Mon. 03/30 – HQ Trivia Back From The Dead!

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🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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HQ Trivia resurrects itself thanks to an anonymous investor. Facebook tries to squeeze Apple out of the AR screen market. Some crowdsourced data reveals who where layoffs are happening in tech but also which companies are still hiring. And a major hack takes down a big chunk of the dark web. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Feals.com/techmeme Links: HQ Trivia Returns Thanks to Anonymous Investor (WSJ) Facebook Strikes Deal for AR Displays, Squeezing Out Apple (The Information) Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ) Coronavirus has led to a 775 percent increase in usage of Microsoft Azure cloud services (BetaNews) Apple's factories are running, but suppliers wary about iPhone demand (Reuters) Candor: 267 companies have frozen hiring, 44 had layoffs, 36 rescinded offers, 111 are hiring (VentureBeat) OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (Space News) Airbnb to Halt All Marketing, Most Hiring as Losses Mount (The Information) Lyft Tells Drivers to Work for Amazon After Ridership Plummets (Bloomberg) Bird lays off about 30% of workforce amid COVID-19 pandemic (TechCrunch) Hack Attack Takes Down Dark Web Host: 7,595 Websites Confirmed Deleted (Forbes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the tech meme ride home for Monday, March 30th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.8	H-Q trivia resurrects itself thanks to an anonymous investor. Facebook tries to squeeze Apple out of the
0:14.9	AR screen market. Some crowd source data reveals where layoffs are happening in tech, but also
0:20.0	which companies are still hiring, and a major hack takes down a big chunk of the
0:25.0	dark web. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:30.0	HQ trivia is back and maybe the coronavirus moment is why. Thanks to an anonymous
0:38.8	investor the mobile quiz app returned Sunday night with host Matt Richards.
0:43.6	Richards told the Wall Street Journal, quote,
0:45.6	I just hope I can make people smile
0:47.5	because things have been pretty sucky lately,
0:49.4	end quote, and quoting from the journal Peace.
0:52.4	People have remarked on how HQ trivia's
0:54.8	revival would be ideal now given that so many people are staying home to prevent the
0:59.4	spread of the coronavirus. On March 11th one person tweeted quote
1:02.8	quarantine seems like a really good time to play a live mobile game show where you
1:07.1	answer trivia questions on your phone to win cash. Somebody should make that and quote. With the show's return Sunday night, HQ trivia offered players a $1,000 prize pool,
1:18.0	more than 100,000 people logged in at the start, end quote.
1:22.0	No word though on who the anonymous investor who provided the
1:25.4	funding needed to resume operations is. This was the first game of trivia since
1:30.8	HQ trivia shut down in February.
1:35.0	The information is reporting that Facebook is not standing by
1:42.0	as Apple seemingly moves aggressively to launch an augmented reality
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