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Tech Brew Ride Home

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

How Facebook is coping with Corona, Google Podcasts comes to iOS, ad blocking officially comes to Safari, when Apple thinks it can re-open stores, Singapore open-sources it’s Corona-contact-tracing app, and have your screen time notifications horrified you this week? You’re not alone. Sponsors: Metalab.co Rhone.com/ridehome Promocode: ridehome for 20 percent off Links: Facebook Is ‘Just Trying to Keep the Lights On’ as Traffic Soars in Pandemic (NYTimes) The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse More than half of all news consumption on Facebook in America (NYTimes) Google Podcasts is finally available of iOS (TechCrunch) Apple updates Safari’s anti-tracking tech with full third-party cookie blocking (The Verge) Apple May Start Reopening Stores in First Half of April (Bloomberg) iPhone Makers Suspend India Production Due to Lockdown (Bloomberg) Coronavirus: S'pore Government to make its contact-tracing app freely available to developers worldwide (The Straight Times) Court in Telegram case blocks gram token issuance, says token distribution likely violates securities law (The Block) Our iPhone weekly screen time reports are through the roof, and people are ‘horrified’ (Washington Post) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home
0:05.9	before Wednesday, March 25th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today. How Facebook
0:10.4	is coping with Corona.
0:12.5	Google Podcasts comes to iOS.
0:14.8	Ad blocking officially comes to Safari.
0:17.2	When Apple thinks it can reopen stores,
0:19.8	Singapore open sources its Corona Contact tracing app and have your screen time
0:24.6	notifications horrified you this week you're not alone here's what you missed today in the
0:28.8	world of tech. While traffic is surging on Facebook, where it's seen messaging alone, up 50% from
0:39.6	last month in many countries, there are also increasing signs that Facebook's 45,000
0:45.4	employees now working remotely are struggling to keep up. This is sort of just a
0:50.7	snapshot profile of Facebook at this moment in time from the New York Times.
0:55.0	Quote, the usage growth from COVID-19 is unprecedented across the industry and we are
0:59.9	experiencing new records in usage almost every day.
1:03.0	Alex Schultz and Jay Perique, two Facebook Vice President's
1:06.1	working on infrastructure set in a blog post on Tuesday.
1:09.2	Quote, maintaining stability throughout these spikes in usage
1:11.9	is more challenging than
1:12.9	usual now that most of our employees are working from home."
1:15.9	What has saved Facebook's network from crashing altogether, Mr Zuckerberg said, was that
1:21.5	the virus and the quarantines have had the largest impact in just a few
1:24.8	areas where Facebook operates.
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