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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 care.
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#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 demos sho...
#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 stylus and so...
#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 ads sudde...
#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 Joanna's nat...
#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 work NASA did...
#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 VisiCalc -...
#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 each bring...
#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 term in th...
#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 way we pay...
#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 Hong Kong a...
#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 Christopher...
#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 and home b...
#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, panels an...
#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 them. Google...
#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 publicly traded t...
#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 Instagram meets Sp...
#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 the future o...
#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 figure out how...
#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-ever image...
#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 to talk ab...
#22: Apple News and Apple News Plus... Plus Other Apple News
David, Chris and Joanna gather to discuss the week's Apple news. Which was Apple News. And Apple News Plus. Plus a credit card, a videogame arcade and...
#21: Apple AirPods and Google Games
David, Joanna and Christopher try to remember-and discuss-the many new Apple gadgets from this week. Bonus: Christopher's Jony Ive impression makes it...
#20: Tesla's Got a Brand New Car
David and Joanna talk about the many strange consequences of sharing your kids' pictures on social media. What happens when they get older and see wha...
#19: What Facebook Means When Facebook Says Privacy
Following Mark Zuckerberg's big encryption pivot for Facebook, David, Joanna and Christopher unpack the privacy talk. Reporter Katie Bindley comes in...
#18: Phone Reveals, Facebook Deals, 5G Appeals
David, Joanna and Christopher each bring their favorite new thing from this year's Mobile World Congress, the annual showcase of all things smartphone...
#17: Samsung Fold, Pinterest Scold, Oscar Gold
David, Joanna and Christopher ponder the wisdom of a folding Samsung smartphone following its debut. Reporter Bob McMillan joins the crew to explain h...
#16: Fast News, Fast Food, Fast... DNA Tests?
David, Joanna and Christopher talk about the Journal's scoop on Apple News' subscription plans, and whether "Netflix for news" can work. Reporter Greg...
#15: Hacking Crackdowns, Houseparty Smackdowns, Hamburger Showdowns
First, Joanna tells David and Christopher about her experiment with an "ethical hacker" who got into as many of her webcams as he could-and the key in...
#14: Privacy Foes, iPhone Slows, Halftime Shows
David and Christopher talk through the brewing privacy battle between Apple and Facebook, and figure out how a developer certificate became a weapon....
#13: Rating Inflation, Startup Deflation, Location Location Location
David, Joanna and Christopher discuss WSJ's investigation into companies inflating their Glassdoor ratings. Next, reporter Rob Copeland joins them on...
#12: Razr Phones, Huawei Woes, 'Valley' Bros
David, Joanna and Christopher ponder the flip phone's future after WSJ broke news of Motorola's upcoming Razr reboot. Then they call up reporter Stu W...
#11: All the Gadgets You Can Eat
David hits the CES tech show in Vegas, then reports back to Joanna and Christopher, who decided to avoid the crowds this year. His favorites: Hyundai'...
#10: Fewer iPhones, Cheaper Teslas, More Chips
David, Joanna and Christopher ring in the New Year with their tech resolutions, but first they wring their hands over Apple's latest drama (China drag...
#9: Amazon Fakes, Facebook Flops, Gadget Fails
David, Joanna and Christopher dive into the hidden world you didn't know was lurking behind the reviews you see on Amazon. Then reporter Deepa Seethar...
#8: Google Politics, Scooter Economics, Sound Dynamics
David and Christopher discuss Google CEO Sundar Pichai's visit to Washington. Will technologists and politicians ever speak the same language? Then th...
#7: Robot Friends, Venmo Friends, Self-Driving Friends
David, Joanna and Christopher explore the question, Will robots take our jobs or be our work buddies? (Answer: Both, kinda.) Then they bring in Katie...
#6: Open Office Madness, 5G Mystery, Twitch Mania
David, Joanna and Christopher attempt to explain "5G"-amazing future tech or vague marketing term? Then they grab reporter Sarah Needleman to shed lig...
#5: Flying Cars, Cyber Wars and Gwyneth's Goop
On the heels of WSJ's D.Live 2018 tech conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., Personal Tech columnist David Pierce highlights a few of the most interesti...
#4: Dust Gets Smart, Tech Gets Accountable, Uber Gets Ready (for IPO)
After the WSJ Tech D.Live conference, David, Joanna and Christopher discuss a question that loomed large over the event-and 2018: What responsibilitie...
#3: Amazon's Next Home, Your Next Laptop, GoPro's Next Move
Our Amazon beat reporter, Laura Stevens, joins David, Joanna and Christopher to talk about the retail giant's future-headquarters reality show, but no...