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6:52

Soyuz Rocket Failure Jeopardizes Future ISS Missions

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2018/10/12

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut were forced to make a dramatic landing after their ride to space, a Russian Soyuz rocket, failed minutes after takeoff. The incident caused the crew to initiate emergency abort procedures, landing a few hundred miles away from the launch site. Both Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin are safe. The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:40 am ET and was scheduled to dock at the ISS six hours later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:14

A Drone-Flinging Cannon Proves UAVs Can Mangle...

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2018/10/11

The man flying the drone didn’t know he was violating a temporary restriction on flights around New York City (the president was in town for the 2017 United Nations General Assembly). He didn’t know he had just two minutes to land before he violated the prohibition on nighttime flights. And he didn’t know his DJI Phantom 4—300 feet up, 2.5 miles away from him, and well beyond his line of sight—was flying dangerously close to an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:43

Why Hurricane Michael's Storm Surge Is So High

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2018/10/11

After gathering strength from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico overnight, Hurricane Michael blasted across the Florida Panhandle Wednesday afternoon, pummeling the area with winds up to 155 miles per hour. That makes the Category 4 hurricane one of the all-time strongest landfalls in US history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:25

Hankook's New Tire Uses Tree Resin to Keep Electric...

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2018/10/10

An electric car is a demanding thing. Sure, it doesn’t need gasoline or oil or nearly as much maintenance as a machine propelled by explosions, but dumping the internal combustion engine in favor of a battery and motors brings up a slew of fresh issues. Key among them, of course, is efficiency—the more miles you can squeeze from each kilowatt-hour, the better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:32

How We Learn: A WIRED Investigation

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2018/10/10

That Johannes Gutenberg guy was on to something. He may not have been the first person to print texts on paper using movable type—systems in China and Korea predated his—but his printing press made it faster, and cheaper, to create a record of a thought. One by one, those thoughts spread across Europe, philosophy and science and poetry. They might have been a cause of the Renaissance, or simply a symptom, but ideas grew legs they'd never had before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:19

What Are Shorts and Why Does Elon Hate Them?

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2018/10/09

It was a rough week for Tesla’s share price. After bouncing back from a major dip it took when the Securities and Exchange Commission threatened to sue CEO Elon Musk, and him then agreeing to settle, it’s been on a new downward slide. And it seems to be because of Musk’s tweets, as usual. This time he appears to attack the SEC (calling it the Shortseller Enrichment Commision), and reserves his real ire for short sellers of Telsa stock themselves, as usual. https://twitter. Learn more about your ad

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6:10

These Magical Sunglasses Block All the Screens Around...

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2018/10/09

Early last year, Scott Blew was standing in line at a food truck in Los Angeles when he caught the glare of Fox News on a television out of the corner of his eye. This is ridiculous, he thought. He couldn’t even escape the deluge of the news, or the ubiquity of screens, on a jaunt outdoors to get lunch. You could consciously choose to put your phone away, to step away from your laptop, but then some other screen would pop up elsewhere, whether you liked it or not. Learn more about your ad choices

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8:50

Want to Drive Like a Pro Racer? Hope You Like Numbers

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2018/10/08

Approaching an 85-mph corner at 150 mph, I’m glad my stomach is calm and my bladder is empty. The Audi R8 GT4 race car has a surprising number of nooks and crannies to hold and hide any substances that may escape my body, and my brain has enough to think about already without working a hefty cleaning bill into my finances. I need all the mental bandwidth I can get because I’m tearing around the 24 turns of Southern California’s Thermal Club circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:45

Uber Writes an Equation to Help Cities Measure—and...

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2018/10/08

Not sure what your curb has done for you lately? Not to worry. Your answer is arriving now, in the form of an equation devised by Uber and meant to help cities evaluate how efficiently they’re using this increasingly contested space. After years of neglect and scorn, this strip of urban infrastructure, long the sole domain of the meter maid, has gotten incredibly crowded. Bike- and scooter-share companies would love to park their wares there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:41

The DOT Says ‘Drivers’ Don’t Have to Be Human

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2018/10/05

The Department of Transportation is getting a little more creative about how it defines “driver,” Secretary Elaine Chao announced Thursday. In the third version of the department’s official stance on self-driving, the department said it would “adapt the definitions of ‘driver’ and ‘operator’ to recognize that such terms to not refer exclusively to a human, but may in fact include an automated system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:31

We Need to Change How We Talk About Game Studios Closing

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2018/10/05

We need to change the way we talk about videogame studios. But even more than that, we need to change the way we talk about them when they close. In the past year, according to PC Gamer, 10 major game studios have closed, each employing anywhere from a dozen employees to hundreds. From Capcom Vancouver, the developers of the Dead Rising series, to Visceral, an EA subsidiary responsible for the Dead Space games and working on a highly anticipated Star Wars open-world game, studios keep

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6:51

California Says ‘Nope’ to the EPA’s Car Emissions Rules

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2018/10/04

The slow motion legal showdown between the feds, the state of California, and its climate-minded allies is on. While President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency works to roll back clean car regulations, California’s Air Resources Board convened late last week to pass a series of measures that confirm its determination to reduce vehicle emissions in the state, and its willingness to lead the fight—no matter what the federal government says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:26

Honda's Helping GM on Its Quest to Deliver...

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2018/10/04

Cruise, the self-driving car arm of General Motors, has an unexpected new ally in its bid to keep its corporate master at the forefront of an industry enduring its greatest period of change in generations: Honda. In a deal announced today, the Japanese automaker will help San Francisco-based Cruise and its Detroit owner develop and mass produce a new sort vehicle for a world in which human drivers are no longer needed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:43

How to Use Snapchat: Critical Tips for New Users

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2018/10/03

When Snapchat launched in 2011, the app seemed like a flash-in-the-pan teen messaging fad. Its signature function—sending photo and video messages that would self-destruct after viewed—echoed the fugitive thrill of passing notes. Correspondences vanish before meddling grown-ups have time to intervene. That's changed in the past few years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:18

Say Goodbye to @sweden, the Last Good Thing on Twitter

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2018/10/03

When @sweden began its grand experiment in 2011, Twitter had never seemed more full of possibilities. In New York, Twitter served as a digital bulletin board to organize protesters at Occupy Wall Street. In the Middle East, tweets served as the roots of the Arab Spring. Companies signed on to engage with customers; celebrities made accounts to grow their fanbases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:14

Hank Green Explores the Dark Side of Internet Fame,...

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2018/10/02

The first novel by YouTube star Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, is about a young woman named April who becomes an internet celebrity after posting video of a mysterious alien robot. She quickly discovers that being famous has a lot of downsides—something Green and his friends have learned the hard way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:31

Channel Your Inner Fred Flintstone in This...

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2018/10/02

There aren’t many ways to make traffic jams productive. You can make phone calls, listen to audio books, or practice your calming breathing exercises. But none of them help you escape the reality of being trapped in a metal box, surrounded by thousands of other metal boxes, all performing a dance forwards, slowly, foot by foot, across the asphalt. A Saudi Arabian inventor, Nasser Al Shawaf, decided he wanted the ability to do something useful with his hours in the car every day: exercise. Learn more

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7:26

Elon Musk's SEC Settlement Could Have Gone So Much Worse

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2018/10/01

In early August, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a fateful tweet: “Am considering taking Tesla public at $420. Funding secured.” On Saturday, two days after the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk for “false and misleading” statements made on Twitter, Musk, Tesla, and the feds reached a compromise—a settlement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:30

Elon Musk Has Finally Picked a Fight He Can't Win

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2018/10/01

The irony of Elon Musk’s latest legal drama is grim. He wanted to take the car maker Tesla private, because he hates the bureaucracy, red tape, and regulation that comes with being a company owned by shareholders, traded on the stock market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:45

Do Standalone Episodes Hurt or Help Their Shows?

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2018/09/28

When Amazon’s Forever debuted earlier this month, it announced itself with a kernel of discord hidden within. Viewers reaching the show’s sixth episode found it stripped of its main characters—June (Maya Rudolph) and Oscar (Fred Armisen), a married couple trapped in unchanging circumstances—and instead angling its view in a different direction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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