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How Apple Watch is inching toward becoming a medical device

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Sep 15, 2018 1:00 AM - In its fourth incarnation, called Series 4 and due out later this month, the Apple Watch will add features that allow it to take high-quality heart readings and detect falls. It's part of Apple's long-in-the-making strategy to give people a distinct reason to buy a wrist gadget that largely does things smartphones already do.
The problem with recycling iPads, iPhones and other gadgets: They catch fire.

Geoffrey A. Fowler
Sep 15, 2018 1:14 AM - The problem with recycling iPads, iPhones and other gadgets: They catch fire.
Analysis: In smart homes, convenience trumps privacy risks

Sonia Rao
Sep 15, 2018 1:08 AM - We set up motion detectors in our homes. We install cameras. We speak to Google Homes and Amazon Echoes as we would actual humans and allow them to listen in on our daily lives.
Essay: Why is it so hard to turn a Tinder date into a relationship?

Jenna Birch
Sep 15, 2018 1:00 AM - It's great that you can swipe on an app and find new dates quickly. What's less great is how few of those dates seem to stick, and how chaotic the landscape can seem. Is all the work of matching and meeting up actually counterproductive?
Analysis: Maybe the only way to keep Facebook from harming us is to hide everything

Abby Ohlheiser
Sep 15, 2018 1:00 AM - Ben Grosser, an artist and assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has an idea: What if we just got rid of all the content? Enter Safebook.
Review: Hands on with the iPhone Xs Max, the Big Mac of smartphones

Geoffrey A. Fowler
Sep 15, 2018 1:15 AM - Confused by the latest crop of Apple's iPhone? Here's how to think of them: Big and pricey -- iPhone Xs ($999); Bigger and a little less pricey -- iPhone XR ($749); Biggest and most-expensive ever -- iPhone Xs Max ($1,099).
Why Apple designer Jony Ive is 'zealous' about Apple Watch

Christina Passariello
Sep 15, 2018 1:07 AM - "Apple's inception was about making tech useful and relevant, in a very personal way. And the watch is unambiguously the most personal product we make," said Jony Ive, Apple's design chief who joined the company more than 25 years ago and first made his mark with the candy-colored iMacs of the 1990s.
Elon Musk said a Tesla could drive itself across the country by 2018. One just crashed backing out of a garage.

Drew Harwell
Sep 15, 2018 1:00 AM - No one was hurt, but the owner was rattled: The car had failed disastrously, during the simplest of maneuvers, using one of the most basic features from the self-driving technology he and his family had trusted countless times at higher speeds.
Analysis: Apple finally gets how to play the China Market

Tim Culpan
Sep 15, 2018 1:00 AM - Five years ago Apple released a device it thought would appeal to consumers in China. The iPhone 5c was a failure. The c was supposed to stand for color. In China, it just stood for cheap. Apple has learned its lesson.
More than 1 in 4 American users have deleted Facebook, Pew survey finds

Hamza Shaban
Sep 8, 2018 1:07 AM - Nearly three-quarters of American Facebook users have changed how they use the social media app in the past year, following a barrage of scandals involving the abuse of personal data, foreign interference in U.S. elections and the spread of hateful or harassing content on the platform.

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