Global warming. Covid-19. And Al Gore is ... optimistic?

PLUS: Deepfake training, Garmin's new watch, and open sourced police data. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions  07.08.20   TALKING HEADS Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool BY TOM SIMONITE Coronavirus restrictions make it harder and more expensive to shoot videos. So some companies are turning to synthetic media instead.   PRODUCT REVIEW Garmin's New Instinct Is a Solar-Powered Hiking Partner BY ADRIENNE SO The Instinct Solar is a rugged outdoor watch that will get you where you need to go in the backcountry.   NATIONAL AFFAIRS A Plan to Make Police Data Open Source Started on Reddit BY ARIELLE PARDES The Police Data Accessibility Project aims to request, download, clean, and standardize public records that right now are overly difficult to find.   WIRED Q&A Global Warming. Covid-19. And Al Gore Is … Optimistic? BY LAUREN GOODE AND ADAM ROGERS As vice president, he looked for big policy answers to hard global problems. Now, he says, all our crises are speeding us toward real solutions.   SPONSORED CONTENT "Best Electric Utility Bike" Learn why WIRED gives this accolade to Rad Power Bikes, a direct-to-consumer company designing ebikes that are built for everything and priced for everyone. Now is the time to Ride Rad.   SOUND AND FURY The Media Monsters in the National Dialog BY JASON KEHE Journalists are the bane of your existence. Which is why we need to talk about spelling and computer history. Seriously.   BAD IDEAS America Has a Sick Obsession with Covid-19 Polls BY ROXANNE KHAMSI Scholars have long warned that constant polling is bad for democracy. In a pandemic, it's also bad for public health.   WIRED Q&A Kai-Fu Lee Gives AI a B-Minus Grade in the Covid-19 Fight BY NICHOLAS THOMPSON Robots and computer programs can help with social distancing and food delivery, they but have been less helpful in developing a vaccine.   SOLO NO MORE Self-Driving Tech Is Becoming a Game of Partnerships BY AARIAN MARSHALL Making an autonomous vehicle is proving harder and costlier than many startups predicted. So they're teaming up with giants like Hyundai, Jaguar, and Ford.     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