Six years ago Times Square was a congested thoroughfare. Today it celebrates its reopening as a European-style piazza. The post The Brilliant Simplicity of New York’s New Times Square appeared first on WIRED.
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The Apple Co-founder talks pranks, his forthcoming comic book convention, and why he no longer fears our robot overlords. The post How Steve Wozniak Got Over His Fear of Robots Turning People Into Pets appeared first on WIRED.
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The newest installment in EA’s series of multiplayer Star Wars shooters is getting its ideas from the right place: its classic 2005 namesake. The post Battlefront II Knows Good Star Wars Games—It Already Was One appeared first on WIRED.
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Lenovo has introduced a new Chromebook called the Flex 11. It sports a 360-degree hinge supporting four modes: laptop, tablet, tent, and watch. Other ingredients include protection against drops and accidental spills on the keyboard.
The post Lenovo’s Flex 11 is a rugged 2-in-1 Chromebook that promises Android app support appeared first on Digital Trends.
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In recent years, Microsoft, Facebook and Slack (and many more) have all built new productivity platforms for workers to integrate and communicate about dozens of other API-enabled enterprise apps, but what about productivity tools for those enterprises that have no appetite or budget to rip out and replace software that they’ve been using for years? Well, there’s an app for… Read More
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Scientists find a living specimen of five-foot long mollusk to dissect for a new study.
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Opinion: Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists’ results. The post Want to Fix Science’s Replication Crisis? Then Replicate appeared first on WIRED.
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Ian McShane, Bryan Fuller and Neil Gaiman unite for a divine blast of blood-soaked blasphemy in this new drama from Starz and Amazon.
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No one knows if lethal injection really is more humane than other execution methods. And they can’t really find out. The post The Shocking Lack of Science Behind Lethal Injections appeared first on WIRED.
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Xiaomi unveiled its newest flagship smartphone — the Mi 6 — today at an event in Beijing, having skipped Mobile World Congress, the telecom industry’s largest annual event where it announced the Mi5Â last year.
There’s plenty at stake with this new device, given that Xiaomi suffered a sales slump last year with CEO Lei Jun admitting that the company has entered a… Read More
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