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Gadget Lab: Weekly Tech News

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Inside the hottest personal tech stories of the week; mobile apps, gear, social networking, and entertainment.

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Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

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iPhones to the Max

September 13th, 2019

33:42
New iPhones! A shinier Apple Watch! So many camera lenses! On this week’s episode of Gadget Lab, it’s Apple week yet again. Lauren, Mike, and Arielle discuss all the new devices and services that made a splash in …

How Uber Went Down in Flames

September 6th, 2019

50:52
Once upon a time, there was a true unicorn, a startup named Uber. Led by CEO Travis Kalanick, the company broke all the rules of business and truly …

Why It’s So Hard to Unlink Yourself From Facebook

August 30th, 2019

40:21
If you have both an Instagram and Facebook account, chances are they are connected, whether you like it or not. But what if you didn’t connect them in the first place, or if you have a Finstagram account that you really

You’ve Got Microplastics

August 23rd, 2019

43:59
Plastic is everywhere. No, really, it is everywhere. Tiny bits of plastic waste, called microplastic, have come to permeate nearly every part of the planet. We drink it in our water. We breathe it in the air. It is …

How Google’s Secrecy Lead to Company Turmoil

August 16th, 2019

39:31
For years, Google has flourished in large part because of its famously open internal structure. Leadership encouraged active and vocal communication between employees who held strong opinions or dissented with the …

Amazon's Quest for World Domination

August 9th, 2019

40:08
Amazon didn’t become the behemoth it is by accident. Its services, like Amazon Prime, and products, like the Echo smart speaker, were designed to learn everything about you and become essential fixtures in your daily …

Bumps in the Road to Our Robo-Car Future

August 2nd, 2019

42:08
From fledgling startups to automotive giants like General Motors, there’s a whole lot of companies looking to develop fully self-driving cars. But …

Why New York’s Revenge Porn Law Is Flawed

July 26th, 2019

44:03
This week, New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill criminalizing the spread of nonconsensual pornography, or revenge porn. WIRED’s Emma Grey Ellis joins Mike and Lauren to talk about what the law does, and …

Twitter’s Redesign Is Impressive. Is It Enough?

July 19th, 2019

51:39
On Monday, Twitter began rolling out its first desktop redesign in seven years. It was a mostly aesthetic makeover, with changes like a new layout, …

Facebook's Libra and the Future of Money

July 13th, 2019

37:18
Last month, Facebook announced its plans to get into the cryptocurrency race with Libra. A blend of blockchain and partnership with 28 companies, Libra has been pitched as a money transfer service and a unique currency …

Rebalancing Our Relationship With Tech

June 28th, 2019

1:04:15
This week, a conversation with Aza Raskin, cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology at Stanford University, about the “asymmetric power …

A Genius Move

June 21st, 2019

54:37
If you thought an internet giant stole your hard work and claimed it as their own, how would you ever prove it? Well, what if you could booby trap …

The Biggest News From E3

June 14th, 2019

54:04
This week was E3, the trade show where the biggest names in gaming debut their latest shiny products and software. On this week’s Gadget Lab podcast, WIRED’s Peter Rubin joins Mike, Arielle, and Lauren to discuss the …

Everything From Apple’s WWDC

June 7th, 2019

55:36
The iPhone is still undoubtedly Apple’s most important product. So why were some of the biggest announcements this week at the company’s annual developers conference around the iPad and the Mac? On this week’s Gadget …

Making Surfing More Sustainable

June 2nd, 2019

58:57
The great irony in the sport of surfing is that the process of making a surfboard puts a great deal of strain on the environment. The various chemicals and materials used to assemble boards, leashes, and wetsuits end up …

Samsung’s Innovation Dilemma

May 24th, 2019

58:56
What’s a giant consumer electronics maker to do when it notices that younger customers are more interested in paying for experiences, rather than things? That’s what WIRED senior associate editor Arielle Pardes had the …

YouTube’s Latest Beauty Scandal

May 17th, 2019

39:46
Beauty product reviews on YouTube aren’t just about beauty products and internet capitalism. They’re a conduit for drama, loyalty politics, and …

If You Build It, They Will I/O

May 10th, 2019

53:20
Developer conferences aren’t just a chance for tech companies to incentivize app makers and show off the latest tricks and tools in software. The …

The Making of Adam Savage

May 3rd, 2019

54:59
You might know Adam Savage as the co-host of the television show MythBusters, as the editor of Tested.com, or as the host of countless web videos that show him building machines, sewing costumes for Comic-Con, and …

Preserving Your Right to Repair Your Gadgets

April 19th, 2019

1:11:48
What happens when your drop your phone and shatter the screen? Or when its battery starts to grow noticeably weaker? These common technological woes …

What Happens to Uber After Its IPO?

April 12th, 2019

49:16
Uber filed to go public this week. No big surprise there; everyone in the industry has been waiting months for the ride-hailing giant to hit the accelerator on its IPO. What did raise an eyebrow were the details the …

Introducing Citadel Dropouts: A Game of Thrones Podcast

April 12th, 2019

46:25

We’re confused about what exactly this hoped-for Targaryen Restoration is about, politically. And is Game of Thrones, like, good anymore? Laura …

Reporting From Syria

April 5th, 2019

21:30

This week, we’re joined by a special guest: freelance war correspondent Kenneth R. Rosen. Ken is working on a series of stories for WIRED about the reconstruction efforts in Syria. The first of Ken’s stories, “The Body …

The Case for Male Birth Control

March 29th, 2019

47:37
Hormonal male contraception is not a new idea––in fact, researchers have been working on solutions for men the pill was invented for women. But early …

Game On at Google

March 22nd, 2019

48:29
Google’s Project Stream, first unveiled last October, gave gamers a taste of what it would be like to stream heavy games directly from the cloud – …

Flickr Cofounder Questions Big Tech

March 15th, 2019

1:07:22
“Should this exist?” is not typically a question that technologists ask themselves, Caterina Fake says. The Flickr cofounder-turned-investor says …

How to Quit Your Tech Job

March 8th, 2019

53:23

Jessica Powell was the top communications executive at Google when she found herself Googling, in no uncertain search terms, how to quit her job at Google. She tried approximately 837 different tactics before she ended …

Alex Kipman’s Holographic Tendencies

March 1st, 2019

52:12

Microsoft just unveiled a brand new product, but it really doesn’t want to hype it. That’s according to Alex Kipman, technical fellow at Microsoft …

You’ve Got to Know When to Fold ‘Em

February 23rd, 2019

42:37

At its flagship phone event this week in San Francisco, Samsung announced not one but four different versions of the new Galaxy S10: A phone with a 6.1-inch display, a plus-sized model, a “less expensive” version of the …

The Treacherous Allure of OG Usernames

February 15th, 2019

59:52

Product designer and internet native Chris Messina was lucky enough to snag the username @chris on Instagram back when Instagram was known as Burbn, and, like all of his early usernames, it became a part of his digital …

The App Smackdown

February 1st, 2019

49:17

Move fast and break app store rules: That very well may have been Facebook’s motto for awhile now, only, we’re just learning about it this week. …

Amazon Delivery Bots Are Here

January 25th, 2019

42:29

Kids are particularly terrible for robots. At least, that’s what researchers in Japan discovered when they let a robot roam around a shopping center …

Nike’s Truly Smart Sneakers

January 19th, 2019

46:34

Self-lacing sneakers have been the dream since Marty McFly first rocked Nike MAGs in 1989, but most attempts at turning shoe leather into smart sneakers have been expensive, produced in small batches, and frankly, a …

The Best of CES

January 12th, 2019

52:38

We came. We saw. We touched a lot of gadgets. This week was the annual CES, one of the world’s largest consumer electronics show, and WIRED’s team was on the ground covering all of the top tech trends to emerge from the …

The Year in Tech, in One Word

December 21st, 2018

49:13

If you had to sum up the year in tech in one word, what word would you choose? That’s what we at the Gadget Lab asked ourselves as we looked to …

Apocalypse Now

December 14th, 2018

56:06

Most people, at this point, believe that climate change is a real thing that will harm future generations of humans. And yet, a cognitive dissonance exists around that knowledge and our sense of responsibility: A much …

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