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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

How to recycle your pee, astronaut selection, and the great revival of the home printer Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Coming up today: exam chaos, how your boss is spying on you and the great QR code revival Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Coming up today: coronavirus super-spreaders, how Beijing crushed a spike in cases and the death of the great British office sandwich Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Coming up today: ducks, eels and simulated shouting. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sweden's coronavirus response, anti-vaxxers and the pandemic collide and we explain how pubs can reopen safely Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Coming up today: the first ever WIRED podcast pub quiz. Fun not guaranteed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Coming up today: coronavirus treatments, we dig deeper into contact tracing apps and look at the surprising science of playing sport behind closed doors Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Coming up today: why we’re all hungry for skin, why everyone is getting in a flap over apps and some depressing economic news Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We explain why coronavirus is hitting startups so hard, investigate the crisis facing Airbnb and its hosts and find out how researchers have cracked a secret paedophile code Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Coming up today: how blood could be key in the fight against coronavirus, we explain how to level-up your Zoom pub quiz experience and explain why you’ve been having so many weird lockdown dreams Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy tore through the web, the UK’s worrying police state creep and how a volunteer army is stitching to fix the UK’s scrubs shortage Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The next year under coronavirus, the takeaway food conundrum and we delve into the zoom privacy fears Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The UK locks down, wedding planners pivot to crisis comms and our take on Disney+ Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

How to cope with working from home, the behavioural science behind handling a pandemic and an opportunity to witness our rapid descent into news overload madness Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices