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App Pack | The Best Mobile Apps for Skiing and Snowboarding

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




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Space Is Hard | How NASA Will Science Its Food and Drink for Interplanetary Travel

Growing food in space is hard. Keeping a limited supply of water clean and drinkable is no easy task either. Here's how NASA is going to science meals for interplanetary travel.




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Data Attack - Do You Have a Normal Sex Life?

The average person will kiss 21.5 people in their lifetime. And while guys lose their virginities at 16.8 years old, women will hold out a little longer until 17.2 years old. Find out how you stack up between the sheets as we run through the stats of an average sex life, as told with sex dolls.




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This Room-Size VR Game Makes You Into an Actual Action Hero

Thanks to "room-scale" VR, full-body gaming is coming. WIRED's Peter Rubin tries out "Raw Data," a first-person shooter that turns players into jumping, shooting, crouching, katana-slicing action heroes. Your living room will never be the same again.




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Design FX - It Took 5 Actors to Create "Deadpool's" Colossus

And one was nearly 7 feet tall.




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Inside the LSD Museum That the DEA Somehow Hasn’t Nuked

Welcome to the Institute of Illegal Images, San Francisco's museum of LSD blotter paper art.




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Virgin Galactic's New SpaceShipTwo Puts it Back in the Space Race

Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo shuttle designed to more safely bring tourists on sub-orbital space flights.




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Wow! Haha! Angry! Facebook Finally Has Emoji Reactions

Facebook just expanded the “Like” button with a feature it calls Reactions---six animated emoji the company hopes will let users to respond with more emotional nuance to the posts in their news feeds.




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How to Keep Your iPhone’s Security Countermeasure From Obliterating Your Data

One of the iPhone’s hallmark security features could leave you locked out if you forget your password too many times. Here’s how to keep your data saved, in case you can't always trust your short-term memory.




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Welcome to the Robot Hotel - Please See the Velociraptor for Check-In

Tired of having to talk to hotel staff? Welcome to the automated future at Japan's robot hotel.




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5-Year-Olds Ask an Astronaut What It’s Like to Be in Outer Space

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.




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Absurd Creatures | Good Luck Going in the Ocean Ever Again

There's a terrifying hunter lurking on the bottom of tropical seas. It's called the bobbit worm, and it can destroy.




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Boeing's Self-Cleaning Bathroom Would Nuke Germs with UV Rays

The plane maker has a prototype bathroom that uses ultraviolet light to zap 99.99 percent of germs in just three seconds.




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NASA Wants to Make a Supersonic Jet With No Boom

The Concorde jet could go Mach 2 but it was so loud that it was banned from flying over land. Now NASA engineers think they have a design that could muffle the boom and might usher in the two-and-half hour New York to LA flight.




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Wired Movie Review | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

It might seem like a blunder to try to wring comedy out of a very serious conflict, but in Tina Fey's new movie, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, she walks the line between humor and heart expertly. The film isn’t the whole picture of the war in Afghanistan, but what it does show, it shows in very sharp focus.




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Everything We Know About MH370 in 170 Seconds

Two years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared somewhere over the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board. What then grew into humanity's largest, most expensive search operation has also been among its most frustrating and beguiling.




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App Pack | Don’t You Dare Vacation Without These Must-Have Apps

Got a vacation coming up this spring? WIRED has all the best apps you'll need for a fuss-free trip.




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Tesla's Summon Feature Is Like Knight Rider. Kinda

Summon is fundamental to Tesla's goal of making driverless cars—and it won't stay a party trick forever.




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Don’t Freak Out Over Google’s AI Beating a Go Grandmaster. It’s a Good Thing

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.




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Absurd Creatures | The Tarsier Leaps Like a Superhero, Looks Like Yoda

Meet the tarsier, the wide-eyed staring contest champ of the animal world. Its eyes have evolved to be so enormous, it can’t even move them in its head. Which means you can say whatever you want to a tarsier and it can’t roll its eyes at you.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Riding the New Hendo Hoverboard 2.0 Is Like Levitating the Gnar

In 2014, startup Arx Pax made headlines with the Hendo Hoverboard. With some helpful input from Tony Hawk and others, now we have the Hendo Hoverboard 2.0, and Brent Rose just scored the first ride on it.




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App Pack | All You Need for a Festive St. Patrick's Day

St. Paddy’s Day gives anyone a great excuse to wear green and go drink beer. These apps are just the thing you need to celebrate the foremost patron saint of Ireland.




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Data Attack - Are You Addicted To Your Phone?

On a typical day, the average person checks their phone 85 times. In total, we spend about 5 hours on our phones each day. Here we explore the fine line between normal phone use and device addiction.




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Award-Winning Chef Takes on NASA Space Food

We brought a renowned Houston chef to NASA's Food Lab so he could try and provide a fine dining experience using only space food.




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Buckle Up, Space Fans: A New Batch of Pluto Science Is Here

Scientists are making even more startling findings from Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.




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Apple's iPad Pro May Be Smaller, But It's Packed With Power

"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.




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App Pack | These Apps Offer Relief During Tax Season

Tax season really snuck up on you again, didn't it? You still have until Monday, April 18 to file and pay your taxes, and while that's plenty of time to get all your paperwork in order, you might need a little help with these apps.




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How Oculus Cracked the Impossible Design of VR

The Oculus Rift is now shipping. Four years of intense work led to this moment. WIRED got to look at some of the early prototypes that would have never made it to market.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Is Vaping Really Healthier than Smoking?

Vaping is smoking's hottest new trend--just ask Leonardo DiCarpio who was caught puffing on one at the Golden Globes. The industry claims this is a safe alternative to cigarettes, but how much do we really know about the health effects of vaping? From The Vape Shop to USC's Health and Science campus, Brent Rose explores this new trend and searches for answers.




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App Pack | 5 DIY Apps for Mastering Your Weekend Projects

Doing some home improvement, but you're hoping to avoid a trip to urgent care? These apps will help you with those DIY projects.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Melissa McCarthy & Kristen Bell Answer The Web’s Most Searched Questions

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




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App Pack | Meditation Apps to Help You Stay Sane

Load up your devices with these mediation, mindfulness, and relaxation apps. Hopefully, they’ll help you find some inner peace. Namaste!




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Learning the Art of Sound Effects Is Weirder Than You Might Think

WIRED senior editor Peter Rubin learns the Foley ropes at Lucasfilm's new state-of-the-art sound lab.




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Moog’s DIY Kit Is a Fantastic Crash Course for Synth Noobs

The Werkstatt-01 from Moog Music is a synthesizer you build yourself. It's also a valuable tool for learning how these mystical analog machines work. It'll cost you around $200.




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Canon's Spendy New Movie Camera Can Truly See in the Dark

Canon's new ME20F-SH has bananas low-light capabilities. We shot some footage to show off its see-in-the-dark skills but be warned it'll cost you over $20K.




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A Brain Implant Brings a Quadriplegic’s Arm Back to Life

Ian Burkhart is paralyzed from the neck down, but thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in his brain he's able to swipe credit cards and play video games with his own hands.




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Data Attack - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Star Wars' BB-8

Here is everything you ever wanted to know about Star Wars' latest beloved droid. BB-8 goes to LAX to greet his very own BB-8 ANA Jet. ANA Star Wars plane: http://ana-sw.com/




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App Pack | These Apps Will Make You a Better Human (Environmentally Speaking)

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.




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Exclusive Footage of What It’s Like to See Through Magic Leap

An exclusive WIRED clip of what daily computing with Magic Leap technology could be like. Recorded directly through Magic Leap technology.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - How to Make VR Porn | OOO with Brent Rose

It’s been reported that porn will be one of the biggest content offerings driving demand for VR. But what actually goes into making the porn experience full dimensional and real for the viewer? Brent Rose goes on set of a VR porn production shoot to find out how porn is evolving with new technology. Special thanks to KinkVR.com




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AR, VR, MR: Making Sense of Magic Leap and the Future of Reality

The age of virtual realty is here but augmented reality and its cousin mixed reality are making strides. WIRED senior editor Peter Rubin breaks down the new platforms.




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App Pack - All the Apps You Need to Make This 420 the Best 420 EVAR

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).




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Data Attack - Pets Who Have Won The Internet

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.




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We Race The Stig in Go Karts (with GoPros)

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




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The Thrill of Flying a Solar Plane With a Coffin-Sized Cockpit

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.




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First Look at the New Ninjago Legoland | Giant LEGO NINJAGO Brick Battle!

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




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Designers Reimagine the Task Light—And It’s Gorgeous

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.




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Insane 'Swooping' Skydiving Makes Your Tandem Jump Look Lame

These skydivers are no ordinary adrenalin junkies. In the National Championships of Canopy Piloting competitors fly swoop in inches above the ground at close to 100 miles per hour. It’s an extremely technical sport that punishes any tiny mistakes.




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App Pack | Take Command of the Kitchen With These Cooking Apps

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.




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Absurd Creatures | The World’s Silkiest Anteater Is Not–I Repeat, Not–Stoned

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