Hello, I'm Nicholas Thompson,
Editor-in-chief of WIRED.
This is Tech In 60 Seconds.
Let's go.
Question one,
QAnon is a strange, mysterious,
far-right conspiracy theory.
Twitter removing it will actually make a difference.
It's very easy to say,
"oh, we'll just migrate to Facebook or elsewhere,"
and that is partly true,
but Twitter is a central node
in how the conspiracy theory is spread.
Remove it, and it will spread more slowly.
Well, this is in response to a story we just ran
in WIRED about the first CRISPR born cow,
a cow whose genes had been adjusted using
the technique of CRISPR to make it then male,
which is better for beef cows.
Dairy cows, you want female.
Beef cows, you want male.
It didn't work out perfectly.
The cow is a boy but has all kinds of other problems
suggesting for this particular use of CRISPR,
it's going to be a long time.
Alright, see you next week.
