Best Zoom Backgrounds, April Fools Canceled!

• Spiffing up your work from home video with Zoom, Prezi, and Sesame Street
• Siva Vaidhyanathan wins Zoom backgrounds
• Rating the media's work-from-home setups
• What do we want the world to look like after coronavirus?
• April Fools is canceled: Google forgoes its traditional April Fools jokes
• What happened to Adrian Lamo? A TWiT true-crime podcast
• Facebook pledges $100 Million for local news outlets hit by the coronavirus
• Amazon fires strike organizer
• Microsoft announces that they will keep their conferences virtual through 2021
• Apple is the new Microsoft - Apple buys Dark Sky and shuts off Android app
• Hangouts is staggering under load
• A deep dive into how weather forecasting works in America
• Google Drive folder structure will change in September
• Wyze updates security cams so you can use them as webcams
• How to set up your point-and-shoot camera as a webcam
• Amazon and Walmart cut off Buzzfeed's affiliate marketing deals
• Astrophysicist coronavirus inventor gets magnets stuck up nose

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Zotero
• Stacey's Thing: The Hidden Girl and The Paper Menagerie
• Jeff's Numbers: Romance via drone

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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This week's stories

• Google I/O is canceled, unless they want TWiT to do it for them
• We rate the media's work-from-home setups
• Google's COVID-19 page
• The HUGE privacy debate that coronavirus has brought up
• We craft the perfect coronavirus tracking law
• Tracking coronavirus through Kinsa
• In this time of crisis, we need to listen to experts
• This Week in Virology
• Amazon and other big tech companies are using coronavirus to take over the world
• How much bandwidth capacity can we add?
• Why don't we ban targeted advertising? Jeff vs Leo and Stacey

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Google Podcasts
• Stacey's Thing: Wyze Band and Scale
• Jeff's Numbers: Conference Call Bingo

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Today's Stories:

• Jeff Jarvis' list of who to follow on Twitter for expert advice on coronavirus
• Zeynep Tufekci on masks - they are not perfect, but they help.
• Google under coronavirus: pausing chrome updates, security issues
• Musk defiant: Tesla factory stays open despite shelter-in-place orders
• Charter makes workers come in
• Coronavirus patent trolls vs open-source medical supplies
• NBCUniversal offers streaming first-run movies - from movies to diapers to toilet paper, direct-to-consumer industries are thriving
• Amazon hiring 100,000 workers, increasing pay, as all other industries collapse
• Facebook, Reddit, Google, Twitter, YouTube fight coronavirus misinformation
• The EARN-IT Act will kill encryption and Section 230
• Jeff Jarvis fixes Facebook's coronavirus spam filter
• Reporters Without Borders create the Uncensored Library in Minecraft
• Pixar founders win $1 million Turing prize

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: Virtual Choir x 3
• Stacey's Thing 1: Teach your kid science
• Stacey's Thing 2: Sourdough: A Novel at https://amzn.to/2UgWVOm
• Karsten's Quarantine Tip: Stuck at home? Take Harvard's FREE Intro to Computer Science course!
• Leo's Tool: Around Next-gen video calling

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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This Week's Stories:

• Coronavirus: Harvard kicks all students out of dorms with less than a week's notice
• Coronavirus: cancellations - E3 and NAB canceled, SXSW may go bankrupt, NBA and NHL will play to empty colosseums
• Coronavirus: reactions - is paranoia the wrong answer?
• Coronavirus: is it even possible for most people to telecommute?
• Coronavirus: White House goes to Big Tech to ask for help to fight Coronavirus and stop misinformation
• Coronavirus: YouTube demonetizes all content mentioning Coronavirus
• Coronavirus: Australian newspaper prints blank pages to use as toilet paper
• Is it time to stop buying Android phones?
• Pixel 4a leak: starting at $399
• Android vs iPhone - security, environmental impact
• Pixel 3a, Pixel 4a: Google makes some darn fine cheap phones
• Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179 million to Google, declares bankruptcy
• Tulsi Gabbard's $50M suit against Google dismissed
• Swedes fine Google 7M Euros. Google plans to appeal and search couch cushions for change. Spain is fine with Google.
• Facebook adds two women to its board; now 40% female, 30% black
• Sweden passes law to spy on anyone anywhere
• Locate X: where cops go to buy your location data without a warrant
• The EARN IT Act will kill internet encryption. IT MUST BE DEFEATED.
• Leo's giant ham
• New Chromecast with Android TV coming soon!
• Olallieberry, marionberry, blackberry, and other great pies
• Adam Mosseri: Facebook "serves as an s***-umbrella" for Instagram
• Amazon sells its "just walk out" tech to airport vendor OTG
• Amazon Music's "My Soundtrack" station is terrifyingly accurate
• Verizon launches Yahoo! Mobile MVNO. DO NOT BUY!

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Tool: Thermomix
• Ant's Good Stuff: My OTHER Uncle Mac
• Stacey's Thing: Nodle Cash
• Jeff's Numbers 1: Nielsen Investigation: "Pandemic Pantries" pressure supply chain amid COVID-19 Fears
• Jeff's Numbers 2: Hamsterkauf Hoarding Numbers
• Coronavirus Tool: Is It Canceled Yet?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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