Technique Critique - Surgical Resident Breaks Down Medical Scenes From Film & TV

Annie Onishi, general surgery resident at Columbia University, takes a look at emergency room and operating room scenes from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate they really are. Correction: We misidentified the type of worm in the Grey's Anatomy episode at 5:23! It was actually Ascaris lumbricoides,not Strongyloides




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Obsessed - How This Woman Rides 20,000 Miles a Year on Her Bike

Ultra-endurance bicycle racer Lael Wilcox puts more miles on her bike every year than most people do on their cars. Here's how she trains for and rides some of the toughest races on earth.




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Each and Every - Every Video Game in 'Ready Player One' Explained By Author Ernest Cline

Ernest Cline, author of the best-selling novel 'Ready Player One,' and one of the screenwriters behind the upcoming film, deep dives into his book and explains the stories behind every video game referenced in 'Ready Player One.' From Yars' Revenge to Asteroids to Quake, Ernest goes into the history of each game and reveals why he included it in the book. 'Ready Player One' is in theaters now




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Fancy New Suspension Could Make Car Rides a Lot Smoother

It works sort of like noise-cancelling headphones, eliminating bumps with movement in the opposite direction.




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Inside the Lab That Could Help Save Corals From Destruction

Scientists reach a milestone in establishing a captive coral population that could reproduce year after year, allowing researchers to perform crucial studies.




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Go Inside the Aerodrome, Where the Future of Flight Takes Shape

Welcome to the Aerodrome, where engineers are simulating wind conditions to teach drones to fly safely.




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The Taxidermy Bird That Scientists Turned Into a Robot

Meet Fembot, the robotic bird that goes undercover to observe sage grouse mating behavior.




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Toilet-to-Tap Water and Other Ideas That Could Save Us From the Next Water Crisis

Would you drink recycled toilet water? Scientists and engineers are betting on it as they look for innovative new ways to prepare for a warmer drier climate.




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Tech Effects: How Video Games Impact You

Can video games help improve hand-eye coordination? Can they help train your brain and improve your cognitive abilities? WIRED Senior Editor Peter Rubin tests his skills against a pro sports gamer to find out if gaming can improve your brain and body.




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Wish List 2018: WIRED's Gift Guide for the Holidays

WIRED's Lauren Goode presents the WIRED Wish List -- a look at all the coolest gadgets for your family and friends.




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Each and Every - Every Spider-Man Movie & TV Show Explained By Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith takes us through the history of Spider-Man in film and television, from 1978's "Spider-Man Strikes Back" to 2017's "Spider-Man: Homecoming." Kevin's special, Silent But Deadly is available wherever you rent or buy content (On Demand, iTunes, Google Play, Playstation, Xbox) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is in theaters now




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Why It's Almost Impossible to Ride a Bike 60 Kilometers in One Hour

The hour record for cycling is very simple. It's just one rider going as far as possible for one hour. WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez explores the physical power needed to push for 60 minutes and the equipment and track choices that can make or break the record.




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Technique Critique - Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down Actors Playing Presidents

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. This time, Erik is focusing on actors's portrayals of US presidents. How close was Josh Brolin to capturing George W. Bush in W.? Is Jay Pharoah's version of Obama true to life? Is it even possible for an actor to accurately portray George Washington? Check out more from Erik here: http://www.eriksinger.com/




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How Animators Created the Spider-Verse

Danny Dimian, Visual Effects Supervisor, and Josh Beveridge, Head of Character Animation, for "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," share exclusive breakdowns and talk about their inspiration and the techniques they used to create a new visual language for their Academy Award-winning film. "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" is available now on digital and Blu-Ray.




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Technique Critique - Surgical Resident Breaks Down More Medical Scenes From Film & TV

Annie Onishi, general surgery resident at Columbia University, takes a look at more emergency room and operating room scenes from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate they really are.




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The Slow Mo Guys Break Down Slow Motion Videos

Gav and Dan, also known as The Slow Mo Guys, react to some of the internet's most incredible slow motion videos. As true experts on the subject, Gav and Dan give their insights on how some of these videos may have been made, as well as what makes them so compelling. Their current YouTube Original, Planet Slow Mo, is currently airing on their channel.




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Inside the Science Behind This Incredible Water-Based Illusion

WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez visits with Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn about illusions showing water that appears to stand still or float upward, wheels that appear to move backwards, and more.




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Scientist Explains Viral Fish Cannon Video

Fisheries researcher Alison Colotelo talks with WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez about the viral fish tube, and why fish transportation isn't as easy as you might think.




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Researcher Explains Deepfake Videos

Sam Gregory, program director at the human rights nonprofit WITNESS, talks with WIRED senior writer Tom Simonite about the implications of Deepfake videos and how we can adjust to this new and improving technology.




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Isaac Newton's scientific method : turning data into evidence about gravity and cosmology / William L. Harper

Harper, William L. (William Leonard), 1943-




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An introduction to uncertainty in measurement using the GUM (guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement) / L. Kirkup and R.B. Frenkel

Kirkup, Les




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Solar selective characteristics and local electronic bonding states of 3d transition metal oxide and metal nitride based thin film coatings / Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman

Rahman, Mohammad Mahbubur, author




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Out from the shadows [videorecording] / produced by Rosemarie Reed Productions, Ltd. ; producer/director, Rosemarie Reed ; writers, Rosemarie Reed, Michael Wachholz




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Quantum physics : beginner's guide to the most amazing physics theories / Jared Hendricks

Hendricks, Jared, author




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The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider : the new machine for illuminating the mysteries of universe / editors, Oliver Brüning and Lucio Rossi (CERN)




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Quantum field theory : lectures of Sidney Coleman / foreword by David Kaiser ; editors, Bryan Gin-ge Chen (Leiden University, the Netherlands) [and five others]

Coleman, Sidney, 1937-2007, author




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The Higgs boson discovery at the Large Hadron Collider / Roger Wolf

Wolf, Roger, author




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Mathematics for physicists and engineers : fundamentals and interactive study guide / Klaus Weltner, Sebastian John, Wolfgang J. Weber, Peter Schuster, Jean Grosjean

Weltner, Klaus, 1927- author




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A guide to mathematical methods for physicists : advanced topics and applications / Michela Petrini (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France), Gianfranco Pradisi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy), Alberto Zaffaroni (University of Milano-Bicocca, Ita

Petrini, Michela, author




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Latest News: Applications for Teacher-in-Residence

The Library of Congress is seeking applications from current teachers of journalism or economics for a Teacher-in-Residence position within its Learning and Innovation Office during the 2020-21 school year.

The program description and application details for the position can be found at this website. Applications are due on Friday, March 27, 2020.

Click here for more information.




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Professional HR [electronic resource] : evidence-based people management and development / Paul Kearns

Kearns, Paul




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Talent leadership [electronic resource] : a proven method for identifying and developing high-potential employees / John Mattone with Luiz Xavier ; foreword by Jac Fitz-enz

Mattone, John