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Say what you want about it, nobody can call 2014 a boring year. Airliners up and disappeared, terrifying diseases surfaced. Gamers gated, and, like, everybody got hacked. If you hung around these parts, you got the stories that mattered. If you didn’t—or if you just want to revisit a riveting 12 months—here are WIRED’s 2014 faves: as selected by our editors and your clicks.
True intelligence? It’s all in the hands. A gallery for anyone who wants to look official while making a very specific, long-winded point.
7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual
Chris McKinlay was single and getting nowhere with his online dating matches. So, he put his Ph.D. in mathematics to good use.
How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love
Everything you ever wanted to know about black holes, but didn’t have the scientific context or knowledge to know you wanted to ask.
A Brief History of Mind-Bending Ideas About Black Holes
Clubs. Rods. Slingshots. The weapons used in this year’s Ukrainian Revolution were like something out of the Middle Ages.
Photos: The Brutal DIY Weapons of the Ukrainian Revolution
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One of the most haunting things we’ve published this year, a startlingly intimate look at the recovery process following plastic surgery.
Unsettling Images of Patients in Hiding After Plastic Surgery (NSFW)
While the world was transfixed by the case of MH370’s disappearance, we had a pilot weigh in on the most logical scenario.
A Startlingly Simple Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
Reimagining the things in our lives as utterly without function really makes you appreciate how well they’re designed.
15 Hilariously Bad Designs for Everyday Objects
Computers can beat humans at chess, poker, and Jeopardy. However, there’s still one game—invented in China 2,500 years ago—that we are still the best at.
The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win
Game|Life editor Chris Kohler took on a game so scary it convinced him of VR’s potential for gaming.
The Oculus Rift Game That’s So Real It Nearly Destroyed Me
An account from the road with the two founders of Dark Wallet, and their pursuit of truly untraceable money.
Waiting for Dark
Scientifically speaking, paper is arguably still the most advanced reading medium.
Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper
Slack is taking over the workplace, but its success is the least interesting thing about it.
The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup
The gender gap in tech is a widely acknowledged problem. Issie Lapowsky talked to females in the industry to find how bad it really is.
This Is What Tech’s Ugly Gender Problem Really Looks Like
Mat Honan takes the Facebook algorithms to their endpoints, with chaotic results.
I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me
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Chris Kooluris spent six months and $32,000 recreating an ’80s arcade in his apartment. Emily Dreyfuss chronicled his pursuit of an obsession from beginning to end.
Arcadia, A Love Story
Today, there are a lot of places you can learn to code. If you want to become an elite programmer, though, you need feedback. That’s where exorcism.io comes in.
Out in the Open: The Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
Two guys walk into a casino and win tens of thousands of dollars. Repeat, repeat, repeat. How they did it, and what went wrong.
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay
It’s no secret that America is nowhere near the top in global education. If we continue to ignore that, we’ll be left behind in the increasingly near future.
American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist
You will never see the worst the Internet has to offer. We sent Adrian Chen to the Philippines to uncover the hidden world of content moderation, and find out how bad it really gets.
The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed
In making Interstellar, Christopher Nolan and Kip Thorne had to find a way to visualize scientific theories. When they did, the results may have pushed astrophysics one step further.
How Building a Black Hole for Interstellar Led to an Amazing Scientific Discovery
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The A-10 Thunderbolt II, nicknamed the Warthog, is going to fight ISIS. We took a look at what it’s made of.
America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane Is Going Back Into Battle
Back in September, Maryn McKenna looked at the numbers behind the Ebola outbreak’s worst case scenario.
The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings: Act Now or Regret It
What do ice cream scoops, batteries, strollers, and helmets have in common? Nothing, except that we love how these particular ones were designed.
21 Awesomely Well-Designed Products We’re Dying to Own
For our December issue, Christopher Nolan teamed up with comic book artist Sean Gordon Murphy to pen a dark prequel to Interstellar.
Revealed: The Lost Chapter of Interstellar
As #Gamergate hit its peak, we had Laura Hudson weigh in on why, exactly, it was a futile tantrum that would never last.
Gamergate Goons Can Scream All They Want, But They Can’t Stop Progress
It bends, sure, but the iPhone 6 Plus is the best phone Apple has released in years, and the one that almost got Mat Honan to abandon Android.
WIRED Reviews the Apple iPhone 6 Plus
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Why a phone that costs about 50 times more than average is way, way better than yours.
What It’s Like to Use a $10K Phone With a Real-Life Personal Assistant
Mat Honan explores the explosion of startup money and innovation in the wake of marijuana legalization.
High Tech: How Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Are Rushing To Cash In On Cannabis
Gideon Lewis-Kraus goes deep on a startup flailing in a crowded marketplace in search of what it takes to hit it big in the tech industry right now.
One Startup’s Struggle to Survive the Silicon Valley Gold Rush
How KK Barrett, Spike Jonze’s production designer, created a vision for the near future that will likely define it as well.
Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report
The story of the Sony hack has reached fever pitch, but we’re still without definitive evidence that North Korea is responsible, despite U.S. intelligence officials’ statements. Kim Zetter does what she does best and unravels the gray area surrounding the hack.
The Evidence That North Korea Hacked Sony Is Flimsy
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