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Paul Bianchi
 Jul 24, 2019
Lively discussion, the three hosts have a good time discussing tech culture together.


 Jun 17, 2019

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Welcome to Uncanny Valley—an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. Join hosts Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, and Zoë Schiffer as they break down new stories or phenomena bubbling up in Silicon Valley. Whether it’s a pivotal decision made inside a tech company, a quirky, new habit of a CEO, or the overwhelming expansion of generative AI, we’ll explain why these matter and how they affect you.


Episode Date
How to Not Die in Silicon Valley
Nov 14, 2024
Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office
Nov 07, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis
Oct 31, 2024
Welcome to Uncanny Valley!
Oct 24, 2024
Some Personal News
Oct 17, 2024
How Should We Feel About Ring?
Oct 10, 2024
Semaglutide for the People
Oct 03, 2024
Is Underwater AI Any Cleaner?
Sep 26, 2024
Don't Feed the Neighbors' Kids
Sep 19, 2024
The First Real AI iPhone
Sep 12, 2024
Seriously, Use Encrypted Messaging
Sep 05, 2024
Everyone's Pumped About Heat Pumps
Aug 29, 2024
The ‘Wild West’ of EV Charging
Aug 22, 2024
Your Photos Aren’t Real
Aug 15, 2024
Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup
Aug 08, 2024
Dating Games
Aug 01, 2024
The Ocean's Tipping Point
Jul 25, 2024
The Blurred Reality of Human-Washing
Jul 18, 2024
Semaglutide for the People
Jul 11, 2024
Thinking About Buying a Hybrid Car? Listen Up
Jul 04, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Juul
Jun 27, 2024
Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?
Jun 20, 2024
Thinking Different About Apple AI
Jun 13, 2024
Learning to Live With Google's AI Overviews
Jun 06, 2024
The Weird World of an AI Clickbait King
May 30, 2024
Everyone's Pumped About Heat Pumps
May 23, 2024
The End of Google Search As We Know It
May 16, 2024
How Black Twitter Defined Culture
May 09, 2024
Thinking About Buying a Hybrid Car? Listen Up
May 02, 2024
We Demystify the Internet's Acronyms
Apr 25, 2024
A Chat About Airchat
Apr 18, 2024
From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November
Apr 11, 2024
Shopping for a New Social Feed
Apr 04, 2024
DOJ Calls Out Apple in the Group Chat
Mar 28, 2024
A 3-Body Podcast
Mar 21, 2024
The TikTok Ban
Mar 14, 2024
Google’s ‘Woke AI’ Problem
Mar 07, 2024
The Non-Techie's Guide to Nvidia
Feb 29, 2024
Tech Workers Are Stressed Out
Feb 22, 2024
The Weird World of an AI Clickbait King
Feb 15, 2024
Several People Are Talking
Feb 08, 2024
Apple’s Uncanny Valley Pro
Feb 01, 2024
I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin
Jan 25, 2024
AI Hits the Campaign Trail
Jan 18, 2024
C’ES la Vie
Jan 11, 2024
Abortion Pill Orders Are Soaring
Jan 04, 2024
Live on Stage: Reid Hoffman and Fei-Fei Li
Dec 28, 2023
Oops, All Recommendations!
Dec 21, 2023
Taylor Swift’s Pro-Russia Doppelganger
Dec 14, 2023
Blue Bubbles Versus Green Bubbles
Dec 07, 2023
Journalists in Studio Getting Coffee
Nov 30, 2023
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘It’s Far Too Late’ to Stop Artificial Intelligence
Nov 23, 2023
How Three Teens Broke the Internet
Nov 16, 2023
Oh, the Humaneity
Nov 09, 2023
Happy 1-Year Muskiversary
Nov 02, 2023
23andMe and You
Oct 26, 2023
Misinformation Is Soaring Online. Don’t Fall for It
Oct 19, 2023
Business Wars: Living in an Artificial World
Oct 12, 2023
Searching for a Better Google
Oct 05, 2023
Meta’s Sound and Vision
Sep 28, 2023
Alexa Gets an AI Makeover
Sep 21, 2023
Your Life, Your iPhone
Sep 14, 2023
We Robloxed So You Don’t Have To
Sep 08, 2023
I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Call Me
Aug 31, 2023
The Case of the Not-Stolen AirPods
Aug 24, 2023
The Cruelest Summer
Aug 17, 2023
Nobody’s Driving That Car!
Aug 10, 2023
Farm-to-Table Internet
Aug 03, 2023
The Future of Hollywood
Jul 27, 2023
Elon Musk’s Grand xAI Plans
Jul 20, 2023
Stop Trying to Make New Twitter Happen
Jul 13, 2023
Have a Nice Future: Don't Worry, It Gets Worse
Jul 06, 2023
Our Clothes Are Making Us Sick
Jun 29, 2023
Shop Talk
Jun 22, 2023
What the Truck, Elon?
Jun 15, 2023
Apple’s Vision Quest
Jun 08, 2023
AI Won’t Wipe Out Humanity (Yet)
Jun 01, 2023
How to Get Started Biking
May 25, 2023
Let’s Get Swole
May 18, 2023
Google Disrupts Itself
May 12, 2023
Nothin’ but Bluesky
May 04, 2023
This Episode Is Nuts
Apr 27, 2023
I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin
Apr 20, 2023
Send in the Clones
Apr 13, 2023
Like, Follow, Subscribe to Cars
Apr 06, 2023
Sidewalk Surfin’
Mar 30, 2023
The Sacred Mountain of Chip-Making
Mar 23, 2023
I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Call Me
Mar 16, 2023
ChatGPT in Schools
Mar 09, 2023
We Really Recommend This Episode
Mar 02, 2023
Netflix Is No Longer Chill
Feb 23, 2023
Real Humans Chat About Chatbots
Feb 16, 2023
I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin
Feb 09, 2023
Have We Reached Peak Smartphone?
Feb 02, 2023
Why the Kids Love TikTok Search
Jan 26, 2023
We Need to Talk About Your Stove
Jan 19, 2023
Oh, Deere!
Jan 12, 2023
CES 2023: We Live Here Now
Jan 05, 2023
Is It 2023 Yet?
Dec 29, 2022
Plastic Rap
Dec 22, 2022
The iPod of Crypto
Dec 15, 2022
ChatGPT for You and Me
Dec 08, 2022
What the Hell is BNPL?
Dec 01, 2022
The State of the Smart Kitchen
Nov 24, 2022
What Happens if Twitter Gets Hacked?
Nov 17, 2022
Demystifying Mastodon
Nov 10, 2022
Tweelon
Nov 03, 2022
Plastic Rap
Oct 27, 2022
OK, Car Computer
Oct 20, 2022
Zuckerberg's Innovation Dilemma
Oct 13, 2022
Life in Pixels
Oct 06, 2022
The State of the Smart Kitchen
Sep 29, 2022
Row Row Row Yourself
Sep 22, 2022
Visualizing VR’s Future
Sep 15, 2022
Welcome to Dynamic Island
Sep 08, 2022
How YouTube's Tumultuous Past Will Shape Its Future
Sep 01, 2022
How to Get Your Climate Tax Credits
Aug 25, 2022
Tractor Hacks
Aug 18, 2022
The Weird Phone Future
Aug 11, 2022
NFT Frames
Aug 04, 2022
Reel Talk About Instagram
Jul 28, 2022
Zucka Kappa Meta
Jul 21, 2022
Too Cool for Juul
Jul 14, 2022
Seriously, What Is the Metaverse?
Jun 30, 2022
The Zoomification of Slack
Jun 23, 2022
Streaming TV’s Many Possible Futures
Jun 16, 2022
Apple In Real Life
Jun 09, 2022
Texting Is Broken
Jun 02, 2022
WTF Is Web3?
May 26, 2022
How to Get Started Biking
May 19, 2022
Google Gadgets Galore
May 12, 2022
Kara Swisher's Take on Twitter
May 05, 2022
Snap’s New Drone Takes Flight
Apr 28, 2022
What Would Elon’s Twitter Look Like?
Apr 21, 2022
Browse Better
Apr 15, 2022
Peloton Bets Big on Body-Tracking
Apr 08, 2022
Who's Behind the Okta Hack?
Apr 01, 2022
How You DAOing?
Mar 25, 2022
When Facial Recognition Tech Is Wrong
Mar 18, 2022
And Apple Marches On
Mar 11, 2022
Swift Sanctions
Mar 04, 2022
Tracking Apple
Feb 18, 2022
Samsung Gonna Samsung
Feb 11, 2022
Hitting Pause on Spotify
Feb 04, 2022
Help! My Family is Stuck in the Metaverse
Jan 28, 2022
Road to the Future
Jan 21, 2022
Dry If You Might
Jan 14, 2022
Live From CES 2022
Jan 07, 2022
Goodbye to All That
Dec 10, 2021
WTF Is Web3?
Dec 03, 2021
A Conversation with Neal Stephenson
Nov 19, 2021
What an Augmented World
Nov 12, 2021
Shipping and Shopping
Nov 05, 2021
Let’s Get Meta
Oct 29, 2021
Big Macs, New Pixels
Oct 22, 2021
Facebook's Uncertain Future
Oct 15, 2021
Andrew Yang on Micromobility
Oct 08, 2021
Amazon Bots
Oct 01, 2021
Scratching the Surface
Sep 24, 2021
iPhoning It In
Sep 17, 2021
Boosters and Mandates
Sep 10, 2021
Power Problems
Sep 03, 2021
I Never Metaverse I Didn’t Like
Aug 27, 2021
Pixel Party
Aug 20, 2021
Apple’s Photo-Scanning Tech Explained
Aug 13, 2021
I Can Haz Memes
Aug 06, 2021
Inside Black Twitter
Jul 30, 2021
Bezos in Space
Jul 23, 2021
Why WeWork Didn't Work
Jul 16, 2021
I Bike, You Bike, Ebike
Jul 09, 2021
Paging Dr. Algorithm
Jun 25, 2021
Into the Great Wide Open
Jun 18, 2021
Cutting to the Core of Apple
Jun 11, 2021
Vaccine Incentives, From Donuts to Dollars
Jun 04, 2021
Oh, the Huemanity
May 28, 2021
Android Dreams
May 21, 2021
Muchos Bezos
May 14, 2021
The Truth About Section 230
May 07, 2021
Leave No Trace
Apr 30, 2021
Facebook’s Andrew Bosworth
Apr 23, 2021
500th Episode Extravaganza
Apr 16, 2021
Breaking Up, Hooking Up
Apr 09, 2021
Free Shipping
Apr 02, 2021
Reentry Anxiety
Mar 26, 2021
Future Computing the Facebook Way
Mar 19, 2021
WTF Is an NFT?
Mar 12, 2021
Facing Our AR Future
Mar 05, 2021
Gadgets on Mars
Feb 26, 2021
How to Get a PlayStation 5
Feb 19, 2021
Who Let the Doge Out
Feb 12, 2021
Clubhouse’s Elon Moment
Feb 05, 2021
Your Covid Vaccine Questions, Answered
Jan 29, 2021
Reboot Your Brain
Jan 22, 2021
CES Wrap-Up
Jan 15, 2021
Facebook and Twitter Finally Respond to Trump
Jan 08, 2021
Our 2021 Predictions
Dec 18, 2020
Gift Rap
Dec 11, 2020
Ride Share’s Road Ahead
Dec 04, 2020
Pedal Revolution
Nov 20, 2020
Apple Chips Ahoy
Nov 13, 2020
Console Wars
Nov 06, 2020
Car Talk
Oct 30, 2020
Google and the Government
Oct 23, 2020
The iPhones 12
Oct 16, 2020
Battling Burnout
Oct 09, 2020
Invasion of the Home Drone
Oct 02, 2020
The TikTok Dance
Sep 25, 2020
Apple Bundles Up
Sep 18, 2020
Connected Cardio
Sep 11, 2020
Tech the Vote
Sep 04, 2020
Alexa, Play My Alibi
Aug 28, 2020
Let’s Talk About Texts
Aug 21, 2020
The Foldable Future
Aug 14, 2020
We Love Cheap Phones
Aug 07, 2020
Amazon’s Hidden Prime Secrets
Jul 31, 2020
Tick Tock, TikTok
Jul 24, 2020
Get WIRED: Citizen and the Bizarre World of Live-Streamed Crime
Jul 24, 2020
Introducing: Get WIRED
Jul 20, 2020
I Stream, You Stream
Jul 17, 2020
I Can't Stop Doomscrolling
Jul 10, 2020
Home Bodies
Jul 03, 2020
Arrested Developer Event
Jun 26, 2020
Inside the eBananas Scandal
Jun 20, 2020
When Can I See You Again?
Jun 12, 2020
Tech and the Police State
Jun 05, 2020
Trump v. Twitter
May 29, 2020
Remote Desktop
May 22, 2020
The Dark Secrets of a Hacking Hero
May 15, 2020
On the Road Again
May 08, 2020
The Argument for Making End-of-Life Decisions Early
May 01, 2020
Open For Business
Apr 24, 2020
Will Contact Tracing Work?
Apr 17, 2020
The Race to Make a Vaccine
Apr 10, 2020
Supply Demand
Apr 03, 2020
Pandemic Panic
Mar 27, 2020
The Generation Gap
Mar 20, 2020
Socially Distanced
Mar 13, 2020
Is Facebook Forever?
Mar 06, 2020
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
Feb 28, 2020
The Anti-Bias Bot
Feb 21, 2020
Smartphone Launch Events Are Silly
Feb 14, 2020
The Virus and the Vote
Feb 07, 2020
Everything Old Is New Again
Jan 31, 2020
Open Wide for Mouth Tech
Jan 24, 2020
One Wheel, Zero Buttons
Jan 17, 2020
Best of CES
Jan 10, 2020
Sex Toys and Toothbrushes
Jan 03, 2020
Our Favorite Stuff from 2019, Plus Our 2020 Predictions
Dec 20, 2019
The Case for Cassava
Dec 13, 2019
Going Places
Dec 06, 2019
Life After Facebook
Nov 22, 2019
Finally, We Can ‘Like’ Apple’s Keyboards Again
Nov 15, 2019
When Big Tech Buys Your Darlings
Nov 08, 2019
Deep Listening
Nov 01, 2019
YouTube Creators Want More From YouTube
Oct 25, 2019
Facial Recognition Tech Is Coming to a School Near You
Oct 18, 2019
It's Time to Put Down Your Phone
Oct 11, 2019
Panos Panay Says Microsoft’s New Phone Isn’t a Phone
Oct 04, 2019
Spot, the Robot Dog, Learns New Tricks
Sep 27, 2019
Your DNA Belongs on the Blockchain
Sep 20, 2019
iPhones to the Max
Sep 13, 2019
How Uber Went Down in Flames
Sep 06, 2019
Why It’s So Hard to Unlink Yourself From Facebook
Aug 30, 2019
You’ve Got Microplastics
Aug 23, 2019
How Google’s Secrecy Lead to Company Turmoil
Aug 16, 2019
Amazon's Quest for World Domination
Aug 09, 2019
Bumps in the Road to Our Robo-Car Future
Aug 02, 2019
Why New York’s Revenge Porn Law Is Flawed
Jul 26, 2019
Twitter’s Redesign Is Impressive. Is It Enough?
Jul 19, 2019
Facebook's Libra and the Future of Money
Jul 13, 2019
Rebalancing Our Relationship With Tech
Jun 28, 2019
A Genius Move
Jun 21, 2019
The Biggest News From E3
Jun 14, 2019
Everything From Apple’s WWDC
Jun 07, 2019
Making Surfing More Sustainable
Jun 02, 2019
Samsung’s Innovation Dilemma
May 24, 2019
YouTube’s Latest Beauty Scandal
May 17, 2019
If You Build It, They Will I/O
May 10, 2019
The Making of Adam Savage
May 03, 2019
Preserving Your Right to Repair Your Gadgets
Apr 19, 2019
What Happens to Uber After Its IPO?
Apr 12, 2019
Introducing Citadel Dropouts: A Game of Thrones Podcast
Apr 12, 2019
Reporting From Syria
Apr 05, 2019
The Case for Male Birth Control
Mar 29, 2019
Game On at Google
Mar 22, 2019
Flickr Cofounder Questions Big Tech
Mar 15, 2019
How to Quit Your Tech Job
Mar 08, 2019
Alex Kipman’s Holographic Tendencies
Mar 01, 2019
You’ve Got to Know When to Fold ‘Em
Feb 23, 2019
The Treacherous Allure of OG Usernames
Feb 15, 2019
The App Smackdown
Feb 01, 2019
Amazon Delivery Bots Are Here
Jan 25, 2019
Nike’s Truly Smart Sneakers
Jan 19, 2019
The Best of CES
Jan 12, 2019
The Year in Tech, in One Word
Dec 21, 2018
Apocalypse Now
Dec 14, 2018