The WIRED Podcast

Latest Episodes:

The Next Big Thing for RNA? Fixing Moldy Food Nov 12, 2021

Show notes

Coming up today, how RNA could help keep food fresh for longer and we explain why Salt Bae is the ultimate content machine.

The stories we talked about this week:

The Next Big Thing for RNA? Fixing Moldy Food

https://www.wired.com/story/rna-crop-sprays-presticides/

Salt Bae’s Next Great Act? Endless Content

https://www.wired.com/story/salt-bae-restaurant-viral-videos/

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops Nov 05, 2021

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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

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Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse dream Oct 29, 2021

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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 Children Are. Can It Keep Them Safe?

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-predicts-how-old-children-are/

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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Elon Musk flew to Berlin to woo the locals. He failed Oct 22, 2021

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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 Burgess

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Should we kill trillions of animals to save the planet? Oct 15, 2021

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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

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How to fix Facebook Oct 08, 2021

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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-whistleblower-frances-haugen

New Zealand, Delta and the end of zero-Covid

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/new-zealand-zero-covid

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by James Temperton

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The future of lithium Oct 01, 2021

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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

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The race to stop fish becoming the next factory farming nightmare Sep 24, 2021

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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 edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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Remote workers are trapped in a quitting nightmare Sep 17, 2021

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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 edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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They saw a YouTube video. Then they got Tourette’s Sep 10, 2021

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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/article/afghanistan-taliban-internet

The Taliban’s vast propaganda machine has a new target

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/taliban-propaganda-news-afghanistan

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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