DEXA Scan Deep Dive, With Insights From the Experts (2025)
DEXA scans measure your bone density, lean muscle, and adipose visceral tissue. But unless you’re an athlete or approaching menopause, you probably don’t need a detailed full-body scan.
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Android’s next flagship processor will be the ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’
Qualcomm has announced that its upcoming flagship mobile chipset is the “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5,” a confusingly named successor to the Snapdragon 8 Elite. While the processor itself will be unveiled during the Snapdragon Summit on September 23rd-25th, Qualcomm…
Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy
At WIRED Health 2025, Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui and the genomics pioneer George Church laid out their view of the future of genetic screening.
Microsoft is changing how Xbox controllers work on Windows 11
Microsoft has started testing a change to how Xbox controllers operate on Windows 11. The change will allow Xbox controllers to easily access the Task View on Windows 11 to tab between apps and games, using the Xbox button. “A…
OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.
Liquid Glass Could Be One of Apple’s Most Divisive System Designs Yet
As Apple’s radical redesign rolls out across all of its platforms today, designers and app creators are still unconvinced it delivers the “greater focus” it promises.
WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, CRISPR Breakthroughs, and More
This year’s WIRED Health summit in Boston featured Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, and a day’s worth of insights and provocative conversations.
The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic
At the WIRED Health summit, pioneer David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a new gene-editing technique that could target multiple unrelated diseases.
MAHA Wants Action on Pesticides. It’s Not Going to Get It From Trump’s Corporate-Friendly EPA
The White House’s new Make America Healthy Again strategy makes some asks of the EPA—but critics say the agency is too industry-friendly to make a difference.
Hugging Face Releases FinePDFs: A 3-Trillion-Token Dataset Built from PDFs
Hugging Face has unveiled FinePDFs, the largest publicly available corpus built entirely from PDFs. The dataset spans 475 million documents in 1,733 languages, totaling roughly 3 trillion tokens. At 3.65 terabytes in size, FinePDFs introduces a new dimension to open…