Wired.co.uk Podcast 163: Care.data (again), phantom limbs and an NSA-dodging undersea cable




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Summary: <p>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.</p> <p>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? </p> <p>This week:</p> <p><strong>Top stories </strong> (with timecodes)<br> 1) The Care.data saga continues (01:30)<br> 2) Get an injection, pee on a stick, get a cancer diagnosis (08:26)<br> 3) Harvard researcher caught mining dogecoins. Much regret. Many discipline (13:33)<br> 4) AR helps amputee experience first pain-free night in 48 years (16:07)</p> <p><strong>5) Mobile World Congress special report </strong> (22:30)</p> <p><strong>Discussion stories</strong><br> 1) NSA-dodging undersea cable to connect Brazil and EU (27:07)</p> <p>Show produced and edited by Olivia Solon</p>