Coming up today: why NFT marketplace OpenSea can’t win and we look at the wild, woolly world of mammoth patents. You're (Maybe) Gonna Need a Patent for That Woolly Mammoth https://www.wired.com/story/de-extinction-patents/ Why OpenSea’s NFT Marketplace Can’t Win https://www.wired.com/story/opensea-nfts-twitter/ Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The WIRED Podcast

You're (Maybe) Gonna Need a Patent for That Woolly Mammoth

The latest on the porn block and why evolution is happening faster than anyone thought possible. The stories we talked about this week: A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution https://www.wired.com/story/database-humans-messing-with-evolution/ Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How Humans Are Messing With Evolution

Coming up today: Germany takes on Telegram and Matt Burgess dives deep inside a Russian ransomware gang. The stories we talked about this week: Germany Has Picked a Fight With Telegram https://www.wired.com/story/germany-telegram-covid/ Inside Trickbot, Russia’s Notorious Ransomware Gang https://www.wired.com/story/trickbot-malware-group-internal-messages/ Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Inside a Notorious Russian Ransomware Gang

Coming up today: the agony and ecstasy of learning to live with Covid and we look at how gravity storage could help in the fight against the climate crisis. The stories we talked about this week: Politicians Say It’s Time to Live With Covid. Are You Ready? https://www.wired.com/story/living-with-covid-new-normal/ Gravity Could Solve Clean Energy’s One Major Drawback https://www.wired.com/story/energy-vault-gravity-storage/ Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Politicians Say It’s Time to Live With Covid. Are You Ready?

Coming up today: we look at how countries can best count deaths caused by the climate crisis and look at the latest twist in the gig economy workers’ rights saga. The stories we talked about this week: A Project to Count Climate Crisis Deaths Has Surprising Results https://www.wired.com/story/uk-climate-change-deaths/ Gig Workers Were Promised a Better Deal. Then They Were Outsourced https://www.wired.com/story/gig-economy-outsourcing-uk/ Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Project to Count Climate Crisis Deaths Has Surprising Results

Coming up today it’s the final WIRED podcast of 2021. That can only mean one thing: it’s quiz time. Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The great WIRED quiz of 2021

Coming up today, the big problem with Gorillas, and everything you need to know about the Omicron variant The stories we talked about this week: Europe Went Bananas for Gorillas. Then Its Workers Rose Up https://www.wired.co.uk/article/gorillas-gig-economy-unions-germany The Omicron Variant Is a Mystery. Here’s How Science Will Solve It https://www.wired.co.uk/article/omicron-variant-facts Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What we need to know about the Omicron variant

Coming up today, how humans have broken a fundamental law of the ocean and we look into the UK’s plan to sequence the genomes of up to 200,000 babies. The stories we talked about this week: Humans Have Broken a Fundamental Law of the Ocean https://www.wired.com/story/humans-broken-fundamental-law-ocean/ The UK Government Wants to Sequence Your Baby’s Genome https://www.wired.com/story/whole-genome-sequencing-newborn-screening/ Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Humans Have Broken a Fundamental Law of the Ocean

Coming up today, nuclear fusion, treadmill hacking and Norway’s electric vehicle headache.  The stories we talked about this week: Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars to Tax https://www.wired.co.uk/article/norway-electric-vehicle-tax Locked Out of ‘God Mode,’ Runners Are Hacking Their Treadmills https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nordictrack-ifit-treadmill-privilege-mode Finally, a Practical Use for Nuclear Fusion https://www.wired.co.uk/article/finally-a-practical-use-for-nuclear-fusion Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars to Tax

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Next Big Thing for RNA? Fixing Moldy Food

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse dream

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk flew to Berlin to woo the locals. He failed

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Should we kill trillions of animals to save the planet?

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How to fix Facebook

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.

hubhopper

The WIRED Podcast

hubhopper