616: Everyday Heroes

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
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Music 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

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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.