The Wired.co.uk Podcast

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark. This week: Top stories (with timecode) 1) Regulator censoring porn to keep itself in a job, says campaigner (01:40) 2) Oculus team got 'so many death threats' after Facebook deal (07:30) 3) African SMS money transfer system makes leap to Europe (14:00) Discussion stories 1) It's no longer illegal to rip CDs: what does it mean for you? (19:30) 2) 'Afro' emoticons combat lack of emoji diversity (26:30) Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Nicholas Tufnell. This week: Top stories (with timecode) 1) Facebook buys virtual reality specialist Oculus VR (01:25) 2) #nomakeupselfie raises 'unprecedented' £8m for cancer research (09:15) Discussion stories 1) HTC One M8 announced: what's next for high-end Androids (17:50) Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark. This week: Top stories (with timecode) 1) Android smartwatch OS announced with Moto 360 (01:20) 2) EU votes to protect net neutrality, end roaming charges (06:10) 3) EU votes in favour of universal mobile charger (11:20) 4) UK-built drone to map Fukushima nuclear fallout (13:05) Discussion stories 1) Ride London's abandoned underground 'Mail Rail' (17:15) Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark. This week: Top stories (with timecode) 1) Edward Snowden interview and NSA agony aunt (00:00) 2) Neil Young's elite music player is prism-shaped oddity (00:00) 3) How to lose a plane in 2014 (00:00) Discussion stories 1) Happy birthday, World Wide Web (00:00) Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark. This week: Top stories (with timecode) 1) Clegg: Reform GCHQ oversight or risk losing fearless internet (01:56) 2) Trouble brewing as company adds 'DRM' to coffee (10:40) 3) Apple wants CarPlay to own your vehicle (14:45) Discussion stories 1) BroApp, the latest sexist app to troll the interwebs (20:30) 2) Microsoft is a '2.5-trick pony' according to Steve Ballmer (27:15) Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

In this special bonus podcast, Wired.co.uk's editor Nate Lanxon interviews Firefox VP Johnathan Nightingale live at Mobile World Congress about Mozilla's $25 (£15) smartphone -- how it works, how it has been developed and how Mozilla thinks it could changed the face of the smartphone market in developing regions. Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Olivia Solon, Liat Clark and Nicholas Tufnell. Once again Care.data is proving to be a hot mess. Remember all that sensitive personal information they promised they wouldn't give to insurers? They gave it to insurers. Liat takes a look at how medical professionals are trying to treat the strange phenomenon of phantom limbs, and we discuss the news that the European Union and Brazil have agreed to lay a fibre-optic undersea communications cable across the Atlantic in an attempt to "guarantee" net neutrality -- is this the beginning of a balkanised web? This week: Top stories (with timecodes) 1) The Care.data saga continues (01:30) 2) Get an injection, pee on a stick, get a cancer diagnosis (08:26) 3) Harvard researcher caught mining dogecoins. Much regret. Many discipline (13:33) 4) AR helps amputee experience first pain-free night in 48 years (16:07) 5) Mobile World Congress special report (22:30) Discussion stories 1) NSA-dodging undersea cable to connect Brazil and EU (27:07) Show produced and edited by Olivia Solon

On this very special podcast recorded on the show floor at Mobile World Congress, Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon and Katie Collins go hands-on with the hottest devices: Samsung's Galaxy S5, Nokia's first Android phone -- Nokia X -- as well as Firefox's £15 smartphone. They are joined by technology journalists Matt Warman (The Telegraph) and Natasha Lomas (TechCrunch), as well as Firefox's Johnathan Nightingale. This week: Top stories (with timecode) 1) Our first impressions using the Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit wearable (01:14) 2) Nokia X: the first Android phone from Nokia used and previewed (10:35) 3) The £15 Firefox smartphone, how it works and how it was made (19:16) Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark. Editor of Wired magazine, David Rowan, joins us to talk about WhatsApp -- just weeks prior to Facebook's acquisition, David had spent several days with the secretive founders at their headquarters. He will explain what he learned about the company, its culture and its future. This week: Top stories (with timecodes) 1) Common sense prevails as confusing Care.data is delayed (01:30) 2) You lose, journalism. Carrying GCHQ docs is terrorism (04:30) 3) Wikipedia could become 1,193,014 page book (09:20) 4) UNICEF challenge: put down your phone, save lives (13:15) Discussion stories 1) WhatsApp: The inside story (17:10) Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark. This week: Top stories 1) WTF is going on with Flappy Bird? 2) Vast underground bomb shelter reappropriated by urban farmers 3) 'Talking therapy' could help schizophrenic sufferers that refuse drugs Discussion stories 1) Care.data explained in detail Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Olivia Solon, Katie Collins and Liat Clark. This week: Top stories 1) Microsoft has a new CEO 2) David Cameron: I don't think Snowden's had a big public impact 3) GCHQ targeting anonymous in DDOS attack 4) Creepy AI will talk to your loved ones after you die Discussion stories 1) Facebook at 10: the successes, the fails, the personal memories 2) Claire Perry has the answer to everything Show produced by Olivia Solon, edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark. This week: Top stories 1) Forcing ISPs to block The Pirate Bay is ineffective, rules Dutch court 2) Do you feel immortal? Chances are you did when you were born 3) GCHQ spied on Facebook and YouTube in real time to check for trends Discussion stories 1) When good lulz go bad: unpicking the ugly business of online harassment Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark. This week: Top stories 1) Comet-bound spacecraft Rosetta wakes up from hibernation 2) Injecting genes into the eye improves eyesight, could treat blindness one day 3) Google developing 'smart' contact lens to monitor blood sugar levels for diabetics Discussion stories 1) Kim Dotcom soft launches music service Baboom 2) Why wearable tech is unwearable 3) Facebook co-founder: email is about to die Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Olivia Solon, Liat Clark and Katie Collins This week: Top stories 1) Sudanese volunteers are printing £60 limbs in six hours for local amputees 2) Study: we cheat in video games because we assume everyone else does 3) Digital rights groups team up for day of action against NSA surveillance 4) Study: 'clumsy' emperor penguins climb vast ice shelves to breed Discussion stories 1) Dogecoin, Coinye West and the rise of statement cryptocurrencies 2) UK expert: Texan auction of black rhino kill permit is 'perfectly reasonable' conservation method Show edited and produced by Olivia Solon

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Liat Clark and Katie Collins This week: Top stories 1) Nick d'Aloisio announces Summly-inspired News Digest app at Yahoo's CES keynote 2) Google+ app monitors your video calls and tells you what to say 3) Electronic tongue knows its Merlot from its Pinot Noir, tells you when to harvest 4) CES special report from Nate Lanxon Discussion stories 1) Met Office to launch round-the-clock space weather forecasting service 2) Facebook sued for scanning 'private' messages for profit Show edited and produced by Olivia Solon