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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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.
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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.
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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.
22 min
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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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The Homes We Forgot to Build a Decade Ago
Is there a way to fix the never-ending housing crisis in the US?
24 min
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The Dark Web of Online Spider Sales
How the pandemic and social media turbocharged the online spider trade.
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Paging Dr. Bezos
Amazon's latest push into health care raises questions about data privacy.
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Smart City: Dumb Idea?
Is the promise of the smart city over?
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Europe Is Burning
How will Europe deal with climate change?
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Silicon Valley's Hidden Discrimination
How a DEI talk about caste bias exposed discrimination in tech.
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Can Twitter Sue Elon Musk Into Submission?
A look at Twitter's internal operations as they take Elon Musk to court.
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Paxlovid's Mysteries
Is Paxlovid really a miracle drug?
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Can FEMA Keep Up With Climate Change?
Does the agency need to rethink disaster aid?
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The Good Hackers
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act gets updated guidelines from the DOJ.
21 min
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TikTok’s Mental Health Influencers
Inside the world of mental health content creation
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Does Crypto Investment Need to Be Regulated?
Is crypto too risky an asset?
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