Why Facebook pulled news in Australia — and what comes next
Wednesday night, staring down looming Australian legislation that would force Facebook and Google to pay publishers in the country for content that appears on their platforms, Facebook pulled the plug...
18 Feb 202117min
The frozen fallout in Texas
Nearly 3 million Texans are without power and more than 20 are dead, due to a perfect storm of extreme weather, a failure to winterize energy infrastructure and an antipathy toward regulation. Dan dig...
17 Feb 202112min
Nicole Perlroth on the cyber-weapons arms race
The U.S. government last year discovered that it was the victim of the largest-ever cybersecurity breach in its history, in which Russian hackers allegedly used a software exploit to access a deep tro...
16 Feb 202116min
The $44 million vaccine appointment system that most states won’t use
Around 35 million Americans have been vaccinated and roughly 1.6 million more are getting shots a day, but it’s been a bumpy road to get to this point, as state and local distribution plans have been ...
12 Feb 202114min
The fight over the Fight for $15
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 per hour since 2009, which works out to just about $15,000 per year at 40-hour weeks. Congress is now debating an increase to $15 per hour as part of the next r...
11 Feb 202114min
Victoria Grace of Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital on the SPAC boom
The most significant stock market story of 2021 isn’t Robinhood and Reddit. It’s SPACs, blank check acquisition companies used to take private companies public. Dan talks with Victoria Grace, CEO of a...
10 Feb 202117min
Teachers union president Randi Weingarten on reopening schools
Three quarters of America’s K-12 public schools are either closed or partially closed right now. Even if the White House manages to unstick the vaccine bottlenecks and get a new economic stimulus pass...
9 Feb 202118min
Katie Stanton on the rise of Clubhouse
Clubhouse has become social media's newest darling, eschewing text and visuals for an audio-only experience whereby users can hear discussions on a multitude of topics, plus even the occasional 40-per...
8 Feb 202115min
