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Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in.

Episode Date
Influencer vs. Influencer
Dec 22, 2024
Drones!??!!!?!!!
Dec 20, 2024
The Surveillance State Trump Is Inheriting
Dec 15, 2024
Elon Musk and Trump’s Shadow Transition Team
Dec 13, 2024
Spotify Trapped
Dec 08, 2024
The Influencer Administration
Dec 06, 2024
When Your Flight’s GPS Gets Spoofed
Dec 01, 2024
The Post-Election Social Media Wars
Nov 29, 2024
Is Sickle Cell Anemia…Cured?
Nov 24, 2024
What's Google Without Chrome?
Nov 22, 2024
The X-odus
Nov 17, 2024
The Manosphere That Delivered Trump Back to Power
Nov 15, 2024
The Polls Weren’t Wrong
Nov 10, 2024
Elon Wins
Nov 08, 2024
u up? Go vote.
Nov 03, 2024
What Elon Wants From Trump
Nov 01, 2024
Facebook for the Dead
Oct 27, 2024
Can TikTok Sway this Election?
Oct 25, 2024
How Secure Is Our Election?
Oct 20, 2024
The Elon-Trump Alliance
Oct 18, 2024
23andMe...And a Looming Data Disaster
Oct 13, 2024
Trump’s Crypto Gurus
Oct 11, 2024
A.I. Goes Nuclear
Oct 06, 2024
Helene Proves Nowhere is Safe
Oct 04, 2024
American Life is a Highway
Sep 29, 2024
Big Tech Fears Her
Sep 27, 2024
Trump Called. Laura Loomer Answered.
Sep 22, 2024
Can Instagram Really Keep Kids Safe?
Sep 20, 2024
Is Boeing Lost in Space?
Sep 15, 2024
TikTok Goes to Court
Sep 13, 2024
The Misguided Buzz About Mosquitoes
Sep 08, 2024
US v. Google… Again
Sep 06, 2024
Telegram's CEO Just Got Arrested. Huh?
Sep 01, 2024
Back To School… Without Phones
Aug 30, 2024
Who’s Going to Regulate AI?
Aug 25, 2024
Crypto Courts the 2024 Vote
Aug 23, 2024
The Rise of Off-Brand Ozempic
Aug 18, 2024
Elon Musk’s Bully Pulpit
Aug 16, 2024
Tesla’s Out of Juice. But Are EVs?
Aug 11, 2024
Google’s a Monopoly. What About The Rest?
Aug 09, 2024
If They Can Get Sydney Sweeney They Can Get You
Aug 04, 2024
Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?
Aug 02, 2024
The Panopticon Olympics
Jul 28, 2024
Is Silicon Valley Trump-Vance Country?
Jul 26, 2024
The Conspiracy Theory Election
Jul 21, 2024
America’s Tech Trustbuster
Jul 19, 2024
The New World of DIY Medical Tests
Jul 14, 2024
Boeing Pleads Guilty
Jul 12, 2024
The Blu-Ray-naissance Is Here. Sort of.
Jul 07, 2024
Elon Says Have More Babies
Jul 05, 2024
Why Are IUDs Still a Mystery?
Jun 30, 2024
Why Extreme Weather Keeps Surprising You
Jun 28, 2024
Is Your Phone Tracking Your Driving?
Jun 23, 2024
Amazon Wants Your Handprint
Jun 21, 2024
The FBI Made a Phone Network. It Was A Trap.
Jun 16, 2024
Apple Goes Intelligent
Jun 14, 2024
Fee’d Up: A Musician’s Take on Ticketmaster
Jun 09, 2024
The Secret Semiconductor War
Jun 07, 2024
Would You Buy Poop On the Internet?
Jun 02, 2024
He’s Suing Big Tech Over Uvalde
May 31, 2024
Why Hospitals Keep Getting Hacked
May 26, 2024
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI
May 24, 2024
The Dark Side of GoFundMe
May 19, 2024
Too Stonks Too Furious
May 17, 2024
Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
May 12, 2024
Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
May 10, 2024
Can California Save Journalism?
May 05, 2024
Bird Flu—It’s in Milk?
May 03, 2024
The Failures of ‘Organic’ Farming
Apr 28, 2024
So ... Is TikTok Banned?
Apr 26, 2024
The Internet Archive Endangered
Apr 21, 2024
What’s Driving Tesla’s Layoffs?
Apr 19, 2024
Is America Ready for Legal Psychedelics?
Apr 14, 2024
Does Google Suck Now?
Apr 12, 2024
America Needs More Power
Apr 07, 2024
Truth Social’s Rocky Week
Apr 05, 2024
The Psychological Toll of Mars
Mar 31, 2024
Can Boeing Pull Out of This Tailspin?
Mar 29, 2024
The Next Round of the Union Fight
Mar 24, 2024
Reddit’s IPO Gamble
Mar 22, 2024
When Private Equity Gets in to Health Care
Mar 17, 2024
Is TikTok Cooked This Time?
Mar 15, 2024
Instagram’s Pedophile Problem
Mar 10, 2024
Why TikTok Went Silent
Mar 08, 2024
Google’s Scam Obituary Problem
Mar 03, 2024
The Supreme Court Takes on Content Moderation
Mar 01, 2024
Alabama’s IVF Mess
Feb 25, 2024
The Coasts are Sinking
Feb 23, 2024
Apple Vision Pro: The Ultimate Surveillance Device?
Feb 18, 2024
Warfare Enters the A.I. Era
Feb 16, 2024
Breaking Up with Dating Apps
Feb 11, 2024
The NFL’s Concussion Settlement Farce
Feb 09, 2024
Streaming Is Cable Now
Feb 04, 2024
The Taylor Swift Deepfake Saga
Feb 02, 2024
Why Is Everybody Sick?
Jan 28, 2024
Are You Ready for the A.I. Election?
Jan 26, 2024
Have Algorithms Ruined Our Culture?
Jan 21, 2024
The Great British Library Hack
Jan 19, 2024
Is Your Car Tracking You?
Jan 14, 2024
Boeing’s Max Mess
Jan 12, 2024
Tesla's Cybertruck Problem
Jan 07, 2024
Why the New York Times Sued OpenAI
Jan 05, 2024
Who’s Afraid of A.I.? | 2023 In Review
Dec 31, 2023
America’s Killer Car Problem | 2023 In Review
Dec 29, 2023
Stephen King Is Just as Confused About Blue Checks as You Are | 2023 In Review
Dec 24, 2023
Can Hybrid Cars Save Us?
Dec 22, 2023
The Case Against CLEAR
Dec 17, 2023
Shein’s Newest Offering? An IPO
Dec 15, 2023
Musk's War on Free Speech
Dec 10, 2023
Spotify Unwrapped
Dec 08, 2023
They See You When You’re Shopping
Dec 03, 2023
A Moral War for A.I.
Dec 01, 2023
The Race (Back) to the Moon
Nov 26, 2023
Where Scams Are Born
Nov 24, 2023
Inside OpenAI's Implosion
Nov 21, 2023
Bedbugs Are Back, Baby!
Nov 19, 2023
How Deepfake Porn Infected a School
Nov 17, 2023
Will A.I. Take My Job?
Nov 12, 2023
Tesla vs. the Swedes
Nov 10, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fraud
Nov 04, 2023
Biden Goes After AI
Nov 03, 2023
SBF Takes the Stand
Oct 28, 2023
Self-Driving Cars Crash Into Reality
Oct 27, 2023
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Takeover
Oct 21, 2023
Inside Hamas' Social Media Strategy
Oct 20, 2023
The $30,000 Zelle Scam
Oct 14, 2023
The Israel-Hamas War Instantly Broke X
Oct 13, 2023
The Man Who Turned You Into Data
Oct 07, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried—and Crypto—on Trial
Oct 06, 2023
Inside Crypto's House of Cards
Oct 01, 2023
Who Will Pay For A COVID Vaccine?
Sep 30, 2023
Is Amazon a Monopoly?
Sep 29, 2023
What Instacart’s IPO Means for Tech
Sep 23, 2023
Did AirBnB Need to Go?
Sep 22, 2023
Can Politicians Keep Kids Safe Online?
Sep 16, 2023
Google Makes Its Case
Sep 15, 2023
Bad Air, Worse Vibes
Sep 09, 2023
Tech Disrupts the School Bus
Sep 08, 2023
Social Media’s Pivot from News
Sep 03, 2023
Is LinkedIn...Cool Now?
Sep 01, 2023
The Cost of "Sustainable" Pet Food
Aug 27, 2023
TikTok's Shady Deal with the U.S.
Aug 25, 2023
Digital Life After Death
Aug 20, 2023
How Crypto Fails Sex Workers
Aug 18, 2023
Tech's Mask Off Moment
Aug 13, 2023
Can Smart Guns Save Lives?
Aug 11, 2023
Another Summer of COVID
Aug 06, 2023
Tesla's Big Lie
Aug 04, 2023
America’s Downtown Ghost Towns
Jul 30, 2023
Washington vs. A.I.
Jul 28, 2023
Why Tech Lays Women Off First
Jul 23, 2023
America’s $5 Trillion Grid Problem
Jul 21, 2023
America’s Killer Car Problem
Jul 16, 2023
Will UPS Workers Join "Hot Strike Summer?"
Jul 14, 2023
Is Your Son Watching Andrew Tate?
Jul 09, 2023
Threads vs. Twitter
Jul 07, 2023
Turning Your Face Into Your Ticket
Jul 02, 2023
The Never-Ending Cancer Drug Shortage
Jun 30, 2023
Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?
Jun 25, 2023
The U.S. vs Amazon Prime
Jun 23, 2023
The George Soros Succession
Jun 18, 2023
Reddit’s Rolling Blackouts
Jun 16, 2023
Are You Ready For A.I. Generated Actors?
Jun 11, 2023
Is Crypto Toast?
Jun 09, 2023
Tech’s Newest Trillion Dollar Company
Jun 04, 2023
When Your Childhood Was Their Content
Jun 02, 2023
The Trouble With TikTok Songs
May 28, 2023
Tweetering on the Glass Cliff
May 26, 2023
A Tipping Point for Digital Tipping
May 21, 2023
Why Sports Are All in on Betting
May 19, 2023
Space After NASA
May 14, 2023
Who’s Afraid of A.I.?
May 12, 2023
What's Going on at Meta?
May 07, 2023
What the Writers' Strike Is Really About
May 05, 2023
Is Your Uber Drivers' Pay Rigged?
Apr 30, 2023
Stephen King Is Just as Confused About Blue Checks as You Are
Apr 28, 2023
"Crap Apps": Why Weather Apps Suck
Apr 23, 2023
Will A.I. Close Off the Internet?
Apr 21, 2023
Will Banning Social Media Help Kids?
Apr 16, 2023
How Gamers Leaked Classified Pentagon Docs
Apr 14, 2023
Why Flying Is So Bad Now
Apr 09, 2023
Wait, TikTok Has a Sister App?
Apr 07, 2023
Seeking Asylum Via App
Apr 02, 2023
When A.I. Denies Your Health Care
Mar 31, 2023
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Woes
Mar 26, 2023
The Case Against TikTok
Mar 24, 2023
When A.I. Steals Your Voice
Mar 19, 2023
Where Is Silicon Valley Going to Bank Now?
Mar 17, 2023
Would You Let A.I. Date For You?
Mar 12, 2023
When Meta Tells Law Enforcement About Your Abortion
Mar 10, 2023
The Hollywood Weight Loss Wonder Drug
Mar 05, 2023
What Would Convince a Lab Leak Skeptic?
Mar 03, 2023
Is a 25-Year-Old’s Brain Mature?
Feb 26, 2023
Why A.I. Says the Darndest Things
Feb 24, 2023
The Baby-Sleep Industrial Complex
Feb 19, 2023
What Made the Balloon Drama Pop Off?
Feb 17, 2023
Contraband Tech Behind Bars
Feb 12, 2023
Why Ban TikTok?
Feb 10, 2023
Did a Twentysomething Con America’s Biggest Bank?
Feb 05, 2023
How COVID Changes Our Immune Systems
Feb 03, 2023
Did A.I. Write This Headline?
Jan 29, 2023
Will Google Get Broken Up?
Jan 27, 2023
Does Meta Even Care When Its Users Get Hacked?
Jan 22, 2023
An Antivax Dog Whistle Goes Viral
Jan 20, 2023
Tesla’s No Good, Very Bad Year
Jan 15, 2023
Why the Feds Want to Kill Noncompetes
Jan 13, 2023
How War in Taiwan Could Short-Circuit U.S. Tech
Jan 08, 2023
Will Southwest Be Held Accountable?
Jan 06, 2023
One Year - 1942: The Most Hated Man in America
Dec 23, 2022
Are You Ready For Lab-Grown Meat?
Dec 18, 2022
SBF's Worst Week Yet
Dec 16, 2022
San Francisco’s Self-Driving Mess
Dec 11, 2022
Let’s Talk, Chatbots
Dec 09, 2022
Big Tech’s Boogeymen In Washington
Dec 04, 2022
Twitter's Vulnerabilities, Exposed
Dec 02, 2022
The Trap of Buy Now, Pay Later
Nov 27, 2022
The End of the Tech Boom
Nov 20, 2022
The Case Against Climate Reparations
Nov 18, 2022
Is This The Cryptocalypse?
Nov 13, 2022
Senator Chris Murphy on Elon's Acquisition of Twitter
Nov 11, 2022
Why Are So Many Little Kids Sick Right Now?
Nov 06, 2022
So How’s It Going, Elon?
Nov 04, 2022
Big Brother, Big Tech and China
Oct 30, 2022
Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
Oct 28, 2022
Can We Make an Alzheimer’s Drug That Works?
Oct 23, 2022
When An Algorithm Raises Your Rent
Oct 21, 2022
Are You Ready to Be Composted When You Die?
Oct 16, 2022
The Next Amazon Union Fight
Oct 14, 2022
When Your Church Surveils Your Phone
Oct 09, 2022
Could the Supreme Court Kill the Internet As We Know It?
Oct 07, 2022
The Philosopher With Silicon Valley's Ear
Oct 02, 2022
When Climate Change Makes You Sell Your House
Sep 30, 2022
Can Nuclear Power Be Green?
Sep 25, 2022
The Fight Over Online Speech Headed to the Supreme Court
Sep 23, 2022
The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Spam Texts You're Getting
Sep 18, 2022
How Big Internet Keeps Small Communities Disconnected
Sep 16, 2022
The Chaos That Made YouTube a Juggernaut
Sep 11, 2022
Can A.I. Make Great Art?
Sep 09, 2022
The Summer Vaccine of the Future
Sep 04, 2022
A.I. Made to Fight Child Porn Ensnared an Innocent Dad
Sep 02, 2022
The Streaming TV Bloodbath
Aug 28, 2022
The Hacker Blowing the Whistle on Twitter
Aug 26, 2022
We're Expecting the Wrong Things From the CDC
Aug 21, 2022
What All That Money for Green Tech in the Climate Bill Is Buying
Aug 19, 2022
Big Pharma’s Bet on Psychedelics
Aug 14, 2022
Crypto Could Leave Texas in the Dark
Aug 12, 2022
The Monkeypox Vaccine Monopoly
Aug 07, 2022
The Homes We Forgot to Build a Decade Ago
Aug 05, 2022
The Dark Web of Online Spider Sales
Jul 31, 2022
Paging Dr. Bezos
Jul 29, 2022
Smart City: Dumb Idea?
Jul 24, 2022
Europe Is Burning
Jul 22, 2022
Silicon Valley's Hidden Discrimination
Jul 17, 2022
Can Twitter Sue Elon Musk Into Submission?
Jul 15, 2022
Paxlovid's Mysteries
Jul 10, 2022
Can FEMA Keep Up With Climate Change?
Jul 08, 2022
The Good Hackers
Jul 03, 2022
TikTok’s Mental Health Influencers
Jul 01, 2022
Does Crypto Investment Need to Be Regulated?
Jun 26, 2022
Can the Law Keep Up With the Internet?
Jun 24, 2022
From the Vault: It's Hot. It's Flooding. Is This the New Normal?
Jun 19, 2022
The Culture War Over Electric Cars
Jun 17, 2022
Sheryl Sandberg’s Complicated Legacy
Jun 12, 2022
Bots! What Are They Good For?
Jun 10, 2022
Is Elon Musk Any Good at Business?
Jun 05, 2022
Can an Algorithm Spot a Shooter?
Jun 03, 2022
Online Privacy in a Post-Roe World
May 29, 2022
Will Bitcoin Ruin El Salvador?
May 27, 2022
North Korea's Hacking Army
May 22, 2022
How Buffalo Could Transform Social Media
May 20, 2022
Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
May 15, 2022
Can A.I. Know What You're Feeling?
May 13, 2022
Is Free Speech Online Just a Myth?
May 08, 2022
Can the Internet Rescue Abortion Access?
May 06, 2022
The Fantasy of Internet for All
May 01, 2022
What Elon Wants With Twitter
Apr 29, 2022
A New High-Tech Weapon in Ukraine
Apr 24, 2022
The COVID Data Disaster
Apr 22, 2022
How TurboTax Tricks Taxpayers
Apr 17, 2022
Elonnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Apr 15, 2022
Uber Makes Nice With Cabs
Apr 10, 2022
Elon Trolls the SEC
Apr 08, 2022
A Conversation With Europe's Top Tech Cop
Apr 03, 2022
The White House's Favorite Tech Billionaire
Apr 01, 2022
The Cost of Going Off-Grid
Mar 27, 2022
Why the Zelensky Deepfake Failed
Mar 25, 2022
The Startup Delivering Adderall
Mar 20, 2022
Hong Kong’s Covid Crisis
Mar 18, 2022
How Minnesota Spied On Protesters
Mar 13, 2022
Putin's Internet Crackdown
Mar 11, 2022
When Your Retina Needs a Software Update
Mar 06, 2022
Ukraine’s Information War
Mar 04, 2022
Peter Thiel, Patron of the Populist Right
Feb 27, 2022
Russia's Other Battlefront
Feb 25, 2022
The COVAX Fantasy
Feb 20, 2022
"Rampant Racism" at Tesla
Feb 18, 2022
The Rise of a Fast Fashion Juggernaut
Feb 13, 2022
How Safe is the Metaverse?
Feb 11, 2022
The Code That Runs Your Life
Feb 06, 2022
Spotify’s Joe Rogan Mess
Feb 04, 2022
The Downfall of One of the World's Biggest Brains
Jan 28, 2022
Why Does Matt Damon Want Me to Buy Crypto?
Jan 21, 2022
Where Are The Little Kids' Vaccines?
Jan 14, 2022
The Aftermath of Elizabeth Holmes
Jan 07, 2022
Best of 2021: It’s Time to Talk About U.F.O.s
Dec 31, 2021
Best of 2021: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?
Dec 24, 2021
The Carbon Capture Fantasy
Dec 17, 2021
Who Online Justice Leaves Behind
Dec 10, 2021
Did @jack Ruin Twitter?
Dec 03, 2021
Best of 2021: Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop
Nov 26, 2021
Space Junk! (And Space Wars?)
Nov 19, 2021
The Kid-Vaccine Holdouts
Nov 12, 2021
How Schools Surveil Your Kids
Nov 05, 2021
Why Are Bots Buying Sneakers?
Oct 29, 2021
Honey, I Sold the House to Zillow
Oct 22, 2021
The Return of Hacktivism
Oct 15, 2021
Will the Facebook Whistleblower Make a Difference?
Oct 08, 2021
What Instagram Does to Teens
Oct 01, 2021
Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?
Sep 24, 2021
Sponsored: Tech Solutions that Serve L.A. Citizens with Ted Ross
Sep 22, 2021
China vs. Video Games
Sep 17, 2021
Can This River Be Saved?
Sep 10, 2021
The Rush for Ivermectin
Sep 03, 2021
Elizabeth Holmes on Trial
Aug 27, 2021
Will Booster Shots Make a Difference?
Aug 20, 2021
What's Taking the FDA So Long?
Aug 13, 2021
Can America Fix Its Trains?
Aug 06, 2021
I Bought It. Why Can't I Fix It?
Jul 30, 2021
How Spyware Mercenaries Hack Your Phone
Jul 23, 2021
It's Hot. It's Flooding. Is This the New Normal?
Jul 16, 2021
So, What Happens to WFH Now?
Jul 09, 2021
Sponsored: The Race to Vaccinate a Nation with Deryck Mitchelson
Jul 06, 2021
It’s Time to Talk About UFOs
Jul 02, 2021
Welcome to Bitcoin Beach
Jun 25, 2021
What Cops Are Doing With Your DNA
Jun 18, 2021
What Space Billionaires Cost Us
Jun 11, 2021
The App That Sparked a Manhunt
Jun 04, 2021
Apple and Epic’s Battle Royale
May 28, 2021
The Hackers Who Took Down the Colonial Pipeline
May 21, 2021
How the World’s Great Vaccination Hope Crashed
May 14, 2021
Oversight Board to Facebook: Nice Try
May 07, 2021
Tim Apple vs. Mark Facebook
Apr 30, 2021
What's Causing the Tesla Crashes?
Apr 23, 2021
Seduced by Substack
Apr 16, 2021
The Rise of the Therapy Apps
Apr 09, 2021
Introducing: ICYMI
Apr 04, 2021
The Fight Over Vaccine Passports
Apr 02, 2021
The AstraZeneca Saga
Mar 26, 2021
Hate, Lies, and AI
Mar 19, 2021
Does Google Actually Want to Hire Black Engineers?
Mar 12, 2021
The Failing Lifeline for Low-Income Americans
Mar 05, 2021
Australia’s Kinda-Sorta Win Over Big Tech
Feb 26, 2021
Why Texas Went Dark
Feb 19, 2021
How Clubhouse Cracked China’s Firewall
Feb 12, 2021
India Turns Off the Internet
Feb 05, 2021
Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop
Jan 29, 2021
Why the Vaccine Websites Suck
Jan 22, 2021
Where the Far Right Is Meeting Now
Jan 15, 2021
Deplatforming the President
Jan 08, 2021
Was This Google Ethicist Fired for Doing Her Job?
Dec 15, 2020
Everybody Sues Facebook
Dec 11, 2020
How Hackers Hold Schools for Ransom
Dec 04, 2020
Inside Biden’s COVID Team
Nov 20, 2020
How Tough Will Biden Really Be on Big Tech?
Nov 13, 2020
How the Gig Economy Won in California
Nov 06, 2020
The Fight Against Election Day Falsehoods
Oct 30, 2020
A Historic Case Against Google
Oct 23, 2020
Facebook Flips on Holocaust Denial
Oct 16, 2020
What Landlords Have on You
Oct 09, 2020
The Attack on Florida’s Latino Voters
Oct 02, 2020
A Vaccine Won’t Be the End
Sep 25, 2020
Did the Internet Doom a Pregnancy?
Sep 18, 2020
The Great Climate Migration Begins
Sep 11, 2020
The Limits of Filming Police Brutality
Sep 04, 2020
QAnon Goes Mainstream
Aug 28, 2020
What Went Wrong With Contact Tracing Apps
Aug 21, 2020
How Google Search Sold Out
Aug 14, 2020
How One Block Got Through It
Aug 07, 2020
When America Can’t Pay the Rent
Jul 31, 2020
New Orleans Without Music
Jul 24, 2020
Cities Are Running Out of Money
Jul 17, 2020
Is “Covid Flight” a Thing?
Jul 10, 2020
What's a City Without the Office?
Jul 03, 2020
A Hidden Side of Police Abuse
Jun 26, 2020
Why Remote Learning Failed
Jun 19, 2020
Is This the End of Facial Recognition?
Jun 12, 2020
Your Delivery Habit Isn't Helping
Jun 05, 2020
Trump and Twitter Go to War
May 29, 2020
What Is Elon Musk Thinking?
May 22, 2020
Decoding the Flood of COVID Data
May 15, 2020
Should You Get an Antibody Test?
May 08, 2020
How the Crisis Could Embolden Big Tech
May 01, 2020
Can We Really Make a Safe Vaccine in 18 Months?
Apr 24, 2020
Can the U.S. Really Track the Coronavirus?
Apr 17, 2020
The Limits of Coronavirus Predictions
Apr 10, 2020
Risking Your Life for $8.71
Apr 03, 2020
Where Are All the Tests?
Mar 27, 2020
Big Tech Eyes the Pandemic
Mar 20, 2020
What If They Close All the Schools?
Mar 13, 2020
Did the Internet Doom a Pregnancy?
Mar 06, 2020
Did Money Corrupt an A.I. Utopia?
Feb 28, 2020
Inside Facebook’s Supreme Court
Feb 21, 2020
Coronavirus Tests China's Surveillance State
Feb 14, 2020
Iowa’s App-ocalypse
Feb 07, 2020
Why Is the U.S. Scared of Huawei?
Jan 31, 2020
Which Tech Companies Are Doing the Most Harm?
Jan 24, 2020
The Silicon Valley Dream Was Always a Fantasy
Jan 17, 2020
How Targeted Ads Started Watching Us All
Jan 10, 2020
Do Algorithms Make Sentencing Fairer?
Jan 03, 2020
A Landmark Privacy Law Takes Effect. Now What?
Dec 27, 2019
Ring: Your Doorbell Is Watching
Dec 20, 2019
Inside The Influence Economy
Dec 13, 2019
What Is Google After Larry and Sergey?
Dec 06, 2019
Is TikTok Really a National Security Threat?
Nov 22, 2019
How WhatsApp Got Hacked
Nov 15, 2019
The Uber Drivers Who Don’t Want to Be Employees
Nov 08, 2019
The Price of Automating Aviation
Nov 01, 2019
Inside Facebook's Political Ad Mess
Oct 25, 2019
Announcement: What Next: TBD
Oct 24, 2019
Smash Bros Side Hustlers
Oct 16, 2019
The People Who Hold The Internet Together
Oct 09, 2019
What it Takes to Study Online Harassment
Oct 02, 2019
The Surveillance Is Coming From Inside The (Smart) House
Sep 25, 2019
Breaking Away From Google
Sep 18, 2019
The Case For The Vape
Sep 11, 2019
Inside Uber
Sep 04, 2019
Cosmetic Gene Editing Gone Awry
Aug 28, 2019
When Your DNA is Public Information
Aug 21, 2019
The Allure of Smart Guns
Aug 14, 2019
China’s Cyber War Against Hong Kong
Aug 07, 2019
Chemists Spill the Science of Skincare
Jul 31, 2019
Why Facebook Can’t Just Create a Currency
Jul 24, 2019
Prime Day Comes but Once a Year
Jul 17, 2019
ICE’s Reckless Use of Facial Recognition Tech
Jul 10, 2019
Healthcare via Video Chat
Jul 03, 2019
When Tech Journalism Took A Critical Turn
Jun 26, 2019
When a Scooter Makes More Sense Than a Car
Jun 19, 2019
How Driverless Cars Will Actually Work
Jun 13, 2019
Re-Up: Senator Mark Warner
Jun 05, 2019
Luxury Bunkers for the End of the World
May 29, 2019
Why It’s So Hard to Live in California
May 22, 2019
Designing a Better Facebook
May 15, 2019
Cyberspace Didn’t Stay Free
May 08, 2019
Public Education, Facebook-Style
May 01, 2019
Unmasking The Russians Who Hacked The DNC
Apr 24, 2019
What Happened To WikiLeaks
Apr 17, 2019
Fake Meat Designed for Carnivores
Apr 10, 2019
Local News Brought to You by Big Tech
Apr 03, 2019
Uber and Lyft Drivers Strike
Mar 27, 2019
Livestreaming A Massacre
Mar 20, 2019
Your Social Media Photos Are Helping to Build the Surveillance State
Mar 13, 2019
How To Trust A VPN
Mar 06, 2019
Empathy at Scale
Feb 27, 2019
Can Palantir Be Used For Good?
Feb 20, 2019
Jeff Bezos’s Privacy Complexifier
Feb 13, 2019
The Court-Records Paywall Scam
Feb 06, 2019
Media Layoffs Are Trending
Jan 30, 2019
Juul Heist
Jan 23, 2019
Social Media's Weird Future
Jan 16, 2019
At CES: Tech After Smartphones
Jan 09, 2019
Best of 2018
Jan 02, 2019
Aftermath of a Data Breach
Dec 26, 2018
The Information World War
Dec 19, 2018
Warehouse Workers Bring Amazon To The Table
Dec 12, 2018
The Civil Rights Group Targeted By Facebook
Dec 05, 2018
Tomorrow's Children, Edited.
Nov 28, 2018
Facebook's Former Security Chief on What Went Wrong
Nov 21, 2018
Amazon's Prime Real Estate
Nov 14, 2018
The Meme Midterms
Nov 05, 2018
The Internet of Hate
Oct 31, 2018
Who Owns Your DNA Data?
Oct 24, 2018
How Senator Mark Warner Wants to Crack Down on Tech
Oct 17, 2018
Is Privacy A Right?
Oct 10, 2018
Fact And Fiction on Wikipedia
Oct 03, 2018
Reshuffling the Podcasting Deck
Sep 26, 2018
Tech Barons Are the New Media Barons
Sep 19, 2018
If Then Presents: The Secret History of The Future
Sep 16, 2018
Special Report: Apple’s New (Old) Gizmos
Sep 13, 2018
Google’s Real Biases
Sep 12, 2018
How The Future Of Music Streaming Will Sound
Sep 05, 2018
Twitter Without the Nazis
Aug 29, 2018
Google’s Secret Censorship Project
Aug 22, 2018
Making Sense of Elon Musk
Aug 15, 2018
Embracing Deplorable Status
Aug 08, 2018
Flying Cars Are Only A Few Years Away
Aug 01, 2018
This Is How Fake News Spreads
Jul 25, 2018
How a Top Twitter Exec Tackles Trolls
Jul 18, 2018
The Surveillance State's Eyes at the U.S. Border
Jul 11, 2018
The Supreme Court in the Cyber Age
Jul 04, 2018
Tech Workers Fight Back
Jun 27, 2018
Should Tech Companies Take a Stand Against Family Separation?
Jun 20, 2018
The Failed Promise of the Gig Economy
Jun 13, 2018
Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico.
Jun 06, 2018
Bloody Money and Blind Investors
May 30, 2018
Google’s Chokehold on the Web
May 23, 2018
Welcome to the Swamp
May 16, 2018
Baby, You Can Self-Drive My Car
May 09, 2018
Why an E-Waste Recycler Is Going to Prison
May 02, 2018
The Cost of Online Immunity
Apr 25, 2018
What If Facebook Used Data For Black Lives?
Apr 18, 2018
What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Share
Apr 12, 2018
Congress Called. They Want Our Data Back.
Apr 10, 2018
Alexa, How Do You Really Work?
Apr 04, 2018
Facebook’s Deepwater Horizon
Mar 28, 2018
The Tech That Draws Your District
Mar 21, 2018
What Keeps Facebook Up at Night
Mar 14, 2018
Nietzsche with a 3D Printer
Mar 07, 2018
“You Have to Be Heard”
Feb 28, 2018
How Russian Trolls Went Local
Feb 21, 2018
“Like” Is Too Simple an Emotion
Feb 14, 2018
FISA and Fury
Feb 07, 2018
Through The Revolving Door Between Facebook and Democrats
Jan 31, 2018
Dudebros Everyday
Jan 24, 2018
The Problem With Facebook Is Facebook
Jan 17, 2018
Live from CES: Our Dumb "Smart" Future
Jan 10, 2018
Science Fiction by ABBA
Jan 03, 2018
What’s a Firefox?
Dec 20, 2017
Beanie Babies for Geeks
Dec 13, 2017
The Ellen Pao Effect
Dec 06, 2017
Antitrust Superstar
Nov 29, 2017
Hack Friday
Nov 22, 2017
Leaving Zen on the Table
Nov 15, 2017
You Can’t Hardcode Community
Nov 08, 2017
Trash Moths to the Trash Flame
Nov 02, 2017
Coming Nov. 2, Slate's New Tech Show IF THEN
Oct 27, 2017