Lauren Goode: I think Katie should go first. She’s the boss. Katie Drummond: So as you all know, because I can’t stop talking about it, I recently returned from France, and one thing in particular that I am now pathologically fixated on, that I am recommending to all of you,Continue Reading
Zoë Schiffer: Can you talk to me about that relationship? And also, what is Tesla’s standing like in China? Is it viewed as a popular, cool car still? Zeyi Yang: It’s still sort of, because for the longest time, Chinese auto brands have been seen as inferior to foreign brands.Continue Reading
There have been a number of protests in the past few months pushing back against President Trump’s most recent policy changes, and we’re likely to see more. Today on the show, WIRED’s senior editor of security and investigations, Andrew Couts, talks us through the technology being used by law enforcementContinue Reading
Paresh Dave: Absolutely. The timing when some of those moves were first announced was viewed as kind of suspicious because it was right around when these investigations into Meta and these cases started getting filed against Big Tech companies. Zoë Schiffer: We’re going to take one more short break. AndContinue Reading
Katie Drummond: Very exciting promise by Howard Lutnick. I can’t wait to talk about whether any of that is actually possible. Michael Calore: Certainly not in the short term. Lauren Goode: Was this the same moment where he talked about the army of millions using tiny screws? Katie Drummond: Oh,Continue Reading
Louise Matsakis: Yes, that is an absolutely beautiful quote that I really want to put on a hat or a T-shirt or a bumper sticker. Just an absolutely incredible picture that Secretary Lutnick is painting there. There’s two basic camps within the Trump administration here, and I think that that’sContinue Reading
This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts ask what impact religion will have on Silicon Valley. Source linkContinue Reading
She sits in on his business meetings, defends him on X, and travels to give talks about how she raised him, the richest man in the world—but who is Elon Musk’s mother? Today on the show, we learn all about the model, influencer, and author, Maye Musk, while dissecting herContinue Reading
Katie Drummond: Right, available to the public, as opposed to DOGE, despite the claims that Musk and even President Trump have made, that this is a maximally transparent group of people doing this work. We don’t actually know that much about what they’re doing, what they’re finding, and the changesContinue Reading
This week on Uncanny Valley, we look ahead into a future where driverless cars are mainstream. Source linkContinue Reading
