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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

The idea that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to sudden deaths among young people has no scientific sup

Elon Musk was promising an “epic” Q4 at Tesla last year. But 2022 ended closer to what might be cons

You might think of noncompete agreements as mostly limited to highly skilled, highly paid tech worke

Roughly 95 percent of advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing happens in Taiwan, leaving the U.S.

Over the holidays, thousands of passengers were left stranded or delayed when Southwest Airline’s ou

At the beginning of World War II, the greatest threat to the American war effort wasn’t the Nazis or

The Food and Drug Administration gave an important thumbs up to lab-grown chicken, which means we co

SBF's Worst Week Yet

2022/12/16

Even in a crazy year for crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried’s story is undeniably the most bananas. And even

Self-driving cars and robotaxis are starting to appear on the streets of San Francisco. While we hav

Let’s Talk, Chatbots

2022/12/9

Artificial intelligence is growing in leaps and bounds, and everywhere from Big Tech companies like

The Biden administration’s Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are both staffed with

Dating back to the Arab Spring, Twitter’s potential for real-time organizing has been a selling poin

The option to “buy now and pay later” over installments exploded over the past two years, thanks to

The End of the Tech Boom

2022/11/20

After decades as America’s booming industry, tens of thousands of tech workers have been laid off in

At this year’s annual UN conference on climate change, they are discussing “climate reparations,” wh

Is This The Cryptocalypse?

2022/11/13

The (once) third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, collapsed in stunning fashion this week, high

The second largest investor in Twitter, after Elon Musk, is the Saudis, which raises questions about

It’s been a rough autumn for parents of little kids, as non-COVID respiratory diseases are taking ad

One week in as head honcho of Twitter and Elon Musk is in a tight spot: how do you balance the desir

There are some 400 million surveillance cameras installed in China, one for every three to four civi