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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Does Crypto Investment Need to Be Regulated?
Is crypto too risky an asset?
18 min
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Can the Law Keep Up With the Internet?
How Reno v. ACLU shaped the internet as we know it.
21 min
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From the Vault: It's Hot. It's Flooding. Is Thi...
A climate scientist on why it’s not too late to turn things around.
20 min
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The Culture War Over Electric Cars
When will electric cars go mainstream?
19 min
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Sheryl Sandberg’s Complicated Legacy
How will Meta's former second-in-command be remembered?
25 min
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Bots! What Are They Good For?
How serious is Twitter's bot problem?
22 min
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Is Elon Musk Any Good at Business?
A look at the richest man's business acumen.
25 min
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Can an Algorithm Spot a Shooter?
Social media surveillance technology used in schools has been largely ineffective.
21 min
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Online Privacy in a Post-Roe World
How to minimize your digital footprint
17 min
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Will Bitcoin Ruin El Salvador?
How the country's Bitcoin gamble is unraveling.
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North Korea's Hacking Army
Can North Korea's army of cyber-criminals be stopped?
20 min
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How Buffalo Could Transform Social Media
Can the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism effectively moderate extremist content?
19 min
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Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
Can Truth Social survive without Trump?
17 min
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Can A.I. Know What You're Feeling?
A.I. that can read emotion is the next frontier in machine learning.
16 min
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Is Free Speech Online Just a Myth?
The framework we create now will define speech online for decades to come.
22 min
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Can the Internet Rescue Abortion Access?
A conversation with a doctor providing abortion access via telemedicine.
15 min
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The Fantasy of Internet for All
Starlink was supposed to revolutionize the global internet. Can it still meet its goal?
15 min
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What Elon Wants With Twitter
The purchase of Twitter is almost across the line. Now what?
18 min
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A New High-Tech Weapon in Ukraine
How is facial recognition technology is being deployed on the front lines in Ukraine?
18 min
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The COVID Data Disaster
The CDC moved the goalposts on COVID-19. Can we still fight the pandemic without a clear picture of the data?
21 min
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How TurboTax Tricks Taxpayers
The popular software is the product of a 20-year fight to make free tax filing nearly impossible.
18 min
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Elonnnnnnnnnnnnn!
What does Elon Musk really want with Twitter?
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Uber Makes Nice With Cabs
New York City taxis are headed to the Uber app.
18 min
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Elon Trolls the SEC
The Tesla billionaire is now Twitter's largest shareholder. Will he remake the platform in his image?
19 min
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A Conversation With Europe's Top Tech Cop
Margrethe Vestager just wants big tech companies to play by the same rules as everyone else.
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