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Watch Our Interactive Disney Cover Come to Life

For our cover, photographer Art Streiber, who has shot Star Wars aliens, Muppets, and Steven Spielberg for previous WIRED covers, aimed his lens at Lasseter and Catmull. Then our design team partnered...

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Big Hero 6 Proves It: Pixar’s Gurus Have Brought the Magic Back to Disney...

The film is set in San Fransokyo, a mashup of a Japanese megacity and an exaggerated-scale San Francisco. T: Sean Freeman John Lasseter is tearing up. His eyes are shining and his lashes are moist. He...

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Letter From the Editor: Confronting a New Breed of Internet Horror

Traffic in Bacoor, one of the Manila suburbs where low-wage workers have moderated Internet comments for US firms. Moises Saman/MAGNUM I haven't watched any of the ISIS beheading videos, and I don't...

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How Building a Black Hole for Interstellar Led to an Amazing Scientific...

Kip Thorne looks into the black hole he helped create and thinks, “Why, of course. That's what it would do.” This particular black hole is a simulation of unprecedented accuracy. It appears to spin at...

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The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed

Inside the soul-crushing world of content moderation, where low-wage laborers soak up the worst of humanity, and keep it off your Facebook feed. The post The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings...

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The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World

The AI on the horizon looks more like Amazon Web Services—cheap, reliable, industrial-grade digital smartness running behind everything, and almost invisible except when it blinks off. This is a big...

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This Guy’s Quest to Track Every Shot in the NBA Changed Basketball Forever

Kirk Goldsberry Jeff Wilson As a kid, Kirk Goldsberry was a rabid basketball fan. But this was the 1980s, and living near Penn State meant his house wasn't quite close enough to Philadelphia to get...

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Planes, Trains, and Spy Gear: Here’s What to See in DC

“Whether you’re conservative or liberal,” says (controversy-courting) former mayor Marion Barry Jr., “whatever your taste is, you can find it in DC.” Plus, now’s the best time to visit. The swampy...

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Charting the World’s Easiest—And Most Punishing—Marathon Routes

November’s New York City Marathon is a little bit Jekyll-and-Hyde, combining benevolent descents with sinister climbs; the equally prestigious Boston course gifts a runner with merciful downhills. And...

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Ingenious Tap System Serves the Perfect Beer Every Time

Different beers require different gas levels. So Los Angeles brewpub owner Gabe Gordon built his own system to regulate the pressure and temperature of each the 22 beers he has on tap. The post...

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Formaldehyde and Chicken Eggs: What’s Inside a Flu Shot

Caren Alpert Flu virus All flu vaccines start with flu viruses: genetic material packaged in an envelope of proteins and fats, studded with yet more proteins—antigens—that push the body’s immune system...

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This High-Tech Greenhouse Tests What Crops Will Survive Climate Change

It may have a glass roof and be filled with plants, but the Advanced Crop Lab at the Durham, North Carolina, headquarters of agricultural biotech firm Syngenta does a lot more than a typical...

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Want to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria? Forget About Antibiotics

Damn bacteria. The wily things keep mutating, developing resistance to antibiotics. The good news: Researchers are developing new approaches, and many can target specific bacterial strains. These...

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An Architect Whose Wild Structures Imitate Cells

Architects like to poach design elements from the life sciences—a DNA helix here, a spherical nucleus there. But Cornell architecture professor Jenny Sabin goes even more interdisciplinary. “I'm not...

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Meet the Bartender Who’s Using Science to Reinvent the Cocktail

Dave Arnold is not a typical bartender. As head of Manhattan bar Booker and Dax (and before that a kind of culinary engineer for molecular gastronomy outpost wd~50), Arnold perfects his boozy recipes...

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The Music at Your Next Rave Could Be Produced in the Cloud

Thomas Porostocky Desk Monkeys have gotten used to autosaved text. But electronic music producers are out of luck if their MacBook dies in the middle of an inspired recording sesh. That's a problem...

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The Woman Who Bravely Mashed Up Cosmopolitan and Cosmos

You might know comedy writer Megan Amram's must-follow Twitter feed, but the 27-year-old from Portland, Oregon, is also a rising star—she has written for the Oscars and Kroll Show, and has a staff gig...

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A Sad Fact of Life: It’s Actually Smart to Be Mean Online

I'm generally upbeat on Twitter. Many of my posts are enthusiastic blurts about science or research in which I use way too many exclamation points!! But I've noticed something: When I post an acerbic...

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Here’s How You Milk Snakes to Make Antivenom

Get bitten by a rattlesnake and your problems won’t stop at the excruciating pain and grotesque swelling. After a few hours you’ll be black and blue from all the broken blood vessels—and if the...

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Kitchen and Bar Gear That’ll Make You Want to Stay Home for Dinner

From an updated cast iron skillet to top-notch cocktail muddlers, this kitchen and bar gear will help you win the dinner party. The post Kitchen and Bar Gear That’ll Make You Want to Stay Home for...

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