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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

Too Stonks Too Furious

2024/5/17

The 2021 subreddit-coordinated effort to raise the price of Gamestop stock was, in some ways, a proo

The ability to choose the sex of your child through IVF is banned in most of the world. In America,

You might not know Brad Parscale by name, but you know his work: he was the digital campaign operati

The California Journalism Preservation Act would make companies like Google and Meta pay publishers

Bird flu isn’t new, you may even remember past outbreaks. But showing up in milk? Is America ready i

There are regulations regarding how farm animals are transported, how they’re auctioned, how they’re

So ... Is TikTok Banned?

2024/4/26

The TikTok ban that has been floating around Washington since the last administration has been signe

From the Wayback Machine to the mass-digitization of the history of Aruba, the Internet Archive is a

Tesla’s market cap has dropped. The company had its biggest round of layoffs ever. The Cybertruck do

How the semi-legalization of marijuana has drawn a road map for legalizing psychedelics—and also pro

Does Google Suck Now?

2024/4/12

Why lately our search engines just don’t seem to deliver results. Guest: Jason Koebler, cofounder of

America Needs More Power

2024/4/7

The demand for electricity is surging in the U.S. With increasing amounts of power going towards art

Donald Trump got a huge financial boost when Truth Social went public last week—or did he?Guest: Nit

From science fiction writers to American presidents to Elon Musk, everyone’s eager to send people to

How supply chains, the pandemic, and a steady stream of Wall Street money led to a crisis at Boeing.

After organized-labor victories at Amazon, with automakers, and in Hollywood, big corporations are s

Reddit’s IPO Gamble

2024/3/22

Despite the blackouts, moderator revolts, and long string of controversies, Reddit remains an active

Private equity firms have been buying up doctors’ offices and hospitals around the country. But if p

TikTok’s connection to the Chinese government has been a Washington talking point since the Trump ad

As the debate around child safety online rages on, an investigation by The New York Times found a se