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The Lure of the Journey - Station to Station

As Station to Station makes its way across 3000 miles of the United States, we're reminded of the joy and adventure of the classic road trip - truck stops, strange foods, unexpected discoveries just around the bend. It's a forward drive into the unknown; it's an event that makes us aware of our surroundings in a way that can't be achieved from the office. And a part of it is, as explained in the video above, fueled by "this notion we we're always gonna move West."




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Angry Nerd - Late Night with Seth Meyers and Stale After-Hours Talk Shows

Seth Meyers is ready to take over the Late Night throne, but with an antiquated show formula riddled with predictable monologues, commercials, celebrity interviews, commercials, skits—and did we mention more commercials?—how can the former S.N.L. star break out from the rest of the late night pack? Angry Nerd offers a simple solution.




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Angry Nerd - Hasbro, Your "Magic: The Gathering" Movie Is Murdering My Childhood

First Transformers, then G.I. Joe, now Magic: The Gathering? When will Hasbro learn that a successful game or toy does not equal a successful movie franchise?




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Angry Nerd - Why Exactly Is Parkour Not a Film Genre Yet?

In Brick Mansions, parkour co-founder David Belle shows off his wall-climbing, window-jumping, rail-surfing action skills. So why isn't Belle the new Bruce Lee? This should be the greatest genre in cinema history. Angry Nerd blames the French.




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Tour the USS Enterprise From Star Trek Continues w/Vic Mignogna

From the transporter room to the sick bay, take a full tour of the stage used in Star Trek Continues. Modeled after the original set used in the late '60s, Vic Mignogna takes us behind the painstakingly recreated USS Enterprise.




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How to Make a Giant Creature - How to Grow Your Own Monster

It took nearly 4,000 hours to grow the Giant Creature pieces that were created using 3-D printing. Find out how Stratasys—the company behind the expert rapid prototypes—managed to create one of the biggest projects they've ever worked on.




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Battle Damage - Want an iPhone 6? Smash Your iPhone 5s with a Safe

We've all been there: You dropped your iPhone on the ground and sometimes it shatters into a billion pieces, but sometimes it's completely fine. What happens if you drop a 55-lb safe on top of it? YouTuber KuSh SuDrA dared us to test it, and we did. Find out what happened.




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WIRED by Design - How Christina Tosi Redesigned Your Favorite Desserts

Christina Tosi at WIRED by Design, 2014. In partnership with Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA. To learn more visit: live.wired.com




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Facebook and Oculus Want Your Head and Hands in Virtual Space

Facebook and Oculus unveiled the official Rift virtual reality headset and introduced Touch, a set of prototype controllers that could make virtual reality more physically immersive.




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Andre Iguodala Talks Tech on and off the Court

NBA Finals MVP small forward Andre Iguodala visited WIRED to talk with Mark McClusky, Head of Operations, about the tech, including a card game app, that helped the Golden State Warriors win the 2015 championship.




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How to Not Embarrass Yourself in Front of the Robot at Work

I have been part robot since May. I've learned a lot about how robotic and human co-workers have to adjust to get along in the office of the future while piloting my $2500 Double telepresence robot. Here are my rules of robot human workplace interaction.




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Data Attack - Your Guide to Ashley Madison, Explained with Bad Stock Footage

What did we really find out from the Ashley Madison hack? For starters, there were only three zip codes in the U.S. with no registered users, plus the company netted $1.7 million from a full-delete feature (that didn’t actually delete). Find out what else was revealed in the hack, as told by bad stock footage.




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Think Like a Tree - Can Namib Desert Beetles Help Us Solve Our Drought Problems?

Namib desert beetles live in an area with little ground water, so how is it that they have no trouble finding H2O? Find out how the resourceful insects use their wing scales to absorb water droplets from fog, and how we can use them as a model for combating water shortages.




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Here's How iOS 9 Will Make Your Phone (and Life) Better

The new iPhone 6S, 6S plus and iPad Pro aren't out yet but you can update your devices to iOS 9. WIRED senior writer David Pierce explores some of the best new features and a couple you don't need.




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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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How to Make Your Facebook Profile Picture Into A Looping Video

Facebook has a new feature for some users that lets them turn their profile picture into a GIF-like video. WIRED's Dellea Chew demonstrates how she made a clip of her dog Dude into her Facebook looping video.




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Cyborg Nation - Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Life

Most consider them pesky critters, but Dr. Alper Bozkurt of North Carolina State University thinks that cockroaches have the potential to save human lives. By hacking their antennae and transforming them into remote-controlled creatures, he believes we can use the cyber roaches as a mobile search and rescue team to help find survivors during natural disasters.




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Cyborg Nation - How to Control Things Using Your Brain (and Open-Source Hardware)

OpenBCI is an open-source hardware that allows a D.I.Y. community of artists, designers, and engineers to innovate, while serving as a tool for research and innovation. From using brain activity to control a toy spider to engaging a group in collective mind control, the open-source brain computer interface aims to change the way people interact with machines.




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Cove Puts You In Touch With Your Emotions Through Music

It turns out emotions are complex (surprise!), and sometimes words just can’t do justice in expressing them. Cove, a new app, helps translate feelings into music.




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Think Like a Tree - Did You Know the Eiffel Tower Was Inspired by Your Femur?

Find out how human bones inspired the Eiffel Tower through the design principle of structural hierarchy.




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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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Surviving Your Trip Without Data | Good As Gold Presented By American Express

No foreign data while traveling abroad? No problem. From navigating map apps in offline mode, to saving digital copies of your important travel documents, this episode of Good As Gold has you covered. Use these tips from travel vlogger Peter Bragiel (pdrop) to survive abroad when your data doesn’t follow you.




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CES 2016 - 8K TVs Are Coming to Market, and Your Eyeballs Aren’t Ready

4K is so 2015. This year LG will begin selling an 8K television. We don't know what it will cost yet or what you might be able to play on it, but it's pretty cool.




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CES 2016 - Four Gadgets That Could Make Life More Convenient

WIRED executive editor Joe Brown checks out a temperature regulating coffee cup, a connected flowerpot, a remote pet food dispenser and a very loud speaker that doubles as a beverage cooler.




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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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The Super Bowl 2016 Ads Were All About Your Small Screen

The Super Bowl is as much about the commercials as it is the football, but this year the ads weren't made for your big TV.




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How to Keep Your iPhone’s Security Countermeasure From Obliterating Your Data

One of the iPhone’s hallmark security features could leave you locked out if you forget your password too many times. Here’s how to keep your data saved, in case you can't always trust your short-term memory.




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The Avegant Glyph is a Movie Theater on Your Face

Avegant's Glyph is a personal movie theater, a screen only you can say that you can use to watch movies, play video games, and anything else you want. Just don't expect people not to stare.




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Angela Bassett Answers Your Pressing Google Questions About Angela Bassett

“London Has Fallen” actress Angela Bassett is still alive, thank you very much. The Oscar-nominated actress answers the most googled questions about herself, including whether she’s a vegan and if she starred in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video—(hint: No.)




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Data Attack - Are You Addicted To Your Phone?

On a typical day, the average person checks their phone 85 times. In total, we spend about 5 hours on our phones each day. Here we explore the fine line between normal phone use and device addiction.




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Silicon Valley Mourns Andy Grove, a Titan of Tech

Grove is routinely mentioned as part of the same pantheon that includes Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs. And with good reason.




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App Pack | 5 DIY Apps for Mastering Your Weekend Projects

Doing some home improvement, but you're hoping to avoid a trip to urgent care? These apps will help you with those DIY projects.




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Moog’s DIY Kit Is a Fantastic Crash Course for Synth Noobs

The Werkstatt-01 from Moog Music is a synthesizer you build yourself. It's also a valuable tool for learning how these mystical analog machines work. It'll cost you around $200.




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Insane 'Swooping' Skydiving Makes Your Tandem Jump Look Lame

These skydivers are no ordinary adrenalin junkies. In the National Championships of Canopy Piloting competitors fly swoop in inches above the ground at close to 100 miles per hour. It’s an extremely technical sport that punishes any tiny mistakes.




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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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Our Very Own X-Men: Apocalypse Red Band Trailer (Parody)

If Deadpool taught Hollywood anything, it’s that audiences want more hard-R superheroes. Wade cursed, you paid, and 20th Century Fox listened. Here’s the (unfortunately not real) trailer for the studio’s much more NSFW X-Men: Apocalypse.




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iOS 10: All The New Features Coming to Your iPhone

Apple's iOS 10 has some cool new features. WIRED's David Pierce runs down the mobile software's updates and overhauls.




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Magic Leap's Next Move? Bringing C-3PO to Your Living Room

This video of Star Wars characters C-3PO and R2-D2 recorded through Magic Leap's technology isn't just cool—it also shows the nearly unlimited potential of a new partnership between Lucasfilm and the mixed-reality company.




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If Robots Take Our Jobs, What Will Be Left for Humans to Do?

Speakers at the WIRED Business Conference grapple with how AI will transform the job market.




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Now You Can Yell at Siri on Your Mac

Siri is the most important feature coming to your Mac this fall, so of course we put it to the test.




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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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How Juno Will Reveal the Secrets of Our Solar System

Find out how NASA’s Juno Mission will help unlock the mysteries of our planet and our solar system.




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Flight Mode | The Fancy Tech That's Making It Harder for Airlines to Lose Your Luggage

Lost luggage is down by 65% thanks to some new tech. Follow the roller coaster ride that your bags make into the bowels of the airport.




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Science of Food | Make Your Own Soft Serve With Dry Ice–And Sweet, Sweet Science

You might think that you can only get soft serve at the ice cream parlor—not true! Let us and our friends at ChefSteps prove that all it takes is some dry ice and a little science to make your own ice cream at home.




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Flight Mode | The Fancy Tech Pilots Use to Keep Your Flight Turbulence-Free

To avoid severe weather pilots used to carry 40 pound briefcases with piles of paperwork and information for their flight. Not anymore.




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Hello, River Dolphin. What’s Up With Your Giant Head?

The river dolphin is good at two things: having a giant head and being able to turn that head. That last bit is indeed a skill. We promise.




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Take a Tour of the Most Tricked-Out Science Ship in America

This 238-foot beauty isn’t just oddly comfortable—it comes equipped with some serious tech for some serious oceanography.




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Inside the Robot-Run Lab of the Future (Do Watch Your Step)

Genetics is often just moving tiny amounts of liquid around. So Counsyl, a genetic testing company has hired some robots. Actually, they didn’t just hire them; they built their own to do the work most scientists hate doing.




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Now You Can Control BB-8 With a Flick of Your Wrist

We’re willing to bet your wearable doesn’t come with the power of the Force? Sphero’s launching a special edition of the BB-8 toy that'll allow you to control the little droid with hand gestures.




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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.