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.

On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, Plus, is it always necessary to wear a face covering while going out these days?  ...and much more.

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COVID-19 Update

• Streaming Continues to Grow With Viewers at Home: Nielsen
• Xerox drops $34B HP takeover bid amid COVID-19 uncertainty****
• Sales Skyrocket at Libro.fm and Bookshop.org
• Mental health care in Colorado has gone virtual thanks to coronavirus. For some patients, it’s long overdue
• Why Instacart and Amazon workers are going on strike during coronavirus
• Utilities Aim To Keep Specially Trained Employees Healthy And Working

Audible Book of the Week

• Version Control by Dexter Palmer
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Music Break: Safe and Sound by Capital Cities

Hot Topic: Masks

• Masks Save Lives - COVID-19
• #Masks4All

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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.

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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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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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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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.

On this week’s podcast, a shakeup at the the highest levels of the Disney and Lucasfilm  Empires...and much, much more.

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What We’re Playing With

Tosin: Droid building update Andy:  Star Wars: The High Republic is Disney's new Star Wars saga

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Star Wars: The High Republic announce trailer
• The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian

Audible Book of the Week

• A Long Time Ago, in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away By Paul Hirsch
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Music Break: Into the Trap by John Williams

Hot Topics

• Bob Iger’s Disney Exit Surprised More Than Just Industry Analysts, and He Leaves Some Uncertainty in His Wake

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On this week’s podcast, media expert Tom Cheredar helps us examine the cutting edge of deepfaked video and speech... and its potential benefits and dangers.

What We’re Playing With

Andy:  The Simpsons: The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson

Tosin: live edge slab table

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• • Video Deepfake: Robert Downey Jr and Tom Holland in Back to the Future

• Audio Deepfake: Various celebrities reading “Navy Seal copypasta”
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Alec Guinness
  • A Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning

Audible Book of the Week

• The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley
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Music Break: Lies by Thompson Twins

Hot Topic: Deepfakes

• Twitter Just Released Its Plan To Deal With Deep Fakes
• We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes in an Indian Election Campaign
• Deepfakes, videos manipulated by face-swapping technology, are showing up on the wildly popular 60-second video app TikTok
• Deepfakes and deep media: A new security battleground

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On this week’s podcast, impressions on Samsung's new flip foldable, are digital movie cameras really as good as film?, China hacked Equifax, Tesla giveth...and Tesla taketh away,  ...and much, much more.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy:  Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet; Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

ALL: Impressions on Samsung Galaxy Z Flip (and the future of foldable)

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• The cinematographer of Knives Out wants to end the film-vs.-digital debate
• Steve Yedlin: Display Prep Demo

Audible Book of the Week

• Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
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Music Break: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk

Hot Topics

• Tesla Remotely Removes Autopilot Features From Customer's Used Tesla Without Any Notice
• U.S. Charges Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hacking

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On this week’s podcast, what we've been watching at the movies, an 125 year-old film looks like it was shot yesterday, the app that crashed the Iowa Caucus, and much more.

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Knives Out/The Gentlemen

Andy:  Suicide Squad (Extended Cut)

Tosin: Parasite/1917/Ford v Ferrari

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Neural Networks Upscale Film from 1896 to 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot on a Modern Smartphone

Audible Book of the Week

• Forward: Stories of Tomorrow by Various Authors
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Music Break: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne

Hot Topic: Electronic Voting in 2020

• Election tech was supposed to clean up the Iowa caucus — instead, it may have killed it
• The App That Broke the Iowa Caucus

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