Hack the Virus! - DTNS 3746
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A round-up of all the COVID-19 related tech stories of the day including MIT's plan to release plans for a low cost respirator and WHO partnering with tech companies.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:03.7 | Then I'm going to jump to a link using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a pointing device called a mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.4 | Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see |
| 0:15.7 | your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the |
| 0:20.5 | next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.4 | The mother of all demos on NOAA Little More. |
| 0:27.6 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.8 | Attention. Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in |
| 0:40.6 | Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:44.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:49.0 | Trains, now on Uber. |
| 0:50.7 | Tees and sees apply. |
| 0:51.6 | Check the Uber app. |
| 0:52.6 | Coming up on DTNS, you hear a lot about the effects of the virus, |
| 1:00.3 | but what about what people are doing to stop it? We've got a roundup of hackathons, open source projects, 3D printing efforts, and more to help the fight against COVID-19. |
| 1:11.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, March 25th, 2020 in Los Angeles. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 1:15.7 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 1:17.7 | 90 aftershocks later, I'm Scott Johnson in Salt Lake City. |
| 1:21.5 | And I'm the show's producer, Roger James. So the earthquakes have finally stopped in Utah. |
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