The world's hottest startup isn't located in Silicon Valley–it's in suburban Florida. WIRED explores what Magic Leap's mind-bending technology tells us about the future of virtual reality.

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).

WIRED gets a tour from veteran Foley artist John Roesch of the Skywalker's custom built soundstage. Roesch reveals some of the strangest audio props that were used in films like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit,' 'Back to the Future' and 'Braveheart’.

Looking at cat videos increases your happiness by 28% and decreases anxiety by 33%. Goats and chickens are more viral in Uganda than dogs and cats. Find out all you wanted to know about viral pets on the Internet.

Former Stig, Ben Collins, goes head to head against Wired’s Transportation Editor Alex Davies in a go kart duel.

Pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg show WIRED around the enormous solar-panel covered wings of the Solar Impulse 2 plane and inside its cramped cockpit.

WIRED gets a first look at the brand new Ninjago section of Legoland’s California park. Ninjago at Legoland opens May 5th.

You probably don’t give your lamp much thought when you switch it on. But the San Francisco design firm Box Clever recently spent two years thinking about a lamp perfect for designers.

There are apps to help you convert measurements from tablespoons to cups, apps that help you balance out your noodle-to-sauce ratio, recipe apps that can offer suggestions of what you should cook tonight based on what's hiding in your fridge. And of course, if you like to cook but hate to shop, there are apps that will have uncooked ingredients delivered to you. All you have to do is bring the heat.

The silky anteater isn't high. It's just tired, because this proficient nocturnal hunter has no business being up during the day.

If you thought the civilian version of the Ford F-150 was a bit much, it’s time you met its ripping off-road cousin, the Raptor.

In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail.

Film director J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda surprised people waiting for tickets to see Miranda's Broadway hit 'Hamilton' with an acoustic version of the new Star Wars cantina song, 'Jabba Flow.'

The renovated SFMOMA is now one of the most considered gallery spaces in the world. But it's not just the museum that got a redesign. The SFMOMA has also reimagined the audio tour experience with it’s new app.

Stanford University's new Ocean One is a humanoid undersea robot designed for deep diving and extreme manipulation, thanks to its haptic feedback controls.

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.

Hyperloop One successfully tested its propulsion system in the Nevada desert. It's an important step, but the journey to making the Hyperloop a reality has just begun.

The crew behind the snowboarding series Higher TV went to some incredible lengths to get footage of Jeremy Jones plunging down snowy cliffs in the Himalayas, Wyoming and Alaska.

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, stars of upcoming film 'Neighbors 2,' answer the internet’s most searched questions in WIRED's Autocomplete interview.

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.

In the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence, the alien spacecraft seems to rip buildings from the ground using gravitational force. Is that physically possible? Nope. But that didn't stop us from calculating the mass it would need in order to destroy Earth.

The Antonov An-225 is the biggest plane in the world. It's such a sight that 20,000 people flocked to the Perth airport in Australia to see this thing land.

Google wants to give you a way of using an app without actually downloading it. It's called Instant Apps and Google says it'll be available in a few months.

Ferrari boss Sergio Marchionne is on record as saying an electric Ferrari is an obscene concept, but that didn't stop a group of guys in California from turning the 308 GT into an EV.

Kids swallow a lot of batteries. But now MIT researchers are developing swallowable origami to fish the nasty foreign objects out.

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.

For a bird called the kingfisher, stealth, dive-bombing and impalement is a way of life.

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

The NBA is undergoing a radical shift based on the Moreyball approach and an obsession with Points Per Possession. We take a deeper look at the trend with actual cut-up construction paper.

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.

At the top of the list of people who know how to rule social media there are two very important groups: comedians and celebrities. The Lonely Island team—Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer—actually belong to both of those groups. So WIRED asked them for hot tips on how to rule Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.

When the new Kings basketball stadium is completed this fall, they hope it’ll be so outrageously technologically advanced that it will even wow fans from Silicon Valley.

Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, and Robert Kazinsky answer the web's most searched questions about themselves and World of Warcraft.

In the 1970's a group of California hippies built a new technology that changed the world. Computers? Nope. They were building the earliest commercial mountain bikes.

Who better to predict the winner of this year's Euro Cup than a robot created by UCLA's Robotics and Mechanisms Lab (RoMeLa)? Special thanks to Dr. Dennis Hong and his incredible team at UCLA’s Robotics & Mechanisms Lab. To learn more about RoMeLa visit: http://www.romela

In the DIY sneaker world, where custom can mean anything from Sharpie swooshes to complex reconstructions, Ferrato offers a unique service: He dreams up new shoe designs and stitches them together from scratch. That kind of artistry comes at a price. Ferrato's shoes start at $1000.

Think orcs don’t have barbers? Think again. Gaelle Morand and her team at Industrial Light & Magic spent hours perfecting the hair on all of Warcraft’s characters. Here’s how they made “Haircraft” happen.

With iOS10 on its way, we thought we’d look back at the way iOS changed the world. But the most pivotal thing in iOS history is something Apple got right on its very first try.

Tech bubble? What tech bubble. The future looks bright, especially when you sit down to talk with these four people.

Apple's iOS 10 has some cool new features. WIRED's David Pierce runs down the mobile software's updates and overhauls.

Inside the massive Siemens train factory near Sacramento, Ca, building one of the most advanced, and fastest, trains in the US.

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

Not-so-friendly giant Fleshlumpeater visits the BFG in this exclusive clip from Steven Spielberg’s new movie.

Armed with 20 gallons of liquid nitrogen, Brent Rose super freezes objects the Internet has never seen frozen and uses a Phantom high-speed camera to record their destruction in super slo-motion.

Need to inspect a piping hot boiler? Why send a human in there, when you can send a drone instead.

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects in Central Intelligence used to de-age The Rock and Kevin Hart into high school, teenaged versions of themselves. Weta digital puts the The Rock’s face onto Vine star Sione’s body for an amazing locker room shower dance scene you won’t want to miss.

Mozzeria is a 100 percent deaf owned and operated pizzeria in a crowded San Francisco restaurant scene. So to stay afloat, it relies on a remarkable technology.

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.

In ‘Swiss Army Man’ a guy stranded in the wilderness gets by thanks to a corpse and a dying cell phone. The Daniels came to the WIRED office, so we asked them to show us what was on their smartphones.