The Wired.co.uk Podcast

On this week's show, the final of our three end-of-year specials to round-off 2013, the Wired.co.uk recap their favourite stories from the past twelve months. Top stories 1) Filmmaker gagged by the Technoviking, bankrupted by legal bills 2) Dutch design studio develops system to suck smog from the Beijing sky 3) The Orbi story: BBC and Sega collaborate on experimental natural history theme park 4) Female squid feign having testes to spurn male advances 5) Mark Rober left Nasa to make awesome wearable tech Halloween costumes Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

On this special episode of the Wired.co.uk Podcast, Nate Lanxon is joined by British games journalist Guy Cocker, CNET.com senior writer and computing expert Andrew Hoyle, and WIRED magazine's product editor Jeremy White. The topic? How video games and mainstream consumer technology has developed in 2013, and how both industries will fare in 2014. Our panel takes a deep look at the trends, the highlights and the upcoming releases to predict which products and games will be making waves over the next twelve months. * Have the next-gen games consoles been doing well? * Which will be 2014's most important and innovative games releases? * Are in-app payments corrupting mobile gaming? * How will the tablet market evolve in 2014 and how will Apple fare under increasing competition? * What does Nokia's future look like? * Is Nintendo doomed? * Will smartwatches be the next big thing in mobile computing? We'll apply some logic and informed opinion to these questions and more in this very special episode. Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

On this special episode of the Wired.co.uk Podcast, Nate Lanxon is joined by four editors of WIRED magazine to discuss their predictions for what will be some of 2014's most important trends to watch, from real-time health monitoring to 4D printing. You can read more about the Wired World in 2014, from which some of these trends were taken for discussion, in WIRED's special issue, on sale now in print on newsstands, and from digital retailers such as iTunes for iPad and iPhone, and Zinio. 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) China lands 'Jade Rabbit' on the Moon 2) Brain scans suggest those in vegetative state react emotionally to loved ones 3) Twitter introduces changes to block functionality, reverses them immediately 4) Elsevier clamps down on academics posting their own papers online Discussion stories 1) Facebook is tracking your 'self-censorship' & is launching autoplay video ads 2) NSA's precarious PR: we'll consider Snowden amnesty, while comparing him to a hostage taker 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 and Liat Clark. This week: Top stories 1) Microsoft designs smart bra to combat emotional eating 2) Snowden leak shows NSA/GCHQ agents posed undercover on MMOs 3) £80 Aldi tablet sells out in 24 hours 4) National Geographic opens its cartography archive with Google Maps Engine Discussion stories 1) Falling in love with AI virtual assistants: a creepy love affair nearer than you think 2) Dattch founder Robyn Exton on the challenges of pitching a lesbian dating app Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon

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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: Interview Wired.co.uk talks to Kim Dotcom and piracy, digital rights and Peter Sunde. News 1) Berners-Lee: insidious government surveillance may be worse than outright censorship 2) Motion capture used to assess best sexual positions after hip surgery 3) PS4 goes on sale this week, O2 offering on contract Interview Wired.co.uk talks to Leander Kahney about Apple design chief Jony Ive 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) Extent of Google's renewed battle against online child abuse revealed 2) Twitter extends Alerts service to the UK and Ireland 3) Thanks to CatAcademy you can learn a new language using 1,000 cat photos 4) Excess heat from London Underground to warm Islington homes Discussion stories 1) Carrot Dating's 'bribes'-for-dates model shows mastery of the art of attention seeking 2) LoveRoom connects attractive people with free bedrooms. What could go wrong? 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 1) Appeal urges tech community to help in wake of Typhoon Haiyan 2) Student hacks Raspberry Pi to run college bar 3) Music publishers' association issues takedown notices to 50 lyrics websites 4) Explorer to compose music, fly drones on solo expedition to South Pole Discussion stories 1) 2014 Gear Guide with Jeremy White 2) iPad Air review 3) Marshall Davis Jones performance from Wired 2013

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 Katie Collins. This week: Top stories 1) Computer-generated 10-year-old helps charity identify 1000 child predators 2) India successfully launches its first mission to Mars 3) Twitter hit with IBM patent attack, raises share price estimate anyway 4) Blackberry buyout fails, company secures $1 billion in investment 5) Dogs can decipher tail-wag language Special report: Transform Africa 2013 Read all of Katie's coverage from her week in Rwanda in our story hub. Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Katie Collins

Steve Wozniak joins us to talk about new iPads, the technology industry and Apple; plus we discuss the last week of Wired news. Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Nicholas Tufnell, Tom Cheshire

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 and Nicholas Tufnell. This week: Top stories 1) Nokia's new phablet Lumia phones and Windows tablets 2) Nasa communicates with space lasers and sets data transmission record 3) Soylent raises £617,000, reminds us what's wrong with Silicon Valley 4) Noise pollution mapped by data collected on smartphones Discussion stories 1) Hands-on with iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display 2) The weird world of Facebook's moral code: beheadings good, breastfeedings bad Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Nicholas Tufnell

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) Apple hires Burberry CEO 2) Future Generations Report: we need global shared values to secure our future 3) Asda's in-store 3D-printing trial 4) Argos enters budget Android tablet 5) Brain stimulation lets macaques 'feel' when prosthetic hand is touched Discussion stories 1) Freeze-drying the dead could help save the planet 2) Sixteen and hacked: the challenges of running One Direction's biggest Twitter fan account Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Liat Clark, Nicholas Tufnell

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) Campaign groups take British government to court over surveillance 2) FBI struggling to come to terms with £2 million worth of seized bitcoins 3) Korean robot hunts down and shreds jellyfish 4) Nest launches Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector in the UK for £109 5) Doubts arise over Valve's Half-Life 3 trade mark registration Discussion stories 1) Higgs boson gets Nobel prize, but physicists still don't know what it means 2) Grand Theft Auto V by the numbers 3) MurMurs: the talking, tweeting seats designed to make your office fun Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Liat Clark

Listen this week for an entertaining 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 Nicholas Tufnell. Also joining us this week is Professor Brian Cox. We discuss one-way manned missions to Mars and the solar system's moons, what's happening with the Large Hadron Collider since the Higgs discovery, life under Lake Vostok, how to inspire kids to be the next scientists, and whether the moon is now a bit boring to science. Also this week: Top news stories 1) Dutch police recruit rat detectives to sniff out crime 2) Smartphone chips sense earthquakes, could speed up aid response 3) Japan aims to beam solar energy down from orbit 4) Valve registers Half-Life 3 trade mark Show produced and edited by Nate Lanxon