Wired Staff
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The Great Barrier Reef’s Best Hope Is a Killer Robot
.Crown-of-thorns starfish are the zombies of the sea. They won’t die even if you cut them in half.
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Come to Hong Kong for the Culture, Stay for the Enormous Laser Show
.This year, Art Basel held it's second event in Hong Kong. Here's what to do in the city in between all the culture consumption.
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The Wonder-Buoy That May Finally Make Wave Energy Feasible
.CorPower Ocean's tests show its buoy can produce three times as much electricity as the best rival tech, with a far more practical design.
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I’m Going to Antarctica for the Penguins and to Hide From the Internet
.The Internet has become just another home. Maybe it’s time to take a vacation from it too.
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Crowdfunding for the Public Good Is Evil
.Crowdfunding is all the rage. But it shouldn't supplant funding for basic public services.
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Check In With the Velociraptor at the World’s First Robot Hotel
.The world of tomorrow exists in Japan today–at a hotel run by robots. Please see the velociraptor for check-in.
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The Obsessive Quest for the World’s Sharpest LED Spotlight
.The LR38 VNSP probably wouldn't even exist, were it not for the Smithsonian's finicky lighting designer.
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What Room Teaches Us About the Psychology of Fandom
.It all comes down to something called "parasocial interactions" and why we attach so fondly to the warming glow of the screen—any screen.
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Design FX: It Took 5 People to Play Deadpool’s Colossus
.Colossus is obviously a CGI character, but in the case of Tim Miller's comic book adaptation, it took five different performers to make him. Here's...
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Virgin Galactic’s New Spaceship Puts It Back in the Space Race
.Today Virgin Galactic is unveiling SpaceShipTwo, its latest shuttle designed to bring (wealthy) tourists on sub-orbital space flights.
