What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
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.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 601
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Unmasking The Russians Who Hacked The DNC
In this episode April Glaser is joined once again by co-host Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. They start by talking about the Sri La…
00:33:36 |
Wed 24 Apr 2019
What Happened To WikiLeaks
In this episode April Glaser is joined by guest host Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia and author of several books about social media …
00:42:01 |
Wed 17 Apr 2019
Fake Meat Designed for Carnivores
April Glaser is joined by Gizmodo investigative reporter, Kashmir Hill, to talk about an ambitious British proposal to regulate content on social media sites. Then they discuss Airbnb’s efforts to ki…
00:41:48 |
Wed 10 Apr 2019
Local News Brought to You by Big Tech
April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss a recent report in Bloomberg that says executives at YouTube ignored employees who raised concerns about the spread of harmful videos. The company’s algorithm oft…
00:41:38 |
Wed 03 Apr 2019
Uber and Lyft Drivers Strike
Aprill Glaser and Will Oremus kick off the episode by talking about Apple’s plan to be the ultimate middleman--with new offerings announced this week of streaming video, games, and more. Then April o…
00:45:46 |
Wed 27 Mar 2019
Livestreaming A Massacre
On today’s show, April Glaser and Will Oremus first talk to two researchers who’ve uncovered new information about the way the U.S. government trains its facial recognition software. According to the…
00:33:57 |
Wed 20 Mar 2019
Your Social Media Photos Are Helping to Build the Surveillance State
On today’s show, April Glaser kicks things off by talking about Facebook’s long-overdue crackdown on anti-vaccination groups. The social media platform announced it will stop allowing advertisements …
00:27:38 |
Wed 13 Mar 2019
How To Trust A VPN
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus take a look at an increasingly popular online privacy tool--that has some serious trust issues of its own. We’re talking about VPNs, or virtual pri…
00:30:08 |
Wed 06 Mar 2019
Empathy at Scale
On today’s show, host April Glaser looks at the continuing battle between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commision. Earlier this week, the SEC asked a judge to hold Musk in conte…
00:32:23 |
Wed 27 Feb 2019
Can Palantir Be Used For Good?
On today’s show, host Will Oremus looks at the fallout from Amazon’s announcement last week that they’re abandoning plans for a new headquarters in New York City. Some celebrated it as a victory; oth…
00:31:15 |
Wed 20 Feb 2019
Jeff Bezos’s Privacy Complexifier
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about the implications from last week’s bizarre, but also serious, showdown between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and American Media INC, the owner of…
00:29:59 |
Wed 13 Feb 2019
The Court-Records Paywall Scam
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00:44:17 |
Wed 06 Feb 2019
Media Layoffs Are Trending
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss a rather terrifying security flaw from Apple, a company that prides itself on keeping information well-protected. A bug was found in the vi…
00:35:20 |
Wed 30 Jan 2019
Juul Heist
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss news news that the french government has fined Google close to $57 million for violating the new European privacy laws that went into effec…
00:41:43 |
Wed 23 Jan 2019
Social Media's Weird Future
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss news that PG&E, California’s main power provider, plans to file for bankruptcy due to the billions in liability it faces stemming from the …
00:50:25 |
Wed 16 Jan 2019
At CES: Tech After Smartphones
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss startling new revelations about some of the major phone carriers. The story broke this week in Motherboard titled “I Gave a Bounty Hunter $…
00:42:07 |
Wed 09 Jan 2019
Best of 2018
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus introduce some of their favorite interviews from 2018. We have highlights from our conversations with journalist Taylor Lorenz about teen YouTube s…
00:48:04 |
Wed 02 Jan 2019
Aftermath of a Data Breach
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus will talk reader mail! The hosts take a look at some of your questions and comments from the year, in particular about how your relationship to te…
00:34:29 |
Wed 26 Dec 2018
The Information World War
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus will talk about how Taylor Swift used face recognition to surveil the crowd at a recent concert, and whether that’s smart, scary, or both.
Then th…
00:34:15 |
Wed 19 Dec 2018
Warehouse Workers Bring Amazon To The Table
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the latest round of “Tech CEO Goes to Washington.” On Tuesday morning, that CEO was Google’s Sundar Pichai, who appeared before the House J…
00:47:48 |
Wed 12 Dec 2018
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