WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.600 Hey everyone, welcome back today and Tack Angelia polish. 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:05.700 Am I am here with Ken Mingus executive editor of computer 00:00:05.700 --> 00:00:08.500 world. Today. We're going to be talking about how it's a can 00:00:08.500 --> 00:00:12.600 bees are pitching in to help the covid-19 fight stick around. 00:00:20.700 --> 00:00:23.100 I can't thank you so much for calling we've missed you. 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:32.800 We are so so happy that you are back Carolina. 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.500 Thank you, and I hope that you are staying safe as well. 00:00:36.500 --> 00:00:40.200 So we heard a lot and I actually did a video about this with 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:43.200 Matt Finnegan who of course you are very well acquainted 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.100 with and we talked about how you know, 00:00:45.100 --> 00:00:47.600 some collaboration tools have been dating Enterprise isn't 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:52.100 giving them no free licenses or cheaper licenses to help in this 00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:53.800 order transition to work from home. 00:00:53.800 --> 00:00:57.300 That's really not the only way that companies are actually 00:00:57.300 --> 00:01:01.200 helping the transition that we're all experiencing. 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:04.500 What can you tell us about how some tech companies are actually 00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:07.000 really helping, you know hospitals Frontline workers. 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:12.200 It's something that we've been tracking Computer World for a couple 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:16.000 of weeks now damn it got worse more and more companies 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.200 were trying to figure out how they could help out and they wanted 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.300 to help out especially with healthcare workers on the front 00:01:22.300 --> 00:01:25.500 lines. That was some of these sort of instant hospitals 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:26.300 that was bringing up. 00:01:26.300 --> 00:01:27.900 So we've been sort of tracking 00:01:33.700 --> 00:01:36.600 Companies that have been helping set up bots in internet 00:01:36.600 --> 00:01:39.800 communications and networking for some of these like one of the 00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:44.200 hospital ships in La things like analytics because there's a 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:46.700 lot of data floating around out there about what's going 00:01:46.700 --> 00:01:49.800 on with the pandemic where it's popping up who may or may not 00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:53.100 be infected and trying to track you know, 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:55.300 where those people are going and then of course, 00:01:55.300 --> 00:01:58.400 there's always been the problem the ongoing problem of getting 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.900 a personal protective equipment to people on the front lines. 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:05.900 And so there's been some efforts around there to try to be either 00:02:05.900 --> 00:02:09.800 connect people with the with the equipment that they need or even 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:14.400 use 3D printing and modeling try to actually design and build 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.600 some of them some of the pieces of Hardware that the front 00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:24.600 line release insulin and statements and announcements 00:02:24.600 --> 00:02:28.600 from companies offering like their software for free. 00:02:33.700 --> 00:02:36.900 Meeting with healthcare workers, but it is especially 00:02:36.900 --> 00:02:38.500 for those on the front lines. I 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:40.900 think this is where technology has really been able to sort of 00:02:40.900 --> 00:02:44.800 help out and can't move pretty quickly to try to get the supplies 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:45.200 are needed. 00:02:46.600 --> 00:02:50.800 Yeah, I think I heard maybe a few weeks maybe by this time a 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.500 month ago who knows the days kind of all seem to blend together, 00:02:53.500 --> 00:02:57.600 but I heard about you know, what potential Whispers of 3D printing 00:02:57.600 --> 00:03:01.400 parts for ventilators, if you're obviously so desperately 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:04.600 needed and it's a really interesting way to see I mean, 00:03:04.600 --> 00:03:08.500 I know 3D printing has become really really prominent in healthcare, 00:03:08.500 --> 00:03:11.500 but it's a really encouraging me to see that, 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:16.000 you know, there's a lot of great alternatives to you know, 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.700 instead of just these big Manufacturing Company saying, 00:03:18.700 --> 00:03:22.800 okay instead of making, you know, XYZ product cars and tables 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:25.000 chairs, whatever we're going to shift to making ventilators. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.400 There's a real way for tech companies to help out. 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:28.800 Is it both of us, you know, 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.200 they're 3D printing but they're also providing, 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:33.700 you know examples or 00:03:34.500 --> 00:03:37.500 I mean stencils isn't the right word but something like that 00:03:37.500 --> 00:03:48.700 right there that have all kinds of resources. 00:03:48.700 --> 00:03:52.000 It takes a while for them to Tool up and to build something 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:59.200 with scale. And so there companies that are there was a company 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:04.100 this week. It's called v i m object object. 00:04:04.100 --> 00:04:12.700 I apologize. It's basically open up their platform. 00:04:12.700 --> 00:04:17.700 So that users can upload plans for equipment like you were saying 00:04:17.700 --> 00:04:24.900 in her something like this could be anything from Mass to ventilator 00:04:24.900 --> 00:04:27.500 Parts, you know ventilators is obviously the shorter than later 00:04:27.500 --> 00:04:28.200 this big problem. 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:38.000 Your plans and then maybe others can take those plans and do the 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:39.200 actual building process. 00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:42.900 It's it's not going to be the scale like something like a major 00:04:42.900 --> 00:04:47.800 manufacturer could do but again is potentially another life 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:48.800 that might be safe. 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:59.200 And so this sort of Grassroots effort you got at this point, 00:04:59.200 --> 00:05:06.900 there's going to be so so much data that we know scientist 00:05:06.900 --> 00:05:11.000 researchers. Anyone know data scientist in the healthcare 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:14.000 industry are going to have to call fro continuously. I 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.100 mean, I'm sure they've been coming through that data now to 00:05:17.100 --> 00:05:20.100 look at you know, helpful patterns What treatments worked 00:05:20.100 --> 00:05:24.000 what types of people are being hospitalized or what types of people 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.100 are being affected those demographics and are there any sort 00:05:27.100 --> 00:05:31.400 of data analytics tools that are also being offered to the casino 00:05:31.400 --> 00:05:32.200 Frontline workers? 00:05:33.200 --> 00:05:36.300 Yeah. Yeah, and in fact Domo has done a really good job. 00:05:36.300 --> 00:05:41.100 They've got their covid-19 Global tracker that's been out for 00:05:41.100 --> 00:05:42.600 two or three several weeks now. 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:47.400 Anyway, what they did recently was they were able to add data 00:05:47.400 --> 00:05:51.500 down for the county level at least in the United States and I actually 00:05:51.500 --> 00:05:58.300 have my home screen when I fire up my musically it gives me in 00:05:58.300 --> 00:06:03.000 a very easy to understand visual format an idea of where the 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:11.100 hot spots are where things are still getting worse again at the 00:06:11.100 --> 00:06:27.900 way that you know, anybody what do you mean I'm not but 00:06:33.200 --> 00:06:35.400 URI makes it really easy. 00:06:35.400 --> 00:06:38.200 And I think that's that's useful not only for people on the front 00:06:38.200 --> 00:06:41.200 line, but all of us because we all want to kind of figure 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:42.700 out. Okay, where is this thing now, 00:06:42.700 --> 00:06:43.500 where is it going? 00:06:43.500 --> 00:07:00.900 But if you're looking at it, so I'm a big fan of the covid-19 00:07:00.900 --> 00:07:12.500 winter predicted when there are hospitals are going to be, 00:07:12.500 --> 00:07:15.900 you know, completely swamped covid-19 take cases, 00:07:15.900 --> 00:07:18.600 but you're really helpful for you know, 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:21.000 the average person who's worried about their health worried 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.900 about the health of their families and wants to see how their 00:07:23.900 --> 00:07:26.100 area is doing whether it's Hino plateauing. 00:07:26.100 --> 00:07:28.600 Hopefully getting worse just to be able to do, 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.500 you know mentally and physically prepare that it can be really 00:07:31.500 --> 00:07:32.100 useful information. 00:07:33.200 --> 00:07:36.800 Yeah, when you know, it's also interesting in this this is something 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:39.400 that just just popped into my email this morning and I have 00:07:39.400 --> 00:07:41.400 not had a chance to look at it in depth, 00:07:41.400 --> 00:07:48.200 but one of the things that's important is trying to figure 00:07:48.200 --> 00:07:52.700 out who testing who may be infected who may be asymptomatic 00:07:52.700 --> 00:07:56.300 and most importantly who have they been near you know, 00:07:56.300 --> 00:08:00.200 so you can track back and try to stop outbreaks before they 00:08:00.200 --> 00:08:05.500 get bad and I just saw something come over in any mail from 00:08:05.500 --> 00:08:09.600 MIT researchers there have to fill up the system that basically 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:15.100 allows your smartphone to help track where you've been but can 00:08:15.100 --> 00:08:18.000 also preserve privacy because obviously that's a big issue 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:24.200 right now. We need between Healthcare and privacy people want 00:08:24.200 --> 00:08:26.700 to know okay is everybody around you say, 00:08:26.700 --> 00:08:30.300 but you also want that sort of an anonymous because you don't 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:32.600 really want governments completely tracking. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.300 Going that said you need to be able to track what people have been 00:08:36.300 --> 00:08:46.200 if you're going to try to stop this useful going forward 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:57.300 because the world is increasingly Mobile use that to track 00:08:57.300 --> 00:09:01.200 where people have been you can identify hot spots and then maybe 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:02.800 snuff them out before they get back, 00:09:02.800 --> 00:09:06.700 you know, and so I'm really interested to see I'm going to look 00:09:06.700 --> 00:09:10.100 at this whole story. 00:09:10.100 --> 00:09:14.000 That's really interesting if there's a I think that would be a 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:16.300 really great thing to know to continue just got something 00:09:16.300 --> 00:09:19.300 really great point and to that end. 00:09:19.300 --> 00:09:22.100 It seems like a lot of tech companies Tech researchers, 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:25.600 you know, MIT obviously is not just the university itself, 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:28.600 but has a lot of organizations within it that really help with 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:31.600 you no data analytics research really everything under the Sun 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:32.400 so 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:36.700 It's interesting to see how quickly tech companies have been 00:09:36.700 --> 00:09:40.500 able to Pivot in many cases to make this order to make fighting 00:09:40.500 --> 00:09:43.800 the coronavirus there really number one priority, 00:09:43.800 --> 00:09:47.500 whether it's through giving these helpful tools to Enterprises, 00:09:47.500 --> 00:09:50.800 you know, the VP is the collaboration tools of the world or whether 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:53.400 it's providing a cohesive data set. 00:09:53.400 --> 00:09:54.400 It's really interesting. 00:09:54.400 --> 00:09:58.500 But there's also the way that tecomates have been really digging 00:09:58.500 --> 00:10:00.600 into their supply chains to gather equipment, 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:02.600 which is also I mean really helpful, 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:05.200 there's only so much that you know you and I can do together 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:09.000 masks for our front-line workers, but we have a massive massive 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:10.600 attack. I'm feeling like apple. I 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:12.900 know that you mentioned when they're digging into their supply 00:10:12.900 --> 00:10:15.400 chain to find masks that can make a real impact. 00:10:16.400 --> 00:10:17.600 Yeah, it's interesting. 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:19.500 That's something that popped up this week. 00:10:19.500 --> 00:10:20.500 Go Apple CEO. 00:10:20.500 --> 00:10:24.000 Tim Cook was tweeting about it actually tweeted out about a 2 or 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:25.900 3 minute video where he was talking about it, 00:10:25.900 --> 00:10:30.200 you know, he is Mister supply chain or at least spend his reputation 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:34.700 and Apple has been doing a lot of different things to try to help 00:10:34.700 --> 00:10:43.500 out with masks that could be used on the front lines and they 00:10:43.500 --> 00:10:52.800 thought that you hang on one second after you be awarded 00:10:52.800 --> 00:11:00.300 like find and produce through there a million masks a week and 00:11:00.300 --> 00:11:02.400 then maybe moving to other countries outside. 00:11:02.400 --> 00:11:08.500 The delivery went to Kaiser Hospital facilities in Santa Clara 00:11:08.500 --> 00:11:09.600 and again, 00:11:16.400 --> 00:11:20.700 Maps app so that people using Apple Maps have ready access 00:11:20.700 --> 00:11:25.800 to like locations for healthcare facilities, you know places 00:11:25.800 --> 00:11:27.500 that they might need more than you know, 00:11:27.500 --> 00:11:42.600 the local McDonald that Maps out and make a difference. 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:53.400 So it's really interesting a couple of weeks of Computer 00:11:53.400 --> 00:11:57.500 World. And we genuinely update that story as different 00:11:57.500 --> 00:12:05.200 initiatives will allow that story. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:09.000 Oh, yeah absolutely will definitely be in the description 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:10.200 of this video on YouTube. 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:14.100 So 100% if you want to see a more full and comprehensive 00:12:14.100 --> 00:12:16.200 list other than the examples I can and I have. 00:12:16.400 --> 00:12:21.300 Be sure to check out its it is encouraging to see how a lot of 00:12:21.300 --> 00:12:24.300 tech companies are really stepping up and really helping 00:12:24.300 --> 00:12:27.100 us. I mean, I know that there were original Whispers of you know, 00:12:27.100 --> 00:12:31.100 you can use this app to track your symptoms to see if you're 00:12:31.100 --> 00:12:33.600 at risk or whether it's worth it for you to call your doctor 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:35.900 and get a test and there's going to be I have to imagine 00:12:35.900 --> 00:12:38.000 a lot of interesting Innovations Justin, you know, 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:42.600 the coming weeks as more of this endocrine virus becomes 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:45.300 more widespread and hopefully hopefully plateaus. 00:12:46.300 --> 00:12:47.400 Yeah, it's interesting. 00:12:47.400 --> 00:12:50.200 Just just to let you know before we before I go. 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:51.400 I just want them things. 00:12:51.400 --> 00:12:55.400 It's that has come out if there's been a lot of effort to provide 00:12:55.400 --> 00:12:58.700 people with information on where the temporary testing facilities 00:12:58.700 --> 00:13:12.200 are, you know, any sort of a crowd of people being a baby having 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:23.600 symptoms of whatever they want to get tested put into people's 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.500 hands information about where they might go to get tested 00:13:26.500 --> 00:13:29.900 so I can sort of this Grassroots. 00:13:29.900 --> 00:13:37.600 How can we take that out and help out somehow with his Frontline 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:43.600 workers information for people producing devices in a variety 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:43.800 of things. 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:59.100 That's good. You know in this area and we really appreciate 00:13:59.100 --> 00:14:02.900 it and like I mentioned will be sure to a link of that frequently 00:14:02.900 --> 00:14:04.000 updated Story down below. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:08.500 So everyone can stay up-to-date on the latest things that companies 00:14:08.500 --> 00:14:09.000 have been doing. 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:11.600 Thanks Juliet. I appreciate it. 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:23.600 Then. I will do this again soon will thank you all so much for 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:26.000 watching this episode of stay in Tech if you like this video 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:29.400 Beach Ditka Thumbs Up And subscribe to a channel if you have 00:14:29.400 --> 00:14:32.000 any questions comments, or maybe there is a tech company 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.300 that we miss that's doing a really great initiative. 00:14:34.300 --> 00:14:35.400 Please leave a comment below. 00:14:35.400 --> 00:14:37.900 Thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time.