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.
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Tonight on CEP! Economist and IT bureaucrat James Coffin joins us for a one-hour special. We react to articles and expose some of the hypocrisy and outright madness going on in the realm of our government's environmental policies - LEARN how they incentivize tech companies to make garbage, by reimbursing them for recycling their own products!
- Reading an email from an Apple impostor
- Surprise-attack deprecation - how the industry randomly removes useful features your organization relies on.
- "I haven't seen any artificial intelligence that's intelligent."
- The vocabulary of IT: How the industry creates new terms willy-nilly, and people (and AI) are expected to keep up with it.
- WD was caught in a bait-and-switch, inserting slower chips in their products without notice
- The complex 14,000-mile supply chain scattered across the globe
- Linux is now usable on newer M-chip Apple computers: How that will lead to the liberation of many Apple computers, but also iPhones and iPads as well
- An exploit in Apple Pay, how Visa was right to avoid overreacting, and our discussion on how wireless payments in general are massive security hole!
- Canon being sued for making multi-function printers that refuse to scan whenever they're out of ink!
- CA's sequel to Cash for Clunkers - and the adverse effects that they didn't bother to consider, that will harm the poor and the environment
- "If you actually care about the environment, stop making laws and start actually doing something!"
- How CloseTheLoop.com helps curb the ewaste nonsense
- Discussing Aaron Clarey's video "Why are corporations even in business?" and how offshoring in the 1980s sparked the cheapening of products
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