Do you eat meat, reader? If so, what is your meatball of choice — beef, chicken… mammoth? Yes, you read that right. 

Newsletter editor Hallam Bullock here, coming to you from London.

An Australian startup has engineered a giant meatball made from woolly mammoth DNA. Yet, it turns out nobody can taste it because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein. 

You can see pictures of the massive meatball here — but I warn you, it looks exactly how you would expect.

Now, before the scientists start serving up Dinosaur DNA, let's take a look at the top tech stories this week.