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Nebia - Reinventing the Shower

Startup Nebia used aerospace technology to reinvent the shower and save water. San Francisco design firm Box Clever took Nebia's rough prototypes and developed the sleek fixture that could change the way we clean up.




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XtraCycle EdgeRunner: The Pickup Truck of Electric Bikes

The EdgeRunner by XtraCycle is a load hauling behemoth of a bike that makes pedaling that much easier with a robust electric motor assist. WIRED senior writer David Pierce puts the bike through its paces with various cargo loads.




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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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Fly Over Charon, Pluto's Biggest Moon

Skim the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, in this stunning animation made up of images beamed back from NASA's space probe New Horizons.




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The New iMac’s Biggest Changes? The Keyboard and Trackpad

Apple's new iMacs looks a lot like its past iMacs but with better screens and best of all, a Force Touch trackpad and a slimmer wireless keyboard.




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Director Danny Boyle on Why “Steve Jobs” Is Not a Biopic

“Steve Jobs” is more than just a biopic. Director Danny Boyle explains the unique approach he took by shooting the movie in three different film formats to capture the life and achievements of the Apple co-founder.




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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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Think Like a Tree - What Can a Humpback Whale Teach a Wind Turbine?

One’s in the water and one’s in the air, but they share one thing in common: both are trying to reduce drag along their surfaces. Find out why scientists are studying humpback whales as they look to create more efficient wind turbines.




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How ADHD Became a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

The rise of ADHD diagnoses over the years has generated $13 billion in revenue for the companies that produce ADHD medication in the United States. Find out how the increase in attention deficit hyperactivity disorders is resulting in a big payday for big pharma.




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An AR Rock Climbing Game

Jon Cheng and the Brooklyn Boulder Gym are working together on a real life video game for rock climbers.




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App Pack | The Best Mobile Apps for Watching the Super Bowl

Load up your phone with some crucial apps that'll help you better enjoy the biggest game of the year.




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WIRED Lab - Meet the NASA Scientist Who Tracks Dangerous Asteroids in Earth’s Orbit

As a physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marina Brozovic studies and measures near-earth asteroids—you know, the ones that can potentially cause catastrophic damage. Watch as Brozovic explains how her team tracks the orbit of these large masses and how NASA would prepare if one were to come barreling towards earth.




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App Pack | The Best Mobile Apps for Skiing and Snowboarding

Hit the slopes with these apps that give you snow forecasts, buddy tracking, and resort maps all at your fingertips.




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Absurd Creatures | A Bird Impaling Its Victims Is So Metal I Can't Even Stand It

The shrike may look like a songbird but the only tunes it knows are METAL! The cute little bird kills its prey then impales them on spikes.




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3D-Printed Egg Could Help Save Endangered Birds

Researchers have packed a 3D-printed egg with sensors to gather data about bird incubation so they can better raise endangered chicks.




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An Inhabitable 'Bouncy Castle' is Headed Into Space

On April 8, SpaceX will launch an inflatable, inhabitable bouncy castle to the International Space Station and it may be the start of the first hotel chain in Space.




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Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People

WhatsApp just made the scope of the Apple-FBI encryption battle look kinda small. WIRED's senior staff writer, Cade Metz, breaks down exactly why this is a big deal.




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Meet the Itsy-Bitsy Spider With a Bear Trap for a Mouth

Trap-jaw spiders may be tiny but their unusual jaws pack a serious and lightning fast punch. Researchers using high-speed cameras recently discovered how speedy and lethal the spiders' bite can be.




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Absurd Creatures | Fish Think They're Safe From Birds But the Kingfisher Is Like LOL

For a bird called the kingfisher, stealth, dive-bombing and impalement is a way of life.




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The Roots of Dirt | The Design Evolution of the Early Mountain Bike

In the 1970's a group of California hippies built a new technology that changed the world. Computers? Nope. They were building the earliest commercial mountain bikes.




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NASA’s Testing Its Biggest Flame Thrower, Er, Rocket Ever

If humans are going to get to Mars, they're going to need rockets with some serious liftoff power. NASA’s Space Launch System is the most powerful rocket in the world and engineers are going to blast it, for testing purposes, of course.




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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 | 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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The Long-Awaited DB11 Is Aston Martin's Bid for the Digital Age

The $212,000 coupe is the first all-new model from a new regime leading the famed British automaker.




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The DEA Chilled Out a Bit and Made It Easier to Study Weed

The DEA just made it easier for scientists to get their hands on more of the stickiest of the icky.




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Fitbit Jailbreak Tips and Tricks

When you're trying to meet a Fitbit threshold, but you just can't cut the mustard, we've got several cheats that will bring your count up to 10,000 steps with minimal effort.




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The Biggest Bro of the Insect Kingdom: The Rhino Beetle

Rhino beetles love to fight and to hump. They use huge scoops on their heads to joust, launching each other off branches to win the right to mate.




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The Incredible Bike That’s Rocketing a Paralympian Toward Glory

Krige Schabort is gearing up for his ultimate paratriathlon at his sixth and final Paralympics in Rio. WIRED takes a look at the high tech bike that's going to get him over the finish line.




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Climb Inside Uber's Self-Driving Car—Its Next Big Disruption

The ride-sharing giant is in Pittsburgh for its latest big move: the country’s first autonomous taxi service. Select Uber users can now ride in self-driving cars, with humans at the wheel for an emergency.




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Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart & Mamrie Hart Show Us The Last Thing on Their Phones

Stars of the upcoming film "Dirty 30", Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, and Mamrie Hart show us the last thing they did on their phones. The Holy Trinity unveils what they last googled, how many alarms they have, and their favorite emojis.




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Nothing Is as Cool as Sequencing DNA in Space. Just Ask Kate Rubins

Kate Rubins is a biologist-turned-astronaut who's studied infectious disease in a biosafety level 4 facility and on the ground in Congo. That wasn't enough for her, so she went to space to sequence some DNA.




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How Billions of Dollars of Goods Get to You

The Port of Los Angeles is one of the busiest ports in the country, and only gets busier during the holidays. With more global shipping now that ever, new technologies are emerging that can mend choke points in the process.




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Behold the Robotic Bat, Which We Promise Doesn't Bite

Researchers have developed a robotic bat that promises to transform the way search and rescue operations work.




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Meet the Bird That Soars Thousands of Miles at a Time

The albatross has an 11-foot wingspan and a serious wanderlust, flying thousands of miles nonstop.




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These Autonomous Wheelchairs Are the Future of Mobility

At MIT, they are creating an autonomous wheelchair that can navigate streets and buildings to allow people with limited mobility to travel without having to worry about obstructions or other hazards.




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You Can Now Talk to Barbie. Oh, and She's a Hologram

Hello Barbie Hologram is a small box containing an animated projection of the doll that responds to voice commands. It combines motion-capture animation with Amazon Echo-style voice interactions. So of course we had to give it a try.




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Microsoft's Surface Studio Is All Beauty and a Little Bit of Brains

David Pierce reviews the new all-in-one PC from Microsoft. It's a joy to use, especially if you like drawing with a pen on a massive touchscreen.




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Star Wars Fans Wait for Days to See This Bonkers SXSW Poster Exhibit

Star Wars fans waited for days to get into the Mondo Gallery in Austin, for an exhibition of limited edition prints from a galaxy far, far away by artist Michael Mitchell.




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Flight Lab - Climb Aboard a Boeing 747 That NASA Turned Into the World's Biggest Flying Telescope

To get the best space observations possible, NASA scientists fly around the world in a highly modified 747 carrying a giant telescope.




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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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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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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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Inside LAX During the Most Ambitious Airport Move, Ever

We’re behind-the-scenes at Los Angeles’ airport, which is in the middle of five days of upheaval as 21 airlines swap terminals in the dead of night.




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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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Biologist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - CRISPR

CRISPR is a new biomedical technique that enables powerful gene editing. WIRED challenged biologist Neville Sanjana to explain CRISPR to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and a CRISPR expert.




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Time To Ditch Our Cars and Start Riding Cargo Bikes

Utility bikes really have the potential to be the future of transport in American cities. Here's why.




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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.