2019 June

Nuro’s Pizza Robot Will Bring You a Domino’s Pie

Nuro, the self-driving delivery company started in 2016 by a trio of Google veterans, is moving into the pizza game. Later this year, Nuro’s robot will start delivering Domino’s pies and cheesy breads to customers in the Houston area. The robot in question is the R2, the yet-to-be-revealed version of Nuro’s R1 vehicle, which is […]

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This Colorful Keyboard Wants to Teach You How to Play Music

It’s typical to see a new gizmo advertised in some flashy, attention-grabbing way. It’s less typical to see that flashiness also touted as the product’s core feature. The Roli Lumi (you know, because “illumination”) is a multicolored, light-up keyboard aimed at musical novices eager to learn to play the piano. The device won’t ship until […]

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MTV's 'Most Meme-Able Moment' Honors Internet Culture—Barely

Colton Underwood jumping over a fence. That, according to the MTV Movie & TV Awards, was the past year's Most Meme-Able Moment. Don't remember that one? You're not alone. But as a refresher, it's a clip from ABC's The Bachelor, in which Underwood, the show's 23rd Dude Looking for Romance, vaults over a barrier after […]

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A Shitty Robot Tesla Truck, Facebook's New Cryptocurrency, and More News

Facebook is unveiling a cryptocurrency, a YouTuber hacked up her Tesla, and US cyber experts worry about war with Russia. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every week day? Sign up here! Today's Headlines A YouTuber turned her Tesla into […]

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Nuro’s Pizza Robot Will Bring You a Domino’s Pie

Nuro, the self-driving delivery company started in 2016 by a trio of Google veterans, is moving into the pizza game. Later this year, Nuro’s robot will start delivering Domino’s pies and cheesy breads to customers in the Houston area. The robot in question is the R2, the yet-to-be-revealed version of Nuro’s R1 vehicle, which is […]

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Change Your Life: Bestride the Bidet

This story is part of a series on how we clean—from organizing your house to arranging your photos. As you read this, there is poop in your butt. I don’t mean whatever’s cooking in your colon. I mean you missed a spot, right there, near the exit, at the perianal surface: residual stool. Not a […]

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Cantina Talk: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Got Made On the Run

Of course, everybody knows that WIRED already broke the biggest Star Wars story of the past couple of weeks when we told you that Lucasfilm failed us all by not putting Emma Thompson in a movie, even though she wants to be in one. Hey, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, you have a new Star […]

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Lawyers in a Murder Trial Clash Over a DNA Forensics Method

On a large screen inside a packed Snohomish County courtroom, in Washington state, a young Canadian couple smiled out at the dimmed room from the relaxed, faded scene of a party. It was the last known picture taken of Tanya Van Cuylenberg and Jay Cook together before they disappeared in November 1987. Their bodies were […]

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While You Were Offline: Justin Bieber Wants to Fight Tom Cruise

It's been a week where everyone's favorite member of the Queer Eye Fab Five—sorry, Bobby—Jonathan Van Ness came out as being genderqueer, where Radiohead released outtakes from OK Computer to foil hackers, and a week where an ice wolf that died over 40 millennia ago was discovered, preserved, in the Siberian permafrost. And that's not […]

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It's Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser

There's a new battleground in the browser wars: user privacy. Firefox just made its Enhanced Tracking Protection a default feature, Apple continues to pile privacy-focused features into its Safari browser, and people are more aware than ever before of the sort of information they can reveal every time they set a digital footprint on the […]

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