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This is today's variation of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a regular dose of what's going connected successful the satellite of technology.
A caller app aims to assistance the millions of radical surviving with agelong covid
The news: A caller app could assistance radical with agelong covid header with their information by giving them a clearer knowing of what helps—and hinders—their health. The platform, called Visible, collects information each time to assistance radical recognize however their symptoms fluctuate.
How it works: Visible tracks a user’s bosom complaint variability successful bid to urge erstwhile idiosyncratic should instrumentality it casual for the adjacent fewer days to debar exhausting themselves, checking their bosom complaint successful the greeting and getting them to people their symptoms successful the evening.
Why it matters: Millions of radical astir the satellite unrecorded with agelong covid. Behind the numbers, determination is an tremendous magnitude of idiosyncratic pain, misery, and frustration, particularly regarding aesculapian ignorance astir the condition. Visible’s co-founder hopes to not lone assistance idiosyncratic radical amended negociate agelong covid, but to supply amended information to assistance researchers summation a amended knowing of the information too. Read the afloat story.
—Rhiannon Williams
Read much of our reporting connected agelong covid:
+ A conflict is raging implicit agelong covid successful children. While perchance millions of children endure from this mysterious illness, researchers are inactive debating however large a occupation it is. Read the afloat story.
+ We’ve lone conscionable begun to analyse the radical disparities of agelong covid. It whitethorn instrumentality years to recognize the afloat interaction of the pandemic and its aftermath connected Black radical successful the US. Read the afloat story.
+ From April 2021: Could covid pb to a beingness of autoimmune disease? Evidence is increasing that successful immoderate radical covid infections are producing autoantibodies targeting the body’s organs. If true, it could mean years of lingering sickness and misery for many. Read the afloat story.
California’s coming offshore upwind roar faces large engineering hurdles
This week, dozens of companies are expected to vie for the close to lease the archetypal commercialized upwind powerfulness sites disconnected the seashore of California successful a national online auction that could kick-start the state’s adjacent cleanable vigor boom.
The authorities has an ambitious goal: gathering 25 gigawatts of offshore upwind by 2045. That’s equivalent to astir a 3rd of the state’s full generating capableness today, oregon capable to powerfulness 25 cardinal homes.
But the plans are facing a daunting geological challenge: the continental support drops steeply conscionable a fewer miles disconnected the California coast, alongside tremendous engineering and regulatory obstacles. Read the afloat story.
—James Temple
The must-reads
I’ve combed the net to find you today’s astir fun/important/scary/fascinating stories astir technology.
1 The Twitter Files weren’t the bombshell Elon Musk billed them as
His carelessness triggered the harassment of immoderate of Twitter’s contented moderators, too. (WP $)
+ The files didn’t interruption the First Amendment, either. (The Atlantic $)
+ Hate code has exploded connected the level since helium took over. (NYT $)
+ Journalists are staying connected Twitter—for now. (Vox)
+ The company’s advertizing gross isn’t looking precise healthy. (NYT $)
2 Russia is trying to frost Ukrainians by destroying their electricity
It’s the country’s susceptible who volition endure the most. (Economist $)
+ How Ukraine could support the lights on. (MIT Technology Review)
3 Crypto is astatine a crossroads
Investors, executives, and advocates are unsure what's next. (NYT $)
+ FTX and the Alameda Research trading steadfast were mode excessively close. (FT $)
+ It’s good to opt retired of the crypto revolution. (MIT Technology Review)
4 Taylor Swift fans are suing Ticketmaster
They’re furious they weren’t capable to bargain tickets successful the botched merchantability past month. (The Verge)
5 The net is having a midlife crisis
What is it for? And much importantly, who is it for? (Slate $)
+ Tim Berners-Lee wanted the net to person an ‘oh, yeah?’ button. (Slate $)
6 We request a planetary woody to safeguard the earthy world
COP15, held this week successful Montreal, is our champion stake to thrash 1 out. (Vox)
+ Off-grid surviving is much viable these days than you whitethorn think. (The Verge)
7 What ultra-dim galaxies tin thatch america astir acheronian matter
We’re going to request caller telescopes to question much of them out. (Wired $)
+ Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has immoderate large plans for space. (Reuters)
+ A super-bright outer could hamper our knowing of the cosmos. (Motherboard)
+ Here’s however to ticker Mars vanish down the moon. (New Scientist $)
8 An elite media newsletter wants to screen “power, money, and ego.”
It promises unparalleled entree to prolific writers—and their audiences. (New Yorker $)
+ How to motion disconnected an email sensibly. (Economist $)
9 The metaverse has a passionateness for manner 👗
Here’s what its best-dressed residents are wearing. (WSJ $)
10 We’ve been sending substance messages for 30 years 💬
Yet we’re inactive misunderstanding each other. (The Guardian)
Quote of the day
“There is surely a rising consciousness of fear, justifiable fear. And I would accidental astir horror.”
—Pamela Nadell, manager of American University’s Jewish Studies program, tells the Washington Post she fears that antisemitism has go normalized successful the US, successful the airy of Kanye West's caller comments praising Hitler.
The large story
The gig workers warring backmost against the algorithms
April 2022
In the Bendungan Hilir neighborhood, conscionable a stone’s propulsion from Jakarta’s glitzy cardinal concern district, motorcycle drivers stitchery successful an informal “base camp.” They are drivers with Gojek, Indonesia’s largest ride-hailing firm. They’re besides portion of the backbone of a increasing question of absorption against the dispatch algorithms that predominate their lives.
Base camps grew retired of a contented that existed earlier algorithmic ride-hailing services came to Indonesia. They’re the web done which drivers astir the metropolis enactment successful choky communication. This consciousness of assemblage is present astatine the bosom of what distinguishes Jakarta’s drivers from different gig workers astir the world, and could uncover a caller playbook for resistance: a mode for workers to physique corporate power, execute a measurement of security, and instrumentality attraction of 1 different erstwhile seemingly nary 1 other will. Read the afloat story.
—Karen Hao & Nadine Freischlad
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A spot for comfort, amusive and distraction successful these weird times. (Got immoderate ideas? Drop maine a line oregon tweet 'em astatine me.)
+ Punk to politician is simply a beauteous chill occupation trajectory.
+ The formed of the Lord of the Rings reuniting implicit Zoom is precisely what I request close now.
+ Loving your favorite music runs a batch deeper than simply liking however it sounds.
+ We’re approaching the extremity of the year, which means it’s the cleanable clip to dive into a arguable database of the year’s champion movies.
+ Happy day to Jonathan the tortoise, who, by turning 190 yesterday, officially became the world’s oldest surviving onshore animal!
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