The WIRED Podcast

Coming up today: Matt Reynolds explains why Africa has been spared the worst of the pandemic, Natasha reveals the middle-class private jet boom and Matt Burgess looks at the worrying rise of police fingerprint scanners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Natasha looks into Uber’s robo-firings, Matt Burgess charts the grim rise of stalkerware and Vicki explains why there might not be signs of life on Venus after all Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Sweden’s pandemic gamble; the deepfake bot being weaponised against women; and Natasha tries to put the ‘interesting’ in negative interest rates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Natasha investigates the UK’s broken housing algorithm, Matt Burgess reveals how universities are snooping on students and Amit witnesses The grim demise of the cinema industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How to recycle your pee, astronaut selection, and the great revival of the home printer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Natasha talks to Deliveroo’s struggling ‘heroes’, Amit explains why historians are annoyed at YouTube and Matt Reynolds looks at how Italy got to grips with Covid-19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Vicki tries to make sense of Trump versus TikTok, Natasha tries to make business liability interesting and Matt Reynolds explains why humans are so bad at understanding risk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Have we found evidence of alien life? Plus how banks are tackling financial abuse, and holidays in the time of Covid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Matt Reynolds meets the coronavirus long-haulers, Matt Burgess tracks the rise and fall of Pret and Amit explains why lie detectors are creeping into British policing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Natasha explains the rise of the four-day working week, Matt Burgess on the return of ID cards and Matt Reynolds on what the animal kingdom can teach us about social distancing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Natasha looks at two of the big problems with people returning to offices, Matt Reynolds examines how artificial snow is being used to save a glacier and Matt Burgess explores the troubling rise of deepfake pornography videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Matt Burgess picks over the fallout from the A-level algorithm debacle, Matt Reynolds explains how breast milk is being grown in the lab Natasha meets the digital nomads swapping office life for paradise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: exam chaos, how your boss is spying on you and the great QR code revival Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Vicki takes a look at the wild rise of Zoom, Amit fills up on discount fast food and Natasha explains the hygiene theatre coming to a workplace near you soon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Matt Burgess advises on how to up your lockdown running game, I examine the latest covid vaccine progress, and Matt Reynolds tackles the UK’s big cat mystery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Matt Burgess on Covid-19 hackers, Amit looks at how musicians are taking on Spotify (again) and Natasha explains why we’re all stuck in a work from home purgatory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Matt Reynolds explains how coronavirus may actually be airborne, Matt Burgess looks at a grim future for Huawei and Vicki tells us all to wear face masks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt delves into the failed promise of antibody tests, Amit explains how to eat lots of hot dogs and Vicki reminds us all what a train is Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: the plight of museums, the surge in plastic and why cinemas are engaged in an elaborate game of post-lockdown chicken Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: the rise of mask shaming, the hunt for coronavirus heads to the sewers and how climbing became the next big competitive sport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: coronavirus super-spreaders, how Beijing crushed a spike in cases and the death of the great British office sandwich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: ducks, eels and simulated shouting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sweden's coronavirus response, anti-vaxxers and the pandemic collide and we explain how pubs can reopen safely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The case for infecting healthy people with coronavirus, a big week for SpaceX and we explain how weird your summer holidays are going to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What we now know about how coronavirus attacks your body, how the school shutdown will affect kids for years and why we’re entering the golden era of nepotism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices