The WIRED Podcast

Coming up today, we look into a dementia detection breakthrough and find out why the cops got involved when a group of vigilante parents tried to take on their school’s broken IT system. These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops https://www.wired.com/story/sweden-stockholm-school-app-open-source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today, we delve into Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse dream and look at an AI tool for verifying the age of children online. The stories we talked about this week: Look Over Here, Kids, It’s the Metaverse https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-connect-metaverse/ Inside the race to use hydrogen to heat our homes https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hydrogen-uk-heating This AI Predicts How Old Childre...

Coming up today, drones versus horses and Berlin versus Elon Musk The stories we talked about this week: Elon Musk flew to Berlin to woo the locals. He failed https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tesla-berlin-gigafactory-opening The horse, the drone and the epic fight for gambling success https://www.wired.co.uk/article/horse-racing-drone Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Bur...

Coming up today, we ask a simple question: should we kill trillions of animals to save the planet? And try and work out why Squid Game became such a runaway success  The stories we talked about this week: Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today… a fun week at Facebook and the end of the zero-Covid dream. The stories we talked about this week: Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today https://www.wired.com/story/why-facebook-instagram-whatsapp-went-down-outage/ Whistle-Blower Unites Democrats and Republicans in Calling for Regulation of Facebook https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/10/05/technology/facebook-wh...

Coming up today… we profile the climate crisis innovators and find out about the race for Cornish lithium The stories we talked about this week: This company is reinventing the lithium-ion battery https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-ion-batteries-sila-nanotechnologies The race for Cornish lithium Published October 5, 2021 Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by James Temperton...

Coming up today… big tech competition and why we need to rethink fish as food The stories we talked about this week: Microsoft is heading for a new antitrust showdown https://www.wired.co.uk/article/microsoft-antitrust-dmu-dma-bundling-slack The race to stop fish becoming the next factory farming nightmare https://www.wired.co.uk/article/future-of-food-fish Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edite...

Coming up today… vaccine passports in France, and the unique loneliness of quitting your job during Covid. The stories we talked about this week: France’s vaccine passport worked – sort of https://www.wired.co.uk/article/france-vaccine-passport-health-pass Remote workers are trapped in a quitting nightmare https://www.wired.co.uk/article/remote-working-quit-job Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and e...

Coming up today… the weird link between YouTube videos and a rise in Tourette’s-like symptoms in young women and we explore the fight for control of Afghanistan’s internet. The stories we talked about this week: They saw a YouTube video. Then they got Tourette’s https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tourettes-youtube-jan-zimmermann The battle for control of Afghanistan’s internet https://www.wired.co.uk...

Coming up today… Zoom dysmorphia is following us into the real world, plus animal abuse on YouTube The stories we talked about this week: Zoom dysmorphia is following us into the real world https://www.wired.co.uk/article/zoom-dysmorphia On YouTube, you’re never far from a dying kitten https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-animal-abuse-rescue Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely)...

Coming up today… the startups selling ball boosting supplements, and is your name ruining life The stories we talked about this week: Is your name ruining your life? https://www.wired.co.uk/article/name-discrimination They wanted big balls. This startup said it could help https://www.wired.co.uk/article/microbiome-testicles-umzu Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess...

Welcome to Food People, a show from Bon Appétit made by, for, and about people who love food. Each week, BA’s editorial director Amanda Shapiro asks a serious or not-so-serious food question: What’s the best way to grill chicken? Can meal prep be less terrible? Are air fryers worth the hype? In search of answers or at least a spirited debate, she’ll bring in staffers, chefs, writers, and experts f...

Coming up today… how Afghans are racing to erase their online lives, and the wild logistics of the Istanbul canal The stories we talked about this week: Afghans are racing to erase their online lives https://www.wired.co.uk/article/afghanistan-social-media-delete The wild logistics of the Istanbul Canal megaproject https://www.wired.co.uk/article/istanbul-canal-logistics Music by Filip Hnizdo Prod...

Coming up today… Apple’s controversial new child safety tool and we look at the rise of office tribes  The stories we talked about this week: Apple Walks a Privacy Tightrope to Spot Child Abuse in iCloud https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-detection-icloud-photos-encryption-privacy/ Hybrid office tribes are here, and they’re a problem https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hybrid-working-office-tribes...

Coming up today… we reveal the slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream and go inside the fungi renaissance   The stories we talked about this week: The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-drone-delivery-prime-air Forget Impossible, the fungi renaissance is here https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fungi-protein-meat Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced...

Coming up today… Simone Biles and the brutal pressure of elite sport and how the UK’s NHS App became an unofficial Covid passport. Simone Biles will not be the last https://www.wired.co.uk/article/simone-biles-tokyo-olympics The NHS App has quietly become a vaccine passport https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nhs-app-covid-vaccine-passport Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt B...

Coming up today… Germany looks to block one of the world’s biggest porn websites and we look at where cryptocurrency and bitcoin are going next.  The stories we talked about this week: Germany is about to block one of the world’s biggest porn sites https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-porn-laws-age-checks The future of cryptocurrency – Cryptocurrency (WIRED guides): How Digital Money Could Tran...

Coming up today… we unveil the best day of the week to go into the office and discuss the biggest rule change in Formula 1 history The stories we talked about this week: The best day to go into the office is… https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-day-return-office Inside Formula 1’s biggest ever rule change https://www.wired.co.uk/article/f1-rules-2022-cars Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited...

Coming up today… we dig deep into the biometric surveillance tech boom and Natasha has a fun day out at a farm. This week James and Matt B ask whether we should ban biometric surveillance? Improvements in artificial intelligence mean it’s possible to analyse and identify people by their walk, their veins, their face, their fingers and even the shape of their ears. As a result, the biometrics indus...

Coming up today... we revisit the idea of herd immunity for Covid-19 and consider how the Delta variant is causing travel chaos. The stories we talked about this week: The UK’s summer of travel chaos https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-green-list-travel-holidays We might never reach herd immunity https://www.wired.co.uk/article/covid-19-herd-immunity Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remot...

Coming up today... we explain how the Delta variant took over and delve deep into the mysteries of the golden triangle. The stories we talked about this week: How the Delta variant took over https://www.wired.co.uk/article/delta-variant-uk Warehouses are taking over the Earth https://www.wired.co.uk/article/warehouses-next-day-delivery Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt B...

Coming up today... how Apple might eat the newsletter industry, and why quantum computing could unravel some of the mysteries of the universe The stories we talked about this week: Quantum computers are already detangling nature’s mysteries https://www.wired.co.uk/article/quantum-computing It looks like Apple is after Substack’s email empire https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-newsletter-trackin...

Coming up today... we explain what really went down when the internet went down and ask a big question: should you ditch Google Chrome? The stories we talked about this week: What really went down when the internet went down https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fastly-internet-outage It’s time to ditch Chrome https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-chrome-browser-data Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and...

Coming up today... we look at the future of mRNA vaccine revolution and explore the use of brain training apps as a tool for tackling police brutality. The stories we talked about this week: The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-vaccine-revolution-katalin-kariko Brain training games are here to end police brutality https://www.wired.co.uk/article/brain...

Coming up today, the rise and rise of astrology apps and we delve deep into the controversies surrounding India’s faltering vaccination drive. The stories we talked about this week: India’s CoWin vaccine booking system is a nightmare https://www.wired.co.uk/article/india-covid-vaccine-cowin Lonely men are driving an online astrology boom wired.co.uk/article/online-astrology-men Music by Filip Hniz...