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 Price of Automating Aviation
What the 737 Max crashes teach us about flying when automated systems malfunction.
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Inside Facebook's Political Ad Mess
Why this fight is really a battle about something much bigger.
18 min
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Announcement: What Next: TBD
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Smash Bros Side Hustlers
37 min
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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...
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Breaking Away From Google
One journalist’s quest to wean the tech behemoth out of his daily life.
39 min
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The Case For The Vape
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Inside Uber
A closer look at Uber during the Travis Kalanick years.
33 min
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Cosmetic Gene Editing Gone Awry
38 min
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When Your DNA is Public Information
35 min
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The Allure of Smart Guns
32 min
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China’s Cyber War Against Hong Kong
30 min
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Chemists Spill the Science of Skincare
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Why Facebook Can’t Just Create a Currency
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Prime Day Comes but Once a Year
25 min
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ICE’s Reckless Use of Facial Recognition Tech
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Healthcare via Video Chat
35 min
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When Tech Journalism Took A Critical Turn
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When a Scooter Makes More Sense Than a Car
30 min
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How Driverless Cars Will Actually Work
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Re-Up: Senator Mark Warner
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Luxury Bunkers for the End of the World
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Why It’s So Hard to Live in California
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