On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, we compare our work from home experiences,  ...and much more.

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COVID-19 Update

• YouTube to Limit Video Quality Around the World for a Month
• Internet Traffic Surges As Companies And Schools Send People Home
• Uber CEO asks Trump to support gig workers impacted by the coronavirus
• Delivery workers rising to meet the pandemic
  • • Amazon workers are on the frontlines of the pandemic
    • Postal workers hoping for community donations to meet sanitizing needs
• Study reveals how long COVID-19 remains infectious on cardboard, metal and plastic
• USPS Statement on Coronavirus

Audible Book of the Week

• The Stand by Stephen King
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Music Break: Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult

Hot Topic: Working From Home

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• • Zoom's Work From Home - Audio/Video Tips

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The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter 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.

On this week’s podcast, Tom Cheredar joins us for an update on COVID-19's affect on the tech sector, what to do during a self-imposed quarantine, telecommuting tips,  ...and much, much more.

COVID-19 Update

• • Internet's largest social networks issue joint statement on COVID-19 misinformation
  • Gig workers have created a tool to offer mutual aid during COVID-19 pandemic
  • Lyft & Uber suspend pools
  • Studios releasing first-run movies as VOD
  • U.S. government reportedly in talks to use location data in COVID-19 fight

Audible Book of the Week

• Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
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Music Break: Stuck in the Middle With You by Stealers Wheel

Hot Topics

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons review: A quarantined life has never been cuter (release date 3/20)
• Shows & films to binge while in COVID-19 quarantine
• Netflix Party lets you watch with friends online
• Sofa King - Roundup of all live streaming performance activities
• Comicbooks:
  • Locke & Key (Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez)
  • Lazarus
  • The Beauty
  • Sex Criminals (Matt Fraction & Chip Zsarsky)
  • The Sculptor (Scott McCloud)
  • Seconds (Brian Lee O'malley)
• Let’s name some classics
  • Game of Thrones (HBO)
  • The Wire (HBO)
  • The Sopranos (HBO)
  • Avatar the Last Airbender (Nick Hits)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (HULU)
  • Babylon 5 (Purchase on Amazon)
  • Stargate SG1 (HULU and Amazon Prime Video)
• Telecommuting amid coronavirus: Best tech tools for you and the kids to work from home

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The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter 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.

On this week’s podcast, an update on COVID-19's effect on the tech sector--and everything else,  and we decrypt the mysteries of encryption...and much, much more.

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What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: TONOR Mic and Behringer UCA222 Amp Andy: Oculus Link / Westworld Awakening

COVID-19 Update

• • Pandemic
  • Stock Market Volatility but not mainstreet volatility
  • Campus closings
  • NCAA tournament and Presidential Debates without live audiences
  • Travel ban on people and items from Europe

COVID safety links

• About Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | CDC
• Coronavirus | WHO

Audible Book of the Week

• Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope By Una McCormack
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Music Break: Shake the Disease by Depeche Mode

Hot Topic:Encryption and Surveillance

• Leaked documents reportedly show the CIA secretly bought an encryption company and used it to spy on clients — while turning a profit
• Huawei and US surveillance
• Trump Administration Targets Your 'Warrant-Proof' Encrypted Messages
• Canada's cyber intelligence agency working on 'Holy Grail' of encryption
• New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave

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The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter 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.

On this week’s podcast, Andy & Tosin examine how COVID-19 is affecting tech conferences & supply chains, and how the tech landscape will look as COVID-19 spreads..

Hot Topic: COVID-19

• All the ways China’s coronavirus outbreak is affecting tech
  • The world’s biggest phone show has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns
  • Coronavirus 2020 tech conference cancellations list
  • Facebook, Twitter pull out of SXSW citing coronavirus concerns
  • Google cancels ‘physical’ I/O 2020 due to coronavirus concerns

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• • How does Coronavirus compare to Ebola, SARS, etc?

• • Ghen Cô Vy' - NIOEH x KHẮC HƯNG x MIN x ERIK (Coronavirus parody of ‘Jealous’)

• Last Week Tonight Segment

Audible Book of the Week

• The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry
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Music Break:Ghen Cô Vy' by NIOEH x KHẮC HƯNG x MIN x ERIK

Hot Topic (cont): COVID-19

• Google, Coinbase, Twitter telling employees to work from home amid spread of coronavirus
• Google moves all job interviews to Hangouts ‘for the foreseeable future’ due to coronavirus
• Microsoft asks staff in Seattle area, Silicon Valley to work from home

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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.