New iPhones should be here soon. Will people buy them?

PLUS: Animal crossing, a Covid-19 vaccine, and the face mask debate. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 04.08.20   BACKCHANNEL The Unbearable Lightness of Animal Crossing BY DARRYN KING Many years before the rise of walking-paced exploration games, Animal Crossing captured the lovely melancholy of pointless perambulation.   PUBLIC HEALTH We Need a Covid-19 Vaccine—Let's Get It Right the First Time BY MARYN MCKENNA The flu shot campaigns of 1976 and 2009 offer key lessons for how (and how not) to distribute, monitor and communicate about vaccines. But will anyone listen?   IDEAS The Face Mask Debate Reveals a Scientific Double Standard BY HILDA BASTIAN No one complained about the lack of evidence for 20-second hand-washing. So why did we treat face masks differently?   HANG UPS New iPhones Should Be Here Soon. Will People Buy Them? BY LAUREN GOODE We're on the precipice of a downturn in consumer spending, and the mobile device market may take a very big hit. GET WIRED   Get unlimited access to our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.   Subscribe to support our journalism.   Exclusive offer: 1 year for $10.   DIGITAL CULTURE A Meme Account About a Mall Is Now a Lifeline BY TYLER COATES The parody Twitter account devoted to The Americana at Brand is absurd. But now that LA residents are stuck at home, it's a strange source of comfort.   TIP OFF A Cheap 3D Printer Can Trick Smartphone Fingerprint Locks BY LILY HAY NEWMAN With a budget of just $2,000, researchers could fool biometric scanners 80 percent of the time.   PUBLIC HEALTH To Beat Covid-19, Scientists Try to 'See' the Invisible Enemy BY SOPHIA CHEN Using beams of X-rays and electrons, researchers are creating a moving model of the coronavirus in order to discover its weaknesses.   WAITING GAME Gig Workers' New Unemployment Benefits Won't Come Quickly BY AARIAN MARSHALL The $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill makes contractors eligible for unemployment insurance. But states want pay stubs that ride-hail drivers don't have.   COVID-19 Clever Crypto Could Protect Privacy in Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Apps BY ANDY GREENBERG Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance.     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 or Manage your newsletter subscriptions