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ICYMI: Where AI Art Can Go Wrong
Rachelle asks a tech reporter what’s up with A.I. art and other burning questions.
28 min
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What Next TBD: How Big Internet Keeps Small Com...
The fight for internet between East Carroll parish and Sparklight.
22 min
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ICYMI: Harry Styles Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
To understand his online savvy, we need to look back at his One Direction days.
32 min
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What Next TBD: The Chaos That Made YouTube a Ju...
How the company has struggled with creators, extremism, and itself.
30 min
655
ICYMI: Everyone Wants to Be a Food Influencer…o...
TikTok has totally changed how we cook online.
25 min
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What Next TBD: Can A.I. Make Great Art?
A.I. generated art is reaching new levels of sophistication at a rapid rate.
25 min
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ICYMI: A Texas Church Did What With Hamilton?
At least their illegal production entertained us on TikTok.
28 min
658
How To!: Have a Healthier News Diet
David Bornstein and Nicole Lewis on fixing the news, Part 2.
30 min
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What Next TBD: The Summer Vaccine of the Future
A new Lyme vaccine that's in late-stage trials would be the first in 20 years.
15 min
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ICYMI: Encore: Is BYU Virginity Club Real? An I...
Is it sincere? Is it satire? We tracked down the viral Instagram account’s mysterious creator.
34 min
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What Next TBD: A.I. Made to Fight Child Porn En...
The unintended victims of Google's A.I. used to fight child predators.
24 min
662
ICYMI: Encore: Who Weekly? Explains Bennifer 3.0
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are back together. Everybody rejoice!
27 min
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How To!: Unbreak the News
David Bornstein and Nicole Lewis on fixing the news, Part 1.
32 min
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What Next TBD: The Streaming TV Bloodbath
We're seeing a course correction in the streaming market.
24 min
665
ICYMI: Encore: Did TikTok Find Gabby Petito, or...
After an aspiring Instagram influencer mysteriously disappeared, she became the TikTok true crime community’s newest obsession.
33 min
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What Next TBD: The Hacker Blowing the Whistle o...
Inside the explosive whistleblower complaint against Twitter.
30 min
667
One Year - 1986: The Ultimate Field Trip
They competed for a spot on the Space Shuttle Challenger. Then they watched it explode.
55 min
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ICYMI: Encore: How a Harry Potter Fanfic Took O...
This 500,000-word story has even spawned a fandom of its own.
27 min
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What Next TBD: We're Expecting the Wrong Things...
What to make of the latest COVID-19 guidelines from the CDC.
24 min
670
ICYMI: Tumblr Changed How We Watch Movies
Archivist Maya Cade on the relationship between Tumblr and film, and how Tumblr inspired her to create the Black Film Archive.
31 min
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What Next TBD: What All That Money for Green Te...
The Inflation Reduction Act is fast-tracking climate technologies.
23 min
672
ICYMI: What Is a Clean Girl?
And what does it have to do with the Old Money and Soft Life trends?
30 min
673
What Next: Who Influences the Influencers?
Political money and messaging is flowing, unregulated, onto social media.
26 min
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What Next TBD: Big Pharma’s Bet on Psychedelics
Psychedelic drug research is increasingly being funded by pharmaceutical companies.
22 min
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ICYMI: Was Black Twitter a Mistake?
Dr. Meredith D. Clark on the history and significance of black online spaces.
32 min