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Testing Out the Star Wars BB-8 Toy & More Gadget Gifts with YouTuber MKBHD

From the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch to the Star Wars Sphero BB-8 toy, Youtuber MKBHD gives a few gadgets a spin to help you figure out what to put on your wish list this holiday season.




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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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How to Build a Death Star According to a NASA Engineer

NASA’s Brian Muirhead explains how to build a Death Star and tells us what it would really be like to fly past a flurry of asteroids.




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Star Wars: The Force Awakens | WIRED Movie Review

If you loved Star Wars once, everything you loved is back. And if you’re new? Welcome home.




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Data Attack - Everything You Didn't Know About Star Wars, Explained with Action Figures

What's Darth Vader's death count? How many Lego sets has the franchise sold? Which nation accepts Star Wars collectable coins as real currency? Find out everything you didn’t know about the epic franchise, as told by Star Wars action figures.




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Meet the Star Wars Fans Who Lined Up Two Weeks Before the Premiere

We caught up with fans who lined up for tickets nearly two weeks before the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. From keeping your job to keeping your marriage, the cosplay-dressing superfans break down the rules to waiting in line.




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Darth Vader Force-Chokes Star Wars Fans in Line for The Force Awakens

Outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood unsuspecting fans find out what it’s like to get force-choked by Darth Vader.




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WIRED Lab - How Realistic Are the Sci-Fi Planets in “Star Wars”?

At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory visualization specialist Robert Hurt breaks down the plausibility of sci-fi planets and galaxies in “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” and “Alien."




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Design FX - Inside the Incredible Visual Effects of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects that earned “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” an Oscar nod. See how Industrial Light & Magic crafted complex action sequences, detailed environments, and realistic characters with the help of advanced motion-capture technology and performances from actors like Lupita Nyong’o.




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Star Wars Announces Episode VIII in Production

Star Wars Announces Episode VIII




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'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW)

Mozido? Nutanix? We gave the Silicon Valley cast the names of real startups and asked them to guess what they do. This is NSFW, so put those headphones on.




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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer

Trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.




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Data Attack - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Star Wars' BB-8

Here is everything you ever wanted to know about Star Wars' latest beloved droid. BB-8 goes to LAX to greet his very own BB-8 ANA Jet. ANA Star Wars plane: http://ana-sw.com/




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The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World's Most Secretive Startup

The world's hottest startup isn't located in Silicon Valley–it's in suburban Florida. WIRED explores what Magic Leap's mind-bending technology tells us about the future of virtual reality.




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4-Foot LEGO Super Star Destroyer - How We Smashed It

WIRED destroys a massive LEGO Super Star Destroyer.




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This Startup Wants to Use Drones to Drop Blood, Not Bombs

A California startup is testing a fleet of delivery drones in the hope of deploying them to deliver blood in rural Rwanda.




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Design FX - How The Rock Face Swapped with Vine Star Sione in 'Central Intelligence'

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects in Central Intelligence used to de-age The Rock and Kevin Hart into high school, teenaged versions of themselves. Weta digital puts the The Rock’s face onto Vine star Sione’s body for an amazing locker room shower dance scene you won’t want to miss.




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NASA Fact-Checks Star Trek's Starship Enterprise

Warp speed, deflector shields, teletransportation-- what's real and what's not in Star Trek? No one better to tell us than NASA's engineers at the Jet Propulsion Lab.




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Want to Save the Whales? Start Studying Krill

Scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Fulmar study the marine heath of the waters off San Francisco by sampling water and krill–humpback and blue whales' favorite meal.




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Star Trek’s Sofia Boutella Shows Us the Last Thing on Her Phone

Sofia Boutella, who plays Jayla in Star Trek Beyond, shows us the most recent items on her phone - from texts, to music, to emojis, videos, instagram and more!




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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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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer 2

The official trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in which a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story arrives in theaters December 16, 2016.




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Meet the Giant, Toxic Starfish That’s Menacing Reefs

Get to know the crown of thorns starfish, which grows to two feet wide and wields toxic spines that will definitely ruin your day.




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NASA's Starshade Is Like a Giant Visor for the Stars

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has come up with an ingenious solution to take better photographs of ultra-bright stars; a baseball diamond-sized folding shade that blocks out a star's powerful rays.




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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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Meet the Psychedelic Shrimp That Power-Lifts Starfish

The harlequin shrimp is all dressed up in a festive clown suit…a clown suit of murder.




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Meet the Little Star Trappist-1 and Its Exhilarating Planets

Astronomers have discovered seven dwarf planets orbiting a star 40 light years away from us. Not impressed? How about this — the planets may just be able to harbor life.




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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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Star Wars Director Reveals the Secrets Behind Rogue One's Final Vader Scene

It could very well be the best scene in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story— Darth Vader violently pursuing rebels as they try to escape with the Death Star plans. But, as Director Gareth Edwards reveals, the scene fans saw in theaters almost didn't happen.




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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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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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How a Bunch of Geeks and Dreamers Jump-Started the Self-Driving Car

A decade ago, the idea of self-driving cars on American city streets was almost unthinkable. But a series of contests spurred the development of software and hardware that have brought us to dawn of the next automotive revolution.




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The World's Fastest Drones Want to Start Saving Lives in America

Zipline has proven the concept of a drone distribution system for essential medical products in Africa and Europe. Now it wants to start flying in its home country.




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Obsessed - These Star Wars Fans Are Building a Full-Size Millennium Falcon Cockpit

For the past six years Greg Dietrich, Jake Polatty, and a group of fellow Star Wars fans have been building a blinking, bleeping, insanely detailed full size version of the Millennium Falcon's cockpit.




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Entrepeneurship Boot Camp: Alexis Ohanian and Jewel Burks on Starting Startups | WIRED25

At WIRED25, Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Initialized and Reddit, and Jewel Burks, co-founder of Partpic, spoke with WIRED's Arielle Pardes as part of WIRED's 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.




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Obsessed - How This Woman Started Diving in DIY Subs

Marine biologist Shanee Stopnitzky is on a mission to spend as much time under the ocean's surface as possible. To achieve her goal, she bought two used and broken submarines, and is fixing them up, making them functional again, learning as she goes.




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The extravagant universe : exploding stars, dark energy, and the accelerating cosmos / Robert P. Kirshner, with a new epilogue by the author

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Structure and evolution of single stars : an introduction / James MacDonald, University of Delaware

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Formation, evolution, and survival of massive star clusters : proceedings of the 316th symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, August 11-14, 2015 / edited by Corinne Charbonnel (Department of Astronomy, U

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Star formation / Mark R Krumholz, Australian National University, Australia

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Quantum states and scattering in semiconductor nanostructures / Camille Ndebeka-Bandou, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Francesca Carosella, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France, Gérald Bastard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France

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Start with why : how great leaders inspire everyone to take action / Simon Sinek

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Conversations for creating star performers [electronic resource] : go beyond the performance review to inspire excellence every day / Shawn Kent Hayashi

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Quantifiably better [electronic resource] : delivering HR analytics from start to finish / Steve Van Wieren

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To Address the Social Determinants of Health, Start with the Data

Social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—have gained increasing interest among policymakers and practitioners as they struggle to improve the value and quality of U.S. health care.




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Star worlds: freedom versus control in online gameworlds / William Sims Bainbridge

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As the great reopening gets underway starting Monday, how will the consumption story pan out?

The lockdown has seen people exhausting their stock of liquor, cigarettes and other sin goods.




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Saints cut 3-year starter, 3-time Pro Bowl guard Warford

The New Orleans Saints have cut three-time Pro Bowl right guard Larry Warford, whose three-year run as a starter was cast into doubt by the club's selection of interior lineman Cesar Ruiz in the first round of the NFL draft. Warford, whose termination was announced Friday by general manager Mickey Loomis, started all 44 games in which he played for New Orleans since signing a four-year, $34 million contract in 2017. The 6-foot-3, 317-pound Warford also was named to the Pro Bowl for a third straight season in 2019, when he started 15 games.




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'From noon to starry night' / Baker

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More field recordings / Bang on a Can All-Stars

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