On Tuesday, life insurance provider John Hancock announced it would be rolling out a change for all incoming customers. If you signed up for a life insurance policy, you would be automatically enrolled in a program called “Vitality Go,” which provides policy holders with free stuff (think: gift cards or discounts at the grocery store) if you you hit certain health goals, from walking a certain number of steps to having low blood pressure. …

On Tuesday, news broke that the Department of Justice had started a probe into Elon Musk’s August 7 tweet: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” The news of the DOJ inquiry sent Tesla stock tumbling yet again, continuing what has been an extremely tumultuous 2018 for Musk (and, by proxy, Tesla). Since the beginning of 2018, Musk has [deep breath] angrily lashed out an an analyst on an earnings call; accused someone of being a pedophile; accepted a blunt from Joe Rogan on video; started a feud with the media about “fake news”; maybe trapped rapper Azealia…

I was not all that jazzed about this year’s iPhones after Apple’s presentation on Wednesday, but I was somewhat at a loss as to why. Most years, even if some of Apple’s glossy smarm can be grating, my rat brain still usually wants that shiny new phone it’s showing off. This year, not so much. Was it just that most of the improvements were incremental at best? Am I just getting old and tired? Was it an off year for Apple?

But Wall Street Journal reporter Christopher Mims explained it pretty well, I think:

Or as Popular Mechanics’ editor…

In 2013, Facebook hit upon an idea to grow its user base: It would subsidize internet access to Facebook on mobile devices in countries where cellular data was pricey, physical internet infrastructure was poor, and the smartphone revolution meant many leapfrogged from having no internet access at all to using their smartphone as their only source to the web. It found the perfect country to test this out on, in the 100 million citizens of the Philippines, calling it “Free Facebook.”

If the idea sounds familiar, it’s because Facebook attempted to do a version of this in many more countries…

My wife and I recently had our first child, a happy and healthy daughter who just turned 1 month old. We’ve also had an Amazon Echo sitting on our kitchen counter for about two years now, and before our daughter arrived, my wife had expressed concerns about how she would talk to Alexa in front of our daughter. We took a rainy afternoon while our daughter was napping to talk about her concerns about Alexa, while Alexa occasionally interrupted.

So what are your worries about how we speak to Alexa? I think it all started when I realized how much…

When my daughter was about three hours old, she and my wife were sleeping soundly in the postpartum room at the hospital. I hadn’t slept in over 40 hours, but I was wide awake, worrying about my daughter’s feet. More specifically, her feet seemed to be elevated above her head. I thought I remembered something from one of the many things I’d read preparing for our first kid — weren’t newborns supposed to have their heads higher than their feet?

It was then that I made my first mistake as a father. I Googled. I scrolled through message boards and…