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The movement of demonstrators echoes the fluid collective responses of the animal world, as groups respond to threats and signal across large spaces. https://bit.ly/3gkjOKr

The former Google engineer, who pleaded guilty to stealing the company's self-driving car technology, says he'd be at heightened risk for Covid-19. https://bit.ly/3flo5Md

Your membership gets you more than free two-day shipping. Here's what you may be missing. https://bit.ly/2P93jF4

DNA tests are cheap and ubiquitous. For some donor-conceived people, they can unearth long-buried truths about their ancestry—and lead to unorthodox reunions. https://bit.ly/3hRFXjw

The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns. But that's just one of the problems with how the country collects health data. https://bit.ly/3k26FrV

A big study by the US Census Bureau finds that only about 9 percent of firms employ tools like machine learning or voice recognition—for now. https://bit.ly/2XscuVV

Even as wild places crumble and collapse, people’s emotional connection to nature intensifies—but who bears the costs of our fawning over cute animals online? https://bit.ly/39DjsvP

The social media company could surely enforce its own rules on false and harmful posts—it just needs to cut into its massive profit margins. https://bit.ly/2P5g83f

What's happening in the streets isn't what you're seeing in the tweets. https://bit.ly/30eunt7

Bezos, Cook, Pichai, and Zuck will all be in the Zoom where it happens. https://bit.ly/3hVOyC7

Have you poured 1800 bowls of cereal in the past five months? You are not alone. https://bit.ly/2P4vRzC

A ransomware hit and subsequent outage caused problems in the company's aviation services, including flight planning and mapping. https://bit.ly/2CVhET8

This week's Get WIRED podcast traces how innovators' biases helped design slave ships, the panopticon, and facial recognition. https://bit.ly/303oeQh

Attackers increasingly try to confuse and bypass machine-learning systems. So the companies that deploy them are getting creative. https://bit.ly/30Q4SNN

OnePlus' new phone, the Nord, isn't available in the US at the moment, but its value is hard to beat. You get a 90-Hz screen, a big battery, great performance, and 5G for 399 euros. https://bit.ly/3g5Yrwa

The hypothetical particles are a cornerstone of quantum gravity theories, but they’re famously hard to observe. Yet maybe they create detectable ‘noise.’ https://bit.ly/2WX4742

A proposal would require 60 percent of ride-hail miles to be in electric vehicles by 2030. And the companies are on board. https://bit.ly/3jAXf6p

Make sure that your Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive data is protected—while still being easy for you to access. https://bit.ly/3gdTmlu

Smarten up your home and upgrade your audio with these discounts. https://bit.ly/30LFSHd

Dave Franco’s directorial debut is a lean thriller about a home share from hell. https://bit.ly/3hvDFGA

Netflix's German science fiction series stuck the landing in its third and final season. https://bit.ly/2EkMfdd

This week, the executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy revealed that the show would tackle the pandemic “for sure.” Are we even ready for that? https://bit.ly/2WQ0VXW

UC Davis scientists spent years editing a sex-determining gene into bovine embryos. In April, Cosmo arrived—and his DNA reveals how far the field has to go. https://bit.ly/3hCmymN

The fourth Xbox is coming this year, and these are its first batch of trailers, including new Halo and Fable games. https://bit.ly/3fX1arL

On the heels of another profitable quarter, despite a coronavirus-induced shutdown of its California plant, the electric-auto maker announced its fourth factory. https://bit.ly/3hrQemq

Last year, Apple announced a special device just for hackers. The phone—for approved researchers only—will soon go into circulation. https://bit.ly/30TWRHJ

Twitter's new policy won't make the conspiracy group disappear. But experts say it could dramatically reduce its ability to spread. https://bit.ly/2WMoscA

The new program from OpenAI shows how far the field has come—and how far it has to go. https://bit.ly/2WKOfBM

From defense contractors to videogame companies, the indictment details an astonishing array of victims. https://bit.ly/2BklGUb

The risk of nasty side effects in the Moderna and Oxford trials should be made clear now, before it ends up as fodder for the skeptics. https://bit.ly/2WKTcdH

Riders are skittish. Cleaning costs are soaring. Some, like the Bay Area's Caltrain system, face an existential crisis. https://bit.ly/2OKtqC0

Minutes and hours? That's old thinking. Artist Scott Thrift wants you to see the bigger picture. https://bit.ly/2ZKmGui

Scientists calculate that the unprecedented wildfires burned 37,500 square miles. For already endangered species, the conflagration may have spelled doom. https://bit.ly/2WHlNRs

From its need to make money to its ever-changing relationship with law enforcement, the hyperlocal news reporting app faces growing pains. https://bit.ly/3hoSOd3

Covid-19 is a new disease. Remdesivir is an experimental drug. How can scientists tell if it’s successful while the world shifts around them? https://bit.ly/39dXEGV

Is the mission of the app really to make the world better? Or does it thrive on chaos? We went behind the scenes to find out. https://bit.ly/3jltpCE

You deserve privacy. Here's how to check your phone, laptop, and online accounts to make sure no one's looking over your shoulder. https://bit.ly/2Cl0Ch4

Many so-called “quantitative funds” that mine historical data to make trading decisions fared poorly in March, when stocks fell sharply amid coronavirus fears. https://bit.ly/30tjouu

The instrument was supposed to accompany my family on a road trip. Now it’s helping us make music together. https://bit.ly/3jik2Ug

Concerns about the Chinese government shouldn't be dismissed, experts say. But banning TikTok would be a drastic measure. https://bit.ly/2OBVnMn

By tearing down bootleg network switches, researchers found ample opportunity for malice—but no signs of a backdoor this time. https://bit.ly/2OECIzo

The Netflix animated series has been pretty solid for three seasons now. But does it have anything left to say? https://bit.ly/399Kzyp

The inflated price of the anti-Covid drug may not bother hospitals, insurance companies, or even patients. But it's still not justified. https://bit.ly/32tx37q

Two more studies prove that the much-hyped antimalarial doesn’t treat Covid-19. https://bit.ly/3eFfns7

It can do everything any other Google Assistant display can do—on a smaller scale. https://bit.ly/3jakzaO

IBM's X-Force security team obtained five hours of APT35 hacking operations, showing exactly how the group steals data from email accounts—and who it's targeting. https://bit.ly/3gZLkNc

Hear the trailer for our new weekly show, which goes deep into the weirdest and most compelling stories in tech and science. https://bit.ly/2Wu03IC

An unprecedented “security incident” has rocked Twitter—and scammers are making off with huge amounts of bitcoin. https://bit.ly/2ZxvQtS

American companies are racing to commercialize technologies that can turn almost any kind of waste into clean hydrogen fuel. https://bit.ly/2WoeJc5

These creatures have evolved special "nanobodies" that may have an edge over human antibodies when it comes to developing a new treatment. https://bit.ly/30e5Se1