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The Drill Down

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.