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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Smash Bros Side Hustlers
37 min
502
The People Who Hold The Internet Together
40 min
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What it Takes to Study Online Harassment
38 min
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The Surveillance Is Coming From Inside The (Sma...
35 min
505
Breaking Away From Google
One journalist’s quest to wean the tech behemoth out of his daily life.
39 min
506
The Case For The Vape
34 min
507
Inside Uber
A closer look at Uber during the Travis Kalanick years.
33 min
508
Cosmetic Gene Editing Gone Awry
38 min
509
When Your DNA is Public Information
35 min
510
The Allure of Smart Guns
32 min
511
China’s Cyber War Against Hong Kong
30 min
512
Chemists Spill the Science of Skincare
33 min
513
Why Facebook Can’t Just Create a Currency
32 min
514
Prime Day Comes but Once a Year
25 min
515
ICE’s Reckless Use of Facial Recognition Tech
31 min
516
Healthcare via Video Chat
35 min
517
When Tech Journalism Took A Critical Turn
40 min
518
When a Scooter Makes More Sense Than a Car
30 min
519
How Driverless Cars Will Actually Work
23 min
520
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
523
Designing a Better Facebook
33 min
524
Cyberspace Didn’t Stay Free
40 min
525
Public Education, Facebook-Style
32 min