Slate Technology

By Slate Podcasts

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Image by Slate Podcasts

Category: Technology

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 1963
Reviews: 10
Episodes: 591

Mr peach
 Sep 10, 2023
ugh, the fry and uptalk makes this unlistenable

Arthur Embleton
 Aug 29, 2022
It's an interesting podcast, but if you live outside the 🇺🇸 then you might find it a bit irrelevant. I'm going to I unsubscribe because it feels too focused on America. It just isn't relevant if you live overseas.

Christian Libera
 Sep 22, 2020
Very informative.


 Feb 4, 2020


 Dec 15, 2019

Description

Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network

Episode Date
What Next TBD: So ... Is TikTok Banned?
Apr 26, 2024
ICYMI: Is Roblox Coming for TikTok?
Apr 24, 2024
What Next TBD: The Internet Archive Endangered
Apr 21, 2024
Slate Money: Tesla’s Toxic Relationship With Musk
Apr 20, 2024
ICYMI: How a Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Took Over TikTok
Apr 20, 2024
What Next TBD: What’s Driving Tesla’s Layoffs?
Apr 19, 2024
ICYMI: Ann Maddox on Scandoval, Reddit and Grief
Apr 17, 2024
Money Talks: Felix Wins His Crypto Bet
Apr 16, 2024
What Next TBD: Is America Ready for Legal Psychedelics?
Apr 14, 2024
Slate Money: Why America’s Internet Sucks
Apr 13, 2024
What Next TBD: Does Google Suck Now?
Apr 12, 2024
ICYMI: What Next: TBD: Google’s Scam Obituary Problem
Apr 10, 2024
What Next: How the Government Botched Financial Aid
Apr 10, 2024
What Next TBD: America Needs More Power
Apr 07, 2024
Slate Money: EVs Need a Charge-Up
Apr 06, 2024
What Next TBD: Truth Social’s Rocky Week
Apr 05, 2024
ICYMI: Rebecca Jennings on NYT Connections and Selling Out
Apr 03, 2024
Slate Money: How to Escape the Invisible Factory
Apr 02, 2024
What Next TBD: The Psychological Toll of Mars
Mar 31, 2024
ICYMI: To Ban or Not to Ban TikTok
Mar 30, 2024
What Next TBD: Can Boeing Pull Out of This Tailspin?
Mar 29, 2024
ICYMI: Is Nara Smith Actually a Tradwife?
Mar 27, 2024
What Next TBD: The Next Round of the Union Fight
Mar 24, 2024
Slate Money: Is Apple’s Monopoly Good for Us?
Mar 23, 2024
ICYMI: Fybrefest, Fake Deaths and Acrylic vs. Wool
Mar 23, 2024
What Next TBD: Reddit’s IPO Gamble
Mar 22, 2024
ICYMI: Anatomy of a Vasectomy
Mar 20, 2024
What Next TBD: When Private Equity Gets in to Health Care
Mar 17, 2024
Amicus: Who Gets to Lie Online?
Mar 16, 2024
Slate Money: Work is Mid 🤷‍♀️
Mar 16, 2024
ICYMI: Reddit is the Real Host of “Love is Blind”
Mar 16, 2024
What Next TBD: Is TikTok Cooked This Time?
Mar 15, 2024
ICYMI: An ICYMI Birthday Spectacular
Mar 13, 2024
Death, Sex & Money: Who's Driving Your Uber?
Mar 12, 2024
What Next TBD: Instagram’s Pedophile Problem
Mar 10, 2024
ICYMI: Protecting Child Influencers From Their Parents
Mar 09, 2024
Slate Money: Are Wallets Obsolete?
Mar 09, 2024
What Next TBD: Why TikTok Went Silent
Mar 08, 2024
ICYMI: An Entirely Objective Ranking of the Brit Crew
Mar 06, 2024
What Next TBD: Google’s Scam Obituary Problem
Mar 03, 2024
Slate Money: Musk vs. the AI Overlords
Mar 02, 2024
ICYMI: Rachel Karten on Snark Subreddits and Ryan Sheckler
Mar 02, 2024
What Next TBD: The Supreme Court Takes on Content Moderation
Mar 01, 2024
ICYMI: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told…Through TikToks
Feb 28, 2024
What Next TBD: Alabama’s IVF Mess
Feb 25, 2024
Slate Money: Is Capital One’s Discover Deal Doomed?
Feb 24, 2024
ICYMI: Who TF Did Reesa Teesa Marry?
Feb 24, 2024
What Next TBD: The Coasts are Sinking
Feb 23, 2024
What Next: Why a Hi-Tech Gun Safety Tool Isn’t Working
Feb 21, 2024
ICYMI: Inside the Internet’s Hottest—and Messiest—Club
Feb 21, 2024
What Next TBD: Apple Vision Pro: The Ultimate Surveillance Device?
Feb 18, 2024
ICYMI: The Turbulence of Air Force Taylor
Feb 17, 2024
What Next TBD: Warfare Enters the A.I. Era
Feb 16, 2024
A Word: Ghost in the Medical Machine
Feb 16, 2024
Decoder Ring: Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
Feb 14, 2024
ICYMI: The State of Dating Apps
Feb 14, 2024
What Next TBD: Breaking Up with Dating Apps
Feb 11, 2024
ICYMI: The Terminally Ill Influencers Posting Their Way Through Life—and Death
Feb 10, 2024
What Next TBD: The NFL’s Concussion Settlement Farce
Feb 09, 2024
ICYMI: Was TikTok Silent or Silenced?
Feb 07, 2024
What Next TBD: Streaming Is Cable Now
Feb 04, 2024
Slate Money: Why Musk Lost $56 Billion
Feb 03, 2024
ICYMI: Paloma Diamond Is TikTok’s Favorite Oscar Loser
Feb 03, 2024
What Next TBD: The Taylor Swift Deepfake Saga
Feb 02, 2024
ICYMI: Nicki Minaj’s 72-Hour Spiral
Jan 31, 2024
What Next TBD: Why Is Everybody Sick?
Jan 28, 2024
ICYMI: Why YouTube Loves Video Essays
Jan 27, 2024
What Next TBD: Are You Ready for the A.I. Election?
Jan 26, 2024
ICYMI: The TikTok Joy of Mychal the Librarian
Jan 24, 2024
What Next TBD: Have Algorithms Ruined Our Culture?
Jan 21, 2024
ICYMI: Stanley, Josh and Tunnel Girl
Jan 20, 2024
What Next TBD: The Great British Library Hack
Jan 19, 2024
ICYMI: Harry Potter Fanfiction and Battling TikTok Haters
Jan 17, 2024
What Next TBD: Is Your Car Tracking You?
Jan 14, 2024
ICYMI: Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Influencer Era
Jan 13, 2024
Slate Money: Apple Maps is Finally Good
Jan 13, 2024
What Next TBD: Boeing’s Max Mess
Jan 12, 2024
ICYMI: The Nine-Month Cruise Heard Round the World
Jan 10, 2024
What Next TBD: Tesla's Cybertruck Problem
Jan 07, 2024
ICYMI: The Internet History of Tate McRae
Jan 06, 2024
What Next TBD: Why the New York Times Sued OpenAI
Jan 05, 2024
ICYMI: Should We Quit Romance Novels?
Jan 03, 2024
What Next TBD: Who’s Afraid of A.I.? | 2023 In Review
Dec 31, 2023
ICYMI: Outward: PragerU’s Transphobic Twitter Takeover
Dec 30, 2023
Slate Money: America’s Boring Superweapon
Dec 30, 2023
What Next TBD: America’s Killer Car Problem | 2023 In Review
Dec 29, 2023
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
Dec 27, 2023
What Next TBD: Stephen King Is Just as Confused About Blue Checks as You Are | 2023 In Review
Dec 24, 2023
ICYMI: Goodbye to All That 2023 Internet
Dec 23, 2023
What Next TBD: Can Hybrid Cars Save Us?
Dec 22, 2023
ICYMI: The Celebrity Breakups That Wrecked Us In 2023
Dec 20, 2023
What Next TBD: The Case Against CLEAR
Dec 17, 2023
ICYMI: Our Top Internet Moments of the Year (Part 2)
Dec 16, 2023
What Next TBD: Shein’s Newest Offering? An IPO
Dec 15, 2023
ICYMI: Our Top Internet Moments of the Year (Part 1)
Dec 13, 2023
What Next TBD: Musk's War on Free Speech
Dec 10, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet’s Biggest Sports Moments of 2023
Dec 09, 2023
Slate Money: The War on Self-Checkouts
Dec 09, 2023
What Next TBD: Spotify Unwrapped
Dec 08, 2023
ICYMI: The Year of Concerts and Being Outside
Dec 06, 2023
What Next TBD: They See You When You’re Shopping
Dec 03, 2023
ICYMI: Buying A Car on YouTube
Dec 02, 2023
What Next TBD: A Moral War for A.I.
Dec 01, 2023
Outward: PragerU’s Transphobic Twitter Takeover
Nov 29, 2023
ICYMI: Colleen Ballinger’s Inevitable Return
Nov 29, 2023
What Next: The Race (Back) to the Moon
Nov 26, 2023
ICYMI: The Waves: The Bravo Cinematic Universe
Nov 25, 2023
Slate Money: The Big Crazy at OpenAI
Nov 25, 2023
What Next TBD: Where Scams Are Born
Nov 24, 2023
ICYMI: Our 2023 ICYMI Friendsgiving Spectacular
Nov 22, 2023
What Next TBD: Inside OpenAI's Implosion
Nov 21, 2023
Slate Money: Movies | Dumb Money
Nov 20, 2023
What Next TBD: Bedbugs Are Back, Baby!
Nov 19, 2023
ICYMI: The Year in Celebrity Memoirs
Nov 18, 2023
Slate Money: How Salt Built America
Nov 18, 2023
What Next TBD: How Deepfake Porn Infected a School
Nov 17, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
Nov 15, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet Used to be a Haven for People with Autism
Nov 15, 2023
Slate Money: Travel | Jet-setting Like A Journalist
Nov 13, 2023
What Next TBD: Will A.I. Take My Job?
Nov 12, 2023
ICYMI: Restaurant Wars: Keith Lee vs. Atlanta
Nov 11, 2023
What Next TBD: Tesla vs. the Swedes
Nov 10, 2023
ICYMI: Endless Thread: The expanding universe of Lofi Girl
Nov 08, 2023
Slate Money: Movies | The Insider
Nov 06, 2023
Slate Money: The Crypto Crimes of Sam Bankman-Fried
Nov 04, 2023
ICYMI: Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths” Are Admitted Fabrications. Does it Matter?
Nov 04, 2023
What Next TBD: Sam Bankman-Fraud
Nov 04, 2023
What Next TBD: Biden Goes After AI
Nov 03, 2023
What Next: How to Catch an Insurrectionist
Nov 01, 2023
ICYMI: How First-Gen Kids Are Healing Online
Nov 01, 2023
What Next TBD: SBF Takes the Stand
Oct 28, 2023
ICYMI: How DJ Envy Got Got
Oct 28, 2023
Slate Money: Why Dimes Shouldn’t Exist
Oct 28, 2023
What Next TBD: Self-Driving Cars Crash Into Reality
Oct 27, 2023
ICYMI: A Former School Shooter is a TikTok Star. Should He Even Be Allowed Online?
Oct 25, 2023
How To!: Let Go of Kid Clutter
Oct 24, 2023
Slate Money | Movies: BlackBerry
Oct 23, 2023
Political Gabfest Reads: How to Survive Working for Amazon
Oct 21, 2023
What Next TBD: Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Takeover
Oct 21, 2023
ICYMI: Why Bella Hadid Said This Editor “Slayed”
Oct 21, 2023
What Next TBD: Inside Hamas' Social Media Strategy
Oct 20, 2023
ICYMI: How a Pesto Recipe Devolved Into Delightful Chaos
Oct 18, 2023
What Next TBD: The $30,000 Zelle Scam
Oct 14, 2023
Slate Money: SBF (Sweaters, Birkenstock, FTX)
Oct 14, 2023
ICYMI: Live, Laugh, LinkedIn
Oct 14, 2023
What Next TBD: The Israel-Hamas War Instantly Broke X
Oct 13, 2023
ICYMI: How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom
Oct 11, 2023
Slate Money: Is Ozempic Eating Into Snack Profits?
Oct 07, 2023
What Next TBD: The Man Who Turned You Into Data
Oct 07, 2023
ICYMI: Stop Snitching on Main
Oct 07, 2023
What Next TBD: Sam Bankman-Fried—and Crypto—on Trial
Oct 06, 2023
ICYMI: Nostalgia is the Internet’s Favorite Currency
Oct 04, 2023
What Next TBD: Inside Crypto's House of Cards
Oct 01, 2023
What Next TBD: Who Will Pay For A COVID Vaccine?
Sep 30, 2023
ICYMI: Where Did Bobbi Althoff Come From?
Sep 30, 2023
What Next TBD: Is Amazon a Monopoly?
Sep 29, 2023
ICYMI: The Summer of Suits
Sep 27, 2023
What Next TBD: What Instacart’s IPO Means for Tech
Sep 23, 2023
ICYMI: Is “Algospeak” D@ngerous?
Sep 23, 2023
Slate Money: AI Facial Recognition's Creepy Evolution
Sep 23, 2023
What Next TBD: Did AirBnB Need to Go?
Sep 22, 2023
ICYMI: Inside the MLM to Life Coach Pipeline
Sep 20, 2023
Slate Money | Criminals: TheraNOPE
Sep 18, 2023
What Next TBD: Can Politicians Keep Kids Safe Online?
Sep 16, 2023
ICYMI: AI-Generated Books are Tarnishing Authors’ Reputations
Sep 16, 2023
What Next TBD: Google Makes Its Case
Sep 15, 2023
Mom & Dad: If You’re Tracking Your Kids, Should You Tell Them?
Sep 14, 2023
ICYMI: The Orwellian World of Vintage Fast-Food Training Videos
Sep 13, 2023
What Next TBD: Bad Air, Worse Vibes
Sep 09, 2023
ICYMI: Are Green Powders a Pyramid Scheme?
Sep 09, 2023
Slate Money: Optimal Illusions
Sep 09, 2023
What Next TBD: Tech Disrupts the School Bus
Sep 08, 2023
The Waves: The Bama Rush to Trad Wife Pipeline
Sep 07, 2023
ICYMI: The Waves: How Drake Betrayed Megan Thee Stallion
Sep 06, 2023
Slate Money | Criminals Series: The $5 Billion Fraud
Sep 04, 2023
What Next TBD: Social Media’s Pivot from News
Sep 03, 2023
ICYMI: TikTok Shop is a Dystopian Mall Kiosk
Sep 02, 2023
Slate Money: You Better Not Be Working
Sep 02, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Welcome to the A.I. Haunted House
Sep 02, 2023
Dear Prudence: Relationship Podcasts Are Ruining My Friend's Life. Help!
Sep 01, 2023
What Next TBD: Is LinkedIn...Cool Now?
Sep 01, 2023
Mom & Dad: Lessons From a Racist Instagram and the Teens It Hurt
Aug 31, 2023
ICYMI: BookTok’s Horny Hockey Drama and the End of Internet Thirst
Aug 30, 2023
What Next TBD: The Cost of "Sustainable" Pet Food
Aug 27, 2023
ICYMI: Addison Rae is the Newest Pop Princess
Aug 26, 2023
Slate Money: Twelve Ways to Help Fix the World
Aug 26, 2023
What Next TBD: TikTok's Shady Deal with the U.S.
Aug 25, 2023
ICYMI: How to Make Millions Playing Dungeons & Dragons
Aug 23, 2023
What Next TBD: Digital Life After Death
Aug 20, 2023
ICYMI: The Child Content Creator Crash is Coming
Aug 19, 2023
What Next TBD: How Crypto Fails Sex Workers
Aug 18, 2023
ICYMI: You Just Missed This Year’s Most Important Episode of Reality TV
Aug 16, 2023
Mom & Dad: Screen Time Without Guilt
Aug 14, 2023
What Next TBD: Tech's Mask Off Moment
Aug 13, 2023
ICYMI: What NewJeans Tells Us About the Future of K-Pop
Aug 12, 2023
Slate Money: ESPN Bets on Sports Betting
Aug 12, 2023
What Next TBD: Can Smart Guns Save Lives?
Aug 11, 2023
ICYMI: Will Doja Cat Ever Be Canceled?
Aug 09, 2023
What Next TBD: Another Summer of COVID
Aug 06, 2023
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: What’s Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?
Aug 05, 2023
What Next TBD: Tesla's Big Lie
Aug 04, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
Aug 03, 2023
ICYMI: And the Grammy Goes to…Artificial Intelligence?
Aug 02, 2023
What Next: Congress Wants to Know: Do Aliens Exist?
Jul 31, 2023
What Next TBD: America’s Downtown Ghost Towns
Jul 30, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Could a Robot Be Your Dog’s Best Friend?
Jul 29, 2023
ICYMI: The Girls Are Not All Right
Jul 29, 2023
Slate Money: Will The UPS Union Deal Deliver?
Jul 29, 2023
What Next TBD: Washington vs. A.I.
Jul 28, 2023
ICYMI: The Curious Case of Carlee Russell
Jul 26, 2023
What Next TBD: Why Tech Lays Women Off First
Jul 23, 2023
ICYMI: The Day AO3 Went Down
Jul 22, 2023
What Next TBD: America’s $5 Trillion Grid Problem
Jul 21, 2023
ICYMI: Take a Tour in the Shein Propaganda Factory
Jul 19, 2023
What Next: How Hollywood Shot Itself in the Foot
Jul 18, 2023
What Next TBD: America’s Killer Car Problem
Jul 16, 2023
Slate Money: Trouble in the House of Mouse
Jul 15, 2023
ICYMI: Did Fancams Determine This Year’s Emmy Nominations?
Jul 15, 2023
What Next TBD: Will UPS Workers Join "Hot Strike Summer?"
Jul 14, 2023
ICYMI: Has Black Twitter Found A New Home?
Jul 12, 2023
How To!: Hack Any Bureaucracy
Jul 11, 2023
What Next TBD: Is Your Son Watching Andrew Tate?
Jul 09, 2023
ICYMI: How Reddit Turned On Its Creator
Jul 08, 2023
Slate Money: Can Threads Take Down Twitter?
Jul 08, 2023
What Next TBD: Threads vs. Twitter
Jul 07, 2023
ICYMI: What Next: TBD: The Trouble With TikTok Songs
Jul 05, 2023
What Next TBD: Turning Your Face Into Your Ticket
Jul 02, 2023
ICYMI: The Subreddit Teeming with Crime, Complaints and Candles
Jul 01, 2023
What Next TBD: The Never-Ending Cancer Drug Shortage
Jun 30, 2023
ICYMI: Finding Queer Love Online
Jun 28, 2023
What Next TBD: Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?
Jun 25, 2023
ICYMI: Why the Internet Couldn’t Get Enough of the Missing Submarine
Jun 24, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Who Gets to Escape the Climate Crisis?
Jun 24, 2023
What Next TBD: The U.S. vs Amazon Prime
Jun 23, 2023
ICYMI: The Super Bowl of Private Chef TikTok
Jun 21, 2023
What Next TBD: The George Soros Succession
Jun 18, 2023
ICYMI: Was the MirandaSings Controversy Inevitable?
Jun 17, 2023
What Next TBD: Reddit’s Rolling Blackouts
Jun 16, 2023
ICYMI: The TikTok Comedian Caught In A Ticketmaster Controversy
Jun 14, 2023
What Next TBD: Are You Ready For A.I. Generated Actors?
Jun 11, 2023
ICYMI: Why “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” Ultimately Fails
Jun 10, 2023
Slate Money: The SEC’s Crypto Crackdown
Jun 10, 2023
What Next TBD: Is Crypto Toast?
Jun 09, 2023
ICYMI: The Short-Lived, Very Controversial Healy-Swift Affair
Jun 07, 2023
What Next TBD: Tech’s Newest Trillion Dollar Company
Jun 04, 2023
Money: The Economic Tale of the Writers Strike
Jun 03, 2023
ICYMI: Meet NPR’s TikTok Boy
Jun 03, 2023
What Next TBD: When Your Childhood Was Their Content
Jun 02, 2023
ICYMI: The Only People Who Made Money From Tumblr
May 31, 2023
What Next: TBD | The Trouble With TikTok Songs
May 28, 2023
ICYMI -- How To: Succeed at Social Media
May 27, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: When Robots Go to War
May 27, 2023
What Next: TBD | Tweetering on the Glass Cliff
May 26, 2023
ICYMI: Is Ice Spice an Industry Plant?
May 24, 2023
What Next: TBD | A Tipping Point for Digital Tipping
May 21, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet’s Biggest Secret
May 20, 2023
What Next TBD: Why Sports Are All in on Betting
May 19, 2023
ICYMI: Quiet Luxury is TikTok’s Latest Nonsensical Fashion Trend
May 17, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Rise of the Music Machines
May 16, 2023
What Next TBD: Space After NASA
May 14, 2023
ICYMI: Why Tarte Cosmetics is Being Accused of Racism (Again)
May 13, 2023
What Next TBD: Who’s Afraid of A.I.?
May 12, 2023
ICYMI: We’re Sorry
May 10, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Effective Altruism and its Critics
May 09, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep7: Two Indias (And Two Episode Directors)
May 08, 2023
What Next TBD: What's Going on at Meta?
May 07, 2023
ICYMI: Inside the Nexus of Wellness Culture
May 06, 2023
Slate Money: Why The First Republic Failure Is Different
May 06, 2023
What Next TBD: What the Writers' Strike Is Really About
May 05, 2023
ICYMI: Should Influencers Unionize?
May 03, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: The Problem with Gig Work
May 02, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep6: Living+
May 01, 2023
What Next TBD: Is Your Uber Drivers' Pay Rigged?
Apr 30, 2023
Slate Money: “Traffic”: Ben Smith and the Death of the Social Web
Apr 29, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Live. Love. Die. Repeat?
Apr 29, 2023
ICYMI: Should We All Be Pirating More?
Apr 29, 2023
What Next TBD: Stephen King Is Just as Confused About Blue Checks as You Are
Apr 28, 2023
ICYMI: We’ve Learned Nothing From West Elm Caleb
Apr 26, 2023
How To!: Face the A.I. Revolution
Apr 25, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Love in the Time of Replika
Apr 25, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep5: Bleed The Swede
Apr 24, 2023
What Next TBD: "Crap Apps": Why Weather Apps Suck
Apr 23, 2023
Slate Money: Elon’s Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Apr 22, 2023
Amicus: Justice Roberts’ Unfunny Cyber Stalking Jokes
Apr 22, 2023
ICYMI: Has TikTok Ruined Live Music?
Apr 22, 2023
What Next TBD: Will A.I. Close Off the Internet?
Apr 21, 2023
ICYMI: How the Internet Broke Netflix’s “Love is Blind”
Apr 19, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep4: Succession!
Apr 17, 2023
What Next TBD: Will Banning Social Media Help Kids?
Apr 16, 2023
Slate Money: The China Problem
Apr 15, 2023
ICYMI: Meet the Internet’s Princess
Apr 15, 2023
What Next TBD: How Gamers Leaked Classified Pentagon Docs
Apr 14, 2023
ICYMI: The Free Trial Period of Social Media Is Over
Apr 12, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: The Digital Future of Grief
Apr 11, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep3: Logan F---s Off
Apr 10, 2023
What Next TBD: Why Flying Is So Bad Now
Apr 09, 2023
ICYMI: Blac Chyna and the New Plastic Surgery Era
Apr 08, 2023
Slate Money: How to Win at Roulette
Apr 08, 2023
What Next TBD: Wait, TikTok Has a Sister App?
Apr 07, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Ethics and the Future - Trailer
Apr 06, 2023
ICYMI: Buying Concert Tickets Online is Still a Hellscape
Apr 05, 2023
How To Succeed at Social Media
Apr 04, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep2: F---ing Pirates
Apr 03, 2023
What Next TBD: Seeking Asylum Via App
Apr 02, 2023
ICYMI: Succession’s Kendall Roy is the Internet’s Girlboss
Apr 01, 2023
Slate Money: The Layoff Dopamine Hit
Apr 01, 2023
What Next TBD: When A.I. Denies Your Health Care
Mar 31, 2023
ICYMI: Live from Copenhagen
Mar 29, 2023
How To!: Bounce Back From a Layoff
Mar 28, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep1: High-Calorie Infosnacks
Mar 27, 2023
What Next TBD: Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Woes
Mar 26, 2023
ICYMI: Gwyneth Paltrow and the Ozempic Craze
Mar 25, 2023
Slate Money: Too Big, To Fail, Too Furious
Mar 25, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Can a Pandemic Story Have a Happy Ending?
Mar 25, 2023
What Next TBD: The Case Against TikTok
Mar 24, 2023
ICYMI: Encore: Someone’s Selling Human Bones on TikTok?
Mar 22, 2023
What Next TBD: When A.I. Steals Your Voice
Mar 19, 2023
ICYMI: Pedro Pascal Is the Internet’s Daddy
Mar 18, 2023
Slate Money: Normal Bank Failure
Mar 18, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Coming March 25
Mar 18, 2023
Gabfest Reads: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Semiconductors?
Mar 18, 2023
What Next TBD: Where Is Silicon Valley Going to Bank Now?
Mar 17, 2023
ICYMI: Dear Prudence: Sister Wants Me to Be Her Surrogate. Help!
Mar 15, 2023
What Next: Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed
Mar 15, 2023
What Next TBD: Would You Let A.I. Date For You?
Mar 12, 2023
ICYMI: Vanderpump Rules’ War of the Roses
Mar 11, 2023
Slate Money: The Banks Special
Mar 11, 2023
What Next TBD: When Meta Tells Law Enforcement About Your Abortion
Mar 10, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet Should Be Fun
Mar 08, 2023
What Next TBD: The Hollywood Weight Loss Wonder Drug
Mar 05, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet Hates Hogwarts Legacy
Mar 04, 2023
Slate Money: Microchips and Child Care
Mar 04, 2023
What Next TBD: What Would Convince a Lab Leak Skeptic?
Mar 03, 2023
ICYMI: Selena Gomez Loves Logging Off
Mar 01, 2023
What Next TBD: Is a 25-Year-Old’s Brain Mature?
Feb 26, 2023
ICYMI: North West Is TikTok’s New Queen
Feb 25, 2023
Amicus: SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated”
Feb 25, 2023
What Next TBD: Why A.I. Says the Darndest Things
Feb 24, 2023
ICYMI: Tumblr Revived the Welcome to Night Vale Fandom
Feb 22, 2023
What Next TBD: The Baby-Sleep Industrial Complex
Feb 19, 2023
ICYMI: The Influencer Even Skeptics Love
Feb 18, 2023
What Next TBD: What Made the Balloon Drama Pop Off?
Feb 17, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet’s Black Emo Renaissance
Feb 15, 2023
What Next TBD: Contraband Tech Behind Bars
Feb 12, 2023
ICYMI: Is Weight Lifting a Diet Culture Escape Hatch?
Feb 11, 2023
Slate Money: Will A.I. Kill the Internet?
Feb 11, 2023
What Next TBD: Why Ban TikTok?
Feb 10, 2023
ICYMI: How a 9-Year-Old Took Over TikTok
Feb 08, 2023
What Next TBD: Did a Twentysomething Con America’s Biggest Bank?
Feb 05, 2023
ICYMI: The Anal Bead Cheating Scandal That Rocked the Online Chess World
Feb 04, 2023
What Next TBD: How COVID Changes Our Immune Systems
Feb 03, 2023
ICYMI: Has the Internet Made Parenting Easier?
Feb 01, 2023
What Next TBD: Did A.I. Write This Headline?
Jan 29, 2023
ICYMI: TikTok Isn’t For Creators Anymore
Jan 28, 2023
Slate Money: Chip War
Jan 28, 2023
What Next TBD: Will Google Get Broken Up?
Jan 27, 2023
ICYMI: American Girl’s Addy Is More Than a Slave
Jan 25, 2023
What Next TBD: Does Meta Even Care When Its Users Get Hacked?
Jan 22, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet Won’t Let Austin Butler Forget Vanessa Hudgens
Jan 21, 2023
Slate Money: It’s Not TV
Jan 21, 2023
What Next TBD: An Antivax Dog Whistle Goes Viral
Jan 20, 2023
ICYMI: MrBeast Dethroned a Child to Become the Most Successful YouTuber
Jan 18, 2023
What Next TBD: Tesla’s No Good, Very Bad Year
Jan 15, 2023
ICYMI: RuPaul’s Drag Race Has Finally Logged On
Jan 14, 2023
What Next TBD: Why the Feds Want to Kill Noncompetes
Jan 13, 2023
ICYMI: Who Is Alix Earle And Why Are People Mad at Her?
Jan 11, 2023
What Next TBD: How War in Taiwan Could Short-Circuit U.S. Tech
Jan 08, 2023
ICYMI: The Untalented Mr. Ripley
Jan 07, 2023
Slate Money: Burning Platforms
Jan 07, 2023
What Next TBD: Will Southwest Be Held Accountable?
Jan 06, 2023
ICYMI: Fans Ran the World Last Year
Jan 04, 2023
ICYMI: Encore: We Talked to BYU’s Black Menaces
Dec 28, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: All Hail the Liver King
Dec 24, 2022
What Next TBD: One Year - 1942: The Most Hated Man in America
Dec 23, 2022
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: The New Age Hit Machine
Dec 21, 2022
What Next TBD: Are You Ready For Lab-Grown Meat?
Dec 18, 2022
ICYMI: Who Gets to Complain About Their Job Online?
Dec 17, 2022
Slate Money: Should You Care About the Dot Plot?
Dec 17, 2022
What Next TBD: SBF's Worst Week Yet
Dec 16, 2022
ICYMI: Why Did NBC’s Internet Culture Reporter Spend So Much Time on Reddit?
Dec 14, 2022
What Next TBD: San Francisco’s Self-Driving Mess
Dec 11, 2022
Slate Money: The NYT Strike: End of the Wordle Streak
Dec 10, 2022
ICYMI: Goodbye to All That 2022 Internet
Dec 10, 2022
What Next TBD: Let’s Talk, Chatbots
Dec 09, 2022
ICYMI:What Is a Kevsexual?
Dec 07, 2022
What Next TBD: Big Tech’s Boogeymen In Washington
Dec 04, 2022
ICYMI: Online for the Holidays
Dec 03, 2022
A Word: Bot Battling in the Age of Elon
Dec 02, 2022
What Next TBD: Twitter's Vulnerabilities, Exposed
Dec 02, 2022
ICYMI: Goncharov, Tumblr’s Fake Scorsese Film
Nov 30, 2022
What Next TBD: The Trap of Buy Now, Pay Later
Nov 27, 2022
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
Nov 26, 2022
Political Gabfest: What If Twitter Dies?
Nov 24, 2022
ICYMI: An ICYMI Friendsgiving with Normal Gossip
Nov 23, 2022
What Next TBD: The End of the Tech Boom
Nov 20, 2022
ICYMI: What's Going to Happen to Twitter?
Nov 19, 2022
What Next TBD: The Case Against Climate Reparations
Nov 18, 2022
ICYMI: Who’s Invited to the Cookout?
Nov 16, 2022
Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
Nov 15, 2022
What Next TBD: Is This The Cryptocalypse?
Nov 13, 2022
ICYMI: The Internet Wouldn’t Exist Without Sex
Nov 12, 2022
What Next TBD: Senator Chris Murphy on Elon's Acquisition of Twitter
Nov 11, 2022
ICYMI: A Man Ate Rotisserie Chicken for 40 Days Straight
Nov 09, 2022
What Next TBD: Why Are So Many Little Kids Sick Right Now?
Nov 06, 2022
ICYMI: How Are the Midterms Affecting Social Media?
Nov 05, 2022
What Next TBD: So How’s It Going, Elon?
Nov 04, 2022
ICYMI: Did Deplatforming Andrew Tate Work?
Nov 02, 2022
What Next TBD: Big Brother, Big Tech and China
Oct 30, 2022
Slate Money: Memelord Takeover
Oct 29, 2022
ICYMI: Inside the Online Life of a Health & Wellness Reporter
Oct 29, 2022
What Next TBD: Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
Oct 28, 2022
ICYMI: How a Lesbian Emu Influencer Got Milkshake Ducked
Oct 26, 2022
What Next TBD: Can We Make an Alzheimer’s Drug That Works?
Oct 23, 2022
ICYMI: What’s It Like Being a Twitch Streamer?
Oct 22, 2022
What Next TBD: When An Algorithm Raises Your Rent
Oct 21, 2022
ICYMI: What’s the Deal With Broadway’s 1776?
Oct 19, 2022
What Next TBD: Are You Ready to Be Composted When You Die?
Oct 16, 2022
ICYMI: What Makes Online Advice Good?
Oct 15, 2022
Slate Money: We Can’t Quit Elon
Oct 15, 2022
A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
Oct 14, 2022
What Next TBD: The Next Amazon Union Fight
Oct 14, 2022
ICYMI: The Internet Is an Invisible Force
Oct 12, 2022
What Next TBD: When Your Church Surveils Your Phone
Oct 09, 2022
ICYMI: The Bling Ring Wasn’t Possible Without the Internet
Oct 08, 2022
What Next TBD: Could the Supreme Court Kill the Internet As We Know It?
Oct 07, 2022
ICYMI: Why an Orthodox Jewish Boys Choir Is Going Viral
Oct 05, 2022
What Next TBD: The Philosopher With Silicon Valley's Ear
Oct 02, 2022
ICYMI: BuzzFeed Set the Try Guys Up to Fail
Oct 01, 2022
What Next TBD: When Climate Change Makes You Sell Your House
Sep 30, 2022
ICYMI: Jojo Siwa Did What on TikTok?
Sep 28, 2022
What Next TBD: Can Nuclear Power Be Green?
Sep 25, 2022
ICYMI: Serial Didn’t Free Adnan Syed
Sep 24, 2022
What Next TBD: The Fight Over Online Speech Headed to the Supreme Court
Sep 23, 2022
ICYMI: It’s OK to Criticize the Dead
Sep 21, 2022
What Next TBD: The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Spam Texts You're Getting
Sep 18, 2022
ICYMI: Where AI Art Can Go Wrong
Sep 17, 2022
What Next TBD: How Big Internet Keeps Small Communities Disconnected
Sep 16, 2022
ICYMI: Harry Styles Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
Sep 14, 2022
What Next TBD: The Chaos That Made YouTube a Juggernaut
Sep 11, 2022
ICYMI: Everyone Wants to Be a Food Influencer…or Do They?
Sep 10, 2022
What Next TBD: Can A.I. Make Great Art?
Sep 09, 2022
ICYMI: A Texas Church Did What With Hamilton?
Sep 07, 2022
How To!: Have a Healthier News Diet
Sep 06, 2022
What Next TBD: The Summer Vaccine of the Future
Sep 04, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: Is BYU Virginity Club Real? An ICYMI Investigation.
Sep 03, 2022
What Next TBD: A.I. Made to Fight Child Porn Ensnared an Innocent Dad
Sep 02, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: Who Weekly? Explains Bennifer 3.0
Aug 31, 2022
How To!: Unbreak the News
Aug 30, 2022
What Next TBD: The Streaming TV Bloodbath
Aug 28, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: Did TikTok Find Gabby Petito, or Exploit Her?
Aug 27, 2022
What Next TBD: The Hacker Blowing the Whistle on Twitter
Aug 26, 2022
One Year - 1986: The Ultimate Field Trip
Aug 25, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: How a Harry Potter Fanfic Took Over the Internet
Aug 24, 2022
What Next TBD: We're Expecting the Wrong Things From the CDC
Aug 21, 2022
ICYMI: Tumblr Changed How We Watch Movies
Aug 20, 2022
What Next TBD: What All That Money for Green Tech in the Climate Bill Is Buying
Aug 19, 2022
ICYMI: What Is a Clean Girl?
Aug 17, 2022
What Next: Who Influences the Influencers?
Aug 15, 2022
What Next TBD: Big Pharma’s Bet on Psychedelics
Aug 14, 2022
ICYMI: Was Black Twitter a Mistake?
Aug 13, 2022
What Next TBD: Crypto Could Leave Texas in the Dark
Aug 12, 2022
ICYMI: What Makes a Good Internet Boyfriend?
Aug 10, 2022
What Next TBD: The Monkeypox Vaccine Monopoly
Aug 07, 2022
ICYMI: Does Nicki Minaj Really Owe the IRS $173 Million?
Aug 06, 2022
What Next TBD: The Homes We Forgot to Build a Decade Ago
Aug 05, 2022
ICYMI: Dipping Marcel the Shell in Pink Sauce
Aug 03, 2022
What Next TBD: The Dark Web of Online Spider Sales
Jul 31, 2022
ICYMI: We Have Some Gossip For You
Jul 30, 2022
What Next TBD: Paging Dr. Bezos
Jul 29, 2022
ICYMI: What is "Hitting the Strip"?
Jul 27, 2022
What Next TBD: Smart City: Dumb Idea?
Jul 24, 2022
ICYMI: Madison Malone Kircher Logs Off
Jul 23, 2022
What Next TBD: Europe Is Burning
Jul 22, 2022
ICYMI: Frog Eggs, Pheromones, and Yassified Ed Sheeran, Oh My!
Jul 20, 2022
What Next TBD: Silicon Valley's Hidden Discrimination
Jul 17, 2022
ICYMI: Our CEO Tried to Scam Me
Jul 16, 2022
What Next TBD: Can Twitter Sue Elon Musk Into Submission?
Jul 15, 2022
ICYMI: Doja Cat and Cardi B Are Fighting, But Not With Each Other
Jul 13, 2022
What Next TBD: Paxlovid's Mysteries
Jul 10, 2022
ICYMI: The Rise of the Gentleminions
Jul 09, 2022
What Next TBD: Can FEMA Keep Up With Climate Change?
Jul 08, 2022
ICYMI: How a Social Justice Instagram Weaponized Cancel Culture
Jul 06, 2022
What Next TBD: The Good Hackers
Jul 03, 2022
ICYMI: Daily Harvest Is Crumbling
Jul 02, 2022
What Next TBD: TikTok’s Mental Health Influencers
Jul 01, 2022
ICYMI: This Episode Will Not Bum You Out
Jun 29, 2022
What Next TBD: Does Crypto Investment Need to Be Regulated?
Jun 26, 2022
ICYMI: There Are No New Jokes On the Internet
Jun 25, 2022
What Next TBD: Can the Law Keep Up With the Internet?
Jun 24, 2022
ICYMI: Why Can’t Lesbians Escape Men on Dating Apps?
Jun 22, 2022
What Next TBD: From the Vault: It's Hot. It's Flooding. Is This the New Normal?
Jun 19, 2022
ICYMI: American Girl Just Outed One of Their Dolls?
Jun 18, 2022
What Next TBD: The Culture War Over Electric Cars
Jun 17, 2022
ICYMI: Did One Direction Create the Internet?
Jun 15, 2022
What Next TBD: Sheryl Sandberg’s Complicated Legacy
Jun 12, 2022
What Next TBD: Bots! What Are They Good For?
Jun 10, 2022
A Word: Black Crypto Boom
Jun 10, 2022
ICYMI: The Musician TikTok Hostage Crisis
Jun 08, 2022
What Next TBD: Is Elon Musk Any Good at Business?
Jun 05, 2022
ICYMI: Are the Mormon TikTok Moms Really Swingers?
Jun 04, 2022
A Word: Black to the Future Online
Jun 03, 2022
What Next TBD: Can an Algorithm Spot a Shooter?
Jun 03, 2022
ICYMI: How Depp v. Heard Broke the Internet
Jun 01, 2022
What Next TBD: Online Privacy in a Post-Roe World
May 29, 2022
ICYMI: The Real Story Behind The Viral Makeup All Over TikTok
May 28, 2022
What Next TBD: Will Bitcoin Ruin El Salvador?
May 27, 2022
ICYMI: Oh No, Not Another Couch Guy
May 25, 2022
Better Life Lab: The Future of Wellbeing in an Automated World
May 24, 2022
What Next TBD: North Korea's Hacking Army
May 22, 2022
ICYMI: The Trial That Ruined TikTok
May 21, 2022
What Next TBD: How Buffalo Could Transform Social Media
May 20, 2022
ICYMI: Tumblr’s “This Is White Privilege” Stays Ahead of Its Time
May 18, 2022
What Next TBD: Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
May 15, 2022
ICYMI: The TikTokkers Taking Down the Troubled Teen Industry
May 14, 2022
A Word: Is Big Tech Pro-Choice?
May 13, 2022
What Next TBD: Can A.I. Know What You're Feeling?
May 13, 2022
ICYMI: The “Am I the A**Hole” Economy Is Thriving
May 11, 2022
What Next TBD: Is Free Speech Online Just a Myth?
May 08, 2022
ICYMI: Your Period Tracker Is Not Your Friend
May 07, 2022
What Next TBD: Can the Internet Rescue Abortion Access?
May 06, 2022
What Next TBD: The Fantasy of Internet for All
May 01, 2022
What Next TBD: What Elon Wants With Twitter
Apr 29, 2022
What Next TBD: A New High-Tech Weapon in Ukraine
Apr 24, 2022
What Next TBD: The COVID Data Disaster
Apr 22, 2022
What Next TBD: How TurboTax Tricks Taxpayers
Apr 17, 2022
What Next TBD: Elonnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Apr 15, 2022
What Next TBD: Uber Makes Nice With Cabs
Apr 10, 2022
What Next TBD: Elon Trolls the SEC
Apr 08, 2022
What Next TBD: A Conversation With Europe's Top Tech Cop
Apr 03, 2022
What Next TBD: The White House's Favorite Tech Billionaire
Apr 01, 2022
What Next TBD: The Cost of Going Off-Grid
Mar 27, 2022
What Next TBD: Why the Zelensky Deepfake Failed
Mar 25, 2022
What Next TBD: The Startup Delivering Adderall
Mar 20, 2022
What Next TBD: Hong Kong’s Covid Crisis
Mar 18, 2022
What Next TBD: How Minnesota Spied On Protesters
Mar 13, 2022
What Next TBD: Putin's Internet Crackdown
Mar 11, 2022
What Next TBD: When Your Retina Needs a Software Update
Mar 06, 2022
What Next TBD: Ukraine’s Information War
Mar 04, 2022
What Next TBD: Peter Thiel, Patron of the Populist Right
Feb 27, 2022
What Next TBD: Russia's Other Battlefront
Feb 25, 2022
What Next TBD: The COVAX Fantasy
Feb 20, 2022
What Next TBD: "Rampant Racism" at Tesla
Feb 18, 2022
How To: Beat Hackers at Their Own Game
Feb 15, 2022
What Next TBD: The Rise of a Fast Fashion Juggernaut
Feb 13, 2022
What Next TBD: How Safe is the Metaverse?
Feb 11, 2022
What Next TBD: The Code That Runs Your Life
Feb 06, 2022
What Next TBD: Spotify’s Joe Rogan Mess
Feb 04, 2022
What Next TBD: The Downfall of One of the World's Biggest Brains
Jan 28, 2022
What Next TBD: Why Does Matt Damon Want Me to Buy Crypto?
Jan 21, 2022
What Next TBD: Where Are The Little Kids' Vaccines?
Jan 14, 2022
What Next TBD: The Aftermath of Elizabeth Holmes
Jan 07, 2022
What Next TBD: The Carbon Capture Fantasy
Dec 17, 2021
What Next TBD: Who Online Justice Leaves Behind
Dec 10, 2021
What Next TBD: Did @jack Ruin Twitter?
Dec 03, 2021
What Next TBD: Best of 2021 | Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop
Nov 26, 2021
What Next TBD: Space Junk! (And Space Wars?)
Nov 19, 2021
What Next TBD: The Kid-Vaccine Holdouts
Nov 12, 2021
What Next TBD: How Schools Surveil Your Kids
Nov 05, 2021
What Next TBD: Why Are Bots Buying Sneakers?
Oct 29, 2021
What Next TBD: Honey, I Sold the House to Zillow
Oct 22, 2021
What Next TBD: The Return of Hacktivism
Oct 15, 2021
What Next TBD: Will the Facebook Whistleblower Make a Difference?
Oct 08, 2021
What Next TBD: What Instagram Does to Teens
Oct 01, 2021
What Next TBD: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?
Sep 24, 2021
What Next TBD: China vs. Video Games
Sep 17, 2021
What Next: TBD: Will Booster Shots Make a Difference?
Aug 21, 2021
Introducing: Thrilling Tales of Modern Capitalism
May 27, 2020
Introducing Cautionary Tales
Dec 16, 2019
Introducing What Next: TBD
Nov 26, 2019
S2E10: New Media, Old Story
Sep 04, 2019
S2E9: A Brief History Of Timekeeping
Aug 28, 2019
S2E8: Salvation In The Air
Aug 21, 2019
S2E7: A Bug In The System
Aug 14, 2019
S2E6: Dots, Dashes, and Dating Apps
Aug 07, 2019
S2E5: Mars on Earth
Jul 31, 2019
S2E4: Meat and Potatoes
Jul 24, 2019
S2E3: Unreliable Evidence
Jul 17, 2019
S2E2: Second Wind
Jul 10, 2019
S2E1: A Familiar Tune
Jul 03, 2019
Season 2 Trailer
Jun 26, 2019
S1E10: Infinite Scroll
Nov 07, 2018
S1E9: A Little Less Conversation
Oct 31, 2018
S1E8: VR or It Didn’t Happen
Oct 24, 2018
S1E7: A Clock in the Sky
Oct 17, 2018
S1E6: From Zero to Selfie
Oct 10, 2018
S1E5: Human Insecurity
Oct 03, 2018
S1E4: The Fault In Our Cars
Sep 26, 2018
S1E3: Fork Fashions and Toilet Trends
Sep 19, 2018
S1E2: The Body Electric
Sep 12, 2018
S1E1: The Box That A.I. Lives In
Sep 05, 2018
Season 1 Trailer
Aug 06, 2018