Cooking as programming, a 50,000-watt sound system and YouTube pioneers

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C U L T U R E Winning Bullipedia hackers 'extract the DNA' of recipes and reimagine cooking as programming Wired.co.uk has been in Barcelona to see the two winning projects of the Hacking Bullipedia contest be announced following a pitching session » C U L T U R E Despacio: the 50,000-watt sound system designed for discerning audiophiles LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy has teamed up with 2ManyDJs and legendary audio engineer John Klett to build a monster 50,000-watt soundsystem called Despacio. Here's how it came about » C U L T U R E The rise and fall of YouTube's celebrity pioneers For the past eight years Wired.co.uk has been quietly watching a community die. Almost a decade ago YouTube hosted an accelerated micro-virtual-collective of video bloggers, a small group of content creators and consumers with a desire to communicate and experiment with the future of modern media » T E C H N O L O G Y Google and Apple alums invent adorable robots that teach kids to code It's common knowledge: if you want to learn a language -- really learn a language -- it's best to start young. This is true for traditional dialects like Chinese, Spanish and English, but it's also true of programming » T E C H N O L O G Y Radar with 'no privacy issues' detects hidden weapons from 25 metres away A team of electronic engineers will launch a radar scanner in 2014 that can detect hidden guns, knives and explosives from up to 25 metres away, without breaching a carrier's privacy » T E C H N O L O G Y Schmidt pens mischievous 'Eric's Guide' to help iPhone users convert to Android "Many of my iPhone friends are converting to Android," writes Eric Schmidt at the start of the 900-word "Eric's Guide: Converting to Android from iPhone" » Promotion Shell Let's Go Shell and Wired are offering you the chance to win an iPad Mini, an iPhone 5s and a pair of on-ear Sennheiser Momentum headphones. Enter now to win this amazing tech bundle! Click here G A M E   R E V I E W S Call of Duty: Ghosts review (Xbox One, PS4) Wired.co.uk reviews Call of Duty: Ghosts on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Listen » P O D C A S T Wired.co.uk Podcast 152: With Kim Dotcom and Leander Kahney Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days Listen »

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