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The WIRED Podcast episodes

November 20, 2020 How China crushed Covid-19
Coming up today: Matt Reynolds dissects China’s coronavirus strategy, Amit asks why games are getting shorter, and we discuss the security faux pas you’re probably making

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58 min
November 13, 2020 All you need to know about the Covid-19 vaccine
Amit and Matt Reynolds talk us through the Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough and Natasha explores the weird world of pandemic office Christmas parties

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52 min
November 06, 2020 What we can learn from Africa’s pandemic response
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

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57 min
October 30, 2020 The nasty rise of stalkerware
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

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49 min
October 23, 2020 Did Sweden's Covid-19 experiment work?
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

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53 min
October 16, 2020 The grim demise of the cinema industry
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.

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47 min
October 09, 2020 The wild quest to feed the world using your pee
How to recycle your pee, astronaut selection, and the great revival of the home printer

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46 min
October 02, 2020 How Italy got on top of Covid-19
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

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50 min
September 27, 2020 How to think about risk in a pandemic
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

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47 min
September 18, 2020 Have we found evidence of alien life?
Coming up today: Have we found evidence of alien life? Plus how banks are tackling financial abuse, and holidays in the time of Covid

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47 min

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