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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October 11, 2026 • 33 mins
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Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.
Written by Pete Millspaugh. Originally published on October 6th, 2026.
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October 9, 2026 • 29 mins
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Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin’ corporate name as your own internet address.
Written by Joshua Quittner. Originally published on October 1st, 1994.
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October 7, 2026 • 78 mins
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Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
Written by Bill Joy. Originally published on April 1st, 2000.
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October 4, 2026 • 36 mins
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Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family.
Lost Lives.
How Israeli checkpoints suffocate Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank.
Written by Lama Rabah, Sabrina Slipchenko, Charles Boutaud, Firas Tawil and Elena DeBre. Originally published on September 30th 2026.
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October 2, 2026 • 38 mins
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Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
Written by Amos Zeeberg. Originally published on April 4th, 2023.
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September 30, 2026 • 30 mins
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Dispatches from the New American Holiday: Writer Bruce Sterling takes the kids to the Temporary Autonomous Zone, where survival is a personal choice.
Written by Bruce Sterling. Originally published in WIRED on November 1st, 1996.
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September 27, 2026 • 39 mins
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No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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October 21, 2025 • 4 mins
Five family members, murdered. A sixth in prison for life. It’s one of Britain’s most infamous crimes. But did the justice system get it wrong? “Blood Relatives,” a six-part series from In the Dark, is coming on October 28th.New Yorker subscribers get early, ad-free access to “Blood Relatives.” In Apple Podcasts, tap the link at the top of the feed to subscribe or link an existing subscription. O...
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April 11, 2024 • 16 mins
Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on WIRED Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this mea...
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December 22, 2022 • 31 mins
We look back at the year in tech, science, business, and culture—through the medium of a quiz.
Amit hosts the annual WIRED podcast quiz, with Morgan, Matt R, Grace, and Matt B vying for the prestigious title.
Music by Filip Hnizdo
Produced and edited by Matt Burgess
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November 28, 2022 • 3 mins
Hello, WIRED podcast listeners. We’re on a short break from producing new episodes at the moment, with some big plans for next year. In the meantime, we need your help.
Tell us: What are your burning questions about the future.
The future of what? Anything. Big or small, strange or serious. We want to hear your questions.
And they may even make it into a future episode of the show.
Email us at the n...
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November 11, 2022 • 34 mins
Coming up today: Morgan finds out what happens when an AI company steals your face, and Matt Burgess explores the most vulnerable place on the internet
This is going to be the last episode for a little while. We’re taking a short break to work on some exciting changes to the podcast for 2023, but we’ll be back with a new episode in a few weeks. We’ll see you then!
The stories we talked about this week:
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November 4, 2022 • 42 mins
Coming up today: the WIRED podcast team weighs in on Elon Musk’s dramatic Twitter takeover.
The stories we talked about this week:
Unverify Me, Daddy
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-elon-musk-verification/
Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ethical-ai-team/
Twitter Had a Plan to Fix Social Media. Will Elon Musk Follow It?
https://www.wired.com/story/twi...
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October 28, 2022 • 28 mins
Coming up today: the deadly viruses lurking in the permafrost, and what the Bruce Willis deepfake means for the future of Hollywood.
The stories we talked about this week:
The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone’s Problem
https://www.wired.com/story/bruce-willis-deepfake-rights-law/
Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hosts
https://www.wired.com/story/arctic-spillover-risk/
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October 21, 2022 • 50 mins
Coming up today: how gig economy laws caused strip club chaos, and we assess your risk of dying in a nuclear war.
The stories we talked about this week:
The Gig Law Causing Chaos in California Strip Clubs
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/gig-economy-strip-clubs
Music by Filip Hnizdo
Produced and edited by Matt Burgess
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October 14, 2022 • 48 mins
We look at how social media platforms have responded to the death of Molly Russell and explain why Elon Musk is wrong about depopulation.
How A British Teen's Death Changed Social Media
https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-british-teens-death-changed-social-media/
Elon Musk Is Totally Wrong About Population Collapse
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-population-crisis/
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October 7, 2022 • 38 mins
Coming up today: as Elon Musk and Twitter (maybe) close in on a deal, we delve deep into the glorious, curious world of bots.
(This show was recorded before Elon Musk said he would, in fact, buy Twitter.)
The stories we talk about this week...
The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team
https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-to-find-twitters-elusive-bot-team/
The Problem With Mental Health Bots
https://www.wired.com/story...
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September 30, 2022 • 42 mins
Coming up today: the devastating impact of Iran’s internet shutdown and we find out what happened when a Danish city banned Google from its schools.
The stories we talk about this week:
A Danish City Built Google Into Its Schools—Then Banned It
https://www.wired.com/story/denmark-google-schools-data/
Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown
https://www.wired.com/story/iran-protests-2022-internet-shutdow...
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September 23, 2022 • 47 mins
Coming up today: we go on the hunt for the people who’ve never caught Covid and take a look at the wild logistics of replacing the Queen’s iconography on everything from bank notes to post vans.
The stories we talk about this week:
The Mystery of Why Some People Don’t Get Covid
https://www.wired.com/story/the-mystery-of-why-some-people-dont-get-covid/
What Happens to Everything With Queen Elizabeth II’s Ima...
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September 16, 2022 • 43 mins
Coming up today: we talk about the juicy business of plant-based meat and the equally juicy business of Russian censorship.
The stories we talk about this week:
Plant-Based Burgers Aren’t Denting People’s Beef Addiction
Alternative proteins were meant to reduce the carbon footprint of our diets. But it doesn’t look like consumers are switching ... yet.
https://www.wired.com/story/plant-based-meat-replacing-animal...
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