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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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For years, Silicon Valley has felt like a liberal enclave.. This election, a handful of powerful voi

In the hours after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, conspiracy theories started circulatin

The biggest companies in the world are now tech companies, which is why the biggest antitrust, anti-

“Home diagnostics” are a $5 billion industry—and growing. Spurred by social media, people are buying

Boeing Pleads Guilty

2024/7/12

Boeing just pled guilty to felony charges of defrauding the federal government, leading to millions

The downsides of the streaming era are coming into focus for movie fans—uncontrollable, changing lib

The world’s population has never been bigger, and it’s still growing. but there’s a movement of “pro

The story of IUDs is a story of technology, reproductive rights, shortcomings in communication about

Saying any one storm or heat wave or weather in general was “caused by climate change” is tricky—sum

As cars get smarter, automakers - with the help of third-party apps - are leveraging the new data th

Amazon has installed digital palm readers at Whole Foods. The reader scans your palm, collecting bio

In 2021, one of the largest global law enforcement operations took place. It was all thanks to an en

Apple Goes Intelligent

2024/6/14

On Monday, Tim Cook announced Apple was getting into artificial intelligence. Is Apple about to do f

It’s hard to imagine music fans mourning a break-up of Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nati

How well is the Biden administration coaxing semiconductor companies to build their chips in the Uni

“Fecal microbial transplants” treat someone’s unhealthy gut with poop from someone else’s healthy gu

His law firm won a $73 million dollar settlement against Remington on behalf of nine Sandy Hook fami

Last year saw a record number of healthcare hacks with more than 700 separate incidents. And with a

When OpenAI showed a demo for the latest version of ChatGPT —the one that you can chat with, you kno

The Dark Side of GoFundMe

2024/5/19

In theory, crowdfunding sites offer an opportunity for anyone to give to any cause, including, say,