Hardware Podcasts

Life and Tech in the Time of Corona

EE Times Current · 20 Mar 2020 · 1h 09m

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EE Times editors Brian Santo, Junko Yoshida, Sally Ward-Foxton, Maurizio Ricci, Anne-Françoise Le Pape, and Echo Zhao discuss the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic on technology, supply chains, and daily life across the US, UK, Italy, France, China, and Taiwan. They highlight specific disruptions, including a 40% drop in notebook shipments and a 34% decline in mobile phone production, while contrasting early containment successes in Taiwan with delayed responses in Europe and the US. The episode also features a segment on recommended epidemic-themed films, such as 'Contagion' and 'The Andromeda Strain,' to help audiences cope with quarantine.

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EE Times, World Health Organization, HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Apple, Digitimes, IDC, Graphcore, Intel
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Contagion, The Andromeda Strain, Panic in the Streets, The Satan Bug, 28 Days Later, World War Z, The War of the Worlds, The Navigator

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