On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, we find time to have fun and game from home  …and much more.

Podcast

COVID-19 Update

• The Pandemic Is Turning the Natural World Upside Down
• China factories go to extremes to fend off virus
• Amazon to add 75,000 more jobs amid coronavirus pandemic
• It’s Time to Delete Your Delivery Apps
• Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android
• Coronavirus quarantines have made our dreams even weirder

Audible Book of the Week

• Soldiers of Science An Interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder

What We’re Playing With:

Dwayne: The Nintendo Switch 

• Accessories
  • SanDisk Ultra 400GB MicroSDXC (366GB)
  • Nintendo Joy-Con Charging Grip
  • Nintendo Switch Pro Controller

• amFilm Tempered Glass Screen Protector for Nintendo Switch 2017 (2-Pack)
• Downloading games vs Cartridges 
• Games
  • Cat’s Quest
  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Nintendo Switch 

Andy: 

• SNL At Home
• Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Half-Life: Alyx
• We Happy Few / ‘cosy catastrophe’ fiction

Tosin:

• Anova Culinary Sous Vide Cooker Cooking container
• Gears of War 5
• FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE
• Announcing the Play At Home Initiative
  • UNCHARTED: The Nathan Drake Collection Game
  • Journey™ Game

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The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.