It’s another Thursday, and Mark Starling is back! That means it’s time to talk tech with the First News 570 crew. In this week’s roundup, the Batterygate saga ends with an Apple settlement, a bunch of celebrity Twitter accounts are implicated in a Bitcoin scam, and the US Senate bans TikTok. You can listen to Mark and I point and laugh while talking about the wild and crazy technology world every Thursday morning, LIVE at 6:43am Eastern.
A quick break from the silly world of technology news.
For real, for real people. We can fault leadership for not taking swift and definitive action while COVID-19 was just beginning to make its impact felt on all of us. Now, we have to take our health and safety into our own hands. This week, I’ve read reports of summer camps experiencing C19 outbreaks, cities and towns are re-entering shelter-in-place phases, and schools are pressing the issue of sending kids back to closed in spaces. I know it can sound elitist to talk about working from home, and I fully know that people need to work, but with 1% of our nation’s population having been infected, and 130k people died because of this, we have to operate on our own volition.
Personally, there have been two deaths in our family (they were older) due to covid, one of my software developers and his fiancee’ had contracted and it was touch and go, and I have friends who went on a water park trip, contracted covid, and now have ruined friendships over their behavior.
Wear a mask. Not only for your safety, but for the safety of your neighbors. Avoid large gatherings, get takeout from your favorite restaurants if you want to keep them in business (and tip well). If you want go out, practice social distancing so you decrease the chance of spread to your friends and family. And try to limit your time out and about.
This shit is real.
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