Hit the slopes with these apps that give you snow forecasts, buddy tracking, and resort maps all at your fingertips.

Stephan James, star of the new Jesse Owens biopic “Race,” explains how he prepared to star as the once-fastest man on the planet. Co-star Jason Sudeikis and Owens two daughters also talk about the superstar athlete who broke numerous records and won four gold medals at the controversial 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Go behind the scenes of the virtual reality film “My Mother’s Wing” with United Nations senior advisor and filmmaker Gabo Arora and his crew.

Why don’t space shuttles float away? How do you know when to go to sleep? Astronaut Kjell Lindgren answers questions about life in space from a few intrepid kindergartners.

A look behind the scenes of the final stunt of the final Mythbusters show. Thanks for all the cool science nerdery, guys!

We go behind the scenes to show you how visual effects company Double Negative created the dark energy Zero Matter in ABC's "Agent Carter."

The match between Google's AlphaGo and a top ranked human player is a way of judging the suddenly rapid progress of artificial intelligence that may show how far these technologies have come—and how far they may go.

"Big things getting smaller" was the overarching theme for Apple's latest announcements. The company just launched a 9.7-inch version of the iPad Pro.

Three years after that first devkit came out it’s showing up at people’s houses starting now. The Oculus Rift proves that this is not a phase. This is the first real step into the world of VR.

At The Boss junket, Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell answer a Google Autocomplete interview together.

Trap-jaw spiders may be tiny but their unusual jaws pack a serious and lightning fast punch. Researchers using high-speed cameras recently discovered how speedy and lethal the spiders' bite can be.

Ice Cube takes WIRED's Autocomplete Interview, answering the world's most searched questions about himself.

Behind the scenes of Reuben Wu's 'Lux Noctis' photographs made with the Phase One camera and Fiilix's new drone-mounted AL250 LED light.

You’re worried about your impact on the environment. Maybe you just want to recycle more, or eat greener. Well, good on you. These handy apps can help.

It's 420, a day of unabashed weed revelry. But it's also 2016, and your regular pot smoking routine just won't cut it. Watch above to get all the apps you'll need to make this 420 the best 420 ever (that is, given it's legal where you are).

There are thousands of strains of weed. Cracking their genetic codes may be the key to transforming pot from a budding business to a high-flying industry and a cannabis analytics lab is trying to unlock the true potential of weed. Pictures by Preston Gannaway.

If you're a hiker and a beer fanatic this $50 starter kit from Pat's Backcountry Beverages could make your day. Clever engineering and technology make brews light enough for even extended backpacking trips. Cheers! TIRED Beer concentrates and the carbonator make brews that can be good, but they aren't great. Then again, you might not care after a long day of hiking.

The hydra's got kind of a jellyfish thing going on, with tentacles it uses to snag prey. But this tiny freshwater creature regenerates itself over and over again.

Sony's pirate-themed adventure makes multiple references to another classic video game pirate.

The frogfish is a vicious hunter that swallows its victims whole, but it doesn’t really bite its prey. By rapidly expanding its mouth to 10 times its normal volume, the predator creates a vacuum that sucks victims in.

When Google's AI beat the world's Go champion 4-1, it stirred a certain sadness in many people. But the reality is the technologies at the heart of AlphaGo are the future. So it's a time to be excited not scared.

Our childhood hermit crab has a rather more … sizable cousin: the 3-foot-wide, 9-pound coconut crab that can rip coconuts and sometimes, well, kittens to pieces.

Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, but he's also a jazz fanatic whose musical obsession has helped him better understand the world of cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics.

Werner Herzog's (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) new film examines the technologically connected world we have built.

Kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen brings his mesmerizing wind-powered creatures made of PVC-pipe to the San Francisco Exploratorium.

For decades the slam dunk reigned as the number one crowd pleaser in basketball. Not anymore. The three-pointer is the new star but some argue it's ruining the game and want the NBA to move the line further back.

The binturong has a prehensile tail, crazy feet, and excretes a scent that smells like popcorn. Just call it Orville Smellenbacher.

Siri's been little more than a slightly sassy sidekick for iPhone users, but now Apple has made some big moves to make the voice assistant work for more people.

Speakers at the WIRED Business Conference grapple with how AI will transform the job market.

For a tiny arthropod called a globular springtail, life is about being generally spherical and generally pissed-looking.

The tree kangaroo may have shrunken hind legs, but hey, at least it can walk backwards unlike regular roos. Oh, also: It can plummet out of trees and not suffer the consequences.

A workout with the social media-powered November Project San Francisco tribe who explain the bounce, dropping verbals, and the dreaded "We Missed You."

The experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory explain the incredibly precise, solar-powered Juno mission to the radiation-strewn planet Jupiter.

In South America, the peanut bug ambles around with a goofy-ass head. And that’s not its only clever defense against the bullies of the rainforest.

Watch Boeing maneuver this All Nippon Airways 787-9 Dreamliner through the skies as it practices for the 2016 Farnborough Airshow.

Want to know how crickets are farmed and turned into powder? Of course you do. You'll be eating the stuff soon enough.

Social Media and Live are going to be huge during the olympics this year. Watch as Sam Olstein leads a marketing team at GE pioneering new experiences at the 2016 Olympics across all forms of social media.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story behind the scenes sizzle reel shown at Celebration 2016.

You know those people you see on guided Segway tours? You know how you laugh at them and swear you’ll never do that? Well, Segway may have the answer to its ‘uncool’ problem with its new MiniPro.

Say hello to the secretary bird. It’s a bird of prey, but it ain’t doing no swooping. Instead, it kicks the everloving crap out of its victims.

Design FX dives into the incredible special effects of Star Trek Beyond. From the digital construction of the Starship Enterprise all the way down to the extraterrestrials themselves, Mike Seymour takes us into warp drive as he breaks this successful franchise down to its DNA.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog discusses his new film 'Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World' which examines the Internet and the data revolution.

GoPro's Hero4 Black costs $500, and the Yi 4K costs $250, which one is better? Not the expensive one.

A decade ago the tiny island fox was on the brink of extinction. Now, thanks to a radical reordering of its California island ecosystem, the fox is coming off the Endangered Species List.

The raunchy animated feature from the minds of Seth Rogen and Jonah Hll unfortunately lives up its name, but there's enough gleeful filth and silliness to guarantee plenty of smoke-filled midnight movie sessions.

The Hopsy HomeTap is a miniature keg fridge that lets you drink brewery-fresh beer from participating local microbreweries.

A surprising number of insects look like sticks and leaves. But nobody created them that way—they’re the product of the wonderful processes of natural selection.

Carlos “Charpu” Puertolas isn't interested in competitive drone racing, he prefers to fly freestyle in dangerous, abandoned buildings. His tricks and aerial showmanship has earned him notoriety in the drone community.

Rhino beetles love to fight and to hump. They use huge scoops on their heads to joust, launching each other off branches to win the right to mate.

The ride-sharing giant is in Pittsburgh for its latest big move: the country’s first autonomous taxi service. Select Uber users can now ride in self-driving cars, with humans at the wheel for an emergency.