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Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network
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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
203
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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ICYMI: The Girls Are Not All Right
Why PinkyDoll, Trad Wives and Girl Dinners are blowing up online
44 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
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Future Tense Fiction: Could a Robot Be Your Dog...
In the July episode of Future Tense Fiction, Andrew Silverman discusses his short story “Furgen.”
63 min
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What Next TBD: Washington vs. A.I.
The government's starting to focus on regulating A.I. But have they learned from previous efforts to keep an eye on the tech industry?
24 min
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ICYMI: The Curious Case of Carlee Russell
Russell’s disappearance took social media by storm. But something about it felt fishy.
44 min
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What Next TBD: Why Tech Lays Women Off First
Rounds of layoffs have disproportionately affected women in tech—including those on maternity leave.
27 min
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ICYMI: The Day AO3 Went Down
How a cyberattack threatened the future of fanfiction
35 min
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What Next TBD: America’s $5 Trillion Grid Problem
The electric grid is the only thing making parts of America habitable this summer. It desperately needs a makeover.
24 min
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ICYMI: Take a Tour in the Shein Propaganda Factory
Controversy over (another) ill-fated influencer trip sparked off discussion around sustainability and hyper-consumption.
45 min