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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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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
328
Will Bitcoin Ruin El Salvador?
How the country's Bitcoin gamble is unraveling.
20 min
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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?
16 min
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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.
17 min
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The White House's Favorite Tech Billionaire
Google's Ex-CEO built considerable influence in Biden's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Did he cross the line?
19 min
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The Cost of Going Off-Grid
Is there a downside to being entirely energy self-sufficient?
18 min
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Why the Zelensky Deepfake Failed
Even low-quality deepfakes can have an enormous impact.
19 min
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The Startup Delivering Adderall
What happens when you pair the Silicon Valley playbook with prescription drugs?
15 min
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Hong Kong’s Covid Crisis
Why did the city fail to vaccinate its elderly population?
18 min
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How Minnesota Spied On Protesters
Operation Safety Net was supposed to keep the peace during the Chauvin trial. Did it abuse its power?
17 min
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Putin's Internet Crackdown
The Kremlin is resorting to extreme measures to control the information landscape in Russia.
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