Links and Show Notes

Round 1

We're all working from home

Using Gene Sequencing and mRNA to create a COVID vaccine

• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/09/magazine/covid-vaccine.html
• https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/record-setting-speed-vaccine-makers-take-their-first-shots-new-coronavirus

Games for all

• The year of Animal Crossing and Among Us: people gathered to play more casual games

Round 2

iOS People Detection

• iPhone can now tell blind users where and how far away they are.

Apple makes Macs with its own processors

• https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/11/m1-macs-review/
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/mac-mini-and-apple-silicon-m1-review-not-so-crazy-after-all/

US politicians’ big tech regulation talk grows louder

• https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/facebook-breakup-antitrust-instagram-whatsapp.html
• https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/tech/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-ftc-attorney-generals/index.html
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/google-and-antitrust-big-tech-s-first-target-could-face-more-legal-action/ar-BB1bP9c7

Round 3

Apple's broken public beta

• Are blind people members of the public too? Apple releases a public beta of watchOS knowing it doesn’t work with VoiceOver.

Apple adds full cursor support to iPad, releases keyboard with trackpad

• https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/03/the-ipad-cursor-is-here-no-wait-required/
• https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/03/in-praise-of-the-ipados-134-cursor/
• https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/04/magic-keyboard-ipad-pro-review/

The Failure of contact tracing in the US

• https://www.govtech.com/network/States-Prioritized-Broadband-as-COVID-19-Took-Hold.html

Round 4 (the whimsical one)

With vinyl and even cassettes becoming fashionable again, what retro technology might be in vogue as this next new decade begins?

Is 2020 the year of Dungeons and Dragons?

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/07/24/amid-pandemic-racial-reckoning-dd-finds-itself-an-inflection-point/

Who needs prestige TV when there’s comfort TV?

• https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/peak-comfort-tv.html
• https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/10/comforting-tv-streaming-election

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