The Drill Down
616: Everyday Heroes
Released: Apr 10, 2020
On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update highlights everyday heroes, and media expert Tom Cheredar helps us escape into the fantasy world of superheroes, ...and much more.
COVID-19 Update Why Are Music Streams Down If Everyone’s Home? Experts Weigh in These 'disease hunters' developed a novel technique for tracking pandemics after 9/11, but lost funding right before COVID-19 Disney pushes the release dates of all Marvel movies in the next two years Brands turn to livestreaming as China stays home Twitter CEO sets aside $1 billion in Square equity for charity, coronavirus relief Tesla is cutting salaries and furloughing workers to ‘manage costs’ during pandemic UK cell towers torched amid bogus conspiracy theories that link 5G with coronavirus An EU coalition of techies is backing a ‘privacy-preserving’ standard for COVID-19 contacts tracing After walkouts, Amazon pledges temperature checks and masks in all warehouses Tiger tests positive for coronavirus at Bronx Zoo, first known case in the world You can’t use ventilators without sedatives. Now the US is running out of those, too. Audible Book of the Week Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less - Here's How by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDownMusic Break: We Could Be Heroes by Alesso
Hot Topic: Our Favorite Comic-based Media ANDY- Watchmen (HBO) TOSIN - Sonic the Hedgehog DWAYNE - Marvel’s Runaways (super-light fun). X-Men: The Animated Series, Attack on Titan, Saga. TOM - DMZ & Planetary The Drill Down Videos of the Week Tesla Ventilator How a coronavirus 'infodemic' is infecting the internet - CNN Video Subscribe!The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!)
The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.