It's Monday morning, you're late for work, and as you merge onto the freeway you see it: the sea of red brake lights. It's going to be a slow, frustrating trip--for all the suckers who have to drive their own cars. You click yours into autonomous mode and spend the slog getting ahead on work emails, or even catching up on sleep. Yes, the day you become a co-driver is fast approaching. But as cars master how to see, understand, and navigate the world, researchers are shifting their attention to another subject: you. Paradoxical it may seem, but the more control the car has, the more it needs to know about the person sitting behind the wheel--whether they're paying attention, their mood, even their health.

Biology, as human biologists will confess on bad days, is often just about moving tiny amounts of liquid around. This is kind of annoying if your genetic testing lab runs dozens of samples a day. But it's downright impossible if you want to run hundreds or even thousands of samples a day--as a growing crop of genetic testing companies hope to do. So Counsyl, a genetic testing company in South San Francisco, has hired some robots. Actually, they didn't just hire them; they built their own, designing parts and even repurposing a robot arm traditionally used to build cars. WIRED takes you on an exclusive look into one of the first fully automated genetic testing labs in the country.

Most single women look to their girlfriends for advice about dating. But instead of telling them about a conversation or sending screen shots they can now eavesdrop without being detected. Boompi is a dating app that lets women add their girl friends to private conversations with prospective suitors so they can give advice or just watch the romance unravel. But now instead of telling them about a conversation or sending screen shots your friends can eavesdrop without being detected. Boompi uses the swipe'yes' or'no' function to determine a match.