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**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.

Latest Episodes:

Golf is facing an existential crisis Apr 16, 2021

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Coming up today… we delve into golf’s existential crisis and have a very serious chat about puppies.

The stories we talked about this week:

Golf is facing an existential crisis

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/golf-crisis-masters-bryson-dechambeau

How to stop your pandemic puppy from going loco as lockdown lifts (available from April 17, 2021)

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/pandemic-puppies-loneliness-anxiety-dogs

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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The quest to make cheesy cheese-free cheese Apr 09, 2021

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Coming up today… we go on a quest to find out how to make cheesy cheese-free cheese and we delve into New Zealand’s Covid-19 bin mystery.

The quest to make genuinely cheesy dairy-free cheese

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dairy-free-cheese

What the world can learn from New Zealand’s Covid-19 bin mystery

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

Music by Filip Hnizdo. Show produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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Lewis Hamilton opens up about activism and life beyond F1 Apr 02, 2021

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Coming up today… F1 supremo Lewis Hamilton on the science of success, activism and what comes next and we explore the future of artificial intelligence.

The stories we talked about this week:

Lewis Hamilton opens up about activism and life beyond F1

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lewis-hamilton

Getting AI to work in a fleshy, messy world is harder than you think

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-future

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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The drug that changed medicine Mar 26, 2021

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How one of the world's largest tech trade shows still plans to go ahead this year and we explore the fascinating future of personalised medicine.

MWC's biggest exhibitor is a tiny startup nobody's ever heard of

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mwc-2021-exhibitors

A dying child, a mother's love and the drug that changed medicine

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/milasen-aso-gene-therapy

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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What’s the deal with NFTs? Mar 19, 2021

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Coming up today… we chart the rise and fall of Football Index and explain what the hell is going on with non-fungible tokens.

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The terror and trauma of surviving ICU with Covid-19 Mar 12, 2021

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Coming up today… the long-term psychological impacts of surviving ICU with Covid-19 and how Slack can actually fix workplace communications.

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Can deepfakes replace The Simpsons? Mar 05, 2021

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Coming up today: we explain why anecdotal benefits of microdosing might only be a placebo effect and find out how a bunch of deepfakes could one day replace the cast of The Simpsons.

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Why grow grapes in space? Feb 26, 2021

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The Uber lawsuit feeding frenzy, how growing grapes in space can make wine better on Earth and the reality of life under Myanmar’s internet shutdown.

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Uber has lost. What happens next? Feb 19, 2021

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Coming up today: What Uber’s loss in the Supreme Court means for the gig economy, why Facebook was right to ban news in Australia and we go inside the UK’s controversial Covid-19 challenge trial

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The origin of the UK variant Feb 12, 2021

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Coming up today: Matt Reynolds delves into the origins of the UK Covid-19 variant, Natasha looks at how Amazon saved Deliveroo from disaster and Amit charts the strange demise of Habbo Hotel

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