Slate Technology
Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network
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What Next TBD: Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard ...
After a fight with regulators, Microsoft officially owns Activision Blizzard, the studio behind Call of Duty. Will gamers pay the price?
24 min
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Political Gabfest Reads: How to Survive Working...
Kristi Coulter’s new memoir, Exit Interview, reveals the good, the bad, and the hilarious of working for Amazon.
29 min
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What Next TBD: Inside Hamas' Social Media Strategy
Since war broke out, Hamas has been using social media to spread its message in ways we’ve never seen.
24 min
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ICYMI: How a Pesto Recipe Devolved Into Delight...
Call us crazy but this might be the best thing ever?
37 min
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ICYMI: Live, Laugh, LinkedIn
How did LinkedIn go from a website for resumes to…this?
44 min
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Slate Money: SBF (Sweaters, Birkenstock, FTX)
The Sam Bankman-Fried trial got a little wild this week.
52 min
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What Next TBD: The $30,000 Zelle Scam
What can you do when you lose $30,000 to a Zelle scammer?
22 min
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What Next TBD: The Israel-Hamas War Instantly B...
The global town square is in ruins. Where do we go from here?
30 min
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ICYMI: How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom
How Dracula Daily brought a 1897 novel into the Tumblr age
31 min
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ICYMI: Stop Snitching on Main
From bridesmaid debriefs to backstabbing friends, TikTok is rewarding narcs in disguise
48 min
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What Next TBD: The Man Who Turned You Into Data
How Hank Asher created the systems that track everything about you.
24 min
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Slate Money: Is Ozempic Eating Into Snack Profits?
34 min
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What Next TBD: Sam Bankman-Fried—and Crypto—on ...
The government says FTX was a house of cards. SBF says it was just business.
29 min
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ICYMI: Nostalgia is the Internet’s Favorite Cur...
The hosts of In Retrospect take us through their online history.
41 min
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What Next TBD: Inside Crypto's House of Cards
This week, Sam Bankman-Fried goes on trial. The entire crypto industry will be watching.
31 min
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What Next TBD: Who Will Pay For A COVID Vaccine?
The government is no longer footing the bill for the COVID vaccine. What does that mean for access?
27 min
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ICYMI: Where Did Bobbi Althoff Come From?
And how has the momfluencer-turned-podcast-host landed interviews with Offset and Drake?
43 min
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What Next TBD: Is Amazon a Monopoly?
How the FTC’s case against the e-commerce giant could change everything about how you shop.
25 min
294
ICYMI: The Summer of Suits
How a cable TV law procedural became the internet’s favorite show
37 min
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ICYMI: Is “Algospeak” D@ngerous?
What experts call linguistic self-censorship has not only taken over TikTok, but spread onto other platforms.
37 min
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What Next TBD: What Instacart’s IPO Means for Tech
After years of post-pandemic turmoil, Instacart managed to do something rare in the gig economy - turn a profit.
23 min
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Slate Money: AI Facial Recognition's Creepy Evo...
Facial recognition is coming for us all, and society probably isn’t ready for it.
52 min
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What Next TBD: Did AirBnB Need to Go?
Short-term rentals are getting blamed for a lack of affordable housing. Is that fair?
21 min
299
ICYMI: Inside the MLM to Life Coach Pipeline
Spoiler alert: it’s a straight line.
38 min
300
Slate Money | Criminals: TheraNOPE
Elizabeth Holmes went from optimistic founder, to convicted criminal.
38 min