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Think States Alone Can’t Handle Sea Level Rise? Watch California
The California governor has tasked seven scientists to sift through new projections for sea level rise—and think about what it could mean for the golden...
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Drive a Car Like You’d Fly an F-35 With Augmented Reality
A new way of seeing things will change the way you move.
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Review: Dyson Supersonic
The pricey vacuum people have made a pricey hair dryer.
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Comcast Looks All Set to Keep Controlling Your Cable Box. Yay
The FCC was going to open up the cable box to promote competition. But that's all changed under Trump.
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WIRED Book Club: Loved Arrival? Check Out Ted Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life’
Now that Ted Chiang is super hot, let's read some of his short fiction for the month of February.
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Physicists, Lasers, and an Airplane: Taking Aim at Quantum Cryptography
Experts claim that quantum cryptography will be more secure than any encryption technique we use today.
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Police Could Get Your Location Data Without a Warrant. That Has to End
Opinion: Lawmakers should craft privacy regulations to ensure protection of citizens’ amendment rights.
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Bizarre New ‘Love’ Turntable Rotates on Your Records
Yves Behar designed a record player for the Spotify generation.
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The Warbot Builders of the Middle East Spill Their Secrets
The tech behind new remote-operated 'bots is homebrewed, inelegant---and deadly.
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Strange Photos Show What It’s Like to Be a Refugee in Limbo
Sam Ivin illustrates what it means to be without a country to call your own.
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Voters Are Pestering Reps With a Newfangled Alternative: Fax
At the #PaulRyanFaxParty, the politics are 2017 but the tech is very 1987.
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The Numbers Don’t Lie: Self-Driving Cars Are Getting Good
Just a few caveats.
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No One Can Replace Peter Capaldi on Doctor Who
Depth, humor, vulnerability—Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor has a combination of qualities few of his predecessors can touch.
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Tech Can Do More to Help Survivors of Abuse. Here’s Where to Start
New research codifies a framework for the type of tools survivors need to protect their digital security and privacy from an abusive intimate partner.
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Spill-Proof Cups Aren’t Magic—They’re Physics!
There is a popular mug that doesn't spill. Here's how it might work, along with an estimate of the maximum tipping force to knock it...
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How to Watch the Super Bowl Without Cable
Really. Really, really, really.
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WIRED Book Club: Nnedi Okorafor Finds Inspiration Everywhere—Including Jellyfish
The sequel to Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo-winning book 'Binti' doesn't do the expected. And that's the point.
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In Trump, Tech Finds a Troll It Can’t Ignore
The President presents an impossible, if familiar, question: How do you respond when a system that you respect produces a result that you cannot?
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MIT Made a Wearable That Knows How a Conversation’s Going
Researchers from MIT CSAIL are using artificial intelligence to translate how people feel when they talk.
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Sohei Nishino Melds Maps and Photos Into Fabulous Memories of Great Cities
These enormous photomontages burst with unexpected scales, moments, and juxtapositions.
