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Workers from Google, Meta, and Twitter reveal the brutal ways they got dumped. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The AI chatbot has stoked fears of an educational apocalypse. Some teachers see it as the reboot education sorely needs. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google estimates the emissions impacts of things like flights and certain recipes. Businesses with sales at stake are pushing back. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Experts fear sales of the technology also export authoritarian ideas about biometric surveillance. The second largest exporter is the US. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Focusing wasn’t much easier in the time before electricity or on-demand TV. In fact, you probably have a lot in common with these super-distracted monks. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google and other giants have offered muted support for Iran compared to their Ukraine response. Employees are starting anti-censorship projects of their own. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Federal investigators found that conditions in three of the company’s facilities risk “serious physical harm” to workers. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Some ski resorts rely on machines to keep powder on the slopes. But snow guns guzzle water, are energy-intensive, and need cool temperatures to operate. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Decades-old visa rules mean that job cuts disadvantage workers, companies, and perhaps the whole country. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Department of Justice warned a provider of tenant-screening software that its technology must comply with fair housing law. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hidden screening devices are used to track the movement of dangerous materials—and recently caught a shipment of uranium at London’s Heathrow Airport. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
EV sales are booming. But to keep the momentum going and make a dent in carbon emissions, the US will have to build a vast new charging infrastructure. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Right-wing networks from Brazil and the US fueled calls for violence. Experts accuse tech platforms of looking the other way. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
By emulating the human ability to forget some of the data, psychological AIs will transform algorithmic accuracy. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
To preserve humankind’s diverse bacteria, scientists are harvesting, freezing, and storing poop from around the world. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Humanity’s peculiar gait has long confounded engineers and biomechanists—but it might be one of nature’s clever tricks. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
New approaches to the biology of senescence can make lives longer and healthier. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Schools adapted to remote learning, but students also got used to seeking easy answers instead of real understanding. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Ever-expanding cloud storage presents more risks than you might think. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
More EVs were sold in the first half of 2022 alone than any previous year—and there are signs the surge can continue. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The market for non-fungible tokens took a nosedive this year. Now, die-hard evangelists think the key to success is finding different ways to use them. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
He Jiankui has plans for finding cures for devastating genetic diseases. Should the scientific community trust him? Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Research has taken a back seat on the industry’s initial space jaunts, but it could become significant as the trips rack up. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
What’s causing the surge of Scarlet Fever in the UK and will it come to the US? The question drives home the need for better, faster data about how the disease moves. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
If Twitter had implemented its rules uniformly, other world leaders would have been banned too. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Navigation system monitors have seen a recent uptick in interruptions since Ukraine began launching long-range drone attacks. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
For years, researchers thought characteristics like weight and education had shared genetic roots. But the real answer might lie in how people choose to pair up. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX was arrested the day before his scheduled hearing in the US Congress. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
