Could You Detect a Fake NBA Flop? http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

People complain about the fake flops in NBA games. Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain wants to know if there's some way to detect fake flops.



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Infographic: An Illustrated Guide to 66 Types of Cheese http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Thanks to Pop Chart Lab, you can fake it till you make it as a cheese aficionado.



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How Jony Ive's Apple iOS 7 Hinders the Future of Design http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Not only is the Jobs vs. Ive framing overly simplified, it¿s also irrelevant to design discourse. Limiting our skeuomorphism and flat design discussion to what essentially boils down to a ¿do these pixels make me look fat¿ question is a waste of energy. Instead, design should boldly go where no user and interface has gone before. Pixels are infinitely available and infinitely malleable; our technologies and design innovations should set them free.



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Father-Son Duo Reinvent Drug Testing With 'Digital Lab Rats' http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In 2008, François-Henri Boissel was leading a charmed life. He was a young, successful investment banker working in Tokyo, Japan. And then the market crashed. He thought of sticking it out, waiting until things improved, but then he remembered a conversation he¿d had with his father, Jean-Pierre, in the summer of 2007, and it started gnawing at him.



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Under the Dome: Brian K. Vaughan Makes Stephen King-Size TV http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Brian K. Vaughan is executive producer of CBS's Under the Dome, a summer series inspired by Stephen King's 2009 novel of the same name. He talked to us about his own fandom, King's involvement, and amortization.



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Zero Rolls Out a Rugged Electric Motorcycle for Special Ops http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Electric motorcycles just went from practical to tactical with the Zero MMX, the first all-electric bike developed specifically for the U.S. Special Operation Forces.



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See an Autopsy of the Original Mac and Other Iconic Gadgets http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In the new book Things Come Apart, photographer Todd McLellan painstakingly disassembles 50 everyday objects and carefully photographs the results.



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Apple's Flat Design Falls Flat on Wall Street http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

There are a handful of big events that Apple hosts each year that can be a catalyst for share price. This week?s Worldwide Developer Conference is one. And while the developers to whom it is targeted may have fallen in love with Apple design chief Jony Ive?s transparent, playful, edge-to-edge design, Wall Street didn?t.



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'Chinese Google' Unveils Visual Search Engine Powered by Fake Brains http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Chinese search giant Baidu has served up its first ever visual search engine, which allows users to finally query the web using only images as input instead of keywords. Google has long offered this sort of thing, but Baidu continues to show that it's determined to keep pace with Larry Page and company.



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Connecting the Dots on PRISM, Phone Surveillance, and the NSA's Massive Spy Center http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Physically, the NSA has always been well protected by miles of high fences and electrified wire, thousands of cameras, and gun-toting guards. But that was to protect the agency from those on the outside trying to get in to steal secrets. Now it is confronting a new challenge: those on the inside going out and giving the secrets away.



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Press Play: 10 E3 Trailers You Don't Want to Miss http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

E3 is an absolute barrage of new game announcements from publishers and console makers. We sifted through the carnage to find 10 of the most promising. Enjoy, but be patient--nearly all of these are slated for 2014 (and beyond).



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Gallery: Giant Mario Karts, Crazy Hardware and Too Many Gamers Pack E3 Show Floor http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

What Wired's editors found as we paced the Electronic Entertainment Expo floor this week



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Taking a Long Shot on a Value-Priced SUP http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Surfcore's Hunter ATAC stand-up paddleboard is an attractive buy for those looking to upgrade their beginner gear for a low price.



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Here Be Dragon in New Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

At the halfway point between the last Peter Jackson Hobbit movie and the next, Warner Bros. has released a new trailer and teaser images for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, complete with Evangeline Lilly and a bit o' dragon.



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The Evolution of iOS http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

With the debut of iOS 7 this week, Apple has made the most radical change to its mobile operating system since it first launched on the iPhone way back in 2007. Need proof? Let's take a walk down memory lane and look at how iOS has evolved.



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Google's Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Google does not participate in any government program involving a lockbox or other equipment installed at its facilities to transfer data court-authorized data to the government, a company spokesman says. Instead the company transmits the data to the feds via secure FTP or by hand.



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ACLU Sues NSA Over Mass Phone Spying http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A second lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the NSA's dragnet phone surveillance program was lodged today in a New York federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union, calling the spying "one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by a democratic government."



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Lawmakers Seek Declassification of Secret Spy Court Rulings http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A bi-partisan group of senators proposed legislation today that seeks to declassify certain rulings from a secret spy court that is at the center of a firestorm over one of its leaked rulings requiring Verizon to turn over calling records on millions of customers.



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Defense Department Orders Employees, Contractors to Steer Clear of Surveillance Stories http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The Department of Defense is instructing its employees and contractors not seek out or download classified material from the public domain that was leaked last week to the Guardian and Washington Post that detailed a massive, covert and government-run surveillance program.



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The Cool Factor (With Feathers): New York Chefs React To Pastured Poultry http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Pastured poultry is new old-style: Beyond cage-free, beyond free-range, it puts chickens out on grass for most of their lives, producing a bird that lives longer, looks healthier, and tastes distinctly different from standard supermarket chicken. Wired Science blogger Maryn McKenna asks some New York City chefs about bringing chicken that actually tastes like chicken to their menus.



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X3 Helicopter Sets Speed Record At Nearly 300 MPH http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The Eurocopter X3 hybrid helicopter emerged from the hangar this month to set a new speed record for helicopters. With a top speed of 255 knots (293 miles per hour), the X3 breaks the previous record held by Sikorsky's own hybrid helicopter, the coincidentally named X2.



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This Is the End Cast Say They Wouldn't Eat James Franco in an Apocalypse http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Wired asked the cast of This Is the End for their apocalypse survival tips. This is what they recommended.



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Stats: Here's How We Deal With TV Deaths and Shockers Like the 'Red Wedding' http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Following the now infamous Red Wedding episode of Game of Thrones, fans took to the web to lament the loss of favorite characters and swear they were done with the show. Were they? Probably not.



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Google Seeks OK From Feds to Disclose Stats on Secret Court Orders http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In a letter sent to the Justice Department, Google has asked the government for permission to expand the information it publicly discloses about the national security requests it receives under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The move comes in response to pressure placed on the company from the public in the wake of NSA leaks.



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Awkward Google Wisely Buys the Least Human Social Network http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Why impersonal collaborative mapping network Waze is the perfect social acquisition for Google.



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It's Official: Google Acquires Crowdsourced Navigation App 'Waze' http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Google finalized its acquisition of the crowdsourced navigation and traffic app Waze this morning. Waze is a free app that uses the input of trusted community members to update maps in real time to help other users avoid delays and congestion. For now it looks like the Waze app will remain independent, bolstered by Google?s search ...



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The Cleverest Bike Fender We've Ever Seen Is on Kickstarter http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The Musguard fender is a 35 gram strip of polypropylene plastic that has been designed to wrap snugly around a bike's tubular frame and easily transform into a rigid, backsplash blocking fender.



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A Beautifully Simple Comic Book for the Blind http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Titled ¿Life,¿ the comic tells a familiar story: Two characters meet, fall in love and have a child. Only in ¿Life,¿ there are no words, no colors and every character is represented by a simple, tactile circle.



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NSA Leaks Present a Business and Ethics Crisis for Silicon Valley http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Late last week, as revelations about the National Security Agency's telephone and internet data gathering programs splashed across the news, attorney Michael Overly heard from one of his clients, a consumer product company that had been looking at moving email systems to a cloud service provider. They'd decided to put their cloud project on hold. "They ...



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A Primer on the Kremlinology of Apple's Big Conference http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

If you read between the lines at today's Apple event, there are some interesting political contours.



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Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

A disease called coffee rust has reached epidemic proportions in Central America, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmers and the morning pick-me-up of millions of coffee drinkers.



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Apple's Dash of Your Dreams Could Be a Nightmare for Automakers http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Apple is ready to take over your dash, and iOS for the Car could finally allow your ride to keep pace with the device in your pocket.



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Stunning Life-Sized Photos Capture Close Encounters With Whales http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Few people are lucky enough to have had a quiet underwater encounter with a whale. For the rest of us, there are photos like these: Life-size composites of sperm, humpback and minke whales, captured from less than 6 feet away. The full-sized prints (and the smaller digital versions in this gallery) bring our enormous marine kindred into a nearly tactile reality, revealing the seemingly tiny folds around a whale's inquisitive eye, the crustaceans adhering to a whale's skin, or the color variations that make individual whales beautiful and distinct.



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Declassified Spy Outpost Lurks on the Dark Side of the Earth http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In 2011 Charles Stankievech hitched a ride to the Earth's northernmost settlement, a Canadian spy facility that used to spy on the Russians during the Cold War. The time-lapse photos he made there are haunting, beautiful and a meditation on civilization's priorities.



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Groceries Could Be Amazon's Next Killer App — If It Can Solve the Math http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

If Amazon gets groceries right, the implications are far greater than another convenient option for getting your daily bread. But the logistics of grocery delivery are dizzyingly complex.



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Kickin' Back http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Sony has two new wireless Bluetooth speakers, a larger $300 model and a more portable $200 model. All music sounds good through them -- from Radiohead to Mot?rhead.



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The Design Battle Behind Apple's iOS 7 http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The new iOS 7 is radically simplified, incredibly flat, colorful, and multi-layered. It is, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, ?the biggest change to iOS since iPhone.? And it may be the best thing yet designed by Jony Ive, who announced iOS 7 in a short video at Apple's World Wide Developer conference.



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Apple Gives the Mac Pro a Super-Powered, Cylindrical Update http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Apple teased a revamp of its desktop Mac Pro at WWDC today. According to Phil Schiller it's for users who want only the "fastest, most expensive Mac in existence." It also sports a striking new cylindrical design and a remarkable power boost, and yet is just one-eighth the size of the current Mac Pro. The all ...



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How the Haswell Chip Makes the New MacBook Air Last 12 Hours http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Apple's new MacBook Air laptops have Intel's brand new Haswell chips inside, and these low-power processors are responsible for many of the Air's performance gains.



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First Lawsuit Over NSA Phone Scandal Targets Obama, Verizon http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The first of what likely will be many lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the NSA's dragnet phone surveillance program was lodged Sunday, calling the newly disclosed operation an "outrageous breach of privacy."



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Journalism and Democracy in Wisconsin http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Normally, Wired Science blogger Deborah Blum would be teaching an investigative reporting class at the University of Wisconsin in the fall. Now, it looks as though her class might be shut down -- for very political reasons.



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