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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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Twitter has been a lot of things—where you posted your lunch, where you met your people, where you w

Alzheimer’s treatment hasn’t changed much in the past two decades, and the way researchers have been

One company’s software is helping set prices for apartments across the country. But when does an alg

The idea of composting a human body may seem unsettling—or even gross—and it runs counter to the nor

The Next Amazon Union Fight

2022/10/14

Following their victory in Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is still facing an uphill battle. B

Churches are using accountability apps to keep tabs on their members' behavior. But if your pastor w

Twenty-six words defined the internet as we know it today. What happens if they’re deleted?Guest: Je

Longtermism, the idea that positively influencing the future is a key moral priority of our time, is

With disaster relief funds from Hurricane Harvey, Houston's Harris County instituted a mandatory buy

Nuclear technology has become more important than ever, thanks to a global energy crisis and climate

Conservative lawmakers in Florida and Texas are taking aim at content moderation on social media, wi

Victims of a new and high tech kind of human trafficking are forced to scam people all around the wo

A small parish in Louisiana tried to get affordable, fast internet. An incumbent ISP stopped them.Gu

An inside look at the rise of YouTube into a social media behemoth.Guests: Mark Bergen and Claire St

Can A.I. Make Great Art?

2022/9/9

Technology is transforming the creative economy and ideas about what "art" even is.Guest: Drew Harwe

LYMErix, the first vaccine against Lyme, was pulled from the market amid poor sales and pressure fro

A father took a photo of his son for their doctor. He wound up being investigated by the police.Gues

Shows are disappearing. Staff are getting axed. Is It greed, or necessary for the networks' survival

Legendary hacker Peiter "Mudge" Zatko’s reputation in the cybersecurity world is unmatched. His alle

There's no way to remove politics from public health.Guest: Tim RequarthHost: Lizzie O'Leary Learn m