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 Supreme Court in the Cyber Age
Will this new Supreme Court Justice also be scared of the internet?
37 min
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Tech Workers Fight Back
How The Tech Workers Coalition Organizes Employees To Demand Better.
39 min
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Should Tech Companies Take a Stand Against Fami...
Big Tech came out strong against the travel ban. Will it fight as hard to end family separation at the border?
27 min
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The Failed Promise of the Gig Economy
Author Sarah Kessler explains how the “future of work” has helped computer programmers—and failed those who need it most.
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Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico.
People want power, not just electricity.
42 min
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Bloody Money and Blind Investors
How Theranos Happened.
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Google’s Chokehold on the Web
A Yelp executive explains his yearslong battle with the internet giant over how it ranks your search results.
37 min
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Welcome to the Swamp
A former DoJ antitrust official says the problems with the AT&T/Time Warner merger run much deeper than Michael Cohen.
49 min
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Baby, You Can Self-Drive My Car
Are Self-Driving Cars Really Safer Than Human Drivers? Not yet, says a professor who builds them.
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Why an E-Waste Recycler Is Going to Prison
“I’m not a criminal,” insists Eric Lundgren, who has devoted his life to salvaging used electronics.
44 min
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The Cost of Online Immunity
The Surprising Controversy Behind a Law to Fight Online Sex Trafficking.
49 min
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What If Facebook Used Data For Black Lives?
The Founder of Data 4 Black Lives on how tech companies can use their data as a tool of oppression—or a force for racial justice.
42 min
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What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Share
Facebook’s CEO played dumb with Congress. It could come back to bite him.
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Congress Called. They Want Our Data Back.
A preview of the Mark Zuckerberg hearings with some of the lawmakers who will be questioning him.
30 min
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Alexa, How Do You Really Work?
The man in charge of Amazon’s voice assistant thinks users’ privacy concerns are off-base.
40 min
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Facebook’s Deepwater Horizon
Inside the data leak that let Cambridge Analytica game our neuroses for Donald Trump.
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The Tech That Draws Your District
An expert on gerrymandering explains the tech behind the mapmaking that helped the GOP take control of Congress.
24 min
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What Keeps Facebook Up at Night
The head of Facebook’s news feed on Myanmar’s deadly crisis, the challenge of local news, and the downsides of transparency.
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Nietzsche with a 3D Printer
Meet the DIY weapons maker who says gun control is “a fantasy.”
45 min
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“You Have to Be Heard”
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn says the fight for a free and open internet isn’t over.
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How Russian Trolls Went Local
A Deep Dive Into How Russia Gamed Facebook
35 min
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“Like” Is Too Simple an Emotion
The inventor of Facebook’s iconic button reflects on technology’s unintended consequences.
42 min
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FISA and Fury
National security expert Marcy Wheeler explains the hypocrisy behind the Nunes Memo
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Through The Revolving Door Between Facebook and...
A Former Facebook Employee Says Russia Used Its Ad Tools As Designed
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Dudebros Everyday
Journalist Taylor Lorenz takes us inside the cultish, male-dominated world of teen YouTube stars and how they make millions
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