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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 01.02.23 Thank you for signing up for WIRED's Podcasts newsletter! Every week, we'll send you the latest audio offerings from the WIRED world. Stay up to date on weekly tech news with Gadget Lab, hosted by senior editor Michael Calore and senior writer Lauren Goode. For over a decade, WIRED's Gadget Lab podcast has broken down which gadgets, apps, and services you need to know about, and which ones you can move to the trash. You'll hear everything you need to know about today's tech—plus your hosts' personal recommendations at the end of each episode. You'll also get access to our huge library of narrated WIRED articles. Listen to in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, sciences, politics, and society. Check out some popular episodes below, and keep an eye out for our latest editions. Happy listening!   WTF is Web3? Web3! It's the latest internet buzzword which encompasses an egalitarian vision of the web that's more reliable, based on trust, and, inevitably, built on the blockchain. This plan for the future is being pushed by startups, venture capitalists, and Silicon Valley bigwigs, all of whom stand to make some sweet, sweet cryptocurrency from a new breed of web app that takes the power from the platforms and puts it back in the hands of the people. On this episode of Gadget Lab, we talk about whether the reality of whatever Web3 becomes will ever live up to Silicon Valley's rosy vision of it. Listen Now I Never Metaverse I Didn't Like The metaverse. A simulated world, controlled with inputs from our reality to merge cyberspace and meatspace into one plane of existence. If this sounds like a sci-fi concept from the early '90s, that's because it is. But now Facebook is trying to make the metaverse a reality. On this episode of Gadget Lab, we talk about Facebook's grand vision and whether an open, platform-agnostic version of the metaverse will ever fully materialize. Listen Now Listen to More WIRED Stories Every day, narrators read our favorite written stories. Find audio versions of WIRED's best new articles about science, business, security, and more wherever you listen, including your smart speakers.    GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. Includes the print edition plus editor in chief Gideon Lichfield's column, System Update. Subscribe now.             Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.