A cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London could become a unicorn factory to rival Silicon Valley, argues tech investor Saul Klein Saul Klein. These are Europe's 100 Hottest Startups, compiled by WIRED ⤵️ wired.com/hottest-startu…

Factuality is a made up word! I think they mean 'accuracy' – as in 'Accuracy is one of the biggest problems with AI' Maybe something to fix before you start charging people subscription fees and destroying the environment.

Tremors in the Blood is a Kindle Daily Deal today! You can grab it for $1.99 on Amazon if you're in the US. It's about liars, charlatans, and the illusion of justice, in case any of those things happen to be on your mind this week. amazon.com/Tremors-Blood-… Crooked Lane Books

This is a really fun story! My colleagues WIRED spent the day following a Waymo driverless car around San Francisco for a glimpse of the future that's already there and that's coming for the rest of us wired.com/story/waymo-ro…

"On Q-Day, everything could become vulnerable, for everyone: emails, text messages, anonymous posts, location histories, bitcoin wallets, police reports, hospital records, power stations, the entire global financial system." New by me for WIRED wired.com/story/q-day-ap…

Obsessed with the Matrix aesthetic on the Japanese cover of Tremors in the Blood—coming out later this month! 嘘発見器の発明者たち: 真実に取り憑かれた人々の物語

Spent the last few months working with WIRED's amazing video team on a YouTube series called 'Superhuman'—about the tech pushing humans to the limit. For the first episode I went to South Korea to try out an exoskeleton that can make you run faster! youtube.com/watch?v=OSBYly…

Japanese translation of Tremors in the Blood out now!

Hosting the main stage at #SXSWLondon today, introducing lots of great speakers including TS Anil from Monzo, Katherine Maher from NPR, Anna Bateson from The Guardian, Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia and lots more!

Peter Thiel and the other billionaires behind the Enhanced Games believe their ‘Olympics on steroids’ will usher in a new age of human enhancement. But what do they really want? New story from me for WIRED wired.com/story/enhanced…

After the Chepngetich bust, what next? (a) business as usual; (b) redouble the anti-doping fight; (c) surrender. Some post-Chepngetich reflections, prompted in part by Amit Katwala's excellent @wired piece on the rise of the Enhanced Games. outsideonline.com/health/trainin…