This week, we trace how Amazon was able to build a massive public wireless network, and how it will change the future of connected devices.

This week, we learn how semiconductors are made. It’s easy! You just need light, water, a few billion transistors, and total geopolitical stability.

This week, we ask ourselves what our reliance on smartphones tells us about our wants and fears.

This week, WIRED and NPR team up to cover the debate about students and teachers using generative AI in the classroom.

This week, we talk about the recommendation engines on platforms like YouTube and Spotify, and how a pair of US Supreme Court cases is putting them under renewed scrutiny.

This week on Gadget Lab, we talk about how streaming services like Netflix, HBO Max, and Hulu are growing in uncomfortable ways—and charging users more.

This week, we discuss all the ways generative AI is upending journalism, marketing, shopping, and search.

This week on Gadget Lab, we talk to Tracers in the Dark author Andy Greenberg about how authorities are catching crypto criminals by following the money.