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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How Driverless Cars Will Actually Work
23 min
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Re-Up: Senator Mark Warner
23 min
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Luxury Bunkers for the End of the World
37 min
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Why It’s So Hard to Live in California
43 min
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Designing a Better Facebook
33 min
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Cyberspace Didn’t Stay Free
40 min
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Public Education, Facebook-Style
32 min
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Unmasking The Russians Who Hacked The DNC
31 min
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What Happened To WikiLeaks
39 min
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Fake Meat Designed for Carnivores
39 min
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Local News Brought to You by Big Tech
39 min
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Uber and Lyft Drivers Strike
43 min
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Livestreaming A Massacre
31 min
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Your Social Media Photos Are Helping to Build t...
25 min
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How To Trust A VPN
Everyone says you should use a VPN. But what about when the VPN is totally sketch?
27 min
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Empathy at Scale
Journalist Casey Newton on the trauma of Facebook content moderators.
29 min
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Can Palantir Be Used For Good?
Palantir has been criticized for building predictive policing tech, now the company is working with the UN.
28 min
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Jeff Bezos’s Privacy Complexifier
Jeff Bezos lost control of his own intimate data. Will his company protect ours?
26 min
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The Court-Records Paywall Scam
The Federal Judiciary Is Making Millions of a Records System Many Think Should Be Free.
41 min
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Media Layoffs Are Trending
32 min
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Juul Heist
Wired’s Nitasha Tiku Breaks Down Juul, the Company That Dominates E-Cigarettes.
39 min
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Social Media's Weird Future
The Atlantic’s Taylor Lorenz explains TikTok, Instagram eggs, and why teens are reading the comments.
48 min
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At CES: Tech After Smartphones
Smartphone sales are on the decline, but shady characters buying your location data is on the rise.
40 min
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Best of 2018
A look back at some of If Then’s best interviews of the year; Senator Mark Warner, Taylor Lorenz, Naomi Klein, Yeshimabeit Milner, Adam Mosseri, & Paige Panter.
46 min
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Aftermath of a Data Breach
A Cybersecurity expert on the bizarre legal battles after a big data theft and the confusion for everyday consumers who may have been affected.
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