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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

Is Crypto Toast?

2023/6/9

This week, the SEC sued Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world, and Coinbase, the largest

Until recently, Nvidia was a company known for graphics cards—a brand name among gamers but not nece

When someone posts a photo of you online without your consent, it should be easy to have it taken do

How the music streaming business opened the door to billions of dollars in fraud.Guest: Ashley Carma

How Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino finds herself on the edge of “the glass cliff”: when a woman i

From the coffee shop to the salon to the grocery store, Americans feel like they’re being prompted a

Out of the smoky backrooms, Vegas and clandestine dens, and straight to your phone—how did gambling

Space After NASA

2023/5/14

Space might seem to be heading from the domain of big government programs to a playground for billio

Who’s Afraid of A.I.?

2023/5/12

Artificial intelligence—as it already exists today—is drawing from huge troves of surveillance data

What's Going on at Meta?

2023/5/7

Meta’s reached a sort of mid-life crisis. Between the layoffs, the stagnant metaverse and Facebook’s

When television and screenwriters went on strike in 2007, Netflix had just started offering the opti

Two gig workers standing side-by-side can be offered the very same job and get offered two different

Twitter’s “blue check” verification went from something you applied for, to something you could pay

Weather apps can be frustrating. And with how much we rely on them to know if we should wear pants o

Reddit announced it will start charging companies to use its huge, ever-growing trove of text to tra

A new law in Utah that goes into effect next year states that anyone under 18 needs parental permiss

Discord is a place to share a community online. Most often, it's for gaming. So why did classified i

Why Flying Is So Bad Now

2023/4/9

U.S. air travel is being strained on all sides—travel demand is back to 2019 levels, but the number

While TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, is fighting to keep its flagship app from being banned in

Seeking Asylum Via App

2023/4/2

CBP One, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's app that is supposed to make crossing the border more