Where Is Your Devil Now?

[rcjordan]

So, Trump has publicly turned to Google for help.

And the public has turned to Amazon as their supply lifeline.

Big tech may be more savior than devil.

Amazon to hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/amazon-to-hire-100000-warehouse-and-delivery-workers.html

[littleman]

This is a good point.  The big tech companies have the infrastructure to keep functioning during this pandemic.  Amazon and Google are particularly well suited to handle remote access to products and information.

On a personal note, I'm still able to do much of my work as usual so far.

[rcjordan]

>work as usual

Sales holding up?

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White House urges researchers to use AI to analyze 29,000 coronavirus papers - Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tech-research/white-house-urges-researchers-to-use-ai-to-analyze-29000-coronavirus-papers-idUSKBN2133E6

[littleman]

Sales are fair, not great, not dreadful.

[rcjordan]

Grocery and food delivery apps set record days of app downloads - TechSpot
https://www.techspot.com/news/84415-grocery-food-delivery-apps-set-record-days-app.html

[DrCool]

>>big tech companies have the infrastructure to keep functioning during this pandemic

During normal times we only have a couple dozen remote workers but now all office workers are working remote. With our video conferencing tools, VPNs, Slack, etc. the company is fairly well suited for people to work at home so there hasn't been too many hiccups as of yet. Since we have offices spread throughout the country and the world a lot of the work was done in multiple locations already.

[littleman]

I'd imagine that most of us are better off than the average person out there.

[rcjordan]

>most of us are better off than the average person

Yep, Tech Privilege.

[rcjordan]

See how Facebook's Disease Prevention Maps could fight coronavirus - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/see-how-facebooks-disease-prevention-maps-could-fight-coronavirus-2020-3

[rcjordan]

British Army adopts WhatsApp for formal orders as coronavirus isolation kicks in • The Register
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/18/army_adopts_whatsapp_orders_coronavirus/

[rcjordan]

The coronavirus crisis is what Amazon was made for — Quartz
https://qz.com/1820008/the-coronavirus-crisis-is-what-amazon-was-made-for/

Due to coronavirus, Facebook and Google may give location data to the government - Vox
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/18/21184160/government-location-data-coronavirus

[rcjordan]

FDA turns to Twitter to help track testing supply shortages
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/18/fda-twitter-coronavirus-testing-136014

[rcjordan]

COVID-19 Information & Resources - Google
https://www.google.com/covid19/

[rcjordan]

Governor bans reusable shopping bags
https://www.wmur.com/article/governor-bans-resuable-shopping-bags-10-new-coronavirus-cases-reported-in-nh/31855463

[rcjordan]

traditional contact tracing won't scale

New digital tools could speed up Covid-19 contact tracing

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-spreads-too-fast-for-contact-tracing-digital-tools-could-help/