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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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Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?
Can a new colon cancer test help?
22 min
152
The Panopticon Olympics
Even the most advanced surveillance network couldn’t stop an attack on the Games’ first day.
25 min
153
Is Silicon Valley Trump-Vance Country?
Or will a Californian on top of the Democratic ticket win back tech’s votes?
20 min
154
The Conspiracy Theory Election
Misinformation from all sides is dominating this election, making it impossible to tell what’s real and what’s fake.
20 min
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America’s Tech Trustbuster
AAG Jonathan Kanter talks A.I., rent-pricing software, and how he envisions fair competition.
29 min
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The New World of DIY Medical Tests
Does the medical community have only itself to blame?
19 min
157
Boeing Pleads Guilty
Felony charges, half a billion in fines, and stranded astronauts—surely this must be rock bottom.
21 min
158
The Blu-Ray-naissance Is Here. Sort of.
Tired of movies slipping off streaming sites right when you want to watch them? There’s an obvious, off-the-shelf solution…
19 min
159
Elon Says Have More Babies
Billions of anything is just never enough for this guy.
19 min
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Why Are IUDs Still a Mystery?
From a murky, painful start to a symbol of reproductive freedom.
22 min
161
Why Extreme Weather Keeps Surprising You
Scientists are trying to determine when a hot summer is climate change, or just the weather.
27 min
162
Is Your Phone Tracking Your Driving?
The business of collecting driving data is lucrative. Most drivers aren’t aware it exists.
21 min
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Amazon Wants Your Handprint
Biometric payment methods are coming to Whole Foods and beyond. Should we be worried?
19 min
164
The FBI Made a Phone Network. It Was A Trap.
Anom was used by thousands of criminals. It was run by the FBI.
29 min
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Apple Goes Intelligent
The giant Silicon Valley holdout joins the AI race. But is the demand real or artificial?
21 min
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Fee’d Up: A Musician’s Take on Ticketmaster
Look what you made Merrick Garland do
19 min
167
The Secret Semiconductor War
The race is on and America is trailing. Why is it important to catch up?
19 min
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Would You Buy Poop On the Internet?
The wild world of peer-to-peer Fecal Microbial Transplants.
20 min
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He’s Suing Big Tech Over Uvalde
The lawsuit includes the gunmaker, Meta, and Activision, the company behind Call of Duty.
23 min
170
Why Hospitals Keep Getting Hacked
New computer security systems may not be a priority for your hospital. They should be.
20 min
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Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI
Is OpenAI’s latest scandal a sign of what’s to come?
23 min
172
The Dark Side of GoFundMe
Even when it succeeds, it’s evidence of a broken system.
28 min
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Too Stonks Too Furious
Meme stocks are back—wait, they never really went away.
21 min
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Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
Almost every country has banned the practice—but in the US, its growing.
25 min
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Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
The artificial intelligence election is on.
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