Last week, when Google gobbled up Fitbit in a $2.1 billion acquisition, the talk was mostly about what the company would do with all that wrist-jingling and power-walking data. It’s no secret that Google’s parent Alphabet—along with fellow giants Apple and Facebook—is on an aggressive hunt for health data. But it turns out there’s a…

Is the killing and dismemberment of a journalist a mistake? How about the collision of an experimental car with a woman walking across a street?During an interview aired on Sunday, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he believed both were mistakes. The interview, filmed with journalists Mike Allen and Dan Primack for the program Axios on…

In the fictions of Mark Twain and CSI and more, the identification of fingerprints is one of the most well-known methods for solving crimes. In real life, collecting fingerprints left on a window or doorknob is a delicate science, as well as an important one. Preserving fingerprints can help definitively link a person to a…

Teeming off Hawaii’s famous beaches is a complex web of life—sharks, turtles, seabirds—that relies enormously on tiny larval fish, the food for many species. In their first few weeks of existence the larvae are at the mercy of currents, still too puny to get around on their own, gathering by their millions in surface “slicks”…

Microsoft says the Surface Pro X—the latest version of its vaunted 2-in-1 tablet-puter—is the thinnest, fastest, lightest, longest-battery-lived, and fastest-charging Surface to date. Most of these superlatives are made possible by the inclusion of a brand-new CPU called the SQ1, which was designed not with Intel or AMD but rather with Qualcomm.The catch is that,…

Esther Wojcicki—journalist, teacher, the renowned "Godmother of Silicon Valley," and mother of uber-successful daughters Susan Wojcicki (YouTube’s CEO), Anne Wojcicki (23andMe founder and CEO), and Janet Wojcicki (UCSF doctor and researcher)—did not want to write just another parenting manual.Her new book, How To Raise Successful People (read an excerpt here), isn’t an instructional manual to…

Good day to you, and welcome to another installment of The Monitor, WIRED’s culture news roundup. We had a busy weekend with WIRED25, but there was a lot of news happening outside of San Francisco as well. Let’s get you all caught up.Disney+ Could Have More Than 100 Million Subscribers by 2025Of all the fronts…

Balderton Capital, one of the so-called “big four” early-stage VC firms in London (the others being Accel, Atomico and Index), has raised a new $400 million fund to continue backing…

Apple wants to go to the moon. Its rocket: Apple TV+. Its pilots: Maril Davis, Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald Moore, creative forces behind fan favorites like Fargo, Battlestar Galactica, and Outlander.In the team’s most recent creation, For All Mankind, Moore and company introduce audiences to a new history of the space program—one where…

While across much of Asia, November 11th is either “singles day” (a $38 billion Alibaba extravaganza this year) or Pepero Day (named because 11/11 looks like a bunch of chocolate…