Here's the gear you need to work from home like a pro

PLUS: Covid wellness influencers, Zoom meeting encryption, and AI jobs. [View this email in your browser]( | [Manage newsletter subscriptions](newsletter=wir) [[WIRED Daily Newsletter]04.04.20]( [a man walking down the street with a mask]( [GENDER]( [Covid-19 Kills More Men Than Women—Here Are Some Theories Why]( BY SABRINA WEISS, WIRED UK [Scientists can’t say for certain why the current pandemic is discriminating by sex, but it likely comes down to biology, lifestyle, and behavior.]( [Woman standing distraught at the center of New York due to the COVID 19 pandemic.]( [BACKCHANNEL]( [New Yorkers, Once Again at Ground Zero, in Their Own Words]( BY GARRETT M. GRAFF [This week in our living oral history, the city’s residents—from the great to the humble—try to come to grips with a metropolis under assault by a virus.]( [a woman holds up a product with an anti virus sticker placed on top]( [HASHTAG CORONAVIRUS]( [As Health Anxieties Soar, Wellness Influencers Step In]( BY ARIELLE PARDES [Tips for staying active during the pandemic are one thing. But some influencers are pushing unscientific claims to sell "immunity boosting" products.]( [34 inch monitor ]( [OUR ULTIMATE GUIDE]( [Everything You Need to Work From Home Like a Pro]( BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU [Do you need a monitor, desk, webcam, or pair of headphones? Here's our ultimate laundry list of recommended gear to improve your new home office.]( [Subscribe to WIRED]( [GET WIRED](  [Get unlimited access to our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.](  [Subscribe to support our journalism.](  [Exclusive offer: 1 year for $10.]( [zoom video communications building]( [END-TO-END]( [So Wait, How Encrypted Are Zoom Meetings Really?]( BY LILY HAY NEWMAN [The service's mixed messages have frustrated cryptographers, as the US government and other sensitive organizations increasingly depend on it.]( [A wheel frame sits in a trueing robot at The Kent International Inc. Bicycle Corporation of America brand Assembly facility]( [OPINION]( [Automation May Take Jobs—but AI Will Create Them]( BY KEVIN SCOTT [A Silicon Valley executive returns home to the rural South to see for himself the ways in which AI is affecting the local economy.]( [an illustration of a medical face mask]( [CHRONICLES OF NOW]( [Short Fiction: ‘Indivisible City’ by Daniel Torday]( BY DANIEL TORDAY [“It is a contagion, this need to wear a mask, not unlike the contagion the mask is meant to repel.”]( [person shooting another figure who is on fire]( [VIDEOGAMES]( [The Resident Evil 3 Remake Seems Doomed to Fail]( BY JULIE MUNCY [The latest reboot is trying to be a missing link, but it ends up being too much.]( [OFF AND ON AGAIN]( [How to Refuel a Nuclear Power Plant During a Pandemic]( BY DANIEL OBERHAUS [To swap out the spent uranium rods, hundreds of technicians from around the country must work in close quarters for weeks. That’s a challenge during a quarantine.]( [WIRED]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [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)