Slate Technology
Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network
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ICYMI: The TikTokification of Sports
From fancams to fan-favorite couples, TikTok is bringing new audiences to sports.
28 min
102
What Next TBD | Is Elon Musk Unstoppable?
Inside the DOGE assault on the federal government.
23 min
103
ICYMI: Will Memes Save 2025?
Meme historian Aidan Walker on which memes changed the internet and why Distracted Boyfriend deserves a closer look.
43 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Capitalism Extremist...
Historian Quinn Slobodian joins Felix Salmon to discuss the tech billionaires who idealize a world without democracy.
38 min
105
What Next TBD | The DeepSeek Panic
How one app brought the US-China A.I. war out into the open.
22 min
106
Slate Money | The Federal Employee ‘Buyout’ Mak...
Federal employees are sent a resignation offer, Invidia’s stock drops thanks to Deepseek, and bookstores are booming.
47 min
107
ICYMI: So You’ve Fallen For A Smear Campaign
How Justin Baldoni’s PR team has used fandom tactics in its battle against Blake Lively.
31 min
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What Next TBD | RFK Jr. Is a Feature, Not a Bug
The vaccine skeptic’s nomination reveals the Trump 2.0 approach to public health.
23 min
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ICYMI: Social Media Has Become A Minefield
Can you escape Trump-supporting tech owners? Maybe.
31 min
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What Next TBD | The A.I. Will See You Now
Doctors are increasingly using artificial intelligence to help with appointments. But do the risks outweigh the benefits?
20 min
111
Slate Money | Trump’s TikTok Backtrack
Tiktok is back (for now), Trump has a memecoin, and everyone is digital shoplifting.
45 min
112
ICYMI: TikTok Is Back…Are We?
The return of TikTok brought scandalous secrets and social media conspiracies.
30 min
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What Next TBD | Department of Government Elon
To trim government, first you must add to government, apparently.
19 min
114
ICYMI: Rawdogging, Brainrot, and Brat
How linguists picked 2024’s extremely online words of the year.
26 min
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What Next TBD | As Fires Approached LA, Angelen...
A conversation with the app’s cofounder.
19 min
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What Next TBD | Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis
Is this a pivot? Or was the Meta CEO always this way?
23 min
117
ICYMI: We Have Some News
It’s about our new co-host’s identity.
44 min
118
What Next TBD | Why Tech Is Bending the Knee
Meet the man running Trump's FCC.
22 min
119
ICYMI: Scaachi Koul on Terrible Emails, Moo Den...
How Slate culture writer Scaachi Koul decides who to fight and ignore online, and what she misses about the heydays of BuzzFeed.
42 min
120
Amicus | TikTok Is Cooked, Trump Is Sentenced
The Supreme Court had a very busy end of week, what comes next is anyone's guess
56 min
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What Next TBD | Will the Supreme Court Save Tik...
The ban has now reached the highest court in the land.
25 min
122
ICYMI: Should I Join Bluesky?
Nitish Pahwa and Steffi Cao share the personal internet dilemmas we'd like to resolve this year.
43 min
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What Next TBD | Bitcoin Takes the White House
Cryptocurrency folks see the future, and with Trump returning to office, it looks like a giant pool of money.
20 min
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ICYMI: An Influencer Hates To See This Subreddi...
How r/NYCInfluencerSnark became the most popular anti-influencer (and potentially, anti-feminist) space on Reddit.
43 min
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What Next TBD | Musk vs. MAGA
Elon Musk and the base discovered their opinions on immigration are actually pretty far apart.
22 min