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Next Tech - Are Organic TVs the Way of the Future?

LED screens were once the way of the future, and now OLEDs are ushering in a new wave of television viewing. Featuring organic molecules that illuminate in response to electric currents, OLEDs allow for a thin screen that produces deeper, more detailed images.




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Battle Damage - Valentine's Day Destroyed at 1000 Frames Per Second

Love is in the air—literally, 15 feet in the air. Erik and Justin get in the Valentine's Day spirit by doing what they do best—smashing stuff, in this case a box of chocolates, a vase of roses, and a bottle of wine.




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Steinway Spirio

Watch Steinway's first autonomous piano in action.




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Battle Damage - 36 Tech Gadgets, 2 Days, Total Destruction

Go behind the scenes to see how Justin and Erik used nine cameras to film 36 gadgets over two days for season two’s total destruction.




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Cardistry: The Juggling of Playing Cards

Inside the mesmerizing world of cardistry, the new performance art of manipulating playing cards.




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WIRED Issue Preview May 2015 – Unsung Geniuses

The Next List. You don’t know them, but you know their work. WIRED presents the unsung geniuses who are shaping the future of business. Also this month: What it takes to create the most nonstop-action-packed movie ever, how Apple created a watch to finally free us from our phones, Ross Ulbricht’s journey from libertarian idealist to savage kingpin and more.




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Gadget Lab - Easier Pedaling With the Faraday E-Bike

More people are using bikes for transportation and electric bikes can make the trip a lot easier. While expensive, the Faraday Porteur is one of the most elegant and zippy e-bikes we’ve tried.




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NYC’s Best & Worst Ways to Commute

What’s the best way to commute in NYC? We had five Queens residents take various modes of transportation, including Uber, a cab, the ferry, a bike, and the subway to see which one came out on top.




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Maybe These Aren’t the Droids We are Looking For

Why do humans make robots in their own image? At the 2015 Darpa Robotic Challenge, most of the robots competing to open doors, walk over rubble, and drive a vehicle walked like humans. And they fell over a lot. WIRED writer Matt Simon looks at why two-legged robots seem like a good idea.




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WIRED Issue Preview – July 2015 – All Work & All Play, With Rashida Jones

WIRED presents the essential manual to finding happiness at work, with your career coach, Rashida Jones. Optimize your brain, your relationships, and your stuff to achieve a state of occupational bliss. Also this month: How Ebola survivors’ DNA could help treat other deadly viruses, billionaire VCs battle to capture massive ROI, one family’s epic quest to cure their son’s epilepsy, and more.




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All Work and All Play With Career Coach Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones works. A lot! She took a break from acting, producing and writing to talk to WIRED about how to stay inspired at the office, good career advice and her fantasy jobs.




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Ant-Man Director Says Paul Rudd is Just Right as Tiny Marvel Superhero

Ant-Man director Peyton Reed spoke with WIRED about bringing the tiny superhero to the big screen, some easter eggs for Marvel fans and how Paul Rudd preserved the wry humor of the original comic books.




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Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It

Two hackers have developed a tool that can hijack a Jeep over the internet. WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg takes the SUV for a spin on the highway while the hackers attack it from miles away.




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Simply Perfect - Vsauce3 on Comic-Con Cosplay, Doctor Who & Artists Alley | Sponsored by Patrón Tequila

Wonder what it’s like to attend Comic-Con? Jake Roper of the YouTube channel Vsauce3 offers an insider’s look at the people who bring the event to life, from the designers who create fan art on Artists Alley to the Doctor Who-obsessed cosplayers. Sponsored by Patrón Tequila




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Anki Overdrive is What You Always Wished Your Hot Wheels Could Be

Anki Overdrive combines the nostaligic toy race car fun of Hot Wheels with the smartphone control and artificial intelligence of Sphero. It's fun, really fun, but not without a few wrong turns.




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Microsoft's Surface Pro 4: A Hybrid on Its Way to Greatness

The laptop-tablet hybrid is clearly the future of Windows mobility, so it makes sense that Microsoft is trying to corner the market.




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Meet the Superhero of Cosplay

Costume and prop-maker Shawn Thorsson shows us how he creates impressive life-size replicas of movie and comic-book characters.




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Think Like a Tree - How Sea Organisms Are Changing the Way We Make Glue

Your new kitchen cabinets might contain a glue in them that was inspired by mussels. Explore the chemistry that mussels use when attaching to boats and find out how that science is being imitated to develop strong adhesives that don’t rely on toxic formaldehyde.




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WIRED – December 2015 – The Force Will Be With Us. Always.

Travelling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops. Neither is making movies. In preparation for Star Wars: Episode VII, WIRED’s Editor in Chief Scott Dadich sat down with J.J. Abrams to discuss his trajectory from awestruck super fan to the director of The Force Awakens. Also this month: Transforming the Pentagon with Silicon Valley, how India’s decision on energy can affect the entire planet, the amazing products to give and get this holiday season, plus more.




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YouTube Star MKBHD Reviews the Best Holiday Gifts for Your Favorite Techie

Not sure what to get your tech-head friends for the holidays? YouTube star MKBHD reviews the Fitbit ChargeHR, Verizon’s Droid Turbo 2, and the Bose SoundLink mini speaker so you can get the right gadget for the right guy or gal.




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Absurd Creatures | This Fish Makes Hawaii's Beaches in an ... Interesting Way

Love white sand beaches? Thank the bizarre parrotfish which eats coral and poops out sand. Oh, it also sleeps in a pile of snot.




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The Dark Side of Christmas, Explained with Holiday Cookies

It's not all twinkly lights, wrapped presents, and Yule logs. Uncover the darker side of Christmas from the 83 million trees that get chopped down to the $616.9 billion spent in November and December.




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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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SB 100 - SB100 - Who Will Play Football in the Future?

Professional football may face a shortage of talented players as researchers understand more about head injuries and parents and young players follow recommendations for reducing risk.




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The Ultimate Valentine’s Day Gift Guide for Women | Sponsored Content

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Blogger Christen Rochon breaks down her top three picks for the lucky lady in your life. Brought to you by eBay




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3 Valentine’s Day Gifts for the Tech Guy in Your Life | Sponsored Content

Still stumped on what to get your guy for Valentine’s Day? Check out three techie-approved gifts, perfect for any guy on your list. Brought to you by eBay




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App Pack | Apps To Help You Survive and Conquer Valentine's Day

Whether you're celebrating Valentine's Day with a long-term partner or just trying to spare your single self a little heartache, there's an app to go along with your plans.




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This Robo-Roach Might Someday Save Lives

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a robotic cockroach capable of squeezing through tight spaces. Someday swarms of robo-roaches could be sent into disaster areas like earthquake rubble to search for survivors.




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Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump Is Just a Sore Loser

About what you said last night ...




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Boeing's Self-Cleaning Bathroom Would Nuke Germs with UV Rays

The plane maker has a prototype bathroom that uses ultraviolet light to zap 99.99 percent of germs in just three seconds.




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App Pack | All You Need for a Festive St. Patrick's Day

St. Paddy’s Day gives anyone a great excuse to wear green and go drink beer. These apps are just the thing you need to celebrate the foremost patron saint of Ireland.




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Apple's iPad Pro May Be Smaller, But It's Packed With Power

"Big things getting smaller" was the overarching theme for Apple's latest announcements. The company just launched a 9.7-inch version of the iPad Pro.




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App Pack | Meditation Apps to Help You Stay Sane

Load up your devices with these mediation, mindfulness, and relaxation apps. Hopefully, they’ll help you find some inner peace. Namaste!




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Absurd Creatures| The Nudibranch Says, ‘Hey, I’m Super Colorful. So No Touchy'

Look at the nudibranch. Beautiful, right? That's its way of saying it will mess you up. You see, the nudibranch packs a punch–in a very unusual way




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Don't Throw Away That Chickpea Water! Make a Cocktail Instead

You know the water in a can of chickpeas? Well, it can be used as a viable substitute for egg. That's a food hack worth noting, so yes, we made a pisco sour using 'bean juice'.




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Absurd Creatures | Hail Hydra, the Incredible Critter That May Be Immortal

The hydra's got kind of a jellyfish thing going on, with tentacles it uses to snag prey. But this tiny freshwater creature regenerates itself over and over again.




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The Independence Day: Resurgence Spaceship Has Its Own Gravity.

In the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence, the alien spacecraft seems to rip buildings from the ground using gravitational force. Is that physically possible? Nope. But that didn't stop us from calculating the mass it would need in order to destroy Earth.




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Say "Hello" to Allo, Google's New AI-Powered Messaging App

Google's new Ai-powered messaging app, Allo, lets you chat with Google while you chat with your friends. It's the first step toward making Google truly conversational.




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Absurd Creatures | Three-Foot-Wide Coconut Crab Will Eat Your Soul and Maybe Kittens

Our childhood hermit crab has a rather more … sizable cousin: the 3-foot-wide, 9-pound coconut crab that can rip coconuts and sometimes, well, kittens to pieces.




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Maybe It's Time to Move the Three-Point Line

For decades the slam dunk reigned as the number one crowd pleaser in basketball. Not anymore. The three-pointer is the new star but some argue it's ruining the game and want the NBA to move the line further back.




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WIRED Lab - Soccer Playing Robot Predicts the Euro Cup Winner

Who better to predict the winner of this year's Euro Cup than a robot created by UCLA's Robotics and Mechanisms Lab (RoMeLa)? Special thanks to Dr. Dennis Hong and his incredible team at UCLA’s Robotics & Mechanisms Lab. To learn more about RoMeLa visit: http://www.romela




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Hey Thanks Apple: Siri May Now Actually Be Useful

Siri's been little more than a slightly sassy sidekick for iPhone users, but now Apple has made some big moves to make the voice assistant work for more people.




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Design FX - Roland Emmerich Breaks Down the Visual Effects Used in "Independence Day: Resurgence"

Mike Seymour sits down with "Independence Day: Resurgence" director Roland Emmerich and discusses the astonishing visual effects used in his newest picture, as well as the revolutionary new N-Cam system.




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Ghostbusters Director Paul Feig Plays ‘Real or Fake Ghost?’

Now that he’s made a ‘Ghostbusters’ movie, director Paul Feig should be an expert in spirits. So WIRED asked him about a series of spooks, both real and fake, to see if he could tell us which were based on actual ghost stories and which we totally made up.




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The Beauty of Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner on Display

Watch Boeing maneuver this All Nippon Airways 787-9 Dreamliner through the skies as it practices for the 2016 Farnborough Airshow.




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Believe It: Segway’s New ‘Hoverboard’ Is Actually Kinda Cool

You know those people you see on guided Segway tours? You know how you laugh at them and swear you’ll never do that? Well, Segway may have the answer to its ‘uncool’ problem with its new MiniPro.




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Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Shailene Woodley Say Privacy Is No Longer A Human Right

'Snowden' stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley discuss the making of their new movie, and talk about how technology has essentially taken away our right to privacy.




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How Boeing Builds a 737 in Just Nine Days

Boeing's Renton plant builds 737 narrow-body jets at the rate of 42 per month, and climbing. Here's how.




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Google's Daydream View Is a VR Eye Pillow

Google's new $80 Daydream View isn't just a more integrated VR headset for mobile devices, it's also way comfy.




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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.