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6:08

Virgin Hyperloop One’s New CEO Could Make a Wooshy...

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2018/11/09

Wouldn’t it be really, really nice to get places really, really fast? That’s the promise of the hyperloop, a transportation idea popularized in the 21st century by none other than its Chief Engineer/Magician/Dreamer, Elon Musk. Five years after Musk wrote a white paper on the concept of a maglev train inside a frictionless, air-free tube, hyperloop has become a sort of legitimate business. Four companies with more than $300 million in funding are competing to build the first real one. Learn more

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6:13

Glamour Duck and the Internet's Rabid Love of Wild...

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2018/11/08

Earlier this month, people in Central Park noticed the presence of a majestic Mandarin duck. As quickly as he was there, he was gone. But he’s back. With his bright pink beak, mohawk of blue and gold, and proud chest feathers of royal purple, the mysterious visitor has returned—and quickly captured our collective heart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:22

A Carbon Tax Is Pretty Much Inevitable, Even if...

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2018/11/08

The first statewide carbon tax in the United States almost certainly isn't going to happen. Washington votes by mail, so it ain’t over yet, but the No side of Initiative 1631 has just over 56 percent, with more than two thirds of the votes counted. It doesn’t look good. LEARN MORE The WIRED Guide to Climate Change That’s a disappointing end for a bill that some environmentalists and journalists had held out as a bellwether. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:55

How to Derail a Runaway Train (and Save Australia)

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2018/11/07

Most things don’t happen the way they do in the movies. Changes are less sudden, incidents less surprising, humans less attractive. But when a runaway train tore through the Australian outback, the action sequence that followed seems to have come right out of a Tony Scott flick. The whole mess started when the engineer stopped the 268-car, four-locomotive train and hopped out to inspect one of the cars, according to the Australian Transport Safety Board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:56

Review: iPad Pro (2018)

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2018/11/07

Like a college graduate ready to head off into the workforce and start a career, Apple has graduated the iPad from tablet school. As he prepared to lift the curtain on the new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro last week, CEO Tim Cook explained that Apple sees the iPad as a personal computer now. Apple says that new designation makes iPad the top-selling line of PCs in the world. It’s a fair comparison. After using a new iPad Pro 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:11

Want to Make an All-Star Electric Truck? Drop the Driver

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2018/11/06

Look at just about any rendering or essayistic sketch of the world’s transportation future, and you’ll notice two things about the cars, trucks, vans, and whatever elses tootling around the roads: They drive themselves and they run on electricity. The funny thing about that pairing is that there’s no inherent relationship between a vehicle’s ability to drive itself and what it uses to move its wheels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:47

Sam Esmail's Homecoming Is Nothing Like Mr. Robot

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2018/11/06

Homecoming, the latest series with prestige TV bona fides to come to Amazon, is about as subtle and mysterious as a thriller can get. Based on the podcast of same name, it is, on the surface, about a group of soldiers returned from combat and the facility—called Homecoming—that seeks to treat their PTSD. However, as seen in flash-forwards and tiny cracks in the veneer of each person's story, none of that is what it seems, and everyone's motives and actions are suspect. Learn more about your ad

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7:44

Tesla's Autopilot Now Changes Lanes—And You're Gonna...

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2018/11/05

If you’ve been driving your Tesla in the past week, you’re likely enjoying the major upgrade Elon Musk’s automaker just issued with a free, over-the-air software update. And if you believe the blog post trumpeting the advance, you’ve taken a major step towards chillaxing on the highway while the car handles the traffic for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:09

Review: Coral One

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2018/11/05

To keep dog hair and toddler mess at bay, I use three separate vacuums: a heavy corded one for deep cleaning; a robot vac that I run daily for light maintenance cleaning; and a cordless handheld for quickly picking up small messes. However, it is possible to go overboard. You don't want your descendants to find you buried, a skeletal arm sticking out from under piles of dusty, decaying vacuuming devices. That's where the Coral One comes in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:27

Learn to Fly Sikorsky's New Helicopter in Just 45...

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2018/11/02

With the possible exception of Tom Cruise, learning to fly a helicopter demands months of classroom, simulator, and in-air training. The controls feature all the logic of Bop It: twist one hand, move the other to the left. Push one foot, then the other. Watch the instruments, but don’t forget to look at the horizon. I once spent a full day working with Airbus' top instructors, and by the end couldn't even keep the chopper in level flight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:35

Uber Just Made it Easier to Chow Down on Your...

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2018/11/02

Maybe you like business trips. The chance to go somewhere new, eat out for every meal, dry off with a fresh towel each morning, and be away from the daily life of the office (and the home) for a while. You do not, however, like filing your expenses when you get home. Uber thinks it can help. Today, it announced that it’s expanding Uber for Business to incorporate its Eats food delivery service, aiming to make it easier for companies to help their employees get grub as well as get around. Learn more

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4:26

The Mac Mini Gets an Update After Four Long Years

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2018/11/01

On October 16 of 2014, Apple announced a modest upgrade to the Mac Mini, the puckish computer that plays caboose in Cupertino's desktop train. And then... nothing. For four years, despite remaining for sale, the Mac Mini languished without any updates at all. But now, it's back with a vengeance. "There’s another small but mighty Mac our users have been waiting for,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook at an Apple hardware event in New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:18

How to Get iOS 12.1 on Your iPhone

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2018/11/01

Last month’s iOS 12 update gave us screen time tools, security updates, and a whole heap of new features that make your iPhone feel new again. Now, with iOS 12.1, you get even more ways to express yourself on your iPhone and iPad. With Group FaceTime, you can chat with up to 32 friends and family. You can also spice up your messaging life with 70 new emoji—including a freezing-cold smiley, a mooncake, and a long-awaited redhead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:35

All the New Hardware Apple Announced Today in New York

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2018/10/31

The theme of Apple's second fall hardware show: throwbacks. The event, at Howard Gilman Opera House in New York City, featured a revival of the MacBook Air, a dusted-off Mac Mini, new iPads, and, for some reason, Lana del Rey. Did you miss the show? You can watch the whole thing here, catch up on the analysis from our liveblog, or simply read on for our TL;DR recap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:12

The Best Halloween Shows and Movies for Little Kids...

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2018/10/31

The people most excited about Halloween are little kids. For humans aged between 2.5 and 10 years old, there’s really nothing better. They get to dress up and go out—at night!—and strangers give them candy. There are leaf piles to jump in and fake skeletons to scream at. But it can also be a nightmare, if they get too scared. Halloween works best for young kids when it's a mixture of spooky and sweet, one that's light on the spooky and heavy on the sweet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:56

Halloween Tips and Tricks for Safer Trick-Or-Treating

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2018/10/30

On Halloween night, 41.1 million children in the US will roam the streets, decked out as ghosts, ghouls, and the year’s best memes. It’s trick-or-treating time, folks. The one fright you don't want to have as a parent is worrying about your kid on Halloween night. “You want to empower your kids to be a little more independent as they get older,” says Leticia Barr, founder of the Tech Savvy Mama blog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:56

There’s a Stupid Simple Wonderful New Way to Make...

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2018/10/30

Look, we won’t waste your time here. There are more important things going on in the world. But if you use any of Google’s G Suite products, you’ll be glad you read this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:21

Author Richard K. Morgan Wants to Destroy Your Mars...

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2018/10/29

Richard K. Morgan has spent most of the past decade working on his fantasy trilogy A Land Fit For Heroes. The books were popular with readers, but Morgan has received a steady stream of emails urging him to write more science fiction in the vein of his 2002 debut Altered Carbon. His new novel Thin Air definitely fits the bill, delivering more of Morgan’s signature blend of mystery, sci-fi, sex, and violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:08

Meme It Up With 11 Sure-Fire Last-Minute Halloween...

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2018/10/29

According to Google's "Frightgeist" map of trending costumes, there's no way around it: it's gonna be a very Fortnite Halloween. From Miami up to Boston and Anchorage down to LA, the Epic Games title is dominating people's searches for holiday getups. (At least, mostly; New England seems to be really into unicorns and fairies, and Glendive, Montana inexplicably is into "The ’50s" as a costume idea.) You, though, are a free thinker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:32

Snapchat Dysmorphia and the Real Dangers of Perceived...

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2018/10/26

Snapchat Dysmorphia n. A fixation on perceived flaws in one’s appearance, caused by seeing too many filtered photos. People used to show up in plastic surgeons’ offices with photos of movie stars, asking for Angelina’s lips or Jon Hamm’s chin. Today they come with selfies, asking to look like themselves. Not the human selves that mock us all in fitting-room mirrors, of course, but the sparkling, digitally embellished versions that increasingly populate our social feeds. Learn more about your ad

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