The top ten must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Pandemic fatigue is a deadly problem We may be done with the virus, but the virus most certainly is not done with us. ( NYT $) + The US recorded over 70,000 new cases in one day for the first time since July. ( NYT $) + Hospitalizations are going up. ( Axios) + How the Trump administration crippled the CDC. ( Ars Technica) + Pfizer says it will apply for emergency approval of its coronavirus vaccine in the third week of November, if all goes well. ( Forbes) + Twitter took down a tweet from a Trump adviser saying masks don’t work. ( CNN) + A new study found remdesivir has “little or no effect” on survival, says the WHO. ( BBC) + The terrible state of public health in the US has made the pandemic there so much worse. ( Wired $) + The pandemic is highlighting and exacerbating existing inequalities. ( New Yorker $) 2 Sweden’s covid strategy has been a disaster And no other nation should be trying to copy it. ( Time) 3 There’s a coordinated effort online to discourage Black voters It’s not about giving people incorrect information, but stoking inaction and apathy. ( NBC) 4 These apps use GPT-3 to write your emails for you But given there inevitably will be errors, and you’ll have to correct them, will it really save you time? ( Wired $) 5 How Mark Zuckerberg got into politics And, by cosying up to conservatives, opened himself up to accusations of bias along the way. ( WSJ $) + Facebook says it has rejected over two million ads for breaking political campaigning rules. ( The Guardian) 6 US government agencies will use AI to cull outdated regulations A pilot project last year at the health department found hundreds of technical errors and outdated requirements. ( Reuters) + AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind. ( TR) 7 Work is underway to make contact tracing apps that work across borders Technically, it’s fiddly but possible. The big challenge would be the politics. ( Wired UK) 8 How China could go carbon neutral by 2060 The bold new target could jolt others into action—here’s how it could be achieved. ( Nature) 9 It’s surprisingly easy to get away with art fraud 🖼️ As the price of art has skyrocketed, so have the incentives to produce fakes. ( The Verge) 10 Atari is launching its first console in more than 20 years 🎮 And it’s invented a new cryptocurrency you can spend while you play. ( Bloomberg $) | 
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