Did QuantumScape just solve a 40-year-old battery problem?

PLUS: The best science books, Apple's new over-ear headphones, and what to look for in new vaccine data. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 12.08.20   IDEAS New Vaccine Data Is Coming: Watch Out for These 3 Claims BY HILDA BASTIAN Tips on how to read the full results from BNT-Pfizer and Moderna, from an expert in evaluating medical evidence.   VIBE TIME Friends, Fleetwood Mac, and the Viral Comfort of Nostalgia BY ESTELLE ERASMUS If there's one thing that brings people together now, it's old shows, old songs, and drinking Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice to a 1977 hit.   PAGE-TURNERS 8 Science Books to Read (or Gift) This Winter BY WIRED STAFF Here are the WIRED science team's top new picks for this winter.   POWER PLAY Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem? BY DANIEL OBERHAUS Earlier this year, the startup claimed to have a revolutionary solid-state lithium-ion cell that could change EVs forever. Now it has data to prove it. GET WIRED Cyber Week Sale extended. Now with free stickers! Last chance to get one year of WIRED access for $10 $5. Tech news and analysis you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe now.   AUDIO Apple's 'One More Thing' for 2020: A Pair of $549 Headphones BY LAUREN GOODE The future of audio is spatial.   FOG OF WAR The Perfect Strategy to Fight Covid-19 Is … Everything? BY ADAM ROGERS It'd be great to know which public health interventions against the coronavirus have the biggest bang for the buck. But nobody does.   AMENSIA:33 Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed BY LILY HAY NEWMAN Amnesia:33 is the latest in a long line of vulnerabilities that affect countless embedded devices.   RIDING IN STYLE This Guy Is Taking Viewers Along for His Driverless Rides BY TIMOTHY B. LEE, ARS TECHNICA Joel Johnson, who has taken more than 60 rides in Waymo's Arizona taxis, has posted over a dozen videos and says it's been "rock solid."   BUYING GUIDE Get a Better Picture With Our Favorite Webcams BY MATT JANCER Videoconferencing cameras have been in high demand since the pandemic began. We've narrowed down our favorites.     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