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Jabra's latest Evolve2 headsets offer comfort..quality..and noise cancelling.    Product Marketing Manager Sidsel Enghoff chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Life is Tech is giving people of all ages…but especially…middle to high schoolers…the chance to get a jump on learning to code.  It is allowing them to sign up for two weeks of Disney Codeillusion courses for free.  Marketing Manager Amanda Windsor…

“The biggest distinction here is the approach to coding education.  We really pride ourselves with blending education with entertainment to take kind of a complex and tricky subject matter, like coding, that kind of trips a lot of people up, and makes it approachable and achievable and able to be retained by people of all skill levels and all age ranges as well.”

The courses are high value…with pricing typically running about two thousand dollars for the full course.  For more head to www.codeillusion.io .

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.

Matterport brings 3D capture capability to iPhones: VP Damien Leostic in Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  The College Board has responded to the numbers of school closings by shifting to virtual learning with online advanced placement courses and moving AP exams online this month.  That will enable students to gain the college credits they have been working toward all year.  Senior Director Counselor Engagement Lauri Benton…

“The way that it will work is that students will be able to take these exams on any device they have access to.  So if they have a computer, a tablet or even a smartphone.  They can even take a photo of their handwritten work and submit it.”

The College Board is offering to help students who may not have the ability to get online from home as well.   Find more at www.collegeboard.org.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.

TelScope from Holland Healthcare enables better tele-medicine: CEO Jennifer Holland chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  A lot of people have been turning to video conferencing for work from home and family connections .  And the competition among companies offering those services has been heating up.  8X8 has been in the business of cloud communications for decades….and in addition to business offerings…it has free video conferencing as well.  Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Bryan Martin…

“There’s a service out there called Jitsi Meet that you can use for free and 8X8’s got its own branded version of that that is at www.8X8.vc .  And then if you register with us, you give us your email, you get more features.  And then, of course, we have an enterprise edition of the product.”

8X8’s long history providing voice communications helps to set it apart…making the quality impressive.  Find more at www.8X8.com or www.8X8.vc .

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic….many people have taken a renewed interest in their lineage…reaching out to relatives…and learning more about their family histories.  At Ancestry…which has been assisting  with online resources for more than twenty years…they are helping by providing free access to nearly five hundred million national archive records….

“And that’s going to include things like World War I and World War II draft cards and the New York passenger lists.  There are several million records there of people coming in to Castle Gardens in the 1800s and then, of course, Ellis Island.”

Ancestry corporate genealogist Crista Cowan, who adds that the company is also opening up its free K through 12 educational resources to everyone.  I’m no expert…but have found that it is easy to get started with Ancestry…fascinating and fun.  The site is www.ancestry.com.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.

What have been the trends in online search?: Google's Justin Burr chats with Techstination.

Techstination Week is a compilation of this week's Techstination reports with tech journalist and host Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  With so many people having questions about Covid-19…IBM is helping to provide answers through what it calls Watson Assistant for Citizens. It has been working with government agencies, healthcare organizations and more to help them provide answers using artificial intelligence using natural language.  IBM VP for Data and AI Toby Cappello…

“So what we’re bringing to the table is trusted information from sources like the CDC, marrying that with specific information for those organizations and institutions.  And we’re doing all this while providing the capability to these organizations and agencies free of charge for 90 days so it’s easy for them to address the challenge they see today in the Corona crisis…but most importantly the information requests that they’re receiving.”

There’s more info at https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-assistant/

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.