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PLUS: How to prevent athlete injuries, voting machine vulnerabilities, and Uber's new safety features. View this email in your browser  09.28.19   SPORTS Three Simple Tests Might Help Prevent Athletes' Injuries BY ERIC NIILER Coaches in the NFL and elsewhere are using software that claims to identify a player's weak spots. All it takes is a force plate—and a leap of faith.   IDEAS Forget Mensa! All Hail the Low IQ BY VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN Ask not where you rank on the intellectual leaderboard, but what you want from your mind.   RIDE HAIL Uber's New Features Put a Focus on Rider Safety BY AARIAN MARSHALL Passengers will be able to text 911 from inside the app. Uber also is offering new ways to confirm a driver's identity.   CONNECTED Enjoy Free Internet at the Library? You Can Thank This Woman BY KLINT FINLEY Librarian Jean Armour Polly along with African pioneer Adiel Akplogan are among this year's 11 inductees to the Internet Hall of Fame. GET WIRED Get 1 year of WIRED access for just $10.   When information is cheap, context is more valuable than ever.   Subscribe now   OPINION The Dangers of Delaying FAA Modernization BY TIDAL W. MCCOY Opinion: Stuck with mid-20th-century technology, air traffic controllers cannot handle the ongoing rise of commercial airlines and drones.   HACK THE VOTE Some Voting Machines Still Have Decade-Old Vulnerabilities BY LILY HAY NEWMAN The results of the 2019 Defcon Voting Village are in—and they paint an ugly picture for voting machine security.   THE MONITOR The Batman May Have Found Its Commissioner Gordon BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER Westworld star Jeffrey Wright is currently in talks for the part, and Jonah Hill is rumored to be joining the film in a 'secret role.'   DENIAL Trump Still Doesn't Believe Russia Hacked the 2016 Election BY ANDY GREENBERG Trump has publicly played down Russia's role in the 2016 election. But even privately, Trump trusts conspiracy theories more than US intelligence agencies.   Get the Tech in Two Newsletter Catch up on tech's most important stories, in two minutes or less. Delivered every weekday.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions