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

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

Can Hybrid Cars Save Us?

2023/12/22

Without infrastructure to support all-electric vehicles, consumers have increasingly embraced the hy

The Case Against CLEAR

2023/12/17

Going through airport security is a legal requirement. Is it fair for a private company to interject

Fast-fashion titan Shein is preparing for its initial public offering, even as questions of sustaina

Musk's War on Free Speech

2023/12/10

Elon Musk is suing Media Matters for reporting that advertisers’ content was showing up right next t

Spotify Unwrapped

2023/12/8

Is Spotify’s 2023—ending with layoffs and cancelling critically acclaimed original podcasts—a sign o

Though navigating the internet involves spraying your data pretty indiscriminately, you actually hav

A Moral War for A.I.

2023/12/1

Artificial intelligence seems predestined to become a bigger part of our lives. To what extent is th

The Race (Back) to the Moon

2023/11/26

The first steps on the moon were in the name of “all mankind.” But with more countries—and the priva

Where Scams Are Born

2023/11/24

An app for open money laundering, a corridor of massive casinos in the middle of nowhere, and the gl

Inside OpenAI's Implosion

2023/11/21

OpenAI was the hottest startup in Silicon Valley off the success of ChatGPT. Then, the board fired S

Bedbugs Are Back, Baby!

2023/11/19

The bedbug break-out during Paris fashion week this fall was obviously horrifying, but the bad news

Girls at a New Jersey high school were early victims of a novel and growing problem: their images we

Will A.I. Take My Job?

2023/11/12

A review website became suddenly flush with new bylines, right as the newsroom was negotiating with

Tesla vs. the Swedes

2023/11/10

In late October, Tesla mechanics in Sweden began to strike after the company refused to sign a colle

Sam Bankman-Fraud

2023/11/4

Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on seven charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering a

Biden Goes After AI

2023/11/3

Biden’s executive order on A.I. indicates his administration is taking it seriously. Does it go far

SBF Takes the Stand

2023/10/28

The man at the center of it all takes the stand in his own defense—but what’s left to say?Guest: Nit

In August, California regulators voted to allow self-driving car companies like Cruise and Waymo to