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Who should the UK vaccinate next? | Flexible working changes

In today's WIRED DAILY, we explain why Google's next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web, explore why who the UK vaccinates next is a question of economics, not health, and examine why employers are only now starting to care about flexible working. Google's next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web Google's impending takedown of third-party cookies in Chrome is a big win for privacy. And Google Who the UK vaccinates next is a question of economics, not health Once you've vaccinated the elderly and clinically extremely vulnerable, the question of who you vaccinate next isn't as simple as going down the age brackets It took a pandemic (and men complaining) for your employer to finally care about flexible working Women have campaigned for flexible working for decades. Then it became a male problem and everything started to change Today's headlines Chinese syringe production threatened Worldwide demand for the vaccine has worried Chinese producers that they may run out of syringes by June, according to Reuters. China, along with India, is the biggest producer of syringes in the world. Google to give up on games A little over a year after Stadia's launch, Google is shutting down its game studios, blaming the high costs of making AAA titles. It will instead offer Stadia as a service through which other publishers can stream their games. Robinhood cannot escape bad reviews The investment app banned Redditors from r/WallStreetBets from buying more shares in GameStop. Now Google is trying to remove bad reviews of the app, but cannot keep up with the flood. Biodiversity at extreme risk A new report, commissioned by the UK Treasury, has found that economics fails to take into account how growth destroys the planet. The report recommends wholesale changes to the discipline in order to avoid continued devastation to earth's ecosystems. What we're reading Reed watched in amazement as the messages proliferated. It wasn't how many threads there were, though that was overwhelming, but the way they seemed to grow like Hydras, sprouting in all directions. Recipients copied other people they thought might be interested in the discussion, who added more people, who added still others, across a huge range of countries and disciplines. The cascading emails were all responding to the same rather obscure news alert, meant for ear, nose and throat doctors based in Britain. It was titled: "Loss of smell as marker of Covid-19 infection."   What can Covid-19 teach us about the mysteries of smell? WIRED Hired: Today's job picks Senior regional marketing manager, UK – Slack Apply Now AI engineer – Graphcore Apply Now On the podcast this week   The end of WeWork + Covid-19 in North Korea + Lazy startup adverts Listen Now Get WIRED Buy now Prefer a weekly digest? Subscribe to the WIRED Weekly 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