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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

Episodes

Total: 582

Why TikTok Went Silent

2024/3/8

Thousands of songs have disappeared from TikTok in recent months as music giant Universal Music Grou

Why scam obituaries are edging out earnest ones, with the help of artificial intelligence and an ade

Is it censorship for social media platforms to moderate their content, or is censorship when the sta

Alabama’s IVF Mess

2024/2/25

Fertility doctors and their patients trying to conceive via in vitro fertilization (IVF) were stoppe

The Coasts are Sinking

2024/2/23

Studies have found that, in tiny increments, America’s East Coast is sinking into the ground thanks

Apple Vision Pro goggles might be a crime against fashion but with the amount of data they can colle

The war in Ukraine reordered the priorities of the country’s growing tech sector, and has become a p

For a while, it seemed like the only place to meet potential partners was through an app—Tinder, Hin

The NFL's concussion settlement was meant to provide financial support and medical help for players

Streaming Is Cable Now

2024/2/4

The number of TV streaming services is going up—and so is the cost and so are the number of ads. Cor

For all the promise of the technology, one use-case for artificial intelligence reared its ugly head

Why Is Everybody Sick?

2024/1/28

Are we still paying off our pandemic-induced “immunity debt,” or is there another reason that it fee

In the days leading up to the New Hampshire primary, voters received a robocall purportedly from Joe

How much of our lives—our tastes, preferences and choices—have been fed to us through an interlockin

When a cyberattack knocked the British Library out of commission in October of last year, a nation's

Is Your Car Tracking You?

2024/1/14

Covered in cameras, full of microphones, and always eager to use location data, our vehicles are “sm

Boeing’s Max Mess

2024/1/12

Shortly after take off from Portland, OR, the plug exit on a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet blew out – causing

What the Cybertruck says about safety, regulation, and the degree to which Tesla is beholden to the

If A.I. and chatbots are the next wave of innovation, then the New York Times and other media organi

While the What Next: TBD team spends some time with their families during the holidays, we revisit s