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11:41

I Just Want Nate Silver to Tell Me It’s All Going to...

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2016/10/16

Evan has a habit. He's not ashamed of it, but he doesn't want to reveal too much about himself, lest his colleagues learn how he's spending so much of his time. Like so many others, the middle-age software developer can't look away from the presidential election. But his fixation takes a particular form: with every browser refresh, he hopes math will reveal the future. Evan is a poll obsessive, FiveThirtyEight strain-a subspecies I recognize because I'm one of them, too. Learn more about your ad

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8:31

Want to Know Julian Assange’s Endgame? He Told You A...

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2016/10/15

Amid a seemingly incessant deluge of leaks and hacks, Washington, DC staffers have learned to imagine how even the most benign email would look a week later on the homepage of a secret-spilling outfit like WikiLeaks or DCLeaks. In many cases, they've stopped emailing altogether, deleted accounts, and reconsidered dumbphones. Julian Assange-or at least, a ten-years-younger and more innocent Assange-would say he's already won. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:52

Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Internet Wins No-Chill Prize

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2016/10/13

Here's a phrase we never thought would be true: Bob Dylan has won a Nobel Prize in Literature. Yes, the legendary folk-rock singer-songwriter has added to his apostrophe stash with "Nobel-Prize-winning," thanks to garnering an honor typically given to the likes of T.S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, and other internationally acclaimed novelists everyone likes to say they read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:16

Amazon’s Music Service Launches With a Secret Weapon:...

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2016/10/12

Alexa can already order you an Uber, control your smart home devices, and keep you company. She's about to learn much better DJ skills, save you six bucks a month on streaming music, and possibly even change the way you listen to music in your house. Amazon Music Unlimited, a beefed-up subscription service built to compete with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music, launches today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:20

Man, Donald Trump Would Make for a Great Chatbot

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2016/10/12

Just days after threatening to jail a political opponent should he win the presidency, Donald Trump's got a new campaign website that's so very … Trumpian. "Together, we are making waterboarding part of the Republican Party again," it declares. Also, "Together, unleashing, perhaps all of our nuclear weapons." Truer words have never come out of Trump's mouth. Except they didn't, really-at least not directly. A Trump AI generated all of the site's copy on its own. Learn more about your ad choices

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9:34

Poker Explains Why the GOP Can’t Fold on Trump

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2016/10/10

This afternoon, House Speaker Paul Ryan essentially declared Hillary Clinton the winner of the 2016 presidential election. On a conference call with Republican representatives, he announced that he would no longer publicly defend or campaign beside Donald Trump. After a leaked videotape showed Trump boasting of his ability to sexually assault women, Ryan had apparently concluded his party's candidate was doomed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:11

Trump’s Ground Game Gamble Could Be a Fatal Mistake

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2016/10/10

After The Washington Post released a bombshell video in which Donald Trump brags about groping women against their will, top Republicans began abandoning him in droves. But losing the endorsements of senators and governors isn't the biggest threat to Trump's chances in November. Multiple reports suggest the Republican National Committee is redirecting resources to protect down-ballot races from potential fallout over the Trump tape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:25

How to Move 2 Million People Out of Hurricane...

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2016/10/07

Across swaths of Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina, half the highway lanes have reversed. Traffic engineers call this "contraflow," the volte-face of normal traffic. Now, on both sides of these roads, vehicles only run one way-away from Hurricane Matthew. As the Category 4 storm ripped the Caribbean with 145 mph winds, local and state officials urged nearly two million Americans to flee their homes before it hit the southern Atlantic coast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:38

Hack Brief: Hackers Breach BuzzFeed in Retaliation...

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2016/10/05

After Kim Kardashian was threatened and robbed in Paris this week, celebrities are considering whether her frequent social media use made her more vulnerable, and may be reassessing their own digital sharing. But for prominent people, this won't resolve another perpetual threat: Being hacked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:34

Google Pixel Upends the Android Universe

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2016/10/05

By the time Google announced its pair of Pixel smartphones on Tuesday, the devices had already been leaked all to pieces. Shape, size, specs; even color variants were laid bare by clumsy carriers. In fact, just about the only thing left unknown about the Pixels is what they'll do to the already splintered Android ecosystem. Google had previously released smartphones, made by a revolving set of hardware partners, under its Nexus line. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:16

The Ins and Outs of USB-C Mobile Charging

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2016/10/03

Lightning connectors? Micro USB ports? USB-Cee you later! Our forecast: most, if not all, Android phones will have a USB-C charging port by this time next year. We're expecting new phones from Google this week, and you can bet those will be USB-C, just like the last crop. Samsung and Motorola are moving to USB-C too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:24

Security News This Week: FBI Finds Hackers Poking...

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2016/10/03

Concern about potential election tampering continued this week. As noted in the roundup below, the FBI found evidence that hackers have been assessing the defenses of voter registries around the country and the cell phones of some Democratic party officials. But election officials aren't the only ones on high alert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:18

Westworld Isn’t Great Science Fiction, But It’s Great...

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2016/10/03

The new HBO show Westworld is based on the 1973 feature film of the same name. The movie, which was written and directed by Michael Crichton, explores the idea of a high-tech theme park that goes haywire, an idea Crichton later recycled in his much more famous Jurassic Park. The original Westworld has many fans, but film critic Theresa DeLucci says the new series is a major improvement in terms of quality. "It's an HBO show," DeLucci says in Episode 223 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

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5:08

Google’s Going to Change the Gadget Game, But Not...

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2016/10/01

If you add them all up, Google actually makes a lot of gadgets. It sells Nexus phones, Chromebook Pixels, Pixel C tablets, Nest smart-home products, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:56

NES Classic Hands-On: This Tiny Console Is 8 Bits of...

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2016/10/01

After getting some hands-on time with Nintendo's tiny "NES Classic," I can finally say it: This thing plays as good as it looks. (Which is good.) To be released on November 11, the lengthily-named Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition is an HDMI-enabled, USB-powered, tiny little game machine that houses 30 classic games from Nintendo's first console, including Super Mario Bros. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:41

WIRED Book Club: It’s Time for the Hugo-Winning Hard...

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2016/09/29

If you’re a sci-fi reader living in China, you’ve long known about Liu Cixin, the best-selling author that The New Yorker once called the country’s Arthur C. Clarke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:55

Powell Email Shows Clinton Was Hardly First to Break...

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2016/09/29

A new piece of evidence surfaced Wednesday night in the imbroglio over Hillary Clinton’s controversial use of a private server and Blackberry during her time as Secretary of State: A friendly message from Colin Powell detailing how he had used his own unapproved devices and private email during his time as head of the State Department years earlier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:44

Hands On: Apple’s AirPod Wireless Earphones Look...

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2016/09/29

In retrospect, it makes sense that Apple couldn’t kill the headphone jack [1] without some kind of replacement. And, in fact, alongside the iPhone 7, the company actually announced three different wireless options: two new Beats models, both with improved processors and super-long battery life, and the new Apple AirPods. I tried on a pair of AirPods in Apple’s brightly lit hands-on room, a few minutes after the main event concluded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:17

Why You (Might) Want the New PlayStation 4 Pro

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2016/09/29

Okay, so Sony has announced a new PlayStation. Do you want it? That depends: What are you going to use it for? Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be a difficult question for a certain segment of the population. A new game machine? Why, of course I want that! But the PlayStation 4 Pro, which Sony announced at an event in New York City yesterday, is a sort of new game machine we don’t often see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:37

Legendary Designer Tom Tjaarda on the Eternal Beauty...

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2016/09/29

Tom Tjaarda didn’t plan on spending his life designing cars. Though he grew up in Detroit, where his father John penned cars for Ford and Lincoln, Tom majored in architecture at the University of Michigan. But in his senior year, he decided to create a sports car for an industrial design course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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