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Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network
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Mom & Dad: Lessons From a Racist Instagram and ...
Slate’s parenting podcast interviews award-winning journalist, Dashka Slater, on her new book, Accountable.
37 min
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ICYMI: BookTok’s Horny Hockey Drama and the End...
How the changing financial incentives of the internet make loud and unabashed thirst more fraught.
34 min
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What Next TBD: The Cost of "Sustainable" Pet Food
There's been a rise in high-end pet food, marketed as a healthy, environmentally-friendly option for our pets. The reality is much more complicated.
24 min
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ICYMI: Addison Rae is the Newest Pop Princess
How the divisive TikTok star shocked us with a bop-filled EP
40 min
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Slate Money: Twelve Ways to Help Fix the World
A book provides a dozen ways to help the world’s poorest people. Will they work?
46 min
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What Next TBD: TikTok's Shady Deal with the U.S.
Inside the draft of a deal between ByteDance and the U.S. to keep TikTok in the states.
24 min
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ICYMI: How to Make Millions Playing Dungeons & ...
Critical Role is an unvarnished success. But what does it mean for the rest of the D&D community?
36 min
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What Next TBD: Digital Life After Death
Is the ghost of your online life destined to haunt your friends and family?
23 min
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ICYMI: The Child Content Creator Crash is Coming
What Lil Tay’s death rumors signal about the child influencer economy.
36 min
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What Next TBD: How Crypto Fails Sex Workers
Why sex workers turned to crypto, and how crypto turned on them.
22 min
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ICYMI: You Just Missed This Year’s Most Importa...
How an underdog spinoff won back fans of a problematic franchise
43 min
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Mom & Dad: Screen Time Without Guilt
Slate’s parenting podcast on the moral panic over screen time.
20 min
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What Next TBD: Tech's Mask Off Moment
Richard Hanania exposes ugly truths about the power and politics of the tech industry.
26 min
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ICYMI: What NewJeans Tells Us About the Future ...
How a viral girl group is using global influences to smash Billboard charts and get stuck in our heads
36 min
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Slate Money: ESPN Bets on Sports Betting
Is it too late for the Worldwide Leader in Sports to get into gambling?
43 min
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What Next TBD: Can Smart Guns Save Lives?
Is a gun only you can shoot really safer than a regular firearm?
26 min
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ICYMI: Will Doja Cat Ever Be Canceled?
How the internet’s pop star is attacking and losing her fandom
30 min
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What Next TBD: Another Summer of COVID
COVID infections are up this summer - again. But it's hard to tell just how bad it is.
25 min
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ICYMI: Decoder Ring: What’s Really Going On Ins...
An episode of Slate’s Decoder Ring on the etiquette, science, and enduring appeal of a concertgoing ritual.
30 min
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What Next TBD: Tesla's Big Lie
Elon Musk’s most recent scandal may upend the way we think of an electric future.
26 min
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Decoder Ring: The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
With his scouting days long over, a Slate producer enlists his dad for one last merit badge.
38 min
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ICYMI: And the Grammy Goes to…Artificial Intell...
AI-generated covers of Spongebob Squarepants singing R&B oldies might be a harbinger of something darker.
31 min
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What Next: Congress Wants to Know: Do Aliens Ex...
Three officials say UFOs aren’t just real; in the military, they’re an open secret.
26 min
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What Next TBD: America’s Downtown Ghost Towns
What happens to those offices when employees don’t “return to work?”
29 min
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Slate Money: Will The UPS Union Deal Deliver?
What does the UPS union agreement mean for other shipping companies?
53 min