The WIRED Podcast
The award-winning WIRED UK Podcast with James Temperton and the rest of the team. Listen every week for the an informed and entertaining rundown of latest technology, science, business and culture news. New episodes every Friday.
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Elon Musk flew to Berlin to woo the locals. He ...
Drones versus horses and Berlin versus Elon Musk
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Should we kill trillions of animals to save the...
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
45 min
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How to fix Facebook
A fun week at Facebook and the end of the zero-Covid dream
46 min
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The future of lithium
42 min
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The race to stop fish becoming the next factory...
Big tech competition and why we need to rethink fish as food
41 min
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Remote workers are trapped in a quitting nightmare
Vaccine passports in France, and the unique loneliness of quitting your job during Covid
39 min
57
They saw a YouTube video. Then they got Tourette’s
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.
31 min
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YouTube's dead cat problem
Zoom dysmorphia is following us into the real world, plus animal abuse on YouTube
44 min
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Is your name ruining your life?
The startups selling ball boosting supplements, and is your name ruining life
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Introducing Food People
1 min
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Afghans are racing to erase their online lives
How Afghans are racing to erase their online lives, and the wild logistics of the Istanbul canal
37 min
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The big problems with Apple’s photo scanning sy...
Apple’s controversial new child safety tool and we look at the rise of office tribes
43 min
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The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream
We reveal the slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream and go inside the fungi renaissance
41 min
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Simone Biles and the brutal pressure of elite s...
Simone Biles and the brutal pressure of elite sport and how the UK’s NHS App became an unofficial Covid passport.
43 min
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Where crypto goes next
Germany looks to block one of the world’s biggest porn websites and we look at where cryptocurrency and bitcoin are going next
48 min
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The best day to go into the office is…
We unveil the best day of the week to go into the office and discuss the biggest rule change in Formula 1 history
37 min
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The ambitious plan to resurrect the animals we ...
We dig deep into the biometric surveillance tech boom and Natasha has a fun day out at a farm
49 min
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We might never reach herd immunity
We revisit the idea of herd immunity for Covid-19 and consider how the Delta variant is causing travel chaos
39 min
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How the Delta variant took over
We explain how the Delta variant took over and delve deep into the mysteries of the golden triangle.
45 min
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Quantum computers are detangling nature’s myste...
How Apple might eat the newsletter industry, and why quantum computing could unravel some of the mysteries of the universe
39 min
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Should you ditch Google Chrome?
We explain what really went down when the internet went down and ask a big question: should you ditch Google Chrome?
52 min
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The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning
We look at the future of mRNA vaccine revolution and explore the use of brain training apps as a tool for tackling police brutality
40 min
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India's Covid vaccine tech nightmare
The rise and rise of astrology apps and we delve deep into the controversies surrounding India’s faltering vaccination drive
37 min
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The wild rise of the Facebook Famous
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The battle over encryption
It’s Uber versus cabbies once again and we try to untangle the complex future of end-to-end encryption.
52 min