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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)

A Hidden Side of Police Abuse

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Jun 26, 202015:32pending

Why Remote Learning Failed

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Jun 19, 202020:12pending

Is This the End of Facial Recognition?

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Jun 12, 202020:39pending

Your Delivery Habit Isn't Helping

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Jun 5, 202018:22pending

Trump and Twitter Go to War

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May 29, 202018:19pending

What Is Elon Musk Thinking?

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May 22, 202017:08pending

Decoding the Flood of COVID Data

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May 15, 202017:36pending

Should You Get an Antibody Test?

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May 8, 202022:01pending

How the Crisis Could Embolden Big Tech

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May 1, 202016:35pending

Can We Really Make a Safe Vaccine in 18 Months?

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Apr 24, 202020:58pending

Can the U.S. Really Track the Coronavirus?

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Apr 17, 202020:58pending

The Limits of Coronavirus Predictions

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Apr 10, 202016:09pending

Risking Your Life for $8.71

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Apr 3, 202018:45pending

Where Are All the Tests?

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Mar 27, 202022:20pending

Big Tech Eyes the Pandemic

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Mar 20, 202020:29pending

What If They Close All the Schools?

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Mar 13, 202015:30pending

Did the Internet Doom a Pregnancy?

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Mar 6, 202019:31pending

Did Money Corrupt an A.I. Utopia?

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Feb 28, 202017:10pending

Inside Facebook’s Supreme Court

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Feb 21, 202019:32pending

Coronavirus Tests China's Surveillance State

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Feb 14, 202015:51pending

Iowa’s App-ocalypse

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Feb 7, 202015:03pending

Why Is the U.S. Scared of Huawei?

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Jan 31, 202016:57pending

Which Tech Companies Are Doing the Most Harm?

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Jan 24, 202019:50pending

The Silicon Valley Dream Was Always a Fantasy

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Jan 17, 202020:03pending

How Targeted Ads Started Watching Us All

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Jan 10, 202017:18pending

Do Algorithms Make Sentencing Fairer?

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Jan 3, 202017:20pending

A Landmark Privacy Law Takes Effect. Now What?

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Dec 27, 201916:31pending

Ring: Your Doorbell Is Watching

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Dec 20, 201917:37pending

Inside The Influence Economy

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Dec 13, 201916:02pending

What Is Google After Larry and Sergey?

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Dec 6, 201916:50pending

Is TikTok Really a National Security Threat?

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Nov 22, 201920:18pending

How WhatsApp Got Hacked

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Nov 15, 201919:11pending

The Uber Drivers Who Don’t Want to Be Employees

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Nov 8, 201915:45pending

The Price of Automating Aviation

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Nov 1, 201915:38pending

Inside Facebook's Political Ad Mess

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Oct 25, 201918:06pending

Announcement: What Next: TBD

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Oct 24, 20190:54pending

Smash Bros Side Hustlers

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Oct 16, 201937:43pending

The People Who Hold The Internet Together

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Oct 9, 201940:00pending

What it Takes to Study Online Harassment

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Oct 2, 201938:31pending

The Surveillance Is Coming From Inside The (Smart) House

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Sep 25, 201935:00pending

Breaking Away From Google

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Sep 18, 201939:28pending

The Case For The Vape

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Sep 11, 201934:48pending

Inside Uber

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Sep 4, 201933:34pending

Cosmetic Gene Editing Gone Awry

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Aug 28, 201938:00pending

When Your DNA is Public Information

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Aug 21, 201935:15pending

The Allure of Smart Guns

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Aug 14, 201932:43pending

China’s Cyber War Against Hong Kong

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Aug 7, 201930:10pending

Chemists Spill the Science of Skincare

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Jul 31, 201933:09pending

Why Facebook Can’t Just Create a Currency

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Jul 24, 201932:56pending

Prime Day Comes but Once a Year

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Jul 17, 201925:38pending
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