• Why didn't IoT predict COVID-19 and how it can help in the future
• Zoom vs StreamYard vs HopIn.to vs Whereby vs ZoomCast
• Google bans Podcast Addict for hosting COVID podcasts - back now
• Super Spreaders and Covid-19
• Spotify buys Joe Rogan podcast for $100 Million
• New York Times builds its own ad network
• Apple and Google release coronavirus contact tracing API
• Google is making a new Nest Hub Max interface for Senior Centers
• Facebook launches Shops to compete with Amazon and Rooms to compete with Zoom
• Amazon gives T-shirts to all the employees whose pay they are cutting
• Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for $3.4 billion
• Rumor: Amazon will buy JCPenney
• First species discovered on Twitter eats millipede genitals
• Twitter tests a way to limit who can reply to your tweets
• Google tests touch-sensitive headphone wires
• Google Buds vs Galaxy Buds vs Surface Buds
• Google fights back against accusations that it has cut diversity programs
• IFA will be live this year - 5,000 attendees only
• USA vs Huawei vs Apple
• B8ta launches Shopsafely.co to rate retailer safety
• Protocol is the new GigaOm
• The new work-from-home calculus - when will big tech workers go back?
• Microsoft Build news: RTOS, Fluid Framework, and Azure supercomputers

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Hugo
• Leo's Tool 2: SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator
• Stacey's Thing: Level Lock
• Stacey's Thing 2: Machine Learning at the Edge Virtual Conference
• Jeff's Number: WeWork value falls from $47b to $3b

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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