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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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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