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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It’s now Day 14 of the quarantine for the Mapp Family. It’s been touch and go from time-to-time, but we still haven’t succumbed to insanity. If it’s Thursday and 6:43am, it’s time for tech talk on First News 570 with Mark Starling. People are staying home, corona memes are slowing down, and the economy is slowing; yet, we remain. Join us every Thursday, and listen live for the latest tech stories and tips.

Here’s something to think about this week. I’ve been having to homeschool my kids for two weeks now. Imagine what teachers who have kids are going through right now. THEY HAVE TO HOMESCHOOL THEIR KIDS, WHILE TRYING TO REMOTELY SCHOOL OUR KIDS. Crazy.

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I promise I’m going to get better at this. It’s been three weeks in a row, and a third blog post. If it’s Thursday, it’s tech time with Mark Starling, so grab your cup o’ Uncle Joe, fold up the newspaper, and let’s talk about what’s happening in the tech world. This week features Microsoft and El Goog doing their thing, and the Catholic Church releases a tech device.

You can listen live to our segment on Thursday mornings at 6:43 Eastern by tuning into First News 570, by downloading the iHeartRadio app, or listening online.

Black Twitter never disappoints, and #datRONA has been added to my lexicon. 🙂

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