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The latest in-depth coverage covering the intersection of technology and culture will help you make sense of a world in constant transformation. Join us as we explore the ways technology is changing our lives.

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11:31

The Last Drug That Can Fight Gonorrhea Is Starting to...

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2023/02/02

Data gaps, funding cuts, and shyness about sex let gonorrhea gain drug-resistance. There are no new treatments yet. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:59

ChatGPT Is Making Universities Rethink Plagiarism

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2023/02/01

Students and professors can’t decide whether ChatGPT, the AI chatbot, is a research tool—or a cheating engine. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:58

The Case of the Incredibly Long-Lived Mouse Cells

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2023/01/31

Scientists kept the rodents’ immune T cells active four times longer than mice can live—with huge implications for cancer, vaccination, and aging research. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:13

Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People

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2023/01/30

Workers from Google, Meta, and Twitter reveal the brutal ways they got dumped. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:56

ChatGPT Is Coming for Classrooms. Don't Panic

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2023/01/27

The AI chatbot has stoked fears of an educational apocalypse. Some teachers see it as the reboot education sorely needs. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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14:22

Airlines and Cattle Farmers Have Beef With Google’s...

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2023/01/26

Google estimates the emissions impacts of things like flights and certain recipes. Businesses with sales at stake are pushing back. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:09

China Is the World’s Biggest Face Recognition Dealer

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2023/01/25

Experts fear sales of the technology also export authoritarian ideas about biometric surveillance. The second largest exporter is the US. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:32

Easily Distracted? You Need to Think Like a Medieval...

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2023/01/24

Focusing wasn’t much easier in the time before electricity or on-demand TV. In fact, you probably have a lot in common with these super-distracted monks. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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12:29

Big Tech Is Playing it Safe on Iran. Workers Are...

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2023/01/23

Google and other giants have offered muted support for Iran compared to their Ukraine response. Employees are starting anti-censorship projects of their own. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:07

A Damning US Report Lays Bare Amazon’s Worker Injury...

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2023/01/20

Federal investigators found that conditions in three of the company’s facilities risk “serious physical harm” to workers. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:49

It’s Getting Too Hot to Make Snow

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2023/01/19

Some ski resorts rely on machines to keep powder on the slopes. But snow guns guzzle water, are energy-intensive, and need cool temperatures to operate. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:56

Big Tech’s Layoffs Highlight How the US Fails...

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2023/01/18

Decades-old visa rules mean that job cuts disadvantage workers, companies, and perhaps the whole country. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:21

Algorithms Allegedly Penalized Black Renters. The US...

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2023/01/17

The Department of Justice warned a provider of tenant-screening software that its technology must comply with fair housing law. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:45

How Airports Catch Illicit Radioactive Cargo

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2023/01/16

Hidden screening devices are used to track the movement of dangerous materials—and recently caught a shipment of uranium at London’s Heathrow Airport. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:04

People Love Electric Vehicles! Now Comes the Hard Part

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2023/01/13

EV sales are booming. But to keep the momentum going and make a dent in carbon emissions, the US will have to build a vast new charging infrastructure. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:55

A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and...

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2023/01/12

SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:36

The US Far Right Helped Stoke the Attack on Brazil’s...

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2023/01/11

Right-wing networks from Brazil and the US fueled calls for violence. Experts accuse tech platforms of looking the other way. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:32

It’s Time to Teach AI How to Be Forgetful

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2023/01/10

By emulating the human ability to forget some of the data, psychological AIs will transform algorithmic accuracy. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:46

How an Iraqi Instagram Influencer Became a People...

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2023/01/09

When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:25

A Mass Extinction Is Taking Place in the Human Gut

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2023/01/06

To preserve humankind’s diverse bacteria, scientists are harvesting, freezing, and storing poop from around the world. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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