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Welcome to Uncanny Valley—an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley– where each week, WIRED’s writers and editors bring you original reporting and analysis about some of the biggest stories in tech. On Tuesdays, WIRED’s Zoë Schiffer has an urgent conversation about this week in the news. And on Thursdays, WIRED’s Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond is joined by Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, to break down a recent story or phenomena bubbling up in Silicon Valley and explain its influence on our daily lives.

323 episodes • 0 archived •

Will Meta Really Have to Sell Instagram and WhatsApp?

April 15

17 mins

What The Actual Tariff

April 10

42 mins

Why the Market Is Going Crazy This Week

April 8

20 mins

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian? (Re-Run)

April 3

39 mins

Good Quests, Christianity & Caviar Bumps

March 27

28 mins

Who's Elon Musk’s Biggest Fan? His Mom

March 20

28 mins

DOGE is Doing the Opposite of Government Auditing

March 18

29 mins

What's Lost When the Human Drivers Are Gone?

March 13

39 mins

Why Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown

March 12

23 mins

Do We Need To Have More Babies?

March 6

31 mins

Elon’s Twitter Playbook at DOGE

March 4

20 mins

Deepfakes, Tesla Backlash and Chips Chips Chips

February 27

36 mins

WIRED News Update: DOGE’s Many Conflicts of Interest & Elon’s Weekend Email Chaos

February 26

22 mins

The Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

February 20

36 mins

WIRED News Update: The Watergate-inspired Law That’s Fighting DOGE

February 19

21 mins

Are Dating Apps Getting Worse?

February 13

41 mins

WIRED News Update: Keeping Tabs on DOGE

February 12

26 mins

TikTok Stole Our Hearts, But Can It Last?

February 6

32 mins

The World According to Marc Andreessen

January 30

38 mins

Zuck Ends Fact-Checking. What Could Go Wrong?

January 23

41 mins

We Turned Our Lives Over to AI Assistants

January 16

37 mins

Musk Takes Washington

January 9

36 mins

From Critics at Large: Will Kids Online, In Fact, Be All Right?

January 2

49 mins

All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech

Dec 19, 2024

36 mins

Is This The Year We Quit Social Media?

Dec 12, 2024

42 mins

In Sam Altman We Trust?

Dec 5, 2024

40 mins

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?

Nov 21, 2024

37 mins

How to Not Die in Silicon Valley

Nov 14, 2024

34 mins

Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office

Nov 7, 2024

35 mins

Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis

Oct 31, 2024

31 mins

Welcome to Uncanny Valley!

Oct 24, 2024

2 mins

Some Personal News

Oct 17, 2024

48 mins

How Should We Feel About Ring?

Oct 10, 2024

34 mins

Semaglutide for the People

Oct 3, 2024

29 mins

Is Underwater AI Any Cleaner?

Sep 26, 2024

32 mins

Don't Feed the Neighbors' Kids

Sep 19, 2024

35 mins

The First Real AI iPhone

Sep 12, 2024

44 mins

Seriously, Use Encrypted Messaging

Sep 5, 2024

36 mins

Everyone's Pumped About Heat Pumps

Aug 29, 2024

38 mins

The ‘Wild West’ of EV Charging

Aug 22, 2024

27 mins

Your Photos Aren’t Real

Aug 15, 2024

39 mins

Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup

Aug 8, 2024

31 mins

Dating Games

Aug 1, 2024

30 mins

The Ocean's Tipping Point

Jul 25, 2024

30 mins

The Blurred Reality of Human-Washing

Jul 18, 2024

26 mins

Semaglutide for the People

Jul 11, 2024

28 mins

Thinking About Buying a Hybrid Car? Listen Up

Jul 4, 2024

30 mins

The Rise and Fall of Juul

Jun 27, 2024

39 mins

Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?

Jun 20, 2024

32 mins

Thinking Different About Apple AI

Jun 13, 2024

42 mins

Learning to Live With Google's AI Overviews

Jun 6, 2024

31 mins

The Weird World of an AI Clickbait King

May 30, 2024

38 mins

Everyone's Pumped About Heat Pumps

May 23, 2024

37 mins

The End of Google Search As We Know It

May 16, 2024

36 mins

How Black Twitter Defined Culture

May 9, 2024

35 mins

Thinking About Buying a Hybrid Car? Listen Up

May 2, 2024

29 mins

We Demystify the Internet's Acronyms

Apr 25, 2024

46 mins

A Chat About Airchat

Apr 18, 2024

33 mins

From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November

Apr 11, 2024

31 mins

Shopping for a New Social Feed

Apr 4, 2024

30 mins

DOJ Calls Out Apple in the Group Chat

Mar 28, 2024

29 mins

A 3-Body Podcast

Mar 21, 2024

29 mins

The TikTok Ban

Mar 14, 2024

25 mins

Google’s ‘Woke AI’ Problem

Mar 7, 2024

37 mins

The Non-Techie's Guide to Nvidia

Feb 29, 2024

33 mins

Tech Workers Are Stressed Out

Feb 22, 2024

31 mins

The Weird World of an AI Clickbait King

Feb 15, 2024

37 mins

Several People Are Talking

Feb 8, 2024

38 mins

Apple’s Uncanny Valley Pro

Feb 1, 2024

42 mins

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

Jan 25, 2024

28 mins

AI Hits the Campaign Trail

Jan 18, 2024

31 mins

C’ES la Vie

Jan 11, 2024

38 mins

Abortion Pill Orders Are Soaring

Jan 4, 2024

35 mins

Live on Stage: Reid Hoffman and Fei-Fei Li

Dec 28, 2023

28 mins

Oops, All Recommendations!

Dec 21, 2023

36 mins

Taylor Swift’s Pro-Russia Doppelganger

Dec 14, 2023

34 mins

Blue Bubbles Versus Green Bubbles

Dec 7, 2023

43 mins

Journalists in Studio Getting Coffee

Nov 30, 2023

39 mins

Geoffrey Hinton: ‘It’s Far Too Late’ to Stop Artificial Intelligence

Nov 23, 2023

38 mins

How Three Teens Broke the Internet

Nov 16, 2023

37 mins

Oh, the Humaneity

Nov 9, 2023

33 mins

Happy 1-Year Muskiversary

Nov 2, 2023

41 mins

23andMe and You

Oct 26, 2023

32 mins

Misinformation Is Soaring Online. Don’t Fall for It

Oct 19, 2023

41 mins

Business Wars: Living in an Artificial World

Oct 12, 2023

48 mins

Searching for a Better Google

Oct 5, 2023

38 mins

Meta’s Sound and Vision

Sep 28, 2023

36 mins

Alexa Gets an AI Makeover

Sep 21, 2023

30 mins

Your Life, Your iPhone

Sep 14, 2023

38 mins

We Robloxed So You Don’t Have To

Sep 8, 2023

37 mins

I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Call Me

Aug 31, 2023

46 mins

The Case of the Not-Stolen AirPods

Aug 24, 2023

31 mins

The Cruelest Summer

Aug 17, 2023

40 mins

Nobody’s Driving That Car!

Aug 10, 2023

34 mins

Farm-to-Table Internet

Aug 3, 2023

32 mins

The Future of Hollywood

Jul 27, 2023

36 mins

Elon Musk’s Grand xAI Plans

Jul 20, 2023

35 mins

Stop Trying to Make New Twitter Happen

Jul 13, 2023

38 mins

Have a Nice Future: Don't Worry, It Gets Worse

Jul 6, 2023

33 mins

Our Clothes Are Making Us Sick

Jun 29, 2023

36 mins

Shop Talk

Jun 22, 2023

35 mins

What the Truck, Elon?

Jun 15, 2023

36 mins

Apple’s Vision Quest

Jun 8, 2023

38 mins

AI Won’t Wipe Out Humanity (Yet)

Jun 1, 2023

29 mins

How to Get Started Biking

May 25, 2023

36 mins

Let’s Get Swole

May 18, 2023

38 mins

Google Disrupts Itself

May 12, 2023

41 mins

Nothin’ but Bluesky

May 4, 2023

38 mins

This Episode Is Nuts

Apr 27, 2023

37 mins

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

Apr 20, 2023

31 mins

Send in the Clones

Apr 13, 2023

35 mins

Like, Follow, Subscribe to Cars

Apr 6, 2023

28 mins

Sidewalk Surfin’

Mar 30, 2023

36 mins

The Sacred Mountain of Chip-Making

Mar 23, 2023

38 mins

I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Call Me

Mar 16, 2023

44 mins

ChatGPT in Schools

Mar 9, 2023

47 mins

We Really Recommend This Episode

Mar 2, 2023

34 mins

Netflix Is No Longer Chill

Feb 23, 2023

31 mins

Real Humans Chat About Chatbots

Feb 16, 2023

32 mins

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

Feb 9, 2023

27 mins

Have We Reached Peak Smartphone?

Feb 2, 2023

35 mins

Why the Kids Love TikTok Search

Jan 26, 2023

36 mins

We Need to Talk About Your Stove

Jan 19, 2023

22 mins

Oh, Deere!

Jan 12, 2023

31 mins

CES 2023: We Live Here Now

Jan 5, 2023

37 mins

Is It 2023 Yet?

Dec 29, 2022

39 mins

Plastic Rap

Dec 22, 2022

38 mins

The iPod of Crypto

Dec 15, 2022

33 mins

ChatGPT for You and Me

Dec 8, 2022

34 mins

What the Hell is BNPL?

Dec 1, 2022

30 mins

The State of the Smart Kitchen

Nov 24, 2022

32 mins

What Happens if Twitter Gets Hacked?

Nov 17, 2022

31 mins

Demystifying Mastodon

Nov 10, 2022

32 mins

Tweelon

Nov 3, 2022

33 mins

Plastic Rap

Oct 27, 2022

37 mins

OK, Car Computer

Oct 20, 2022

35 mins

Zuckerberg's Innovation Dilemma

Oct 13, 2022

34 mins

Life in Pixels

Oct 6, 2022

33 mins

The State of the Smart Kitchen

Sep 29, 2022

31 mins

Row Row Row Yourself

Sep 22, 2022

32 mins

Visualizing VR’s Future

Sep 15, 2022

33 mins

Welcome to Dynamic Island

Sep 8, 2022

27 mins

How YouTube's Tumultuous Past Will Shape Its Future

Sep 1, 2022

36 mins

How to Get Your Climate Tax Credits

Aug 25, 2022

34 mins

Tractor Hacks

Aug 18, 2022

32 mins

The Weird Phone Future

Aug 11, 2022

36 mins

NFT Frames

Aug 4, 2022

36 mins

Reel Talk About Instagram

Jul 28, 2022

33 mins

Zucka Kappa Meta

Jul 21, 2022

37 mins

Too Cool for Juul

Jul 14, 2022

30 mins

Seriously, What Is the Metaverse?

Jun 30, 2022

40 mins

The Zoomification of Slack

Jun 23, 2022

29 mins

Streaming TV’s Many Possible Futures

Jun 16, 2022

38 mins

Apple In Real Life

Jun 9, 2022

33 mins

Texting Is Broken

Jun 2, 2022

37 mins

WTF Is Web3?

May 26, 2022

35 mins

How to Get Started Biking

May 19, 2022

34 mins

Google Gadgets Galore

May 12, 2022

39 mins

Kara Swisher's Take on Twitter

May 5, 2022

34 mins

Snap’s New Drone Takes Flight

Apr 28, 2022

28 mins

What Would Elon’s Twitter Look Like?

Apr 21, 2022

34 mins

Browse Better

Apr 15, 2022

31 mins

Peloton Bets Big on Body-Tracking

Apr 8, 2022

36 mins

Who's Behind the Okta Hack?

Apr 1, 2022

31 mins

How You DAOing?

Mar 25, 2022

38 mins

When Facial Recognition Tech Is Wrong

Mar 18, 2022

34 mins

And Apple Marches On

Mar 11, 2022

34 mins

Swift Sanctions

Mar 4, 2022

27 mins

Tracking Apple

Feb 18, 2022

34 mins

Samsung Gonna Samsung

Feb 11, 2022

36 mins

Hitting Pause on Spotify

Feb 4, 2022

39 mins

Help! My Family is Stuck in the Metaverse

Jan 28, 2022

40 mins

Road to the Future

Jan 21, 2022

41 mins

Dry If You Might

Jan 14, 2022

41 mins

Live From CES 2022

Jan 7, 2022

58 mins

Goodbye to All That

Dec 10, 2021

45 mins

WTF Is Web3?

Dec 3, 2021

30 mins

A Conversation with Neal Stephenson

Nov 19, 2021

37 mins

What an Augmented World

Nov 12, 2021

46 mins

Shipping and Shopping

Nov 5, 2021

32 mins

Let’s Get Meta

Oct 29, 2021

33 mins

Big Macs, New Pixels

Oct 22, 2021

35 mins

Facebook's Uncertain Future

Oct 15, 2021

35 mins

Andrew Yang on Micromobility

Oct 8, 2021

41 mins

Amazon Bots

Oct 1, 2021

33 mins

Scratching the Surface

Sep 24, 2021

29 mins

iPhoning It In

Sep 17, 2021

35 mins

Boosters and Mandates

Sep 10, 2021

37 mins

Power Problems

Sep 3, 2021

32 mins

I Never Metaverse I Didn’t Like

Aug 27, 2021

36 mins

Pixel Party

Aug 20, 2021

35 mins

Apple’s Photo-Scanning Tech Explained

Aug 13, 2021

31 mins

I Can Haz Memes

Aug 6, 2021

41 mins

Inside Black Twitter

Jul 30, 2021

27 mins

Bezos in Space

Jul 23, 2021

32 mins

Why WeWork Didn't Work

Jul 16, 2021

39 mins

I Bike, You Bike, Ebike

Jul 9, 2021

36 mins

Paging Dr. Algorithm

Jun 25, 2021

25 mins

Into the Great Wide Open

Jun 18, 2021

32 mins

Cutting to the Core of Apple

Jun 11, 2021

35 mins

Vaccine Incentives, From Donuts to Dollars

Jun 4, 2021

34 mins

Oh, the Huemanity

May 28, 2021

40 mins

Android Dreams

May 21, 2021

33 mins

Muchos Bezos

May 14, 2021

35 mins

The Truth About Section 230

May 7, 2021

40 mins

Leave No Trace

Apr 30, 2021

36 mins

Facebook’s Andrew Bosworth

Apr 23, 2021

52 mins

500th Episode Extravaganza

Apr 16, 2021

1 hr

Breaking Up, Hooking Up

Apr 9, 2021

38 mins

Free Shipping

Apr 2, 2021

28 mins

Reentry Anxiety

Mar 26, 2021

32 mins

Future Computing the Facebook Way

Mar 19, 2021

36 mins

WTF Is an NFT?

Mar 12, 2021

39 mins

Facing Our AR Future

Mar 5, 2021

38 mins

Gadgets on Mars

Feb 26, 2021

45 mins

How to Get a PlayStation 5

Feb 19, 2021

33 mins

Who Let the Doge Out

Feb 12, 2021

38 mins

Clubhouse’s Elon Moment

Feb 5, 2021

34 mins

Your Covid Vaccine Questions, Answered

Jan 29, 2021

39 mins

Reboot Your Brain

Jan 22, 2021

33 mins

CES Wrap-Up

Jan 15, 2021

31 mins

Facebook and Twitter Finally Respond to Trump

Jan 8, 2021

37 mins

Our 2021 Predictions

Dec 18, 2020

40 mins

Gift Rap

Dec 11, 2020

33 mins

Ride Share’s Road Ahead

Dec 4, 2020

33 mins

Pedal Revolution

Nov 20, 2020

32 mins

Apple Chips Ahoy

Nov 13, 2020

19 mins

Console Wars

Nov 6, 2020

30 mins

Car Talk

Oct 30, 2020

31 mins

Google and the Government

Oct 23, 2020

34 mins

The iPhones 12

Oct 16, 2020

29 mins

Battling Burnout

Oct 9, 2020

32 mins

Invasion of the Home Drone

Oct 2, 2020

28 mins

The TikTok Dance

Sep 25, 2020

27 mins

Apple Bundles Up

Sep 18, 2020

34 mins

Connected Cardio

Sep 11, 2020

34 mins

Tech the Vote

Sep 4, 2020

35 mins

Alexa, Play My Alibi

Aug 28, 2020

33 mins

Let’s Talk About Texts

Aug 21, 2020

32 mins

The Foldable Future

Aug 14, 2020

26 mins

We Love Cheap Phones

Aug 7, 2020

32 mins

Amazon’s Hidden Prime Secrets

Jul 31, 2020

30 mins

Tick Tock, TikTok

Jul 24, 2020

32 mins

Get WIRED: Citizen and the Bizarre World of Live-Streamed Crime

Jul 24, 2020

21 mins

Introducing: Get WIRED

Jul 20, 2020

1 min

I Stream, You Stream

Jul 17, 2020

45 mins

I Can't Stop Doomscrolling

Jul 10, 2020

29 mins

Home Bodies

Jul 3, 2020

36 mins

Arrested Developer Event

Jun 26, 2020

39 mins

Inside the eBananas Scandal

Jun 20, 2020

28 mins

When Can I See You Again?

Jun 12, 2020

48 mins

Tech and the Police State

Jun 5, 2020

31 mins

Trump v. Twitter

May 29, 2020

35 mins

Remote Desktop

May 22, 2020

38 mins

The Dark Secrets of a Hacking Hero

May 15, 2020

34 mins

On the Road Again

May 8, 2020

33 mins

The Argument for Making End-of-Life Decisions Early

May 1, 2020

31 mins

Open For Business

Apr 24, 2020

38 mins

Will Contact Tracing Work?

Apr 17, 2020

27 mins

The Race to Make a Vaccine

Apr 10, 2020

35 mins

Supply Demand

Apr 3, 2020

33 mins

Pandemic Panic

Mar 27, 2020

28 mins

The Generation Gap

Mar 20, 2020

26 mins

Socially Distanced

Mar 13, 2020

39 mins

Is Facebook Forever?

Mar 6, 2020

38 mins

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Feb 28, 2020

32 mins

The Anti-Bias Bot

Feb 21, 2020

37 mins

Smartphone Launch Events Are Silly

Feb 14, 2020

29 mins

The Virus and the Vote

Feb 7, 2020

29 mins

Everything Old Is New Again

Jan 31, 2020

30 mins

Open Wide for Mouth Tech

Jan 24, 2020

36 mins

One Wheel, Zero Buttons

Jan 17, 2020

33 mins

Best of CES

Jan 10, 2020

34 mins

Sex Toys and Toothbrushes

Jan 3, 2020

34 mins

Our Favorite Stuff from 2019 Plus Our 2020 Predictions

Dec 20, 2019

27 mins

The Case for Cassava

Dec 13, 2019

32 mins

Going Places

Dec 6, 2019

34 mins

Life After Facebook

Nov 22, 2019

27 mins

Finally, We Can 'Like' Apple’s Keyboards Again

Nov 15, 2019

25 mins

When Big Tech Buys Your Darlings

Nov 8, 2019

25 mins

E429

Deep Listening

E429·

Nov 1, 2019

29 mins

YouTube Creators Want More From YouTube

Oct 25, 2019

33 mins

Facial Recognition Tech Is Coming to a School Near You

Oct 18, 2019

32 mins

E426

It's Time to Put Down Your Phone

E426·

Oct 11, 2019

41 mins

E425

Why Is Microsoft Making a Phone?

E425·

Oct 4, 2019

43 mins

E424

Spot, the Robot Dog, Learns New Tricks

E424·

Sep 27, 2019

35 mins

E423

Your DNA Belongs on the Blockchain

E423·

Sep 20, 2019

34 mins

E422

iPhones to the Max

E422·

Sep 13, 2019

30 mins

E421

How Uber Went Down in Flames

E421·

Sep 6, 2019

47 mins

E420

Why It’s So Hard to Unlink Yourself From Facebook

E420·

Aug 30, 2019

36 mins

E419

You’ve Got Microplastics

E419·

Aug 23, 2019

40 mins

How Google’s Secrecy Lead to Company Turmoil

Aug 16, 2019

36 mins

E417

Amazon's Quest for World Domination

E417·

Aug 9, 2019

36 mins

E416

Bumps in the Road to Our Robo-Car Future

E416·

Aug 2, 2019

38 mins

E415

Why New York’s Revenge Porn Law Is Flawed

E415·

Jul 26, 2019

40 mins

E414

Twitter’s Redesign Is Impressive. Is It Enough?

E414·

Jul 19, 2019

48 mins

E413

Facebook's Libra and the Future of Money

E413·

Jul 13, 2019

37 mins

E412

Rebalancing Our Relationship With Tech

E412·

Jun 28, 2019

1h 4m

E411

A Genius Move

E411·

Jun 21, 2019

51 mins

E410

The Biggest News From E3

E410·

Jun 14, 2019

50 mins

E409

Everything From Apple’s WWDC

E409·

Jun 7, 2019

52 mins

E408

Making Surfing More Sustainable

E408·

Jun 2, 2019

55 mins

E407

Samsung’s Innovation Dilemma

E407·

May 24, 2019

55 mins

E406

YouTube’s Latest Beauty Scandal

E406·

May 17, 2019

36 mins

E405

If You Build It, They Will I/O

E405·

May 10, 2019

53 mins

E404

The Making of Adam Savage

E404·

May 3, 2019

54 mins

E403

Preserving Your Right to Repair Your Gadgets

E403·

Apr 19, 2019

1h 8m

E402

What Happens to Uber After Its IPO?

E402·

Apr 12, 2019

45 mins

Introducing Citadel Dropouts: A Game of Thrones Podcast

Apr 12, 2019

46 mins

E401

Reporting From Syria

E401·

Apr 5, 2019

21 mins

E400

The Case for Male Birth Control

E400·

Mar 29, 2019

47 mins

E399

Game On at Google

E399·

Mar 22, 2019

48 mins

E398

Flickr Cofounder Questions Big Tech

E398·

Mar 15, 2019

1h 7m

How to Quit Your Tech Job

Mar 8, 2019

53 mins

Alex Kipman’s Holographic Tendencies

Mar 1, 2019

52 mins

You’ve Got to Know When to Fold ‘Em

Feb 23, 2019

42 mins

The Treacherous Allure of OG Usernames

Feb 15, 2019

59 mins

The App Smackdown

Feb 1, 2019

49 mins

Amazon Delivery Bots Are Here

Jan 25, 2019

42 mins

Nike’s Truly Smart Sneakers

Jan 19, 2019

46 mins

The Best of CES

Jan 12, 2019

52 mins

The Year in Tech, in One Word

Dec 21, 2018

49 mins

Apocalypse Now

Dec 14, 2018

56 mins

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