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 Problemhttps://www.wired.com/story/bruce-willis-deepfake-rights-law/ Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hostshttps://www.wired.com/story/arctic-spillover-risk/ Music by Filip HnizdoProduced and edited by Matt Burgess 

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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/ Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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 Problemhttps://www.wired.com/story/bruce-willis-deepfake-rights-law/ Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hostshttps://www.wired.com/story/arctic-spillover-risk/ Music by Filip HnizdoProduced and edited by Matt Burgess 

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The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone’s Problem

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 

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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

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 

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The coronavirus startup crisis

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 

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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 

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Why you’ve been having so many weird lockdown dreams

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 

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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 

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How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy tore through the web

The next year under coronavirus, the takeaway food conundrum and we delve into the zoom privacy fears 

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The next year under coronavirus, the takeaway food conundrum and we delve into the zoom privacy fears 

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The next year under coronavirus

The UK locks down, wedding planners pivot to crisis comms and our take on Disney+ 

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The UK locks down, wedding planners pivot to crisis comms and our take on Disney+ 

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How a blood test could help us crack coronavirus

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 

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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

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 

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How to cope with social distancing

The latest COVID-19 update, the perils of stockpiling, and true crime on YouTube

The problem with coronavirus stockpiling

Part two of our investigation into Airbnb scams, we bust some major coronavirus myths and take a detailed look at gender neutral toilet design.

Coronavirus myths, busted

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Inside a huge Airbnb scam

McDonalds shakes up delivery apps, climate target doom and investigating where coronavirus came from

It's time to let go of our most ambitious climate target

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