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Father-Son Duo Reinvent Drug Testing With ‘Digital Lab Rats’

In 2008, François-Henri Boissel was leading a charmed life. He was a young, successful investment banker working in Tokyo, Japan. And then the market crashed.He thought of sticking it out, waiting until things improved, but then he remembered a conversation he’d had with his...

The Banks of Tomorrow: Think Google and Facebook

When you swipe your debit card at the grocery store, no one walks into a bank vault looking for a box with your name on it.If you're among the 90 percent of Americans with a bank account, you're not exactly storing a personal stack...

BlackBerry Never Had a Chance: Mobile Innovation Is Over

These customers didn't flock to the phones because they wanted a fingerprint sensor or a slightly better camera. The reality is that Apple's new models are synced with cell phone contract cycles. After two years, contracts have expired, and our two-year-old phones have taken...

How to Get Involved in the Teaching Movement That Could Transform Education

In the weeks leading up to the publication of our cover story about Sergio Juárez Correa and the students of José Urbina López Primary School, it became clear that WIRED could help. We decided to sponsor the school and Juárez Correa, providing them with...

Soylent Raises $1M, Reminds Us What’s Wrong With Silicon Valley

//www.youtube.com/embed/oSkOVkgd8hYSoylent just locked down more than $1 million in funding for its geeky-nutrient-goop crusade, and when announced on Monday, the news stirred the kind of passion usually reserved for iOS versus Android flame wars.For example:Soylent is everything that's wrong with the tech industry, in...

Innovative Birds Are Also Less Flexible Learners

Griffin and her colleagues expected the birds that aced the test of innovation to also be able to adapt when the conditions that lead to their food reward were changed. But while faster innovators learned the initial discrimination (that one cue signaled food and...