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The Wall Street Journal

Feel overwhelmed by the never-ending waves of technology news? Join The Wall Street Journal's technology columnists as they talk about the most important tech trends -- and why you should ca...

Episodes

20 episodes

#42: Looking Back ... to the Future (of Everything)

In a special encore presentation, a look back at the WSJ Future of Everything Festival, the three-day event filled with speakers, panels and...

51:31Aug 16, 2019

#41: Fancy Phones and Fancier Credit Cards

David and Joanna discuss the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10, the phone for people who get stuff done. (Stuff. Not other words.) It has a new sty...

50:05Aug 9, 2019

#40: Where Are the Good Netflix Movies?

David, Joanna and Christopher start by discussing the future of retail, which at least partly involves all those brands you see in Instagram...

42:57Aug 2, 2019

#39: The Fight For Faster Internet

This week, it's all about how to make the internet faster--and how the world changes when we do. David, Joanna and Christopher talk about Jo...

49:26Jul 26, 2019

#38: How the Moon Landing Changed Tech Forever

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Even if you don't care about space travel, there's a good chance the wor...

34:25Jul 19, 2019

#37: Why the Family Phone Plan Rules

David and Christopher start the show by discussing a technology that drove decades of innovation: the spreadsheet. Dan Bricklin, creator of...

49:54Jul 12, 2019

#36: How to Survive Holiday Travel

With Christopher on vacation (again), David and Joanna go through their best tips for surviving the coming July 4th travel craziness. They e...

49:10Jul 3, 2019

#35: Google Maps to Nowhere

David, Joanna and Christopher unpack the coming fight between tech companies and regulators, and get into the messy meaning of an important...

49:44Jun 28, 2019

#34: Call Him Mr. 'Fortnite'

Joanna and David didn't want to talk about Facebook, but they had to: Facebook launched a new digital currency, Libra, that could upend the...

46:56Jun 21, 2019

#33: Facebook's Potentially Problematic Privacy Practices: A Recap

This week, WSJ broke news of internal Facebook Inc. emails that suggested the company lacked urgency to stop data leaks. With David out in H...

40:29Jun 14, 2019

#32: The World According to Apple

Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC, was this week, and there's a lot of news that could impact you come the fall. David, Joanna and C...

42:53Jun 7, 2019

#31: My Way or the Huawei

David and Christopher talk about Amazon's new strategy for winning the smart-home wars. Hint: It involves getting in with property managers...

43:23May 31, 2019

#30: Dispatches From the Future (of Everything)

We have a special episode for you this week. We just finished the WSJ Future of Everything Festival, a three-day event filled with speakers,...

50:34May 24, 2019

#29: Don't Face ID Me, Bro

Now that Big Tech's two biggest privacy invaders can't stop talking about privacy, David, Joanna and Christopher won't stop talking about th...

46:31May 17, 2019

#28: Uber for Everything and Everything for Uber

To ring in the Uber IPO, David, Christopher and Joanna team up with WSJ reporter Eliot Brown to explore the vast scope of the newest publicl...

43:46May 10, 2019

#27: The New New New Facebook

David, Christopher and Joanna attempt to explain TikTok, the hottest new thing in social media. It's like Vine meets Snapchat meets Instagra...

38:09May 3, 2019

#26: All Netflix and No Chill

David, Joanna and Christopher talk about the bizarre non-launch and Joanna's non-review of the Samsung Galaxy Fold, and what it means for th...

47:36Apr 26, 2019

#25: The Movies Come To You Now

David, Joanna and Christopher dive into the algorithms that determine everything from social media feeds to jail sentences, and try to figur...

45:01Apr 19, 2019

#24: The First Black Hole, The Worst Car Dashboards

First, the Wall Street Journal's digital science editor Daniela Hernandez joins David, Joanna and Christopher with all details of the first-...

42:25Apr 12, 2019

#23: How Amazon Changed Delivery and How Delivery Changes Everything

This week, it's all about how we buy stuff and how that stuff gets to us. David, Joanna and Christopher bring on WSJ reporter Katie Bindley...

41:04Apr 5, 2019