What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the...
Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in.
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Big Brother, Big Tech and China
COVID may be an inflection point in the relationship between the surveillance state and the surveilled.
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Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
No matter what Elon Musk does, Twitter will never be the same
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Can We Make an Alzheimer’s Drug That Works?
Advances towards an effective drug therapy have been uneven and unclear, but there are promising developments.
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When An Algorithm Raises Your Rent
If it draws on data from landlords and tells them what others are charging, when does it become price-fixing?
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Are You Ready to Be Composted When You Die?
How a bunch of environmentalists want to disrupt the American death industry.
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The Next Amazon Union Fight
The Amazon Labor Union gears up for a fight at a new warehouse outside Albany.
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When Your Church Surveils Your Phone
A look at the rise of accountability apps in churches.
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Could the Supreme Court Kill the Internet As We...
Section 230 has made it to the Supreme Court.
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The Philosopher With Silicon Valley's Ear
A deep dive into longtermism.
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When Climate Change Makes You Sell Your House
How a mandatory buyout program in Harris County is upending a decades-old community.
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Can Nuclear Power Be Green?
The war in Ukraine and climate change are forcing countries to rethink their stance on nuclear power.
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The Fight Over Online Speech Headed to the Supr...
How laws in Texas and Florida take aim at social media companies and how they moderate content.
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The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Spam Texts You're...
Human trafficking victims in Asia are being forced into scamming people online.
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How Big Internet Keeps Small Communities Discon...
The fight for internet between East Carroll Parish and Sparklight.
22 min
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The Chaos That Made YouTube a Juggernaut
How the company has struggled with creators, extremism, and itself.
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Can A.I. Make Great Art?
A.I. generated art is reaching new levels of sophistication at a rapid rate.
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The Summer Vaccine of the Future
A new Lyme vaccine that's in late-stage trials would be the first in 20 years.
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A.I. Made to Fight Child Porn Ensnared an Innoc...
The unintended victims of Google's A.I. used to fight child predators.
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The Streaming TV Bloodbath
We're seeing a course correction in the streaming market.
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The Hacker Blowing the Whistle on Twitter
Inside the explosive whistleblower complaint against Twitter.
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We're Expecting the Wrong Things From the CDC
What to make of the latest COVID-19 guidelines from the CDC.
24 min
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What All That Money for Green Tech in the Clima...
The Inflation Reduction Act is fast-tracking climate technologies.
23 min
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Big Pharma’s Bet on Psychedelics
Psychedelic drug research is increasingly being funded by pharmaceutical companies.
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Crypto Could Leave Texas in the Dark
How crypto mining is taxing the Texas power grid.
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The Monkeypox Vaccine Monopoly
How intellectual property laws make health crises worse.
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