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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)

The Fight Over Online Speech Headed to the Supreme Court

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The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Spam Texts You're Getting

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Sep 18, 202226:33pending

How Big Internet Keeps Small Communities Disconnected

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The Chaos That Made YouTube a Juggernaut

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Sep 11, 202230:38pending

Can A.I. Make Great Art?

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Sep 9, 202225:10pending

The Summer Vaccine of the Future

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Sep 4, 202215:55pending

A.I. Made to Fight Child Porn Ensnared an Innocent Dad

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Sep 2, 202224:28pending

The Streaming TV Bloodbath

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Aug 28, 202224:27pending

The Hacker Blowing the Whistle on Twitter

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Aug 26, 202230:53pending

We're Expecting the Wrong Things From the CDC

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Aug 21, 202224:25pending

What All That Money for Green Tech in the Climate Bill Is Buying

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Aug 19, 202223:21pending

Big Pharma’s Bet on Psychedelics

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Crypto Could Leave Texas in the Dark

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The Monkeypox Vaccine Monopoly

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The Homes We Forgot to Build a Decade Ago

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Aug 5, 202224:03pending

The Dark Web of Online Spider Sales

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Jul 31, 202218:40pending

Paging Dr. Bezos

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Jul 29, 202226:36pending

Smart City: Dumb Idea?

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Jul 24, 202225:19pending

Europe Is Burning

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Jul 22, 202224:07pending

Silicon Valley's Hidden Discrimination

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Jul 17, 202221:15pending

Can Twitter Sue Elon Musk Into Submission?

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Jul 15, 202225:33pending

Paxlovid's Mysteries

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Can FEMA Keep Up With Climate Change?

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Jul 8, 202224:48pending

The Good Hackers

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Jul 3, 202221:37pending

TikTok’s Mental Health Influencers

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Jul 1, 202226:14pending

Does Crypto Investment Need to Be Regulated?

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Jun 26, 202218:26pending

Can the Law Keep Up With the Internet?

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Jun 24, 202221:01pending

From the Vault: It's Hot. It's Flooding. Is This the New Normal?

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Jun 19, 202220:22pending

The Culture War Over Electric Cars

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Jun 17, 202219:49pending

Sheryl Sandberg’s Complicated Legacy

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Jun 12, 202225:16pending

Bots! What Are They Good For?

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Is Elon Musk Any Good at Business?

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Jun 5, 202225:12pending

Can an Algorithm Spot a Shooter?

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Jun 3, 202221:43pending

Online Privacy in a Post-Roe World

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May 29, 202217:57pending

Will Bitcoin Ruin El Salvador?

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May 27, 202220:00pending

North Korea's Hacking Army

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May 22, 202220:51pending

How Buffalo Could Transform Social Media

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May 20, 202219:49pending

Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone

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May 15, 202217:39pending

Can A.I. Know What You're Feeling?

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May 13, 202216:06pending

Is Free Speech Online Just a Myth?

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Can the Internet Rescue Abortion Access?

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May 6, 202215:36pending

The Fantasy of Internet for All

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May 1, 202215:06pending

What Elon Wants With Twitter

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Apr 29, 202218:33pending

A New High-Tech Weapon in Ukraine

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Apr 24, 202218:35pending

The COVID Data Disaster

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Apr 22, 202221:30pending

How TurboTax Tricks Taxpayers

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Apr 17, 202218:36pending

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Apr 15, 202216:49pending

Uber Makes Nice With Cabs

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Apr 10, 202218:43pending

Elon Trolls the SEC

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Apr 8, 202219:29pending

A Conversation With Europe's Top Tech Cop

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Apr 3, 202217:47pending
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