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Google Lets You Use Apps Without Having to Download Them

Google wants to give you a way of using an app without actually downloading it. It's called Instant Apps and Google says it'll be available in a few months.




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NASA’s New X-Plane Looks Goofy But Packs Some Serious Tech

The X-57 will be essentially like flying a Tesla. It's part of NASA’s goals to reduce fuel use, emissions, and noise with innovative aircraft design.




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NASA Explains How the Juno Probe Got to Jupiter

The experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory explain the incredibly precise, solar-powered Juno mission to the radiation-strewn planet Jupiter.




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Live Social Media Is Going To Be Huge During The Olympics | Breaking Through

Social Media and Live are going to be huge during the olympics this year. Watch as Sam Olstein leads a marketing team at GE pioneering new experiences at the 2016 Olympics across all forms of social media.




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Catching Comic-Con 2016: Pokémon Go IRL

If you think catching Pokemon from your couch is easy, try catching all the cosplayers at Comic Con. You can't catch 'em all!




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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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Hidden Easter Eggs of Legoland

Master Builder Robbie McCarthy show us all the hidden secrets of California's LEGOLAND.




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Yi’s 4K Camera Is a GoPro Ripoff That’s Better Than a GoPro

GoPro's Hero4 Black costs $500, and the Yi 4K costs $250, which one is better? Not the expensive one.




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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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How to Pressure-Cook With Steam—and Good-Old Science

The pressure cooker. It sounds, well, terrifying. But not only is it a perfectly safe way to cook if you’re not screwing around, thanks to the laws of physics, it’s a perfectly speedy way to cook too.




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Garmin's New Action Cam Versus GoPro's Hero4

Must be action cam season again and now Garmin has stepped into the game with it's Virb Ultra 30. It doesn't do a bad job when matched against the GoPro Hero4.




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Your First Look at Jupiter’s Gorgeous North Pole

The Juno spacecraft has snapped the first photo ever of Jupiter’s north pole, revealing some intriguing surprises.




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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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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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"You Think That's Gonna Go Right?"

John McAfee’s security detail talks about their experiences with him in this clip from 'Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee'.




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The Numbers Don't Lie: America's Got a Gun Addiction

America’s gun addiction is bad. But to understand just how bad it is, you’ve got to see the numbers.




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Meet the Pixel, Google's Answer to the iPhone

Google enters the phone fray with the Pixel, a premium Android smartphone with all the features of an iPhone plus Google Assistant and a headphone jack.




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Google Just Got Real By Changing Its Gadget Game

The tech giant released a slew of new hardware, including two new smartphones, a VR-headset and a home assistant. Here's everything from the Google event.




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Google Home Is The Assistant That Will Never Leave You Alone

Google Home is part Bluetooth speaker, part Google Assistant, all Amazon Echo competitor. For $129, it brings super-powered voice control into every nook and cranny of your house.




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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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Google's Self-Driving Cars Have Clocked 2 Million Miles

By this point, self driving cars are a common sight in Silicon Valley and Google’s fleet of nearly 60 autonomous cars hit a milestone: They have now clocked more than two million miles of driving on public streets.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - GoPro's New Cameras (Hero5 Black and Session) Full Review

GoPro's new 4K cameras, the Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session, aim to deliver the best GoPro experience yet. Brent Rose takes them through their paces, and compares the Hero5 to Garmin's impressive Virb Ultra 30.




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Absurd Creatures - The Most Stunning Fish in the Sea Are Actually Dragons (Kinda)

The leafy and weedy seadragons might not breathe fire, but they’re every bit as majestic as real dragons.




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The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama - President Barack Obama on Fixing Government With Technology

WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama discusses what he’d like to see technology solve in government with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito.




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WIRED Movie Review: Jack Reacher, Never Go Back

Jack Reacher, Never Go Back is worth checking out if you like hammy, uncomplicated action films.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - GoPro Karma vs DJI Mavic Pro Full Review

*UPDATE* We have looked into the focus issues and have altered our choice accordingly. Please read the updated review at WIRED.com for the full explanation: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/gopro-karma-vs-dji-mavic-pro/ GoPro has entered the drone game, delivering a sleek, foldable device that can fit inside a backpack. Brent Rose compares GoPro's offering with the Mavic Pro; DJI's impressive new foldable drone.




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The Easter Eggs Inside the 'Mind' of Google Home

The $129 Home smart speaker plays a vital role in Google’s futuristic vision of “a Google for everyone” powered by its omnipresent Assistant. It sounds like a big deal, but we decided to have some fun with the new assistant instead.




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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.




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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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[Branded Content] Working Together for a Common Goal; The Science of Teams: Atlassian

Produced for Atlassian by the WIRED Brand Lab. The process of team work is all around us. From construction, to music, to food, the greatest achievements are born out of teams. On its surface, collaboration is a seemingly simple process, but there is much more underneath. WIRED teams up with the experts and uses science to showcase the mechanics behind working as a team.




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Surviving Family Occasions with Tips From Google's Mindfulness Mentor

Family occasions are stressful especially around the holidays.Google's Chade-Meng Tan shares some mindfulness tricks that'll keep you sane.




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Meet the Blind Man Who Convinced Google Its Self-Driving Car Is Finally Ready

Google is getting serious about self-driving cars. So serious that it put a legally blind man in one that drove him around safely on his own. The successful trip means that the tech giant can now launch its own self-driving car company, which it's calling Waymo.




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CES 2017 - Lego’s Boost Kit Turns Your Bricks Into Robots. Robots!

At CES 2017 Lego just unveiled Boost, a clever kit that introduces programming and cool tech to the bricks you grew up with.




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2017: The Year Ahead - WIRED's 2017 Predictions: Going Green Is Good Business, Even Under Trump

In our new series to kick off 2017, WIRED predicts the biggest trends for the year ahead. In this segment, Matt Simon explains how businesses are still going to go green, even in the face of renewed climate change denialism.




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Project Fifth Mode - Episode 2: It's Going to Be Worth It

As rLoop’s virtual and physical worlds come together, the team is met with various challenges – all while trying to build something that’s never technologically been done before.




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Science of Teams: How MIT Media Lab Builds Cities Using Lego and Augmented Reality

The MIT Media Lab is using innovation to boil efficient teamwork down to a science. With an enhanced ability to communicate across teams, MIT is creating a workplace that shares ideas in unprecedented ways. The Changing Places group at MIT tackles large challenges like fighting pollution and urban modeling; the latter of which is being solved by using a combination of lego bricks and augmented reality.




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This Robot Barista Makes a Dang Good Latte

Cafe X’s robotic baristas could be the future of java jolts. The company’s robot-staffed kiosks sling precision-made espresso drinks starting at $2.25 a cup, just don’t expect fancy latte art.




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To Understand How a Squid Changes Color, You Gotta Get Inside Its Head

Squid use a remarkable array of skin patterns to communicate. How? It's all a matter of getting inside their heads.




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Tech Support - Gordon Ramsay Answers Cooking Questions From Twitter

Gordon Ramsay uses the power of Twitter to answer some common cooking questions.




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Design FX - How They Animated 'The Lego Batman Movie'

'The Lego Batman Movie' uses an impressive style of animation that replicates the look of real lego bricks. These digital bricks abide by all the rules of real Lego bricks, so they cannot bend or move in an impractical way. Mike Seymour breaks down a few of the most remarkable scenes, where numerous complex techniques were used to create a believable image.




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What the What Is Quantum Computing? We've Got You Covered

Thanks to the superposition principle, a quantum machine has the potential to become an exponentially more powerful computer. If that makes little sense to you, here's quantum computing explained.




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How TV Opening Titles Got to Be So Damn Good

TV is way better than it used to be and you can say the same thing for the opening titles of your favorite series. They used to be afterthoughts, but now they’re artistic statements of their own.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Amy Schumer & Goldie Hawn Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

'Snatched' stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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8 People Test Their Accents on Siri, Echo and Google Home

Andy Wood and Matt Kirshen test the limits of everyday AI against a variety of accents in linguistics tests designed to determine which AI is the best at understanding the most people. Featuring Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Siri.




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All the Slick Stuff From Google I/O 2017

From Google Lens to the the company's new artificial intelligence chip here are the big announcements from Google I/O 2017's first day.




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AlphaGo Wins First Go Game in China with New AI Architecture

DeepMind's AlphaGo artificial intelligence system beat the world's top Go player in Wuhzen, China with a new architecture that the company says is more efficient in both energy use and computing power.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Trying Stand-Up Comedy Using Only Siri, Echo, Cortana and Google Assistant

Brent Rose takes Google Assistant, Amazon Echo, Microsoft Cortana and Apple's Siri out for the ultimate test drive; which AI has the best sense of humor? How will a human audience respond to a stand-up set written entirely by smart gadgets?




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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 AlphaGo Notches Another Win for AI

Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence system edged out the best human Go player for a 2-0 win. But it is also playing with and against teams of professional human players.




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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.