The Wired.co.uk Podcast
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Podcast Description
The week in tech, culture and science news with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and Katie Scott. Also features regular interviews with the people leading and shaping the Wired world.
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 77: SpaceX, open data, yetis | On the show this week we discuss SpaceX's successful rocket launch, an Italian supervolcano, whether you can patent a steak and why Oxford University wants people to send them bits of 'yeti'. Plus, the rest of the week in Wired news Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon and Olivia Solon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 76: Facebook IPO, tweeting bees, Diablo III DRM | On the show this week we discuss Facebook's record-breaking IPO, a socially-networked beehive, astronauts preparing for asteroid missions and Diablo III's ridiculous DRM. Plus, the rest of the week in Wired news. Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon and Olivia Solon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 75: Extreme dwarf mammoths, Amazon fashion, privacy | On the show this week, extreme dwarf mammoth discovered, David Camering considering British porn block for ISPs, Amazon getting into "high-end" fashion, Minecraft for Xbox breaks records. And more. Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 11 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 74: Pirate Bay & Xbox bans, Titanic 2, death and brains | On the show this week the Pirate Bay gets banned in the UK, the Xbox and Windows get banned in Germany, the Titanic 2 is to be built, plus we explore the new technology of graveyards and much more. We also speak to Forss about their new musicial iPad venture, Ecclesia. Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 4 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 73: Asteroid mining, morbid tourism, niche networking | This week we discuss Earth's plans to mine asteroids for precious metals, why we're attracted to morbid holiday destinations, explain the European law on the use of cookies and debate the rest of the week's Wired news. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 27 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 72: Ikea TVs, MintChip, mystery space firm, W3C | If you're like us you largely associate Ikea with furniture and delicious meatballs, but the Swedish retailer has its eyes set on an entirely new market category; a Dutch physicist has managed to avoid a traffic fine by using the geekiest excuse in the whole of history; and what is the mysterious space exploration firm Planetary Resources up to? Google's behind it, and so's James Cameron. All that and more will be thickening this week's plot of Wired news. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 20 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 71: Instagram, stuff made of hair, Tetris therapy | This week we discover how Tetris is helping children with eye conditions, Instagram selling itself for a billion dollars, military robocopters and the rest of the week in Wired news. We also visit the unusual Remote Control exhibition at the London ICA. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 13 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 70: Google glasses, landmarks of UK genius, bird flu | This week we discuss the biggest news in the Wired world, include Google's plans for augmented reality glasses, the new game from the creators of Minecraft, the history of fire and we discover some important landmarks in British science Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 6 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 69: Plugs not drugs, sea exploration, GAME over? | On this week's show we discuss the week in Wired news, including plans to blow up asteroids with fleets of laser-mounted spacecraft, James Cameron's journey to the deepest part of the world's oceans, and we debate the future of high street retail as GAME waves its white flag. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 30 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 68: Pirate Bay drones, mammoth cloning, SpaceX | This week we discuss the Pirate Bay's plans to escape legal issues by putting their servers on airborne drones, the developments in mammoth cloning, Seagate's plans for a 60TB hard drive and MIT's cameras that can see around corners. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 23 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 67: Cyborg snails, homeless hotspots, BBC downloads | On the show this week we discuss military plans to create cyborg snails, Russia's plans to visit Venus, the BBC's rival to the iTunes Store and a social media-focused art gallery that brings privacy invasion into a whole new light. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 16 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 66: iPad 3 hands-on, hints of Higgs, SimCity returns | On the show this week we report back from Apple's iPad 3 launch, where we got to play with the new tablet in person. We also discuss the latest Higgs boson experiment, SimCity's return and journey inside F-Secure's R&D lab with Wired magazine's Greg Williams Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 9 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 65: Quad-core phones, huge fleas, future of cars | On the show this week, fleas! Massive prehistoric fleas that is, because archaeologists have discovered fossils revealing that the ancestors of today's fleas were a lot bigger than the jumping critters of today. Also, the Mobile World Congress trade show is over for another year but we were in Barcelona to get hands-on with the smartphones and tablets you'll be seeing on sale over the next 12 months. We have a full report about that. And if you thought you couldn't fit the components of an entire functioning PC into a USB thumb drive, well, you'd be wrong. We'll explain why on the show today. All that and more is on today's podcast, so listen now and don't forget to subscribe in iTunes! Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 2 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wired.co.uk Podcast 64: Space elevators and tongue-controlled wheelchairs | Who fancies a seven-day journey in an elevator to get 36,000 kilometers into space? One Japanese construction firm is planning on building a space elevator that would do just that. Plus a new system for operating electric wheelchairs has been conceived, and it uses a wheelchair user's tongue as a means of control. And should our government spend money to route an undersea fibre optic internet to St Helena's mere 4,000 residents? We'll debate that and much more on today's show. We also have a on-location feature at the new Blackfriars train station, which is the first in London to span the entire width of the Thames. Work on the 124-year-old Victorian bridge has taken months to complete in time for the London Olympic Games, and now includes the largest solar power array ever to feature on a bridge anywhere in the world. We'll take you inside the project and meet the people making it happen. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 24 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 63: Vertical chicken farms, SOCA, brain donation | The UK breeds and kills 800 million chickens in battery farms every year, but one man has a radical suggestion for a more humane way to do so, we'll discuss that in detail. Britain also shoots down an allegedly illegal non-UK music download site and makes some frightening threats to its former users. And why is our own Olivia Solon donating her brain to science when she dies? All that and more coming up on today's show. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 17 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 62: 3D-printed jaws, teledildonics, Kinetica explored | If you've never listened to the Wired.co.uk Podcast before, this is a great episode to start with. On the show this week an 83-year-old lady gets a new lower jaw produced on a 3D-printer (generally we mean, not live on the show), a British firm has built a 32-megajoule Electromagnetic Railgun for the US Navy, and how do you feel about kissing an overseas lover using a pair of networked electronic lips fashioned into the shape of a small plastic pig? We also discuss the appeal to have Alan Turing posthumously pardoned, and delve into an audible tour of the Kinetica art fair -- you won't want to miss it! Catch that in the second half of the show. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 10 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 61: Story of Tumblr, overhauling ICT, spider sex | This week we explore the fascinating story behind Tumblr, how the UK's ICT curriculum is set for a major reform and recap the most interesting news stories from Wired.co.uk this week -- the discovery of an original copy of the Mona Lisa, discoveries in the "unusual spider sex" world, the Pirate Bay's court appeal being rejected and Facebook's epic move to become a publicly-traded company. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 3 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 60: ACTA, magnetic soap and temples for atheists | On the show this week the idea for temples for Britain's atheists take a step forward towards reality, the most worrying internet law to be considered in recent years gains worrying support by the EU, and a presidential hopeful in the US has astonishing plans to build a base... on the moon. We also explore Wired magazine's 2012 Smart List, find out what it is, and speak to some of the high-flying fellows who nominated each of the 50 people about to change the world that the list features. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 27 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 59: SOPA, British time zones, termite noises | There could come a time where Greenwich does not set its clocks to Greenwich Mean Time, if a proposal to move Britain's clocks forward by an hour is passed; researchers at a university have created a sensitive acoustic device that can enable us to hear insects chewing (for a reason we'll explain); and the world record for how many times toilet paper can be folded has been broken. Plus, for the next few months the public are being welcomed to a three-dimensional photography project at the London Science Music, called "Me in 3D". It's a project being run in collaboration with the Great Ormond Street hospital and the goal, we discovered, is not just to amuse ourselves by manipulating our own faces on a computer screen, but to aid plastic surgeons at the hospital working with children born with facial deformities. Katie Scott investigates on this week's show. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 20 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 58: CES, Stephen Hawking and interstellar dating | We're back! The Wired.co.uk Podcast team returns to the microphones to discuss the hottest science, technology and weirdness news of the week. On today's show we round up the high-tech gadget fest known as CES. What are the trends, technologies and toys most worth paying attention to? We also question the usefulness of an interstellar dating service and pay a visit to Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday party to catch up with some of Britain's biggest physicists -- and talk to them about what they consider Professor Hawking's greatest achievements to be. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 13 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 57: Christmas outtakes special | It's the Wired.co.uk Podcast Christmas outtakes special -- 20 minutes of bits deemed a bit too off-topic, bizarre or daft to make the last 30-or-so episodes. Truth be told, when you hear the show each week, we have typically chopped out about 10 minutes from the original recording. We have a tendency to let our minds wander during some stories, and those mind wanderings often delve into the murky waters of the obscure and, sometimes, the silly. They're necessary tangents as they keep us fresh enough to discuss tough topics while keeping them accessible and entertaining. We just don't normally let people hear them. But it's Christmas, we're all at home and it seemed like the perfect time to let some of them out into the world. Enjoy! Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 25 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 56: We wish you a merry Higgs mass | On the show today we discuss that physics inched a little bit closer to being better understood this week as physicists at CERN announced they maybe caught a glimpse of something that could transpire to be the illusive Higgs boson. Also, Nasa is working on building a giant space harpoon to fire into speeding comets from a spacecraft, North Korea is miffed about Christmas trees, Newton's notebooks get digitised, and much cable cars come to the London's transport system. We also interview game developer Richard "Lord British" Garriott about his curious adventures into space. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 16 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 55: Kepler-22b or not to be? | On the show today, have we discovered Earth's twin? The Kepler space telescope this week has certainly found some compelling evidence, so we've looked into it to find out more and will be joined by Pamela Gay of Astronomy Cast in explain further. Bringing back the mammoths has become a step closer to being filed under "things that might actually happen", too. And why have scientists been racing cells across Petri dishes? Britain came fourth with its skin cell entry, but why? We'll find out that and more on this week's show. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. Guest featuring Pamela Gay of Astronomy Cast | 9 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 54: Keep romance refrigerated | On this week's show, design studio Berg wants you to connect a tiny little printer up to your home internet connection to delivery miniature personalised newspapers of sorts, Spotify has taken a potentially huge step to appify the world of music streaming, and a dating service to match singles up based on what's left over in their fridge?! The very thought! Except it's true. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 53: It's bonkers to ban bazongas | It's bad news for Pakistan's potty-mouths, as the country's mobile phone networks may have to ban over 1,000 offensive, rude or downright daft words from use within text messages. Also, someone's been busy trying to fund a pair of 10-storey Tesla coils and has Russia's troubled Phobos-Grunt probe finally been spotting with life signs? It's all on this week's show, along with a feature about Naked Wines as well as a frank and honest recounting of Nate's very weird wedding in Skyrim... Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 25 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 52: Happy anniversary to us (and win an iPad)! | It was one year ago to the week that we published the first episode of The Wired.co.uk Podcast. Strictly speaking, it was the second episode we recorded, and we haven't ever published the true "episode one" -- a pilot episode, if you please. But so, after a year in existence, several appearances at number one in the iTunes Technology charts and more downloads every week than we thought physically possible to serve, we have arrived at our first anniversary show -- and it's probably the best show we've ever recorded. On the show We'll cover the week in Wired news as normal, including stories about the first lab-grown hamburgers, airmiles for cyclists, batteries that charge in 15 minutes, wine bottles made from paper and Mongolia's plan to cool itself with giant blocks of ice. And we'll also look back at the last year of trends we've covered on the show. Nate, Duncan, Katie and Liv each pick their favourite topic and we bring a whole host of special expert guests onto the show to discuss how those trends will evolve over the next year. Win an iPad 2! It's a slightly longer show than usual but listening to it all will benefit you: we'll be asking you a question at the end about some of the things we discuss, and one lucky listener will win a brand new iPad 2. Consider it a thank for you supporting us for a year... and hopefully the year to come, too. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. | 18 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 51: Infinite dragons are inbound | On the show this week we'll speak to forthcoming game BioShock Infinite's designer, Japanese uber-geek Morinosuke Kawaguchi about "girly geeky innovation" and cover the latest Wired news, including Russia's recent space travel fail, tech to help blind footballers, radioactive beaches in the UK and four-legged robot dogs with an Xbox Kinect controller for a face. | 11 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 50: Fake space and Tokyo 2 | On this week's programme we'll speak to Julie Lafayette, the Canadian astronaut who's alley-oop'd into space twice as part of International Space Station assembly missions. But what does the process of building the ISS involve, and more pressing still, how could future private space firms change the co-operative nature of spaceflight? We've also got the week in Wired news summarised and discussed too, including a backup Tokyo, synthetic blood, coin-operated breathalysers and creepy 3D-printed jumping robot spiders. | 4 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 49: Behind 'Blood In The Mobile' | In 2009 and 2010, Frank Piasecki Poulsen travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate a dark, bloody side to the mobile phone industry. The Danish filmmaker alleges that some of the minerals used in electronic devices, including phones, are being bought from mines run by military groups. And the profits are being used to finance the long-running and bloody civil war in the country. We spoke to Poulsen, Nokia and US charity and experts in this field, the Enough Project, to investigate the story behind Poulsen's new film, Blood In The Mobile. We also battle iOS 5's Siri and Android's Iris voice command systems to see which gives the most useful (or fun) answers to a series of real-world questions. Plus we've got the latest and greatest Wired news to discuss. It's a packed show this week to say the least. | 28 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wired.co.uk Podcast 48: Marigolds on at Wired 2011 | We pick and present our highlights from Wired 2011's talks this week, marking your first chance to hear the speakers if you weren't at the two-day event, and of course we have a boat-load of Wired news to discuss and argue over. Show produced by Nate Lanxon | 21 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Nate lanxton makes it
Used to enjoy Nate when he was on CNET UK, he makes this podcast organised and informative but still fun to listen to.
Love it
Thank god Nate is back in the land of podcasts.
Keeps the ship steady. This podcast is informative, intelligent and interesting.
Contains none of that wishy washy American exuberance (is that how it's spelt?) yet keeps it very interesting. (sorry US listeners..nothing against the US at all)
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Getting better every week and added to my must listen to list!! A must foe gadget fans.
