Monday, April 27, 2020

This Week in Tech 768

Contact Tracing, Synthetic Biology

--  Ask a futurist: how do we get from now to the Covid-19 free future? Steer into the slide.

--  The future of synthetic biology is sticking viruses into our systems as medication

--  Apple-Google contact tracing vs Palantir: who do you trust?

--  France bans Amazon from selling non-essential items: should America follow? Should Amazon be doing more with automation?

--  The best videoconferencing etiquette

--  Why are people tearing down 5g towers to fight coronavirus?

--  What new businesses are going to be born out of the Covid-19 crisis? Automation, synthetic biology, and delivery get a VC boost

--  AI development and Big Tech data gathering is leading us down a dystopian superhighway

--  Is CES gone for good? How long can movie theaters stay closed?

--  Salute to the real heroes - the IT people keeping us all connected in this crisis

--  Distance learning: what is working, what isn't, and what is the future of education?

--  How did Microsoft fumble Cortana? The same way they fumbled Windows Phone

--  Apple hopes to put its own chips in macs

--  Google says AI can design a chip in 6 hours

--  The next world war will be fought in cyberspace

--  Kim Jong Un: Dead or alive? Will North Korea be the next manufacturing hotspot or a radioactive crater?



Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb, Iain Thomson

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