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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed l

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Since Microsoft announced its bid to buy Activision Blizzard last year, regulators around the world

Since war broke out, Hamas has been efficient in getting its message out on social media - both in p

The $30,000 Zelle Scam

2023/10/14

Zelle has exploded in popularity as a fast, convenient way to send and receive money. But the story

When the Arab Spring was unfolding, Twitter was hailed as a way for on-the-ground reporting to reach

Hank Asher was a lot of things: a Florida condo maven, a drug runner, a DEA informant—and a tech vis

As the trial begins, SBF is making the case that what he did is typical in the world of crypto. But

The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried marks the end of an era where crypto rose to dizzying, Super-Bowl-com

After years of being a rare spot of universal, American-government-funded health care, this fall’s n

Is Amazon a Monopoly?

2023/9/29

Amazon evolved from a place to get cheap used books to the “everything store”—one encompassing wareh

As other tech companies that rode the pandemic to success started sinking, Instacart managed to stay

Did AirBnB Need to Go?

2023/9/22

The sword of regulation, which has been swinging over New York AirBnBs for over a decade, is falling

The bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act has noble-sounding intentions, but has been called one of the

Google Makes Its Case

2023/9/15

A trial a decade in the making has started, as the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust case against

Bad Air, Worse Vibes

2023/9/9

COVID’s still here but the public’s appetite for masking, social distancing, or remote learning is l

When Howard County signed a $27 million contract with the start-up Zum, the company promised to mode

It wasn’t long ago when social media was a place to go for up-to-the-minute updates in an emergency.

Is LinkedIn...Cool Now?

2023/9/1

As Twitt—sorry, X—continues to go through tumult, an unlikely, long-time player is emerging as the l

Most pet food is made from the byproducts of the meat that we, humans, eat. Recently, there’s been a

In the spring, it looked like TikTok was on the verge of being banned in America. Since then, it’s c

Digital Life After Death

2023/8/20

Sorting through a loved one’s things after they’ve died can be an emotional, difficult chore. But no