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Inside IMAX’s Big Bet to Rule the Future of VR Jan 20, 2017

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The best place on the planet to watch a movie is almost certainly from the center seat in the second-to-last row of the David Keighley Theater at IMAX’s headquarters in Playa Vista, CA. The theater seats 95, all in the shadow of a screen 60 feet wide and 42 feet tall. Twelve channels of sound project from the walls, the ceiling, and the deep recesses of your soul. Everything is black, with deep blue lighting that disappears as soon as any of the six laser projectors starts up.

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Ease Back Into WIRED Book Club With the Hugo-Winning Novella Binti Jan 19, 2017

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It is not enough to resolve to read more in the New Year—as something like 12 percent of Americans do. You must have a plan, a program, a structure. And, crucially, a group of wonderful, intellectually adventurous people to be accountable to. Welcome to WIRED Book Club, back for 2017 and better than ever. If this is your first time, here’s how it works.

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Nintendo’s Boss Promises the Switch Won’t Have the NES Classic’s Supply Issues Jan 18, 2017

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So, Nintendo’s Switch is pretty fantastic. Or, rather, it could be if it gets some killer games. But after watching the company’s livestream today and playing around with the new console, we had questions. Fortunately, Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America’s president and chief operating officer, was there to answer them.

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Hands On: Nintendo’s New Switch Console Is Fantastic—But Short on Games Jan 17, 2017

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It’s exciting in general to get yourhands on a gaming machine for the first time, asI did this morning in New York at Nintendo’s first big Switch preview. But it’s doubly fun because Switch, coming March 3 for $299, is sounique. At its core, it’s a tablet with a 6.2-inch screen (a little bigger than an iPhone 7 Plus). You can slip it into a dock that hooks up to your TV if you want to play on a big screen.

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As 4K TVs Approach Perfection, Cheap Sets Go on the Attack Jan 16, 2017

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If you’ve ever witnessed a 4K OLED television playing HDR video, you’ve seen the pinnacle of TV tech. The black levels look like deep space. The contrast is perfect. The colors are stunning. Every frame mesmerizes, a twinkling, tack-sharp work of art. At CES, incredible OLEDs from LG and Sony and equally stunning LCDs from Samsung dominated the news. With good reason. They’re all gorgeous. But while OLEDs are coming down in price, the cheapest ones still run a couple grand.

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HTC U Ultra Is a Phone for Teens, or Something Like That Jan 13, 2017

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Every smartphone is a good smartphone now. Doesn’t really matter who makes it—huge companies like Apple and Samsung, upstarts like Nextbit and Blu—or which flashy features it has or doesn’t have. As long as you have around $250 to spend, you’re positively spoiled for choice. That’s great news for you, and it’s been terrible news for HTC. HTC’s last phone, the HTC 10, was a very good phone: It did all the good phone things in all the good phone ways.

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Even Steve Jobs Didn’t Predict the iPhone Decade Jan 12, 2017

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When Apple set out to build a smartphone, the team tasked with doing so didn’t planon changing the world.It didn’t foresee theApp Storebecoming a billion-dollar business full ofbillion-dollar businesses like Uber, Snapchat, andWhatsApp. It wasn’ttrying to reinvent howpeople communicate, shop, and even hook up. It was tryingto buildan iPod that made phone calls.

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LG’s New OLED TVs Somehow Look and Sound Even Better Jan 11, 2017

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Heading into the craziness ofCES 2017, it was hard to see how LG could make its OLED televisionsany better. Cheaper? Sure. But better? We’re talking about TVs that some say offerthe best picturein the history of television. Yet LGmanaged to crank up thewow factor.

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The Epic Story of O.J.: Made in America’s Creation Jan 10, 2017

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When Ezra Edelman set out to make the documentary O.J.: Made in America, he had one goal: To make a five-hour movie about howthe 1995 O.J. Simpson murder case a flashpoint for talking about race and the American criminal justice system. Not only didhe hit his goal, but he overshot that runtime by about three hours. “No sane person would do this,” Edelman says now, sitting in a lounge in New York’s Post Factory, where his doc was edited.

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Want a Peek at the Future of Laptops? Check Out Samsung’s New Chromebooks Jan 09, 2017

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Now that Chrome OS users can get the millions of apps in Google’s Play Store, tech firms are developingentirely new kinds of devices for the platform. After months of speculation, rumors, and delays—which may have had something to do with the Note 7 battery scandal—Samsung announced the new Chromebook Plus and Chromebook Pro today at CES. The Plus and Pro are two flavors of one device, but it’s hard to say what kind of device that is.

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