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”People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.” Watch Greta Thunberg speak at the UN Monday morning. wired.trib.al/VXdAnKt
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Your Cybertruck is here. It's just ... a toy. The Hot Wheels Tesla Cybertruck goes 25 miles per hour and accelerates like a demon. The headlights and taillights work and it even comes with two stickers that "shatter" the side windows. 😉 Details: wired.trib.al/SLE80jB
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Ever wondered what a black hole *sounds* like? Prepare to have your mind blown. This new sonification — that is, the translation of astronomical data into sound — was released for NASA's Black Hole Week this year. 🎥: NASA
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Photographer Reuben Wu uses LED-equipped drones to illuminate mysterious shapes. This is Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, a nearly featureless white landscape left behind by the evaporation of prehistoric lakes. wired.trib.al/aTSAjZn
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There seems to be some confusion about whether algorithms—which are created by people—can have racial or gender bias. The answer is yes, yes they can. Let’s break it down. 1/
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claims that algorithms, which are driven by math, are racist
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It is really hard to photograph a meteor. Even though some 25 million of them hurtle toward Earth each day, most of them are too small to track. Photographer Prasenjeet Yadav managed to get one anyway, entirely by accident: wired.trib.al/UG9zI3R
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Boston Dynamics' robot is back, and now it can navigate entire offices by itself. It can even climb stairs 👀
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It is really hard to photograph a meteor. Even though some 25 million of them hurtle toward Earth each day, most of them are too small to track. Photographer Prasenjeet Yadav managed to get one anyway, entirely by accident: wired.trib.al/lrD7GEY
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Photographer Reuben Wu uses LED-equipped drones to illuminate mysterious shapes. This is Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, a nearly featureless white landscape left behind by the evaporation of prehistoric lakes. wired.trib.al/NHfaMiE
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These Soviet-era structures are the housing blocks communism left behind. All were built after World War II to cheaply house the masses in a way that jived with communist ideology: near-identical two- and three-bedroom apartments. 📸: Zupagrafika wired.trib.al/fC1XvpJ
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Andrew Yang, the so-called Silicon Valley candidate, has a habit of ripping the tech industry. He's found his voice, found his message, and found his people. And flush with cash, Yang is positioned to survive deep into the primaries.
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⚡️ Our October issue is out now! A brutal murder with a wearable witness, the next Hollywood star (who lives in a hard drive), semiautonomous cars for the non-millionaire. Read these stories and a lot more in our Twitter moment.
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It's a worrisome feedback loop: As the planet warms, permafrost begins to thaw. And when it does, microbes consume organic matter, releasing CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, leading to more warming, more thawing, and more carbon emissions.
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COVER STORY: For two years, it’s been hell inside of Facebook. 51 current and former employees paint a picture of a company grappling with the problems it’s caused, and a CEO whose techno-optimism is circling the drain as he tries to fix them bit.ly/2nYK96I
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There are over 2,000 types of fireflies in the world. And, for the record, they're not actually flies, they're beetles. Photographer Kei Nomiyama captured their brief but beautiful life in the forests around central Shikoku Island: wired.trib.al/5XTwFIj
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Theoretical physicists now say with confidence what was long theorized: If you jump into a black hole, you will not be gone for good. Particle by particle, a reconstitution of your body will reemerge. wired.trib.al/vSnsrDo
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This is the first-ever footage of a live giant squid in U.S. waters. The squid is most likely a juvenile, measuring about 12 feet long. Filming one has been called the "holy grail of natural cinematography." This is how researchers pulled it off: wired.trib.al/nCiScrH
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"I must have said, maybe several tens of thousands of times the importance of wearing masks ... If there was an interpretation that I'm not for masks, that's a misinterpretation." In case there was any doubt, Dr. Fauci makes clear his stance on masks: wired.trib.al/6IV2NNQ
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WIRED Statement on Dell Cameron's Permanent Twitter Suspension: WIRED learned Wednesday afternoon that senior reporter Dell Cameron's Twitter account was permanently suspended after he reported on Matt Walsh's Twitter account being hacked. 1/3
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This photographer used telescopic lenses and an ultra-fast 1,000 frames/second shutter speed to capture the towers and troughs of foam-flecked seawater during Storm Imogen in February of 2016. You probably haven't seen waves like this before: wired.trib.al/0kLEzAF
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BREAKING: SpaceX says it plans to launch a privately crewed mission to the moon next year. Story forthcoming.
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This hellish-looking thing is real, and you've actually seen it before: This is what an ant looks like up close. This shot by photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas was magnified five times under a microscope. 📸: Eugenijus Kavaliauskas/Nikon Small World
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Obama: "To the young people who got into politics for the first time, and may be disappointed by the results...you have to stay encouraged."
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See that tiny bright dot in the orange sunbeam? That's Earth … from 4 billion miles away. This photo by Voyager 1 was its last. On its way out of our solar system, the spacecraft turned back to face Earth and snapped the pic now known as Pale Blue Dot. 📸: NASA/JPL
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We have not received any further explanation from Twitter and our attempts to reach Twitter's press office were met with the customary poop emoji. We ask that the account be reinstated, and that Twitter provide an explanation. 3/3 - WIRED Managing Editor, Hemal Jhaveri
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This weekend, viewers around the world were treated to the rare "blood moon"—a phenomenon that happens when the moon passes through the darkest part of the Earth's shadow. 📸: Reuters
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Photographer Alan McFadyen estimates that it took him some 4,200 hours and 720,000 exposures before finally capturing this perfect photo of a kingfisher’s riveting dive. Sometimes, patience pays off: 📸: Alan McFadyen
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Photographer Alan McFadyen estimates that it took him some 4,200 hours and 720,000 exposures before finally capturing this perfect photo of a kingfisher’s riveting dive. Sometimes, patience pays off. 📸: Alan McFadyen
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Massive dinosaur tracks have been uncovered in a dried-up river bed amid a historic drought in Texas. Experts say the tracks belonged to a 60-foot, 44-ton dinosaur called the Sauroposeidon around 113 million years ago. 📸: Dinosaur Valley State Park
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