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    In the wake of the Christchurch shootings, tech platforms like YouTube have said it's harder to police terrorist content by white supremacists than it is to remove that of Islamic terrorists. That’s not the full story. Here’s what’s actually going on 1/

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  2. 26 minutes ago

    The visual effects supervisor and head of character animation from sat down with WIRED to talk about the work that went into creating visuals of the academy award winning movie

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  3. 1 hour ago

    NEW: FEMA has publicly acknowledged that it wrongly shared personal data from 2.3 million disaster survivors with a temporary housing-related contractor. In short, the emergency response agency exposed them to identity theft.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Google's just-announced cloud gaming service, Stadia, holds the promise of seamless, multi-device gaming. Is it too good to be true? WIRED's gear team breaks it down in a new episode of our Gadget Lab podcast. 🎧

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Long before Robert Mueller led the just completed Russia report, he was the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division when Pan Am 103 was bombed. The case wound up testing his sense of justice and morality in a way that few other cases ever have

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  6. 3 hours ago

    Catch up on today’s news in two minutes or less: ✅: Mueller's Report is in. But what happens now? ✅: Apple has an event on Monday, but don’t expect flashy gadgets ✅: Think you’re safe from floods? A new report says you’re probably not

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    3 hours ago

    Don't think it's over, it's only just begun

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  8. 3 hours ago

    NEW: Robert Mueller has submitted his final report to AG William Barr. Next steps: Barr will submit his own report to Congress, which could contain as much or as little information has he chooses. There’s no guarantee the public will ever lay eyes on it

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  9. 4 hours ago

    On 's birthday, here are his answers to the questions you search the most about him on the internet.

    Keegan-Michael Key & Olivia Munn Answer the Most Searched Questions
    "The Predator" stars Keegan-Michael Key and Olivia Munn take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the internet's most searched questions about themselves.
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  10. 4 hours ago

    At last, Robert Mueller's Russia report is officially complete. While we wait for details to be released to the public, read the untold story of Mueller's time in combat in Vietnam

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  11. 4 hours ago

    BREAKING: The Mueller Report has been handed to AG William Barr, but details have not been released to the public. More to come, but here's on what we do know about the investigations as a whole:

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  12. 5 hours ago

    If you like cool-sounding science terms, escape velocity should fit the bill. But what does it mean? Allow us to explain.

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  13. 6 hours ago

    🌸 Spring is in the air, and so are the sales. Looking for winter gear⛷️, a new phone📱, or some new cans 🎧? We've picked the best deals so you don't have to. Sign up for the inside scoop. 📩

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  15. 6 hours ago

    You can find out more about Field’s maps and what they say about the 2016 election here: 6/

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  16. 6 hours ago

    This map shows where the vote was the closest. Called the Blended America Map, it uses the Zip Code Tabulation Areas of counties where the 2016 vote came down to + or - 5 percentage points 5/

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  17. 6 hours ago

    The choropleth highlights map may be the most insightful of them all. It shows vote share in counties that flipped political parties between the 2012 & 2016 elections. Bright colors convey big margin of victory and lighter shades indicate a narrow one 4/

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  18. 6 hours ago

    The value-by-alpha map uses color and opacity to indicate vote share and population in an area. Bright and vibrant colors show a high vote share in a densely populated area and a light color indicates high vote share in a sparsely populated area 3/

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  19. 6 hours ago

    This dasymetric dot density map accounts for population density in a given area. Instead of filling an entire state or county with the color red or blue to indicate which party won, Field uses red and blue dots to represent every vote that was cast 2/

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  20. 6 hours ago

    Is the US actually this red? It all depends on what map you look at. Ken Field's gallery of alternative maps from the 2016 election shows markedly different stories about the state of US politics 👀 1/

    Getting rid of the electoral college also means creating a system where this map isn’t enough to elect a Republican.
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  21. 7 hours ago

    With Washington and the rest of the country still waiting on Robert Mueller's report, here's on what the Mueller probe 'wrapping up' might actually look like:

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