Mar 29th 2020
This Week in Tech 764
Tech Support in Tights
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Tracking Coronavirus, Instacart on Strike, Free e-Books
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
- Fever tracking maps show the spread of coronavirus
- Instacart workers will go on strike on Monday
- Hackers are sending out malicious teddy bears and Best Buy rewards cards
- Snopes has had to scale back fact-checking in the age of coronavirus misinformation
- China and Russia sending waves of coronavirus misinformation and phishing attacks
- Zeynep Tufecki is a light of reason in the fog of coronavirus information
- US Government is using cell phone location data to track coronavirus
- Is Big Tech our coronavirus saviors, or are they taking advantage of the situation?
- How should we cover tech while the world is collapsing?
- Notes from the final CanSec security conference
- Corporate layoffs, bailouts, and cancellations
- E-sports fill the void for car racing aficionados
- PwnToOwn 2020 highlights
- GM is offering unlimited internet in its cars, Yale is offering a free course on happiness, and other happy news
- China wants to re-invent the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
- Help track which coronavirus sites are malicious
- Free e-books from the Library of Congress
- Internet Archive under fire for lending too many e-books
- Elizabeth Warren open-sources all her campaign tech
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Links
- These maps use phone data to track social distancing - The Washington Post
- Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic
- Kinsa’s fever map could show just how crucial it is to stay home to stop COVID-19 spread
- Zeynep Tufecki on Twitter
- Google donates $800 million in cash and ads to fight coronavirus - Axios
- Apple Launches COVID-19 Screening Tool
- Test and trace with Apple and Google
- Amazon is using coronavirus to expand its power – and not for the greater good | Julia Carrie Wong | Technology | The Guardian
- Instacart is hiring 300,000 full-time grocery shoppers
- Instacart Shoppers Plan to Strike Over Coronavirus Protections
- VidCon joins the list of events canceled by COVID-19
- Detroit auto show canceled as FEMA prepares venue to be a field hospital for COVID-19
- Snopes forced to scale back fact-checking in face of overwhelming COVID-19 misinformation
- Cybersecurity experts come together to fight coronavirus-related hacking
- GM offers free, limited internet access in its connected cars
- Free course from Yale University teaches happiness and positivity
- China and Huawei propose reinvention of the internet | Financial Times
- Elizabeth Warren for President open-sources its 2020 campaign tech
- Library of Congress Expands Its Collection of Open Access eBooks
- Authors Protest Internet Archive Pirating Their Books
- Bird lays off nearly a third of its staff during coronavirus pandemic
- PRO DRIVERS ARE COMPETING WITH GAMERS AFTER F1 AND NASCAR CANCELED RACES