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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)

When A.I. Denies Your Health Care

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Mar 31, 202326:08pending

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Woes

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Mar 26, 202329:27pending

The Case Against TikTok

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Mar 24, 202332:39pending

When A.I. Steals Your Voice

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Mar 19, 202322:02pending

Where Is Silicon Valley Going to Bank Now?

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Mar 17, 202325:44pending

Would You Let A.I. Date For You?

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Mar 12, 202326:00pending

When Meta Tells Law Enforcement About Your Abortion

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Mar 10, 202322:34pending

The Hollywood Weight Loss Wonder Drug

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Mar 5, 202328:30pending

What Would Convince a Lab Leak Skeptic?

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Mar 3, 202329:42pending

Is a 25-Year-Old’s Brain Mature?

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Feb 26, 202321:12pending

Why A.I. Says the Darndest Things

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Feb 24, 202325:02pending

The Baby-Sleep Industrial Complex

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Feb 19, 202328:45pending

What Made the Balloon Drama Pop Off?

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Feb 17, 202332:37pending

Contraband Tech Behind Bars

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Feb 12, 202328:15pending

Why Ban TikTok?

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Feb 10, 202324:03pending

Did a Twentysomething Con America’s Biggest Bank?

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Feb 5, 202329:38pending

How COVID Changes Our Immune Systems

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Feb 3, 202325:48pending

Did A.I. Write This Headline?

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Jan 29, 202331:53pending

Will Google Get Broken Up?

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Jan 27, 202324:45pending

Does Meta Even Care When Its Users Get Hacked?

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Jan 22, 202326:39pending

An Antivax Dog Whistle Goes Viral

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Jan 20, 202326:37pending

Tesla’s No Good, Very Bad Year

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Jan 15, 202328:37pending

Why the Feds Want to Kill Noncompetes

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Jan 13, 202319:12pending

How War in Taiwan Could Short-Circuit U.S. Tech

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Jan 8, 202322:41pending

Will Southwest Be Held Accountable?

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Jan 6, 202325:47pending

One Year - 1942: The Most Hated Man in America

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Dec 23, 202243:15pending

Are You Ready For Lab-Grown Meat?

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Dec 18, 202228:39pending

SBF's Worst Week Yet

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Dec 16, 202233:56pending

San Francisco’s Self-Driving Mess

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Dec 11, 202225:51pending

Let’s Talk, Chatbots

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Dec 9, 202228:23pending

Big Tech’s Boogeymen In Washington

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Dec 4, 202234:31pending

Twitter's Vulnerabilities, Exposed

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Dec 2, 202226:44pending

The Trap of Buy Now, Pay Later

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Nov 27, 202230:13pending

The End of the Tech Boom

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Nov 20, 202227:10pending

The Case Against Climate Reparations

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Nov 18, 202229:10pending

Is This The Cryptocalypse?

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Nov 13, 202228:20pending

Senator Chris Murphy on Elon's Acquisition of Twitter

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Nov 11, 202217:05pending

Why Are So Many Little Kids Sick Right Now?

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Nov 6, 202221:33pending

So How’s It Going, Elon?

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Nov 4, 202225:21pending

Big Brother, Big Tech and China

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Oct 30, 202238:07pending

Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter

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Oct 28, 202236:41pending

Can We Make an Alzheimer’s Drug That Works?

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Oct 23, 202230:40pending

When An Algorithm Raises Your Rent

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Oct 21, 202229:53pending

Are You Ready to Be Composted When You Die?

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Oct 16, 202228:55pending

The Next Amazon Union Fight

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Oct 14, 202227:08pending

When Your Church Surveils Your Phone

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Oct 9, 202220:31pending

Could the Supreme Court Kill the Internet As We Know It?

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Oct 7, 202225:58pending

The Philosopher With Silicon Valley's Ear

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Oct 2, 202254:25pending

When Climate Change Makes You Sell Your House

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Sep 30, 202223:18pending

Can Nuclear Power Be Green?

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