A lunar lander crash has left thousands of water bears on the moon

PLUS: How to reduce gun violence, the arrival of the Apple Card, and the future of AR/VR. View this email in your browser  08.06.19   SCIENCE How to Reduce Gun Violence: Ask Some Scientists BY ADAM ROGERS Researchers have clear policy suggestions on how to see fewer gun deaths. They'd have many more, if they weren't starved for funding and data.   GEAR The Apple Card Is Now Available, Just Probably Not for You BY ARIELLE PARDES A select group of iPhone users are getting early access to Apple's digital credit card. Everyone else will get it later in August.   PHOTO Ugly or Beautiful? The Housing Blocks Communism Left Behind BY LAURA MALLONEE Zupagrafika's new book captures modernist and brutalist architecture in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia.   SCIENCE A Crashed Israeli Spacecraft Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon BY DANIEL OBERHAUS The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash? GET WIRED Get 12 months of WIRED for just $49.99 $10.   Stories to help you understand the future.   Subscribe now   REVIEWS The BedJet Blows Warm (or Cool) Air Between Your Sheets BY CHRISTOPHER NULL The third generation of the novel device is smaller and has a much-improved remote control.   SCIENCE Sub Dives Under Thwaites to Help Predict Sea Level Rise BY CAROLYN BEELER, PRI'S THE WORLD Scientists believe Antarctica's massive Thwaites Glacier is teetering on the brink of collapse, though just how fast that could happen remains an open question.   CULTURE Want to Know the Real Future of AR/VR? Ask Their Devs BY PETER RUBIN A new survey of 900 active devs provides some surprising clarity into the technology's constraints.   BUSINESS Facial Recognition Is Suddenly Everywhere. Should You Worry? BY TOM SIMONITE As the accuracy of such algorithms improve, governments use facial recognition in more ways—and prompt increasing privacy and fairness concerns.   TRANSPORTATION Self-Driving Trucks Are Ready to Do Business in Texas BY AARIAN MARSHALL Kodiak Robotics will begin commercial service between Dallas and Houston, though a host of other self-driving startups have already been testing in the state.     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