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WIRED's Gadget Challenge - Exclusive WIRED Store Walk-Through

Can’t make it to the WIRED store in person? Take an exclusive tour of this year’s gadget haven and check out everything the store has to offer with Erik and Justin from Battle Damage.




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Game|Life - The Best Video Games of ALL Time

WIRED editor Chris Kohler goes head-to-head with SMOSH Games to settle the age-old debate: what are the best video games of all time? From first-person shooters to 2D platforms, see which games are named the best of the best.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - What $500 Can Get You on Magic (Silicon Valley’s Newest Texting-Based Delivery Service)

We gave tech writer Brent Rose $500 to stress-test Silicon Valley’s overnight sensation, Magic. From meatballs to medicinal cannabis to Mexican wrestling, see what unfolds when he pushes the new text message-based delivery service.




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Unnecessarily Rushed Explanations - The Funniest Video Game of All Time

WIRED editor Chris Kohler breaks down why Sam & Max Hit the Road is the funniest video game of all time. What’s not to love about a duo of anthropomorphic “freelance police”?




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Split Screen - Silicon Valley's Gender Gap

Peter and Kelli Rubin love TV, movies, and games but don’t always see eye to eye—and the return of Mike Judge's HBO satire is no exception.




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Nerf's new challenge

Nerf is aiming its new shooters at girls. But do kids care about the marketing?




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Unnecessarily Rushed Explanations - The Most Important Video Game of All Time: Super Mario Bros.

WIRED editor Chris Kohler explains why Super Mario Bros. is the most important video game in history. From rich graphics to expertly composed music to innovative game design, Super Mario Bros. set the standard for what makes a great video game.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Tesla’s Powerwall Home Battery: The Stuff Worth Knowing

Elon Musk recently unveiled Tesla Energy and the Powerwall home battery. I'll attempt to cut through the hype and break down the basics. NOTE: One of the most important things we neglected to mention in the video is that a big part of the appeal for this system is not economical, but environmental. It may not be easier on the wallet (at least not yet) but you're powering your home with green energy instead of fossil fuels, and there's a lot to be said for that. -Brent




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Unnecessarily Rushed Explanations - Best Music Game of All Time: Elite Beat Agents

Elite Beat Agents is based off a Japanese video game for Nintendo DS. But instead of male cheerleaders and Japanese pop songs, the U.S. version relies on “Men In Black”-like agents and good ol’ fashioned American hits from the Jackson 5 and Madonna. Chris Kohler explains why the stateside edition is the best music game of all time.




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Unnecessarily Rushed Explanations - The Most Disgusting Video Game of All Time: Hotline Miami

It’s reminiscent of old Grand Theft Auto games, but Hotline Miami is in a league of its own. It tricks you into thinking it’s cute, but don’t be fooled, it's one of the most gruesome and bloody video games of all time.




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Joshuah Bearman on The Rise and Fall of Silk Road

Author Joshuah Bearman discusses his two part techno-noir series on the rise and fall of the online drug bazaar Silk Road. Music by - Julia Kent - Salute




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Unnecessarily Rushed Explanations - The Most Difficult Video Game of All Time: Super Hexagon

Super Hexagon is not a video game for the easily discouraged. You die early and often until eventually (hopefully) you get into the swing of things. WIRED editor Chris Kohler explains why it’s the most difficult video game of all time.




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Creating Jurassic World’s New Genetically Modified Dinosaur

Legendary paleontologist Jack Horner—the real-life inspiration behind original “Jurassic Park” protagonist Alan Grant—explains how they conceived the genetically modified dino, Indominus rex, in the new film “Jurassic World."




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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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NASA's Simulator Puts All Eyes on Pluto

Watch New Horizons' historic flyby from the space probe's perspective




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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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Here's All the New Stuff From Apple's Big iPhone Event

Apple presented new a Watch partnership, its new iPad Pro and Pencil stylus, a new Apple TV and of course, the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus with 3D Touch, 4K video and Live Photo features.




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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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The Wove Band: Don't Call it a Smartwatch

The Wove Band by Polyera is the first wearable with a flexible touchscreen display. The devices won't be publicly available until 2016, but Polyera CEO Phil Inagaki gave us a behind the scenes look at some prototypes, and talked with us about his design philosophy.




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Ridley Scott's Top 5 Sci-Fi Films of All Time

"The Martian" director Ridley Scott counts down his favorite sci-fi films of all time.




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The Surface Book Really Is the Ultimate Laptop

WIRED's David Pierce reviews the Surface Book, Microsoft's kick-ass laptop that the company figured out how to turn into a convertible hybrid PC.




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Is NYC Really the Greatest City in the World?

What do other cities have that NYC doesn't? Well, Europe's great food halls, Sydney's robust ferry system, and Moscow's elegant train stations for starters. New York city-based architects Vishaan Chakrabarti and Gregg Pasquarelli analyze how urban metropolis from around the world stack up against the city that never sleeps.




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SB 100 - Inside the Wilson Football Factory

Take a look inside the factory in Ada, Ohio where every single NFL game ball is made by hand.




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SB 100 - The Future of the NFL Game Ball

A physics professor re-imagines the size and shape of an NFL football in an effort to optimize it for flight. It turns out a couple of small changes can add a whole lot of distance, but how would that change the way the game is played?




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Absurd Creatures | Bats Are Totally Awesome. Trust Me, I'm a Vampire

Bats are awesome. They're the only mammals that truly fly, they have echolocation and, scientists have recently discovered, tiny hairs that helps them fly by feel.




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Star Wars Lego Destruction - Star Wars Lego AT-AT Takes an Epic Fall at Hoth

It took three hours to build the 1,137-piece AT-AT Lego replica—watch the Rebels take it down in 0.12 seconds in an epic fall on icy Hoth.




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Star Wars Lego Destruction - Behind the Scenes: Star Wars Lego Death Star Gets Destroyed with a Baseball Bat

It was already partially assembled, but it still took more than three hours to put together this Star Wars Lego Death Star. See how it all came together.




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Star Wars Lego Destruction - Star Wars Lego Death Star Gets Destroyed with a Baseball Bat

It took 3,449 pieces to put together this Star Wars Lego Death Star. Watch it get destroyed in seconds with a baseball bat!




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Making Sense of All the New Force Awakens Footage

It might seem like we've been watching the same Star Wars: The Force Awakens clips for months, but new clues emerge each time a new trailer, clip or teaser is released.




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You Can Actually Duel With These Awesome Custom Lightsabers

As Star Wars fans have grown up, so have their lightsabers. Forget cheap plastic toys, these sabers are bespoke laser blades that light up, buzz, and are made for Jedi dueling.




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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 - How New Rules and Technology Could Change Football

Come time for Super Bowl 100 in the year 2066, football will likely bear little resemblance to the sport we now know.




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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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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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SB 100 - How Tracking Technology Is Changing Football

RFID tags embedded in uniforms will give football teams, players and fans unprecedented deep data to measure athletic performance, even in live games.




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The Fascinating Math Behind Why You Won't Win The Powerball

The Powerball jackpot is over a billion dollars but what are your chances?




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SB 100 - Football Strategy's Radical, Tech-Fueled Revolution Has Begun

All those pretty plays designed by Vince Lombardi, Bill Walsh and Bill Belichick, and executed to perfection by Bart Starr, Joe Montana and Tom Brady will, in the future, be digitized and optimized into an ideal gameplan.




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SB 100 - Coming Soon for Artificial Intelligence? Coaching Football

The application of artificial intelligence to play-calling is already upon us. Last spring, two students at North Carolina State built a model to predict whether an NFL team would pass or run, information that would hugely benefit defensive coordinators.




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SB 100 - Imagining Football's Future Through The Super Bowl Of 2066

As Super Bowl 100 played out in all its enormity last night, Super Bowl 50 looked tiny by comparison, the way the Earth now looks to our colonists in space. And yet it’s instructive to look back on that long-ago spectacle in the San Francisco Bay Area to see just how far the game has come, and society with it.




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Smart Rings to Rule Them All

Until truly great natural-recognition gesture tech catches on and we get RFID chips embedded in our forearms, smart rings could be the closest thing to truly seamless wearable technology.




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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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Wow! Haha! Angry! Facebook Finally Has Emoji Reactions

Facebook just expanded the “Like” button with a feature it calls Reactions---six animated emoji the company hopes will let users to respond with more emotional nuance to the posts in their news feeds.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Watch Brent Rose Epically Fail NASA’s Astronaut Test

In light of the current open application for new astronauts, Brent Rose heads out to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to meet with real astronauts and try out real training facilities–let's see if he has what it takes to make it to space.




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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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'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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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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Everything You Missed at Silicon Valley Comic Con

For the first time ever Silicon Valley hosted its very own Comic Con. It didn't quite measure up to the San Diego incarnation that dominates entertainment headlines every year, but it shows promise.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Is Vaping Really Healthier than Smoking?

Vaping is smoking's hottest new trend--just ask Leonardo DiCarpio who was caught puffing on one at the Golden Globes. The industry claims this is a safe alternative to cigarettes, but how much do we really know about the health effects of vaping? From The Vape Shop to USC's Health and Science campus, Brent Rose explores this new trend and searches for answers.