Parallel

41: A Tech Year in Review

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From the technology impacts of COVID-19 to the ways Apple succeeded and didn't, here's Parallel's sendoff of 2020.

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    • Guest Starring:

    Jason Snell and Jonathan Mosen

    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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