In fact, iFixit admits they're "at a loss as to how Google stuffed the entire system into a tiny featureless rectangle with no moving parts." If you geek out on this sort of stuff, iFixit also explains how the chip works.According to the company, Soli sends out waves of electromagnetic energy that the chip then…

Wednesday was warm in Santa Barbara but Google’s quantum computing labs were pleasingly cool—colder than outer space in some spots. Three fridge-sized silver cylinders hung below crowns of ducts and cables. Inside, superconducting quantum processors were at operating temperature, a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.Googlers gazed at one of the gleaming cylinders, sporting…

For even the hero-prince, twilight comes. It seems so long ago, now, the great harvest of technological progress we were guaranteed. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg set forth a radical mandate: to completely rewire how humans connect and, thus, how we shape the future. It was a time of pre-Recession idealism—and because we, too, believed in…

On Monday evening, Maggie Guterl and Will Hayward set out for the 60th time on a 4-mile loop through the hickory-covered hills of central Tennessee. It was dark and rainy on day three of the Big’s Backyard Ultra, a running race of fiendish design. There's no set distance, and no set total time, just endless…

Care for some of the sickest Americans is decided in part by algorithm. New research shows that software guiding care for tens of millions of people systematically privileges white patients over black patients. Analysis of records from a major US hospital revealed that the algorithm used effectively let whites cut in line for special programs…

Google has its own perfume—or at least one team of the company’s researchers does. Crafted under the guidance of expert French perfumers, the mixture has notes of vanilla, jasmine, melon, and strawberries. “It wasn’t half bad,” says Alex Wiltschko, who keeps a vial of the perfume in his kitchen.Google’s not marketing that scent anytime soon,…

In March, police in an Atlanta suburb embarked on a surveillance experiment in the hopes of reducing crime in the area. Along public roads near the local Six Flags amusement park, officers from the Cobb County Police Department installed 13 solar-powered automatic license-plate readers from Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based startup on a mission to “eliminate…

Hello, welcome to The Monitor, WIRED's roundup of all things pop culture. Today we have a lot of news from Disney—both from Marvel and Lucasfilm. Meanwhile, HBO is filling its coffers for the streaming wars. Here we go.Bob Iger Is Not Here for Famous Directors Talking Trash About MarvelRecently, as readers of this roundup may…

In her memoir, Becoming, Michelle Obama describes making the transition from a fancy job in a law firm to working in Chicago's City Hall. She writes that the lobby was "alarmingly and upliftingly packed with people," including couples getting married, people lodging complaints, babies in strollers, and old ladies in wheelchairs. She was enthralled by…

I would like to stop carrying around the Galaxy Fold now. It is oddly shaped and heavy. It weighs down my bag even more than other phones do.But the design is novel; it's centered around a flexible OLED display. That means when it’s expanded, when it unfurls itself to the world, it becomes a device…