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This Power Plant Burns Rubbish To Make Clean Energy | Digital Society with Vontobel

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In Copenhagen, Denmark lies Amager Bakke, a unique power plant. Not only is it the world's cleanest waste-to-energy facility, it's also home to a man-made mountain called CopenHill with its own ski slope, the world's tallest climbing wall and challenging
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Street stunt rider Danny MacAskill breaks down his most epic tricks

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Its been 10 years since Red Bull street trials rider Danny MacAskill burst onto our screens with his iconic 'Inspired Bicycles' video that has now clocked up close to 40 million views on YouTube. In the following 10 years, the Scotsman ditched his job as
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How Google's DeepMind is Using AI to Tackle Climate Change

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AI is often seen as a magical fix-all. It's not, but it is, says Sims Witherspoon, a powerful tool for unlocking communities' problem-solving capacities. Witherspoon is a program manager at Google's DeepMind, which made headlines when it reduced energy re
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How the Natural History Museum is Scanning 80 Million Dead Creatures

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The Natural History Museum in London has set itself the mammoth task of digitising its specimens - all 80 million of them. The museum's collection includes everything from a blue whale skeleton to Martian meteorites, making progress understandably slow. H
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"Will Your iPhone Ever Have Consciousness?" with Marcus du Sautoy | WIRED Live

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How can we tell whether an animal is conscious? How about an iPhone? University of Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy reveals the complex process of how we assess consciousness and the challenges artificial intelligence may soon pose. This talk was rec
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Lisa Randall: Atoms Only Make Up 5% of Our Universe. The Rest is Dark Matter and Energy

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Even though it makes up 69 per cent of the Universe, dark energy is incredibly elusive. But theoretical physicist Lisa Randall is determined to track down and understand the unseen parts of our existence. ABOUT WIRED LIVE Hundreds of leaders from the worl
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Mo Gawdat of Google X: The Secret to Happiness May Lie in a Mathematical Equation

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Mo Gawdat, the chief business officer of the moonshot factory Google X, has designed an algorithm to make you happy. Gawdat started writing when his son died. The resulting book, Solve for Happy, describes the model of happiness that he and his late son b
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How Firefighters Learn to Tackle the Most Extreme Blazes (4K) | WIRED Originals

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At the International Fire Training Centre in Darlington, UK, firefighters from across the world learn how to operate in the most extreme settings. Read the full story: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/complex-catastrophic-fires-training-firefighters Subscri
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70 Years of Ferrari: How Craftsmen and High-Tech Robots Build the World’s Most Famous Cars | WIRED

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To mark the 70th anniversary of Ferrari, Ferrari and the Design Museum in London invited WIRED inside Ferrari's car factory in Maranello, Italy to see how it builds iconic cars like the 488 GTB and LaFerrari using a combination of high-tech, autonomous ma
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The Ultimate Jedi Experience with Star Wars: Jedi Challenges | WIRED x John Lewis

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Sponsored by John Lewis: Here's the ultimate gift for any Star Wars fan. The Star Wars: Jedi Challenges package includes an authentic replica lightsaber and an augmented reality headset, so you can chop down droids and battle Darth Maul as if they were st
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The Nuraphone Headphones Tune Themselves to Your Ears | Gearhead from WIRED

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Forget noise cancelling, there's a new frontier in headphone technology: personalisation. Not choosing your own design, but headphones that tune themselves specifically to your ears. WIRED’s Jeremy White and Mark Walton put the Nuraphone Headphones to the
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Push the Limit: Alba Orbital advance the frontiers of spacecraft | WIRED with Qualcomm

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Tom Walkinshaw, founder of micro-satellite company Alba Orbital, discusses the future of satellite technology. In partnership with Qualcomm. Subscribe to WIRED►► http://po.st/SubscribeWired CONNECT WITH WIRED Web: http://po.st/WiredVideo Twitter: http://p
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London has a toxic air pollution problem. One solution was born in the 1950s | WIRED

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London is in the midst of an air pollution crisis, but it’s not a new problem. The Great Smog of 1952 caused the deaths of 12,000 people in just four days. Back then, as London choked on chimney fumes, one project had an innovative solution. Subscribe to
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littleBits Star Wars™ Droid Inventor Kit with WIRED and John Lewis | WIRED

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WIRED unboxes, builds and does battle with the John Lewis Star Wars™ toy range – this time with the littleBits Star Wars™ Droid Inventor Kit. Part one in a four part series. Subscribe to WIRED►► http://po.st/SubscribeWired CONNECT WITH WIRED Web: http://p
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Inside the incredible LEGO House with architect Bjarke Ingels | WIRED

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WIRED takes a tour of the new LEGO House in Billund, Denmark. The "home of the brick" was designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and completely inspired by LEGO. The building uses the same dimensions as LEGO bricks, so you could technically build it out of LEGO.
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Reshaping Cities: The Maglev Multi Elevator That Goes Up, Down and Left to Right | WIRED

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Standing over a medieval town in Germany is one of the country’s tallest towers and inside, an invention that its creators hope will revolutionise the shape of cities, the ThyssenKrupp Multi Elevator Subscribe to WIRED►► http://po.st/SubscribeWired Read m
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Meet the Robot Portrait Artists in this 'Robot Classroom' | WIRED

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WIRED gets an exclusive look at artist Patrick Tresset's new exhibition. His "robot classroom" features 20 robots that chat in Morse code and learn to draw in scribbles, while three other robots sketch portraits of human sitters. WIRED's senior editor Vic
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Golf's Data Revolution: Virtual Caddies, Smart Clubs & Radar Tracking with Microsoft Cloud | WIRED

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WIRED explores golf’s data revolution, using Microsoft Cloud-enabled sensors to improve the swing, putt and grip of amateurs and pros alike. Read the article: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/microsoft-data-driven-golf A WIRED / Microsoft Cloud promotion. S
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Lilium's Flying Jet-powered Taxi Completes Its First Test Flights Over Germany | WIRED UK

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The aviation startup, Lilium, based in Munich, Germany, has ambitions to dominate airspace and offer an on-demand flying taxi service it claims will be five times faster than a car. Subscribe to WIRED►► http://po.st/SubscribeWired While the 40-engineer fi
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Richard Browning is a real-life Iron Man - with his own flying suit | WIRED

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One day in early summer last year, Richard Browning headed to his farmyard in the English countryside. He attached a kerosene-fuelled micro gas turbine – effectively a small version of a plane engine – to each of his arms and legs. Then he car
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Robots Parking Cars: The Garage of the Future | WIRED

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Taking inspiration from similar systems in other parts of the world, this car park in West Hollywood, California could be the future of multi-story car garages around the world. Subscribe to WIRED►► http://po.st/SubscribeWired WIRED takes a look behind th
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Meet One of the Best Drone Pilots in the World | WIRED

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One of drone racing’s master pilots, Carlos “Charpu” Puertolas, isn't interested in competitive drone racing, he prefers to fly freestyle in dangerous, abandoned buildings. His aerial showmanship is truly breath-taking and has earned him some serious cred
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How Boeing Builds a 737 Plane in Just 9 Days | WIRED

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Boeing's Renton plant, near Seattle, is the most productive plane factory in the world producing jets at a rate of 42 per month. Watch our behind-the-scenes video to discover how a 737 gets built in just a matter of days. Subscribe to WIRED►► http://po.st
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A Brain Implant Brings a Quadriplegic’s Arm Back to Life | WIRED

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A tragic diving accident in 2010 left Ian Burkhart a quadriplegic; faced with the prospect of living the rest of his life paralysed from the neck down. However, a few years later, thanks to a group of talented doctors and an array of electrodes implanted
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The Electric Ferrari 308 GT - The Car That Shouldn't Exist | WIRED

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Ferrari boss Sergio Marchionne is on record as saying an electric Ferrari is an obscene concept – but that didn't stop a group of guys in California from turning the 308 GT into an electric vehicle. Subscribe to WIRED►► http://po.st/SubscribeWired WIRED's
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Cognitive Insight – IBM / WIRED Partnership

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Introducing how IBM Watson is impacting fields as diverse as finance, healthcare, education, commerce, language and security. Read more: http://www.wired.co.uk/video/ibm-watson-cognitive-insight-series Subscribe to WIRED►► http://po.st/SubscribeWired CONN

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