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‘Jeopardy!’ Legend Ken Jennings on James Holzhauer: ‘It’s Absolutely Insane’
April 19, 2019In his 11-game run, James Holzhauer has dominated Jeopardy! like no one before. That’s no exaggeration. He already holds the four highest-scoring games in the show’s history, and his $771,920 regular-season winnings surpass all but one player in the Jeopardy! firmament: Ken Jennings. You remember Jennings. In 2004, he went on a 74-game, $2,520,700 romp, […]
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How to Cook With Weed—and a Dash of Tasty, Tasty Science
April 19, 2019Mac and cheese. Peanut butter and jelly. Asparagus and … cannabis oil with a citrusy terpene profile? Welcome to food pairings in the heady era of cannabis legalization. A new breed of chef is thriving, experimenting with how to infuse dishes with weed, whose various strains might smell and taste of lemon or mushroom or […]
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Inches Closer to Making Hyperloop a Reality
April 19, 2019In June 2017, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to make what seemed like a huge announcement. His less-than-a-year-old Boring Company—a venture dedicated to vanquishing traffic by quickly building futuristic underground high-speed mass transit systems—had received “verbal government approval” for “an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop,” he wrote. The hyperloop, he promised, would one […]
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The Nintendo Switch Is Finally Coming to China
April 19, 2019Hello, and welcome once again to Replay, WIRED’s videogame news roundup. This week, during the times when folks in the gaming industry weren’t talking about Sony’s next-generation console, they were often talking about Nintendo. Not only did the company reportedly remove itself from the health gadget business, it also made moves to start selling the […]
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You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing You
April 19, 2019The whole world is exhausted. And it’s killing us. But particularly me. As I write this, I’m at TED 2019 in Vancouver, which is a weeklong marathon of talks and workshops and coffee meetings and experiences and demos and late-night trivia contests and networking, networking, networking. Meanwhile, I’m sick as a dog with a virus […]
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Read the Mueller Report; Change Your Instagram Password
April 18, 2019Tech news you can use, in two minutes or less: The Mueller Report is much worse for Trump than Barr let on The full (but redacted) Mueller Report is finally here, in its 448 pages of glory. There are lots of takeaways, but the bottom line is the report is much more damaging to Trump […]
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New York’s Aggressive Climate Law Takes Aim at Skyscrapers
April 18, 2019On Thursday, the New York City Council voted into law a sweeping set of rules to fight climate change, a metropolis-scaled version of a Green New Deal. And if the lawmakers and policy wonks who built the bills have their way, they’ll be a model for cities everywhere to cut carbon emissions and save the […]
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The Mueller Report Is Much Worse For Trump Than Barr Let On
April 18, 2019If president Donald Trump isn’t guilty of obstruction of justice, who ever could be? Special counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report, made public Thursday in redacted form, outlined over nearly half of those pages how the president reacted to and fumed over the Russia probe, seeking to undermine it, curtail it, and even fire the special […]
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A Mystery Agent Is Doxing Iran’s Hackers and Dumping Their Code
April 18, 2019Nearly three years after the mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers began disemboweling the NSA’s hackers and leaking their hacking tools onto the open web, Iran’s hackers are getting their own taste of that unnerving experience. For the last month, a mystery person or group has been targeting a top Iranian hacker team, dumping their […]
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The Mueller Report Is Out. Read It Here
April 18, 2019On March 22, special counsel Robert Mueller turned in his long-anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 election—and the question of whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice. Now you can read the whole thing for yourself. Or at least what’s left of it, after attorney general William Barr’s redactions. Barr had initially released a […]
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