This week, we talk through everything there is to know about hybrids: how the different technologies work, how to keep one charged, and which cars best fit different lifestyles.
Lauren Goode, Michael Calore
This week, we probe each other’s knowledge of common acronyms from the early internet, the mobile era, and the AI boom. So fire up your LLM, send an RCS, and tell your BBS pals the game is afoot.
Test Your Knowledge of Internet Acronyms
This week, we discuss the changing business of TikTok Shop and the different ways influencers sell all those cheap goods on social media.
How Social Media Turned Into a Shopping Mall
This week, we discuss the push by US lawmakers to ban the social video platform, and we debate the consequences of a TikTok ban for creators and for the rest of the tech industry.
How a TikTok Ban Would Play Out
This week, we trace the first decade of Slack, and we examine how the chat app has altered both the workplace and our personal lives—for better or worse.
Slack Is Turning 10 Years Old, and Wow Has It ...
This week, we discuss how generative artificial intelligence will affect the 2024 US elections. We also consider the ways regulators, social platforms, and the voting public are dealing with it.
AI Hits the Campaign Trail
This week, we talk about a new study that shows a sharp rise in orders for abortion pills by women who aren’t pregnant yet. This comes at a time when abortion access in the US is under threat.
Abortion Pill Orders Are Soaring
This week, we talk about disinformation campaigns online that use doctored images of celebrities to sow confusion about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other world events.
Meet Taylor Swift’s Pro-Russia Doppelganger
This week, we discuss the impact generative AI is having on the world of consumer tech, and the various futures that path could lead us to.
Artificial Intelligence Is Seeping Into All of Your Gadgets
This week, we recap all the hardware and GenAI announcements from Google, and square them with the company’s ongoing antitrust woes over its search products.