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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

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the idea of a climate haven has been upended. And as the clima

America is caught in a vicious cycle of trying to alleviate traffic by expanding and building more h

Big Tech Fears Her

2024/9/27

Over the last decade, the European Union has been the vanguard regulating Big Tech, and the push has

Given Laura Loomer’s history of saying outright offensive and often bewildering things, how did she

Instagram’s new default privacy settings for teenagers are designed to keep kids safe from strangers

Is Boeing Lost in Space?

2024/9/15

Boeing’s Starliner has now landed successfully—but Butch and Sunny weren’t on it. With a pair of ast

TikTok Goes to Court

2024/9/13

The law has been passed and signed by the president: TikTok’s parent company must sell or divest fro

An outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis in the northeast made headlines, but as far as mosquito-b

US v. Google… Again

2024/9/6

A month after a federal judge declared that Google was operating as a monopoly because of its search

Telegram was supposed to be the platform with the freest of free speech, which meant it was also rif

Since the pandemic, schools have been reporting that their students are more anxious and having trou

Why are national politicians like Nancy Pelosi lining up alongside artificial intelligence companies

The last crypto boom left the industry cash-rich and reputation-poor, so they’re doing what any bele

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are in high demand and short supply. The internet makes it easy

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter - now X - in 2022, he’s increasingly used it to push his conservat

The hype has slowed but electric vehicles aren’t going away—once the infrastructure is in place, the

Should the other Silicon Valley giants be worried following the Department of Justice’s decisive win

Earlier this month, AT&T was hit by the largest telecom hack ever. Not long after, Sydney Sweene

The age when you need to start being screened for cancers may need to be updated, as rates among you

The Panopticon Olympics

2024/7/28

How France changed its own laws to have the safest, most pervasively surveilled Olympics ever—and wh