No One Uses Smart TV Internet Because It Sucks http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

People aren't using their internet-connected smart TVs for anything beyond, well, watching TV. It turns out, nobody wants to tweet from their TV. Or read books. Or do whatever it is people do on LinkedIn. Worse, more than 40 percent of the people who buy a connected TV aren't even using it for its ostensible ...



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Why You Shouldn't Buy a TV This Year. Again http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

At January?s Consumer Electronics Show, the annual industry orgy in Las Vegas, manufacturers are going to introduce about a zillion new television sets. They?ll come armed with a bevy of specs: Full HD 3-D. 4K. OLED. Wi-Fi. Moth Eye. (Yes, Moth Eye.) None of them are going to make your TV-viewing experience any better.



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Adafruit to Teach Electronics Through Puppets in New Kids' Show http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Adafruit, the electronics kit retailer and promoter of hobbyist engineering, is making a move to teach electronics to a younger demographic. So young that they're enlisting the help of puppets.



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Security Drones Foil Crooks Who Look Up http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Flying drones are big news. The government uses them overseas, local police departments want them and for a moment, we all thought they would be used to deliver tacos. So it?s no wonder that security firms are hopping to cash in on the drone frenzy.



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Physicists Go Way Underground to Hunt for Dark Matter http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Dark matter makes up about 90 percent of the universe's mass—but it's invisible. How do you detect the invisible? First you have to figure out what you're looking for. One theory says that dark matter exists alongside normal matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). So researchers built this thing, the DarkSide-50. It's one of the most sensitive dark matter detectors on the planet, and it will be switched on early next year at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, a sprawling subterranean playground for particle physicists northwest of Rome.



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Freestyle BMX on the Moon? No, Something Very Much Like It http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Red Bull threw around a few boatloads of cash flying some of the best BMW freestyle and dirt jump riders to Campo de Piedra Pomez. It's a surreal yet beautiful pumice field formed half a million years ago near Catamarca, Argentina. The moonscape includes kickers, quarterpipes, transfers and other formations of all shapes and sizes, and no two are the same.



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The Shocking Amazing Spider-Man Plot Twist That Inspired Death Threats http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Poor Spider-Man. Five years after the webslinging superhero was forced to retroactively erase his marriage to Mary Jane in a desperate deal with the devil (true story), things are about to get even worse for Peter Parker in Amazing Spider-Man #700, a issue so controversial that it inspired numerous death threats against the book?s long-time writer Dan Slott.



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Philip Pullman Is Planning on Going Silent http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The author of the fantasy series His Dark Materials is planning to withdraw from public life to work on its long-promised sequel -- a novel called The Book of Dust.



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'Softwalks' Spruces Up New York City's Construction Zones http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

New York City is constantly under construction, meaning the skyline and sidewalk vistas always include cranes and scaffolding. Now, two designers aim to improve the view by making construction a little nicer for pedestrians. Their sidewalk-improving initiative is called Softwalks.



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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Hollows on Mercury http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In the well-documented case of Eminescu's hollows, the image above provides some new insight. Though the majority of the hollows are located on and directly around the central peak, if you look closely you'll see that there are small hollows located on top of the knobby texture on the upper right side of the image. Are these hollows younger than the ones on Eminescu's central peak and floor? Are hollows currently forming in Eminescu?



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App Guide: Puzzle Games http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Crosswords work great on touchscreens. But sometimes, to really kill the time, you need something more colorful and animated.



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SpaceX's Cowboy-Carrying Rocket Flies to 131 Feet, Hovers and Lands http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Last week was the 109th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight, and SpaceX celebrated in style with the highest flight of its Grasshopper test rocket to date.



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Your Smartphone Will Replace Your Car Keys by 2015 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Your smartphone has the potential to replace nearly everything else in your pockets, so why not your car keys?



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New Year's Resolutions From 10 Top Minds and Makers http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

We've gathered 10 DIY experts to get their proposed New Year's resolutions, including repurposing forgotten materials and 3-D printing less stuff. And documenting projects better, something you'll hear from a few of them. Read up, then get to your workshop.



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Spider, Spider, Burning Bright http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The logical left and raging right hemispheres of the human brain don't always meet in the middle, especially when it comes to crazy-expensive supercar sleds.



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Here's How Darpa's Robot Ship Will Hunt Silent Subs http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Submariners like to say there are two kinds of ships: subs and targets. The Pentagon's futurists want to turn that on its head, with a new kind of robotic surface ship that can pinpoint a sub.



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Mountains of Madness: Scientists Poised to Drill Through Ice and Into Antarctic Gothic Horror http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

What might lurk beneath Antarctica?s 5 million square miles of ice was the subject of speculation by sci-fi writers in the 1930s. One of the icy products this subgenre of Antarctic Goth horror spawned is HP Lovecraft?s novella, The Mountains of Madness, in which scientists drill beneath Antarctica?s ice ? only to discover horrid things preserved there. Now, scientists are finally enacting Lovecraft?s scenario: Over the next several weeks they are drilling into three subglacial lakes hidden beneath thousands of feet of ice in Antarctica.



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Somehow, The Monitor Has a Year-End 'Highlight' Reel http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Call it a blooper reel, call it a Special Xtra Fancy Collector?s Edition Director?s Cut, call it whatever you like. What it really is is Monitor editor Peter McCullough?s inspired supercut of all of my most nonsensical, garbled, or just plain bizarre moments from 2012. And take it from the person saying all those nonsensical, garbled things: It?s well worth your time. Can we get a Webby nomination for video editing over here, please?



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The Year's Most Audacious Private Space Exploration Plans http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

2012 was a banner year for bold, and sometimes wild, announcements by private space companies. From moon landings to asteroid mining, we take a look at all the new players and tell you how plausible their schemes are.



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How a Tech Writer Built an Augmented-Reality TARDIS http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Greg Kumparak has made a model TARDIS with an AR-augmented interior ? and just like on Doctor Who, that interior has a deceiving physical feature.



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From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Year in Privacy and Security http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

From gun-toting, on-the-lam tech giants to flying drones and internet uprisings, these are the privacy and security stories that dominated Threat Level in 2012.



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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 27 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.



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Google Music Self-Censoring Naughty Lyrics for Some Users http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Some albums are known for their less-than-grandma-friendly lyrics. Sure it's got a good beat and you can dance to it, but playing the explicit version of the song during the holidays could be embarrassing. That's okay, because some Google Music users have reported that Google has replaced their vulgarity-filled songs with the less fun, clean versions.



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Apple Patents a Method for Bending Glass http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Flat glass is boring. All the fanciest Android phones have curved glass displays. Not to be left out of the display-warping ways, Apple has patented its own glass-bending process.



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'Cable Cam' Allows Awesome Angles on Superpipe Shredding http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The 2012 Dew Tour wrapped up the season by shredding the slopes of Breckenridge, Colorado, and we've got great footage of the action from a boundary-pushing point-of-view. Mountain Dew's army of videographers used cable-cam technology to get some super slick angles on the superpipe action. The cameras were strung along a cable down the ...



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Virginia Town Releases Crime-Fighting App http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Crime-fighting is tough. Look at Batman. That guy's a mess. Still, for most people, if you witness a crime you want to do something about it. And while screaming "citizen's arrest" seems about as toothless as a substitute teacher in a junior high class, using that smartphone with all its media-capturing features actually makes sense.



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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Really Hot Stars http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

This unique image shows AB7, one of the highest excitation nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs), two satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. AB7 is a binary star, consisting of one WR-star ? highly evolved massive star - and a mid-age massive companion of spectral type O. These exceptional stars have very strong stellar winds: they continuously eject energetic particles ? like the "solar wind" from the Sun ? but some 10 to 1,000 million times more intensely than our star! These powerful winds exert an enormous pressure on the surrounding interstellar material and forcefully shape those clouds into "bubbles", well visible in the photos by their blue colour. AB7 is particularly remarkable: the associated huge nebula and HeII region indicate that this star is one of the, if not the, hottest WR-star known so far, with a surface temperature in excess of 120,000 degrees ! Just outside this nebula, a small network of green filaments is visible ? they are the remains of another supernova explosion.



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World's Longest Bullet Train Line Opens in China http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

High-speed rail has hit another milestone, this time in China, with the opening of the world's longest bullet train line.



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Algorithmic Snowflake Generator Adds Printable Fun to Festive Occasions http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

No two snowflakes are alike, not even these computer-generated versions.



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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 26 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.



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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 25 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.



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Pentagon Preps Stealth Strike Force to Counter China http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Soon three varieties of stealthy U.S. warplanes could all be within striking range of China at the same time.



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Spiders, Planets and a Boson: Wired Science's Top Stories of the Year http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

This year, our list of most popular stories was dominated by 2012's most famous robot, a long-sought subatomic particle, 10 billion exoplanets and an amazing new spider species.



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10 More Mind-Blowing, Skill-Building Raspberry Pi Projects http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Since our last Raspberry Pi roundup we've found 10 more amazing projects that show how versatile this diminutive PCB is. From voice-activated coffee makers to wall-hanging plotters, the Raspberry Pi is proving to be a fruitful addition to the maker's toolbox.



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Footnotes: A Year-End Blooper Spectacular of Spectacular Incompetence http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

This year-end Footnotes blooper reel gives you a general idea of how frustrating it is to work with me.



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Japan's Gaming Fanzines Delve Into the Most Obsessive Topics http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

What?s remarkable about the Japanese gaming fanzines you'll find at this week's Comic Market expo is how obsessively minute the subject matter can be.



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Meet the Grabby, Sugar-Fueled Robots the Navy Wants to Put in Space http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

They're grabby. They use microbes as fuel. They're the robots the Navy wants to send to outer space.



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Become a Crime-Fighting Superhero in Your Spare Time http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A new wave of social networks are helping police and residents fight crime more collaboratively.



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Feds Requiring 'Black Boxes' in All Motor Vehicles http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called ?event data recorders? that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers and even a car?s location.



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This Scientist Wants Tomorrow's Troops to Be Mutant-Powered http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

New developments in neurology and genetics could give rise to new breeds of biologically-enhanced troops possessing what one expert in the field calls "mutant powers." For Andrew Herr, that future can't come soon enough.



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Autopia's 2012 Lust List: 10 Rides That Make Us Beg for More http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

We've driven, ridden and flown some serious kit this year. But only a handful of rides left us weak in the knees and ready to lighten our wallets.



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Icebreaker-Inspired Motorcycle Comes With Paddle, Floating Sidecar http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

First, we had an ATV that goes on water, now we?ve got a Ural motorcycle and sidecar that?ll sit in the drink without leaking. All you have to do is paddle.



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Pot of Gold http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

This keep-me-out-of-the-kitchen guy is here to tell you that if you hate to cook, this appliance from VitaClay is a great substitute chef.



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New Form of Quantum Computation Promises Showdown With Ordinary Computers http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

You've heard the hype a hundred times: Physicists hope to someday build a whiz-bang quantum computer that can solve problems that would overwhelm an ordinary computer. Now, four separate teams have taken a step toward achieving such "quantum speed-up" by demonstrating a simpler, more limited form of quantum computing that, if it can be improved, might soon give classical computers a run for their money.



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A Look Inside Tarantino's Django Unchained Comic Book http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Vertigo Comics has adapted Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained script into a six-issue mini-series. See sketches of the comic book versions of his characters here.



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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Merry Radio Christmas http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

This panorama of a section of the Milky Way in the constellations of Scutum and Aquila illustrates the dynamic interplay between the birth and death of massive stars in our Galaxy.



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Best Space Photos of the Year 2012 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

We round up the most amazing, mind-blowing, spectacular, and jaw-dropping photos of planets, moons, galaxies, and nebulas from our perennially popular Space Photo of the Day gallery.



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How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Peter Kirstein is the man who put the Queen of England on the internet. In 1976.



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Overhyped, Overpriced: 2012's Insanely Expensive Gear http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The most audaciously priced gear that caught our eye in 2012.



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Amazon Delivers Coal To Netflix Watchers On Christmas Eve http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Christmas Eve movie streaming was a little bumpy for some Netflix customers, thanks to an outage at Amazon's North Virginia data centers. The problems started at about 12:30 p.m. Pacific, and it didn't take long for customers to start reporting downtime with Netflix's streaming video service. At 9:30 p.m. a Netflix spokesman reported that the issue affects ...



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