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How To!: Bounce Back From a Layoff
On a recent workday, Pauline woke up and logged into her computer from home … only to find an email saying she was being laid off — effective immediately. She and her entire team, many of them workin…
00:37:12 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep1: High-Calorie Infosnacks
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by author and journalist Jim Stewart to recap episode one, season four of HBO’s Succession. They talk architecture, business deals…
00:58:24 |
Mon 27 Mar 2023
What Next TBD: Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Woes
Elon Musk has been promising fully self-driving Teslas to the public for years and the beta version of Full Self-Driving is already in over 300,000 cars. But as a recent recall attests, the software …
00:32:27 |
Sun 26 Mar 2023
ICYMI: Gwyneth Paltrow and the Ozempic Craze
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Kate Lindsay of the Embedded newsletter to talk about the latest in diet discourse. They discuss Gwyneth Paltrow’s recent interview and the flak she …
00:41:19 |
Sat 25 Mar 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Can a Pandemic Story Have a Happy Ending?
On this month’s episode of Future Tense Fiction, host Maddie Stone talks to Annalee Newitz about “When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis.” Annalee’s short story follows a disease-fighting robot—and…
01:19:02 |
Sat 25 Mar 2023
Slate Money: Too Big, To Fail, Too Furious
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the rescue of Credit Suisse. They also break down the politics behind federal deposit insurance, and what will come out of this week’…
01:06:28 |
Sat 25 Mar 2023
What Next TBD: The Case Against TikTok
To most of its 150 million American consumers, TikTok is a fun app. To some creators, TikTok is a job and their platform. But to members of the US government, TikTok is a national security risk. As t…
00:35:39 |
Fri 24 Mar 2023
ICYMI: Encore: Someone’s Selling Human Bones on TikTok?
Today, we’re revisiting one of our early favorite episodes from August 2021 about selling bones on TikTok.
In the episode, Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher try to figure out if it’s legal…
00:32:49 |
Wed 22 Mar 2023
What Next TBD: When A.I. Steals Your Voice
Using just what you’ve posted to social media, generative A.I. can create a “puppet version” of your voice—one that’s close enough to scam your family into paying thousands in, say, bail money. And i…
00:25:02 |
Sun 19 Mar 2023
ICYMI: Pedro Pascal Is the Internet’s Daddy
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Slate’s Madeline Ducharme to talk about the internet’s thirst for Pedro Pascal. They discuss how he started edging into the role of Internet Daddy wi…
00:42:14 |
Sat 18 Mar 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Coming March 25
When you imagine how science and technology will reshape our future, does it excite you, or scare you, or both? Each month, the Future Tense Fiction podcast will introduce you to a short work of scie…
00:02:32 |
Sat 18 Mar 2023
Gabfest Reads: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Semiconductors?
John Dickerson talks with author Chris Miller about his new book, Chip War: The Fight for The World’s Most Critical Technology. They discuss how semiconductor chips became so important, why everyone …
00:35:25 |
Sat 18 Mar 2023
Slate Money: Normal Bank Failure
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers dive into the drama in the banking world. They discuss the fallout of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and its subsequent government take…
00:54:50 |
Sat 18 Mar 2023
What Next TBD: Where Is Silicon Valley Going to Bank Now?
The economy is doing well almost every but in tech, where headlines about layoffs have been replaced with news about Silicon Valley Bank’s demise. The collapse of “the central artery for the tech ind…
00:27:44 |
Fri 17 Mar 2023
ICYMI: Dear Prudence: Sister Wants Me to Be Her Surrogate. Help!
Today, we’re bringing you an episode of the recently relaunched Dear Prudence podcast hosted by Jenée Desmond-Harris.
In this episode, Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) is tackling questions about text …
00:38:23 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
What Next: Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed
The downfall of Silicon Valley Bank marks the second largest bank collapse in American history.
Why and how did SVBgo under? Where were the regulators? And how do we stop this from happening again?…
00:29:03 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
What Next TBD: Would You Let A.I. Date For You?
The online dating world can be brutal and repetitive—just the kind of thing you might want to automate. But, in one tech writer’s experience, artificial intelligence isn’t ready to make real connecti…
00:29:00 |
Sun 12 Mar 2023
ICYMI: Vanderpump Rules’ War of the Roses
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Deepti Sahrawat, the host of Pop Culture Prisoner, to discuss a shocking cheating scandal within the cast of the Bravo reality series Vanderpump Rule…
00:42:43 |
Sat 11 Mar 2023
Slate Money: The Banks Special
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by American Banker national editor Kevin Wack to discuss all things banking, including retail banking, why it’s so difficult to sw…
00:45:41 |
Sat 11 Mar 2023
What Next TBD: When Meta Tells Law Enforcement About Your Abortion
Just weeks before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a Nebraska woman and her daughter were charged with performing an illegal abortion, thanks to information that law enforcement uncovered by…
00:25:34 |
Fri 10 Mar 2023
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