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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes (692)

Welcome to Bitcoin Beach

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Jun 25, 202119:55pending

What Cops Are Doing With Your DNA

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Jun 18, 202120:23pending

What Space Billionaires Cost Us

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Jun 11, 202119:48pending

The App That Sparked a Manhunt

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Jun 4, 202123:09pending

Apple and Epic’s Battle Royale

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May 28, 202116:55pending

The Hackers Who Took Down the Colonial Pipeline

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May 21, 202122:07pending

How the World’s Great Vaccination Hope Crashed

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May 14, 202120:22pending

Oversight Board to Facebook: Nice Try

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May 7, 202118:41pending

Tim Apple vs. Mark Facebook

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Apr 30, 202118:35pending

What's Causing the Tesla Crashes?

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Apr 23, 202119:29pending

Seduced by Substack

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Apr 16, 202121:02pending

The Rise of the Therapy Apps

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Apr 9, 202122:28pending

Introducing: ICYMI

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Apr 4, 202128:36pending

The Fight Over Vaccine Passports

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Apr 2, 202122:56pending

The AstraZeneca Saga

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Mar 26, 202122:49pending

Hate, Lies, and AI

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Mar 19, 202123:06pending

Does Google Actually Want to Hire Black Engineers?

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Mar 12, 202121:52pending

The Failing Lifeline for Low-Income Americans

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Mar 5, 202120:48pending

Australia’s Kinda-Sorta Win Over Big Tech

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Feb 26, 202119:03pending

Why Texas Went Dark

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Feb 19, 202120:26pending

How Clubhouse Cracked China’s Firewall

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Feb 12, 202121:52pending

India Turns Off the Internet

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Feb 5, 202117:20pending

Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop

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Jan 29, 202120:27pending

Why the Vaccine Websites Suck

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Jan 22, 202126:18pending

Where the Far Right Is Meeting Now

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Jan 15, 202116:35pending

Deplatforming the President

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Jan 8, 202117:26pending

Was This Google Ethicist Fired for Doing Her Job?

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Dec 15, 202020:27pending

Everybody Sues Facebook

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Dec 11, 202020:46pending

How Hackers Hold Schools for Ransom

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Dec 4, 202020:42pending

Inside Biden’s COVID Team

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Nov 20, 202020:06pending

How Tough Will Biden Really Be on Big Tech?

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Nov 13, 202018:43pending

How the Gig Economy Won in California

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Nov 6, 202018:56pending

The Fight Against Election Day Falsehoods

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Oct 30, 202021:41pending

A Historic Case Against Google

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Oct 23, 202018:44pending

Facebook Flips on Holocaust Denial

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Oct 16, 202019:54pending

What Landlords Have on You

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Oct 9, 202018:19pending

The Attack on Florida’s Latino Voters

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Oct 2, 202015:57pending

A Vaccine Won’t Be the End

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Sep 25, 202019:50pending

Did the Internet Doom a Pregnancy?

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Sep 18, 202020:04pending

The Great Climate Migration Begins

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Sep 11, 202018:28pending

The Limits of Filming Police Brutality

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Sep 4, 202020:10pending

QAnon Goes Mainstream

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Aug 28, 202016:52pending

What Went Wrong With Contact Tracing Apps

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Aug 21, 202019:08pending

How Google Search Sold Out

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Aug 14, 202018:52pending

How One Block Got Through It

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Aug 7, 202020:50pending

When America Can’t Pay the Rent

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Jul 31, 202023:33pending

New Orleans Without Music

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Jul 24, 202019:44pending

Cities Are Running Out of Money

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Jul 17, 202021:46pending

Is “Covid Flight” a Thing?

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Jul 10, 202019:21pending

What's a City Without the Office?

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Jul 3, 202018:27pending
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