Episode 131: Boaty McBoatface Makes a Return - Tech Talk Y'all

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Episode 131: Boaty McBoatface Makes a Return

In this Episode:

  • These new vending machines in Hong Kong offer free medical-grade masks to people in need
  • Porsche Auctioning Off The Final 911 (991) For Covid-19 Relief Efforts
  • Apple and Google detail bold and ambitious plan to track COVID-19 at scale
  • Google and Apple Are Jointly Developing Contact Tracing Software
  • Android phones will get the COVID-19 tracking updates via Google Play
  • Zoom will let paying customers pick which data center their calls are routed from

Weird and Wacky:

  • Chinese Professional Baseball League team will have robot mannequins fill in as fans at games
  • It's a zonkey! Zebra gives birth to rare baby after mating with a donkey
  • NASA is showing you the picture the Hubble Space Telescope took on your birthday
  • This Man Owns The World's Most Advanced Private Air Force After Buying 46 F/A-18 Hornets

Tech Recs:

  • Sanjay - Logitech Brio Ultra Webcam
  • Adam - Dashlane
  • Shannon - Lendio

TV/Movie Recs:

  • Sanjay - Blade Runner The Final Cut
  • Adam - Good Girls
  • Shannon - Parenthood

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Adam Walker

Husband. Father of five. Fractional CMO and Marketing Consultant. Wearer of fedoras. Marketing agency co-founder (with an exit). Nonprofit co-founder (48in48). Podcast host at Tech Talk Y'all and Real Pink. Most recently, I co-founded Edgewise.Media, a podcast-first marketing content agency, and TogetherLetters.com, a software for keeping people connected without social media.
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Sanjay Parekh

Sanjay (suhn' jey) is a serial technology entrepreneur. Currently, he is Entrepreneur in Residence at United Way of Greater Atlanta, a co-founder of TogetherLetters, a service for groups to share updates without using social media, and Edgewise, a marketing content creation company using podcasts as a content engine. He is also a co-host of Tech Talk Y'all, a tech news comedy podcast.