It's no secret who the Surface Laptop 2 is for. Hint: Microsoft compares its ultraportable to the MacBook Air four times on its product page. Indeed, if you were looking for something similarly thin and light that runs Windows, the 13.5-inch Surface Laptop 2 …

On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring out of the company's offices in Mountain View, California. They packed themselves into a cheerful courtyard outside the main campus café, a parklike area dotted with picnic tables and a shade structure…

The average car includes some 30,000 parts, and that leaves a lot of room for things to go wrong. Seatbacks that fold unexpectedly in 20 BMWs. Overpromising fuel gauges on 21,915 Alfa Romeos. Possible loss of steering in 595 Toyota minivans. And that’s just from this week’s batch of recalls issued by the National Highway…

Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesWhat. The. Heck. Did you see that? Simone Biles appears to defy the laws of physics with this epic tumbling pass from the 2019 US Gymnastics Championships. It's called a triple-double. That means she rotates around an axis going through her hips twice while at the same time rotating about an axis going…

Caterwings, the Rocket Internet-founded corporate catering marketplace that operates in 8 countries, has acquired German competitor Lemoncat. Terms remain undisclosed, although I understand from a source close to the company…

A clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been testing new Ebola drugs with dramatic results. For newly infected patients on one of the drugs, the mortality rate dropped to 6 percent.JOHN WESSELS/Getty ImagesAmid unrelenting chaos and violence, scientists and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been running a clinical trial…

Facebook has denied contradicting itself in evidence to the UK parliament and a US public prosecutor. Last month the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee wrote to…

According to new data, tweets focusing on videogames, and the videogame industry, are having a bang-up 2019.Ivan Abreu/Getty ImagesGreetings, and welcome to this Monday's edition of The Monitor, WIRED's culture news roundup. What's happening? Glad you asked. First up, videogames are huge on Twitter. Second, Universal has canceled the release of one of its upcoming…

Digital payments startup QFPay announced today that it has raised $20 million in new funding led by returning investors Sequoia Capital China and Matrix Partners. MDI Ventures, the investment arm…

The discovery of a neuron that might act as a timekeeper could help explain how neurons transmit information.Mehmet Şeşen/Getty ImagesA long-standing controversy in neuroscience centers on a simple question: How do neurons in the brain share information? Sure, it’s well-known that neurons are wired together by synapses and that when one of them fires, it…