It’s the unofficial start of the Fourth of July weekend! Yes, it’s Thursday, which means it’s time for tech talk with Mark Starling and the First News 570 crew. This week, we’re talking about Google’s acquisition of wearable computing company, North, how corporate America is boycotting Facebook, and a quick round up of this year’s World Wide Developer Conference. 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.

BIG BRANDS BOYCOTT FACEBOOK AD BUYS

Just in time for Facebook to roll out their new user experience, major corporations aren’t buying ads on the platform. A consistently growing list of companies are joining an ad buying protest on the platform, because Facebook doesn’t do enough to halt the spread of hate and racist speech on the platform. This isn’t the first time we’ve reported on Facebook not being able to stop all hate speech and whether or not it does enough. After employing tens of thousands of human moderators to halt hate, speech more than enough content still goes through. List of companies boycotting Facebook is a Who’s Who of American business spanning across all industries. The boycott is expected to last through July or when Facebook changes its policies.

If it’s Thursday, that means it’s time for tech talk with Mark Starling and the First News 570 crew. This week, we’re talking about Data Dividends, how the NBA is using tech for player C19 diagnoses, and Olympus exiting the camera business. 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.

NBA USES BLING TO DIAGNOSES COVID-19

The NBA is planning to restart its regular season on July 30th. In addition to self-isolating the players to Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando, the league is adding a new C19 diagnosis device to helping contain the spread of coronavirus. The NBA is planning to use Oura smart rings to predict a COVID-19 diagnosis. West Virginia University conducted a study in which the biometric data obtained from the Oura can predict the onset of COVID-19 symptoms in 3 days by a rate of 90%. The league is using social distancing, and restricting player access up until the start of the season and it looks like technology will be used to keep players playing on the court.