Host Molly Wood speaks with Shira Ovide, a tech reporter at the New York Times, about how tech companies, like Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, are in collaboration to fight misinformation around the coronavirus. Social giants are pushing official information from other organizations like the CDC and the World Health Organization that inform internet users more about the pandemic.

Host Molly Wood speaks with Michael Seibel, who leads the Y Combinator accelerator program, about whether it is a difficult thing to launch a startup during this global coronavirus pandemic. Some of the most successful startups began before, during and after the 2008 economic crash, he says.

At a moment when we would prefer it stay healthy, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was the target of a cyberattack. Reports say the agency’s servers slowed down because they received millions of hits at the same time. Host Molly Wood talks about it with Mark Rasch, who runs a cybersecurity consulting company.

As more of us are working or learning from home, there’s going to be increased demands on our digital infrastructure, such as Wi-Fi, VPN and broadband. What can employers do to prepare? And what can workers do to cope? Host Molly Wood talks with Jonathan Reichental, the former chief information officer for the city of Palo Alto, California, and author of the book “Smarter Cities for Dummies.”

As we work to treat COVID-19, how can artificial intelligence help health care workers find the people who are most likely to become sick? And how could AI help prevent the spread of future viruses? Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood talks with Michael Greeley, co-founder and general partner of the biotech investment firm Flare Capital.

Host Molly Wood speaks with Russell T. Davies about his BBC-HBO show “Years and Years.” Davies says that the family featured in the saga are forwarded 15 years into time and they experience every technological and humanistic evolution possible, like a character coming out as trans — not transgender, but transhuman (some robot parts in her). They also talk about the technology featured in the series.

Host Molly Wood speaks with Connie Guglielmo, editor-in-chief at CNET, about how a plurality of tech conferences have been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns, and what that might mean for the tech industry. Guglielmo says that this will only allow tech companies to get creative by making the conferences more video-friendly and therefore accessible to anyone who wants to be part of them in a cheaper way. Wood also speaks with Karen Allen, a consultant to artists who livestreams on Twitch, about how artists are monetizing the platform by performing more personal concerts — only without the live audience.

Host Molly Wood speaks with Louise Matsakis, a reporter at Wired, about price gouging on e-commerce giants like Amazon and eBay. She says that these platforms need to respond to gouging just as social media platforms have to respond to misinformation about the public health crises. Amazon, she adds, has been making an effort to regulate the dramatic price increases that some sellers are applying to hand sanitizers and face masks that protect against COVID-19.

Host Molly Wood speaks to Adi Robertson, a senior reporter at The Verge, about how virtual reality initially promised us the future, and now that we need it to work remotely during the coronavirus outbreak, it still has very little to offer. Robertson says the equipment is just too heavy to successfully work from home. And then there’s the “goofiness factor.”

Host Molly Wood speaks with John Watson, founder of the Evergreen Education Group, which conducts research on K-12 digital learning, about schools closing due to the spread of COVID-19. He says that while there are plenty of schools and school districts equipped with the tools to make online learning possible, there are still other schools and districts that do not have that sort of bandwidth.