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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 08.04.21   MISOGYNY | 8-MINUTE READ This New Way to Train AI Could Curb Online Harassment BY KHARI JOHNSON Misogyny on the internet too often slips through the filters of content moderators. A new method hopes to inject more nuance into the process.   CLOUD COMPUTING | 7-MINUTE READ Scientists Could One Day Float an Aerial Robot Above Venus BY CHRIS WRIGHT Researchers recently tested whether a balloon-borne sensor could listen for venusquakes to learn about the planet's makeup.   APPS | 6-MINUTE READ Citizen's New Service Helps Paying Users Summon the Cops BY BOONE ASHWORTH The crime-tracking app is charging $20 per month to give subscribers access to their own virtual security service.   HOSTEL ENVIRONMENT | 5-MINUTE READ Watch a Hacker Hijack a Capsule Hotel's Lights, Fans, and Beds BY ANDY GREENBERG It's not a ghost. It's a half-dozen vulnerabilities in a digital automation system. GET WIRED Summer Sale! Ending Soon: Get WIRED for $10 $5. You can't see into the future, but you can subscribe to WIRED. Subscribe now.   STUCK | 5-MINUTE READ Exactly How Many People Have Long Covid? BY GRACE BROWNE, WIRED UK Pinning down the number of "long-haulers" suffering from the mysterious condition is an important task. It's also proving impossible.   ZUCKERVERSE | 4-MINUTE READ Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Already Sucks BY GIAN VOLPICELLI, WIRED UK It's not even here yet, but Facebook's ambitions alone reveal an alarming lack of imagination and a less alarming love of tech buzzwords.   A LIGHT MEAL | 3-MINUTE READ How to Build a Solar Oven BY MATT JANCER Cook a variety of simple foods—or just heat up last night's pizza—using our environment's most accessible heating element.   PROFILES | 3-MINUTE READ Struggling to Recruit, Police Turn to Targeted Ads BY SIDNEY FUSSELL The pandemic and the George Floyd protests have made recruiters' jobs tougher. Now they're tapping the behavioral profiling power of social media.   TALK IT OUT | 4-MINUTE READ The Pandemic Drives Cofounders to Couples Therapy BY ARIELLE PARDES Startups are like relationships—at least that's what some Silicon Valley therapists are pitching.     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   Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.