What's confusing about calling Covid-19 cases "asymptomatic"

PLUS: plastic rain, the return of daycare, and Passionflix. [View this email in your browser]( | [Manage newsletter subscriptions](newsletter=wir) [[(image) WIRED Daily Newsletter Logo]06.11.20]( [Tosca Musk sitting on a bench in a garden]( [BACKCHANNEL]( [The Musk of Romance]( BY HALLIE LIEBERMAN [Like her brother Elon, Tosca Musk is a revolutionary—in the steamy, softcore genre of romance movies.]( [facial recognition camera]( [NATIONAL AFFAIRS]( [Amazon Won’t Let Police Use Its Facial-Recognition Tech for One Year]( BY LOUISE MATSAKIS [Amid nationwide protests over police brutality, the company is stopping law enforcement from using its most controversial product.]( [Illustration of dictionary going into meat grinder and becoming money]( [MY WORD]( [OpenAI’s Text Generator Is Going Commercial]( BY TOM SIMONITE [The research institute was created to steer AI away from harmful uses. Now it’s competing with tech giants to sell a cloud-computing service to businesses.]( [people outside of a restaurant]( [PUBLIC HEALTH]( [What's Confusing About Calling Covid-19 Cases ‘Asymptomatic’]( BY GREGORY BARBER [There’s a difference between people who never develop symptoms and people who just don’t have them yet. And that matters when calculating public health risk.]( [Hattie McDaniel, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh]( [MOVIES]( [The Removal of 'Gone with the Wind' From HBO Max Isn't Censorship]( BY KATE KNIBBS [The streaming service's decision to temporarily pull the film from its roster isn't suppression—it's an opportunity to recontextualize.]( [phone on a bendable tripod ]( [BUYING GUIDE]( [Everything You Need for Smartphone Photography On the Go]( BY JESS GREY [From mobile lenses to shotgun mics, here’s everything you need to assemble a portable, pro-grade photo studio.]( [someone spraying a daycare chair with disinfectant ]( [CIRCLE TIME]( [Should I Send My Kid Back to Day Care?]( BY ADRIENNE SO [As parents, we may have to develop a new level of comfort with a certain level of risk.]( [rain in the grand canyon]( [PLASTIC PLANET]( [Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain]( BY MATT SIMON [Researchers find that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic fall on 11 protected areas in the US annually, equivalent to over 120 million plastic water bottles.]( [John Boyega at a protest]( [THE MONITOR]( [Hollywood Is About to Reopen. It Could Be Better Than Before]( BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER [When TV and film production restarts, the industry has an opportunity to fix its long-entrenched inequalities and invest in black and brown artists.]( [(image) WIRED Logo]( [(image) WIRED on Facebook]( [(image) WIRED on Twitter]( [(image) WIRED on Instagram]( [(image) WIRED on LinkedIn]( [(image) WIRED on YouTube]( 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](newsletter=wir)