Everyone should be wearing transparent face masks

UK Huawei decision | The French Amazon Today's top stories Why everyone should be wearing transparent face masks If face masks are here to stay, then clear masks could fix our awkward communication errors Banning Huawei's 5G tech in the UK was the easy bit. Now it gets messy This French town has created its own Amazon with a difference what you need to know Global crash in children being born Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century. 23 nations – including Spain and Japan – are expected to see their populations halve by 2100. Nurses not wearing masks led to A&E closure According to the Guardian, Hillingdon hospital stopped accepting emergency admissions because the outbreak had led to 70 staff being off work and in isolation. Face coverings won't be mandatory in offices Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said face coverings won't be compulsory for office workers in England. "It is something we've looked at and rejected," he said. It follows the announcement that face coverings will be required wearing in English shops from July 24. Google privileges YouTube for video searches The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook and other competitors host the same videos, but engineers have made changes that effectively preference YouTube – owned by Google – over other video sources.  ONE MORE THING... Free speech has never been more widely available than it is today. So much so that the cacophony of voices liberated by digital media too frequently drowns out well-informed and sensible opinion. Trump, who blurts out several hot takes every day, is himself an example of the verbal incontinence enabled by Twitter in recent years. It is also true that historians, economists and sociologists are able to hold Twitter discussions of a quality that shames much of what appears in the pages of major newspapers and magazines. Pankaj Mishra on "cancel culture". from the wired archive The best Starling hacks and hidden features to make saving suck less Seven ways to get the most from your Starling bank account FEATURED JOBS PRODUCT MANAGEMENT LEAD, WORKPLACE – FACEBOOK APPLY C++ ENGINEER – GRAPHCORE AI APPLY On the podcast Subscribe to WIRED + Received this from a friend? Subscribe to The Email from WIRED + Prefer a weekly digest? Subscribe to WIRED Weekender FOLLOW WIRED Unsubscribe   |   View this email in your browser Queries about this email? Contact datacontroller@condenast.co.uk Condé Nast Publications 1 Hanover Square, London W1S 1JU © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd Our Privacy Policy