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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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Total: 582

At first, cryptocurrency seemed like the solution to the problems sex workers have had with traditio

Tech's Mask Off Moment

2023/8/13

When conservative writer Richard Hanania’s old posts, originally published under a pseudonym, came t

A “smart gun” is designed to only work in the hands of the gun’s proper owner. With the first smart

Another Summer of COVID

2023/8/6

After a quiet spring, COVID is surging back for the fourth consecutive summer. So, is this just life

Tesla's Big Lie

2023/8/4

Tesla sold a vision of how electric vehicles would work: just like gas-powered cars, but cleaner, be

It’s 2023 – and less than half of all Americans have returned to the office full time. That means U.

Washington vs. A.I.

2023/7/28

At a White House summit late last week, some of the biggest names in tech - including Meta, Google a

When the tech industry started rounds of layoffs this year, almost half of the people let go were wo

To keep places like Phoenix habitable, we need to have air-conditioning. But to have air-conditionin

Pedestrian deaths in America have been rising for the last decade, while dropping in Europe and Japa

Contract negotiations between the Teamsters and UPS broke down last week and now a strike looms. Wit

Andrew Tate’s gross mix of self-help, toxic masculinity and misogyny captured the minds of young boy

Threads vs. Twitter

2023/7/7

It seems like with each new Musk innovation, a new Twitter replacement appears in response. But Thre

Even if you like the convenience of your phone unlocking after it reads your face, there are reasons

A shortage of basic chemotherapy drugs to treat cancer is jeopardizing the care of hundreds of thous

Semaglutide, better known by its brand name Ozempic, has been making headlines as a weight loss drug

The U.S. vs Amazon Prime

2023/6/23

On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon, accusing the online giant of “tricking and t

One son was preparing to take over George Soros’s multi-billion-dollar empire. Then, there was a fal

Across Reddit, thousands of forums have gone “private” and effectively disappeared. Users are protes

As “deep fakes” have demonstrated, it’s getting easier and easier to swap an actor for a digital lik