Hello, and welcome to a new edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. This time around we have quite a bit more coronavirus news—plus a cool bit of casting news for The Mandalorian.Harvey Weinstein Might Have CoronavirusFormer movie executive and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus. Per a report…
DetailsPure, distilled joy is hard to come by these days. But if you logged onto Instagram at around 2pm ET last week, you might have spotted children’s book author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers reading one of his books live to his 267,000 followers. If you were lucky, you also might’ve caught him making sound effects,…
DetailsModern capitalism has never seen anything quite like the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In a matter of months, the deadly contagious bug has spread around the world, hobbling any economy in its path. In the United States, where consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity, commerce has come to a standstill as people…
DetailsMonday, March 23, 2020. By Andrew Hamm, with cartooncollections.com. Things can feel pretty scary right now, so here are some tips on how to talk to kids about Covid-19 and how to keep them entertained while schools are closed. Every weekday, WIRED publishes a new cartoon about the worlds of science and technology. Check back…
DetailsIt was about 8:30 pm on December 30, and Marjorie Pollack, a physician and epidemiologist, was working in her home office in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Her email pinged. In her inbox was a note from a frequent and reliable contributor to ProMED, an email list of disease alerts for which Pollack serves as deputy editor.…
DetailsTwenty-nine-year-old Jill Carol Skolek was a single mom in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. April 29, 2002, was the first time her 6-year-old son, Brian, had come back from school and didn’t her waiting for him at the bus stop near their house. When Brian got home he discovered his mother in bed, in what he thought…
DetailsWorkers at UCSF Medical Center and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are wearing the devices, and Oura has asked another 150,000 users to share their data. The rings aren’t exactly comprehensive trackers, but they do record body temperature, heart rate and other vitals. In the near term, they could alert medical workers if they have…
DetailsIN THE WILD — There’s no patch available now. Here’s what to do until Microsoft issues one. Dan Goodin – Mar 23, 2020 7:40 pm UTC Attackers are actively exploiting a Windows zero-day vulnerability that can execute malicious code on fully updated systems, Microsoft warned on Monday. The font-parsing remote code-execution vulnerability is being used…
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DetailsPhotojournalists work on the front lines of any unfolding story, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, the front lines are on lockdown. Since the first cases appeared in Wuhan, China in December, the coronavirus has quickly become “the defining global health crisis of our time,” according to the World Health Organization. More than 316,000 people in…
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