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Battle Damage - Microsoft Zune Torture Test

Released in 2006, the Microsoft Zune was intended to be a competitor to Apple’s iPod. It didn’t stand a chance then and it doesn’t stand a chance now. See what happens when we go medieval on this week’s gadget, as recommended by Mark and Todd from Barely Political.




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Neon Future Sessions - Ray Kurzweil & Steve Aoki Talk Technology, the Future & Humanity

Steve Aoki talks with famed futurist Ray Kurzweil about how technology will shape our future, in terms of creativity, consciousness, and the coming singularity.




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Ziba: A Bold Vision for the Future of Postage

Signet, created by the design firm Ziba, is a visionary concept for changing the way we send mail.




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WIRED by Design - An Aerospace Whiz Shows Off a Space Suit Made for Mars

Dava Newman and Gui Trotti at WIRED by Design, 2014. In partnership with Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA To learn more visit: live.wired.com




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Game|Life - The Making of the “Atari: Game Over” Documentary with Zak Penn

It’s been called the worst video game in history, but could E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial really be the cause of Atari’s downfall? In the new documentary “Atari: Game Over” director Zak Penn follows the rise and fall of the trailblazing video game company, including the game that caused Atari’s demise. Watch as Penn takes us behind the scenes of the documentary and shows us exclusive footage ahead of the November 20 release.




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Craziest Battle Damage Moments from Season 1

Hosts Justin and Erik smashed a lot of stuff in season 1. Check out the best highlights, including never-before-seen footage, and get ready because season 2 is going to be bigger and more destructive than ever before.




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Massive Black Holes Whip Dark Matter Into a Frenzy

Inside a simulation of the universe's particle accelerator with WIRED Science writer Nick Stockton.




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New Horizons’ Long Trip to Pluto

After billions of miles and nearly a decade hurtling through space the probe New Horizons will finally pass Pluto and begin to give Earth the closest look at the furthest edges of the solar system.




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New Horizons' First Close Look at Pluto

After billions of miles and nearly a decade in space New Horizons flew as close to Pluto as it ever will. The probe is already sending back the first beautiful images of the mysterious dwarf planet.




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Design FX - Terminator Genisys: Creating a Fully Digital Schwarzenegger

He's back—this time in a time-traveling standoff. See how Arnold Schwarzenegger faced off against a digitized version of his younger self.




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Mercedes-Benz Urban Hunting

More than 3,200 players scattered throughout the streets of Zurich to evade a “hunter” stalking them in a Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake through a GPS game app on contestants' phones. The winner, who stayed away longest, drove off in the stalker car.




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Booze Science | Ice

Booze Science is better drinking through chemistry. WIRED articles editor Adam Rogers explores the scientific ways ice can influence a cocktail with Jennifer Colliau, beverage director at San Francisco's innovative bar The Interval at The Long Now.




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Big Question | Can Cats Make Us Crazy?

Cats can make you go nuts and it's not just the emotional manipulation that's driving you batty...it might be a parasite.




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Absurd Creatures | Pucker Up With the Truck-Sized Ocean Sunfish

The ocean sunfish, equipped with thick, mucous-covered lips, can grow to 10 feet long and 5,000 pounds on a diet of calorie-poor jellyfish.




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NASA Data Viz Wizards Model the Movement of Ocean Garbage Patches

Ocean Currents Create Garbage Patches.




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The Ludicrously Fast Tesla Model S P90D | Zero to 60 at Supercar Speeds

The Tesla P90D is the fastest Tesla on the market. WIRED associate editor Alex Davies gets behind the wheel to test out "ludicrous mode" which uses both of the car's electric motors for acceleration speeds normally only experienced in supercars from the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini.




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All the Pluto Photos from New Horizons' First Big Data Dump

It'll take a year for New Horizons to send back all the information it gathered on Pluto when it flew by in July.




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Design FX - Maze Runner: Scorch Trials—Building a Post-Apocalyptic City

The second installment of “The Maze Runner” takes place in a mythical post-apocalyptic city. Find out how Weta Digital took an unusual approach to creating the vast, ruined landscape by building the entire city first, then destroying it.




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How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

Logan Miller and Joey Morgan from "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" show you how to hack together an arsenal of weapons to fend off the walking dead.




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Cyborg Nation - Mind-Controlled Machines Give Paralyzed Patients New Hope

Brazilian scientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is leading the frontier on mind-controlled exoskeletons that can translate thoughts into physical movement. Go inside his lab and find out how he’s helping paraplegics control aid-enabling devices just by thinking.




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This Guy Can Teach You How to Memorize Anything

Joshua Foer can remember anything, including the first 100 digits of Pi. The former U.S.A. Memory Champion explains how he—and you—can memorize anything using the major system technique, which converts numbers into words and images.




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SB 100 - SB100 | VR Will Soon Revolutionize How Football Players Train

From inside the Oculus Rift headset, players get a 3-D look at the field while headphones provide realistic sound. Teams capture the footage by filming their practices with 360-degree cameras, so the experience inside the VR headset looks and sounds like the real thing rather than a video game.




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CES 2016 - Autonomous Drone That Seats One Is a Special Kind of Crazy

Perhaps the most audacious product on display at CES 2016 is Ehang's concept autonomous single-occupancy drone, the 184. The $200,000 to $300,000 helicopter will offer rides up to 23 minutes at the push of a smartphone app button.




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Nice Storm: The Blizzard of 2016 Is a Scientific Classic

Winter Storm Jonas is hitting the East Coast hard. Yeah, you’ve heard this before and been burned, but too many forecasts are aligning for this one to be a fluke.




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Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump Is Just a Sore Loser

About what you said last night ...




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Design FX - How Designers Created a Nazi-Run World in “The Man in the High Castle”

Amazon Studios’ “The Man in the High Castle” take places in an alternate history, set in a post-WWII world where the Axis powers ended up victorious. To create the look of a United States run by Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, Zoic Studios was tasked with creating difficult visual effects and environment work. Find out how they did it.




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This Room-Size VR Game Makes You Into an Actual Action Hero

Thanks to "room-scale" VR, full-body gaming is coming. WIRED's Peter Rubin tries out "Raw Data," a first-person shooter that turns players into jumping, shooting, crouching, katana-slicing action heroes. Your living room will never be the same again.




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Design FX - The Special Effects Behind Zero Matter in "Agent Carter"

We go behind the scenes to show you how visual effects company Double Negative created the dark energy Zero Matter in ABC's "Agent Carter."




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Game of Clouds: Dropbox Declares Independence From Amazon

Half-a-billion people store their files on Dropbox. But until recently, those were sitting in Amazon's cloud. Now Dropbox has cut out the middleman and built its own super servers, challenging the internet’s biggest cloud computing companies.




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Ted Cruz Gets a Bronx Welcome

The morning after his big win in the Wisconsin primary, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took his campaign to New York's Bronx borough.




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The Thrill of Flying a Solar Plane With a Coffin-Sized Cockpit

Pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg show WIRED around the enormous solar-panel covered wings of the Solar Impulse 2 plane and inside its cramped cockpit.




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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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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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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.




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Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza & Adam DeVine Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones

Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, and Adam Devine from 'Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates' show us the most recent items on their phones - from texts, to safari pages, to emojis, videos, alarm clocks and more!




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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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Absurd Creatures | Meet the Teeny-Tiny Creature With a Buzz Saw for a Face

May I introduce you to the rotifer, a magical microscopic critter that uses a buzz saw to suck its victims into its face.




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Absurd Creatures | The Goofy-Looking Bird That Kicks the Bejeezus Out of Snakes

Say hello to the secretary bird. It’s a bird of prey, but it ain’t doing no swooping. Instead, it kicks the everloving crap out of its victims.




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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 Takes Us Inside His New Film 'Lo and Behold'

Filmmaker Werner Herzog discusses his new film 'Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World' which examines the Internet and the data revolution.




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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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Here's How to Fight Zika: With More Mosquitoes

Scientists in California are breeding and releasing mosquitos into Zika hotspots. While it may seem like they're making matters worse, they are actually releasing a kind of biological trojan horse.




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Absurd Creatures - Meet the Agouti, the Giant Yet Lovable Rodent of the Amazon

The agouti ain’t no sewer rat: It’s actually a pivotal part of the rainforest ecosystem. Like a weird-looking squirrel, really.




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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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Design FX - Inside Pete’s Dragon's Amazing Visual Effects

Design FX dives into the incredible special effects of Pete's Dragon. How were the team at WETA able to make Elliot (the titular dragon) appear invisible? Mike Seymour breaks down the techniques used to accomplish this spectacular effect.




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Zachary Quinto Explains How To Hack An Election

'Snowden' star Zachary Quinto goes in-depth on the possibility of a hacked presidential election.




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3 Amazing Robots You’ve Never Seen

UCLA Robotics lab shows off their newest and most innovative projects, including robots who search for mines and cannot fall down.




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The Amazing Garage Where Robots Do the Parking

Parking sucks. Looking for a space, driving round and round, trying not to hit a pillar. Fear not, the robots have it covered.




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Google's New VR Headset Is Like Cardboard—Except Comfortable (and Cozy)

Daydream View, the first mobile headset of Google's new virtual-reality platform, is rock-solid VR at low cost.