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From The Big Story: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran

To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Sneaking six Americans out of Iran in 1979 would take an audaci

Oct 31
36 min

From The Big Story: She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family

To listen to episodes a day early, follow The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante bec

Oct 26
1 h 25 min

From The Big Story: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web's Biggest Child Abuse Site

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The

Oct 23
1 h 48 min

From The Big Story: Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here's What Happened

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop He shed his identity with the goal of disappearing for one month. Then the manhunt beg

Oct 21
1 h 09 min

From The Big Story: Nathan Fielder Tells Us Everything

Including what Elizabeth Holmes said to him last week. A WIRED exclusive interview with the comic auteur, as his first feature film hits theaters. The conversation betwe

Oct 19
50 min

From The Big Story: A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by th

Oct 18
48 min

From The Big Story: The Accidental Zillionaire

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Microsoft spawned two billionaires. Paul Allen is the other one. Written by Paulina B

Oct 16
1 h 00 min

From The Big Story: In Search of the Heart of the Online-Cat Industrial Complex

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop A cat wearing a short tie plays music on a cat-shaped keyboard (“Pancake Meowsic Video

Oct 14
45 min

From The Big Story: The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It’s About to Get Cattier and Pornier

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to

Oct 11
33 min

From The Big Story: Billions Registered

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin’ corporate name as you

Oct 9
29 min

From The Big Story: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotec

Oct 7
1 h 18 min

From The Big Story: Choke Points

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost Lives. How Israeli checkpoin

Oct 4
36 min

From The Big Story: How a Research Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister deta

Oct 2
38 min

From The Big Story: Greetings From Burning Man!

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Dispatches from the New American Holiday: Writer Bruce Sterling takes the kids to the

Sep 30
30 min

From The Big Story: She's 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can't Have Kids

No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.For more of the most

Sep 27
39 min

From The Big Story: Sayaka Murata Inhabits a Planet of Her Own

Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop The novelist makes the Earthly rituals of sex, marriage, childbirth—and all of human l

Sep 25
26 min

Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

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Jul 31 2024
11 min

Bitcoin Bros Go Wild for Donald Trump

At the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Trump told crypto enthusiasts exactly what they want to hear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com

Jul 30 2024
14 min

Polluted Lakes Are Being Cleansed Using Floating Wetlands Made of Trash

Platforms combining plants and recycled garbage could offer a cut-price solution for reviving polluted bodies of water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca

Jul 29 2024
13 min

At The Olympics, AI Is Watching You

A controversial new surveillance system in Paris foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch. Learn more about your ad

Jul 26 2024
10 min

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I have enjoyed the content but am unsubscribing because the sound quality is so annoying. The volume level is uneven and Thompson sounds like he’s recording from his bathroom. I don’t understand why a premier tech media company can’t do better than this.

gcvds · May 2020

I love the content of this show. However, the audio is so frustrating. The main host will sound really loud and then all the sudden it’s like he’s whispering and you can’t hear what he said. Then the ads start and it’s a whole new level of loud. I have to adjust the volume more times within a 2 minute span than seems reasonable.

listener 974 · Mar 2020

Love the short and sweet summary of interesting tech news, but please do something about the poor audio quality. Some episodes sound fine and then others are terrible. Surprising for a tech podcast.

DizzyCorgis · Dec 2019

I (try) to listen to this podcast every day. It’s a GREAT source of info on what’s happening in tech. Two minor complaints: One, please see if the volume on the main male commentator (I’m sorry that I don’t know his name) can be adjusted. He either sounds like he’s recording in a cave, or he goes from being almost whisper-like to YELLING. Unbearable, at times. Second, please stick to tech. Updates on the drama in Washington, D.C. have nothing to do with technology news.

JeffySpeaks! · Oct 2019

I’ve been listening to theses reports for some time and enjoyed them. Except, recently, I’ve noticed the sudden commercial interruption during the segment. Is this really necessary? The segments run 20 minutes at most. There are enough ads at the start and the end. Squeezing in two or three additional ads are an unnecessary distraction and forcing me to consider unsubscribing scribing for all the Wired podcasts.

Outtoftime · May 2024

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