AwesomeCast 494: The Big Deal Now

This week’s episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, and Sidekick Media Services.

 

We've got Kim Lyons, John Chichilla, Katie Dudas, and Mike Sorg chatting about this week's tech headlines, including:

• Katie is sharing one of her secret apps with us as her Awesome Thing of the Week.
• Chilla's Awesome Thing of the Week is Meeter, a Mac based app for meeting apps like Zoom, Webex, and Microsoft Teams.
• Kim's Awesome Thiclip-ang of the Week is Pittsburgh airport adding UVC lights to cleaning robot to help kill coronavirus.
• Adding to the robot stories, Sorg is sharing a robodog in Singapore that reminds park goers to keep their distance.
• The Play Table is a new way to play board games.
• Wyze has a webcam driver to bring new capabilities to your camera.
• Stanford scientists have created a sound that instantly boils water.
• We're looking at some car desk options to support working on the go.
• The porn industry could help reopen America with contact tracing and testing model adopted for tracking coronavirus.
• Katie is confusing the Slice pizza app and Slice on Broadway, but she's telling us how the app is helping pizza joints.
• Kids are hacking calculators with all their down time.
• Katie is giving us our weekly Animal Crossing New Horizons update!clip
• Spotify is testing video podcasts.

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