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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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As Medicare Advantage plans have increased their reliance on software to determine what their custom

Elon Musk has been promising fully self-driving Teslas to the public for years and the beta version

The Case Against TikTok

2023/3/24

To most of its 150 million American consumers, TikTok is a fun app. To some creators, TikTok is a jo

Using just what you’ve posted to social media, generative A.I. can create a “puppet version” of your

The economy is doing well almost every but in tech, where headlines about layoffs have been replaced

The online dating world can be brutal and repetitive—just the kind of thing you might want to automa

Just weeks before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a Nebraska woman and her daughter were c

The diabetes medication Ozempic has exploded in popularity, particularly amongst those in Hollywood

It was reported this week that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes, “with low confidence,” th

New understandings of how our brains develop are changing how the law considers who is mature and wh

Microsoft has been testing out their new artificial intelligence on their long-ridiculed search engi

The tech-laden, luxury bassinet “Snoo” has been presented as preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Come to think of it, a giant balloon seems like a pretty conspicuous way to spy on another country.

It’s hard to put a number on it but judging from the number of videos emerging online, there are mor

Why Ban TikTok?

2023/2/10

TikTok was banned on government agency devices in December; several schools and universities have ba

JP Morgan Chase is getting an education on FAFSA and financial aid–which would’ve been helpful befor

Last fall it seemed like everyone got sick—not just with COVID, but from a slew of respiratory disea

The proliferation of chatbots and A.I.-generated art has consumers and tech companies alike convince

The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that it is suing Google over its ad technology. W

It can feel very personal to have your Facebook or Instagram page hacked—they’re your pictures and y