Archives for April 9, 2020

Quarantine Connectivity – Video Chatting Using Marco Polo

These days, many of us are trying out new ways of staying connected with. Even though we’re stationery these days, mobile convenience is hard to pass up. Also, we might be quarantined, but we may not be quarantined with bae, and sometimes you just want to see someone’s face.

She is a Cool Ass Chick

Each week, I’ll share a new way for you to stay connected with your friends and family. On this Good Friday, I present to you, Marco Polo, a video instant messaging platform that was shared with me by someone I was once close with.

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Samsung and Facebook Donate Devices, Tesla Makes Ventilators, and Zoom Hires Ex-FB-Exec After El Goog Bans Service

Samsung XCover 4S & Facebook Portal (Image linked via bbc.com)

It’s another Thursday, and it’s time for this week’s top news stories in the wonderful, wide world of technology with Mark Starling on First News 570. You can listen to Mark and I point, laugh, and pontificate about the goods technology delivers to the world every Thursday morning at 6:43 am, Eastern. You can to us LIVE online or using the iHeartRadio app.

TECH TITANS DONATE DEVICES

Yesterday, Facebook and Samsung announced plans to donate more than 2,000 devices to the British National Health Service for us in Nightingale hospitals. Samsung will delivering Galaxy XCover 4S devices to the service since they are sturdier and can be used while wearing gloves. NHS had already planned to order 20,000 devices (at cost!) during the coronavirus pandemic. Facebook is donating 2,050 of its Portal video conferencing device to NHS hospitals. The Portals will be sent to hospitals and care homes in London, Essex, Manchester, Newcastle, and Surrey. In addition to the phones, Samsung has also pledged sanitation units and other hardware in England.

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