Coming up today… we get acquainted with the mutant rats taking over the office you abandoned a year ago and ask a seemingly simple question: robots… humans or animals?

The stories we talked about this week:

Your office has been taken over by an army of mutant rats

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/office-mutant-rats

Robots are animals, not humans

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/robots-animals-kate-darling

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

Coming up today… we delve into golf’s existential crisis and have a very serious chat about puppies.

The stories we talked about this week:

Golf is facing an existential crisis

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/golf-crisis-masters-bryson-dechambeau

How to stop your pandemic puppy from going loco as lockdown lifts (available from April 17, 2021)

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/pandemic-puppies-loneliness-anxiety-dogs

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

Coming up today… we go on a quest to find out how to make cheesy cheese-free cheese and we delve into New Zealand’s Covid-19 bin mystery.

The quest to make genuinely cheesy dairy-free cheese

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dairy-free-cheese

What the world can learn from New Zealand’s Covid-19 bin mystery

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/new-zealand-zero-covid-transmission

Music by Filip Hnizdo. Show produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

Coming up today… F1 supremo Lewis Hamilton on the science of success, activism and what comes next and we explore the future of artificial intelligence.

The stories we talked about this week:

Lewis Hamilton opens up about activism and life beyond F1

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lewis-hamilton

Getting AI to work in a fleshy, messy world is harder than you think

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-future

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

How one of the world's largest tech trade shows still plans to go ahead this year and we explore the fascinating future of personalised medicine.

MWC's biggest exhibitor is a tiny startup nobody's ever heard of

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mwc-2021-exhibitors

A dying child, a mother's love and the drug that changed medicine

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/milasen-aso-gene-therapy

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess