Coming up today… the startups selling ball boosting supplements, and is your name ruining life

The stories we talked about this week:

Is your name ruining your life?

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/name-discrimination

They wanted big balls. This startup said it could help

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/microbiome-testicles-umzu

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

Welcome to Food People, a show from Bon Appétit made by, for, and about people who love food. Each week, BA’s editorial director Amanda Shapiro asks a serious or not-so-serious food question: What’s the best way to grill chicken? Can meal prep be less terrible? Are air fryers worth the hype? In search of answers or at least a spirited debate, she’ll bring in staffers, chefs, writers, and experts from across the culinary universe. Expect strong opinions, tons of recipe inspiration, and more food puns than we'd like to admit.

Listen and subscribe at http://listen.bonappetit.com/foodpeople-trailer or wherever you get your podcasts: http://listen.bonappetit.com/foodpeople

Coming up today… how Afghans are racing to erase their online lives, and the wild logistics of the Istanbul canal

The stories we talked about this week:

Afghans are racing to erase their online lives

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/afghanistan-social-media-delete

The wild logistics of the Istanbul Canal megaproject

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/istanbul-canal-logistics

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

Coming up today… Apple’s controversial new child safety tool and we look at the rise of office tribes 

The stories we talked about this week:

Apple Walks a Privacy Tightrope to Spot Child Abuse in iCloud

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-detection-icloud-photos-encryption-privacy/

Hybrid office tribes are here, and they’re a problem

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hybrid-working-office-tribes

Coming up today… we reveal the slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream and go inside the fungi renaissance  

The stories we talked about this week:

The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-drone-delivery-prime-air

Forget Impossible, the fungi renaissance is here

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fungi-protein-meat

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

Coming up today… Simone Biles and the brutal pressure of elite sport and how the UK’s NHS App became an unofficial Covid passport.

Simone Biles will not be the last

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/simone-biles-tokyo-olympics

The NHS App has quietly become a vaccine passport

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nhs-app-covid-vaccine-passport

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

Coming up today… Germany looks to block one of the world’s biggest porn websites and we look at where cryptocurrency and bitcoin are going next. 

The stories we talked about this week:

Germany is about to block one of the world’s biggest porn sites

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-porn-laws-age-checks

The future of cryptocurrency – Cryptocurrency (WIRED guides): How Digital Money Could Transform Finance

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cryptocurrency-WIRED-guides-Digital-Transform-ebook/dp/B08LPGH9ZM

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

Coming up today… we unveil the best day of the week to go into the office and discuss the biggest rule change in Formula 1 history

The stories we talked about this week:

The best day to go into the office is…

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-day-return-office

Inside Formula 1’s biggest ever rule change

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/f1-rules-2022-cars

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

Coming up today… we dig deep into the biometric surveillance tech boom and Natasha has a fun day out at a farm.

This week James and Matt B ask whether we should ban biometric surveillance? Improvements in artificial intelligence mean it’s possible to analyse and identify people by their walk, their veins, their face, their fingers and even the shape of their ears. As a result, the biometrics industry is booming – it’s expected to grow to between $60 billion and $80bn in the coming years. However, the technology has a creepy side: it’s being used to group people by ethnicity, gender and try to predict their emotions.

Read more: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/europe-ai-biometrics

For our second story, Vicki and Natasha look at the effort to build the biggest biobank of animal cells in Europe. Nature’s SAFE aims to collect 50 million genetic samples and "freeze them in time", storing cells from critically endangered species including the Amur leopard, black rhino and mountain chicken frog in cryogenic tanks. The idea is to harvest and preserve samples of semen – as well as ova and other tissue – that could one day be used to regenerate dwindling animal populations and prevent them from going extinct.

Read more: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/natures-safe

Coming up today... we revisit the idea of herd immunity for Covid-19 and consider how the Delta variant is causing travel chaos.

The stories we talked about this week:

The UK’s summer of travel chaos

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-green-list-travel-holidays

We might never reach herd immunity

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/covid-19-herd-immunity

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess