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What Next TBD: Spotify’s Joe Rogan Mess
For Spotify, the last month has seen a cascade of controversies around its exclusive podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Is it time for the streaming service to rethink its role as a podcast publisher…
00:23:33 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
What Next TBD: The Downfall of One of the World's Biggest Brains
Ten years ago, IBM made a gamble. Through a monumental advertising and PR campaign, it promised that its AI technology–Watson–would transform the health care industry as we know it. A decade and bill…
00:24:19 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
What Next TBD: Why Does Matt Damon Want Me to Buy Crypto?
A recent advertisement for crypto.com, featuring Matt Damon, was met with widespread mockery online. But Damon’s ad is only the most visible example of a much broader—and more insidious—trend of cele…
00:18:24 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
What Next TBD: Where Are The Little Kids' Vaccines?
Today on What Next TBD: What is going on with little kids' vaccines? Why don’t they seem to be a priority for the government or the pharmaceutical companies, while parents are stressed to a breaking …
00:22:56 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
What Next TBD: The Aftermath of Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of defrauding investors this week in federal court. The former CEO, wunderkind, and blood mogul has been the subject of intense legal interest and public fascination…
00:25:55 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
What Next TBD: The Carbon Capture Fantasy
Using experimental technology to pull gigatons of carbon out of the air and bury it deep beneath the Earth sounds like a bad sci-fi plot point. If things don’t change soon, it also might be one of ou…
00:26:48 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
What Next TBD: Who Online Justice Leaves Behind
The U.S. civil court system doesn’t get as much attention as the criminal courts, but it would be hard to overstate its importance. In 2018, for example, 47 percent of respondents to a Pew survey sai…
00:18:43 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
What Next TBD: Did @jack Ruin Twitter?
On Monday, Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter. It’s not the first time he’s left the job.
Is this really the end for the man who guided Twitter through the Trump era? And how will the platf…
00:18:24 |
Fri 03 Dec 2021
What Next TBD: Best of 2021 | Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop
This episode originally aired in January 2021
The story of how GameStop went from the verge of a bankruptcy to a $15 billion market value isn’t an easy one to wrap your head around. But it helps to …
00:23:59 |
Fri 26 Nov 2021
What Next TBD: Space Junk! (And Space Wars?)
Over the weekend, Russia tested a new weapon—a type of missile that can fly into space and destroy a satellite in orbit.
The test created thousands of pieces of debris, which will hurtle around t…
00:23:00 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
What Next TBD: The Kid-Vaccine Holdouts
A recent poll showed that about a third of parents of younger children would get their kids vaccinated, a third would not, and the final third said they wanted to wait and see how the vaccines worked…
00:25:25 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
What Next TBD: How Schools Surveil Your Kids
In schools across the country, tighter digital controls were put in place to keep kids on task during the pandemic. Are they here to stay?
Guests: Priya Anand, reporter at Bloomberg
Host: Lizzie O’…
00:22:11 |
Fri 05 Nov 2021
What Next TBD: Why Are Bots Buying Sneakers?
The bots aren’t just buying cool sneakers. They’re buying concert tickets. Tickets to basketball games and Broadway shows. At the beginning of the pandemic, they were buying hand sanitizer and face m…
00:26:02 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
What Next TBD: Honey, I Sold the House to Zillow
Between April and June of this year, Zillow bought nearly 4,000 homes. And they had no intention of holding onto them. The plan was to flip houses, often and at scale, joining the ranks of companies …
00:20:24 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
What Next TBD: The Return of Hacktivism
Over the last month, the domain company Epik and the streaming service Twitch have fallen prey to massive-scale hacks. The hackers revealed not just email addresses, but detailed personal information…
00:23:23 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
What Next TBD: Will the Facebook Whistleblower Make a Difference?
The last month has seen a steady drip of leaked documents from inside Facebook, each seemingly more damning than the next. This week, the whistleblower behind the leaks revealed her identity.
What m…
00:24:41 |
Fri 08 Oct 2021
What Next TBD: What Instagram Does to Teens
Since 2018, internal research teams at Facebook have been studying the effect on Instagram on mental health. Their results couldn’t be more clear: Instagram is causing problems, especially for teen g…
00:23:24 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
What Next TBD: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?
In the U.S., the PCR test is the gold standard for COVID testing. Common knowledge would have it that the test is more accurate—and therefore more effective at containing the spread of the dease—than…
00:28:32 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
What Next TBD: China vs. Video Games
Recently, China restricted video game playing to just three hours a week for its young people: 8pm to 9pm, Friday through Sunday.
And that’s not the only change. Over the last few months, private tu…
00:17:33 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
What Next: TBD: Will Booster Shots Make a Difference?
Hey Secret History fans! We thought you might like this episode of What Next: TBD. What Next is Slate’s daily news show. And every Friday, What Next: TBD turns the news of the present into a glimpse …
00:21:52 |
Sat 21 Aug 2021
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