The movie theater industry continues to struggle and it may not survive this crisis.  YouTube has created a competitor for Tik Toc and a Nascar driver loses a sponsor for rage quitting at an esports event.  In tech news, we discuss the recent Marriott Hotels data breach, AI tools used to predict severe cases of COVID-19, and a new wave of automation.  We go in depth on some of the privacy concerns with the Zoom conferencing software and the surveillance tools being used by governments to track activity and infected people.

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• Bob Iger foregoes salary
  • https://www.ign.com/articles/disneys-bob-iger-to-forego-salary-top-execs-to-take-pay-cut-during-coronavirus-crisis 
• CNBC: California governor says ‘We need more Googles’ as company offers free Wi-Fi and Chromebooks to students.
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-google-offers-wi-fi-chromebooks-to-california-students.html 
• Tesla plans to supply ventilators free
  • https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tesla-idUSKBN21I2KX 
• Bill Gates is funding 7 Factories to make vaccines 
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-factories-7-different-vaccines-to-fight-coronavirus-2020-4?r=US 
• Forbes: Sending ‘Black Widow’ And ‘Mulan’ To VOD Is A Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea.
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/03/31/sending-black-widow-and-mulan-to-vod-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea/ 
• Youtube shorts
  • https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/4/1/21203451/youtube-tiktok-competitor-shorts-music-google-report  
• AMC may never recover
  • https://movieweb.com/amc-theatres-reopening/ 
• Bubba Wallace rage quits during iNascar event
  • https://www.cbssports.com/nascar/news/bubba-wallace-loses-sponsorship-after-rage-quitting-during-nascar-iracing-event/ 
• Ars Technica: OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business.
  • https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/oneweb-goes-bankrupt-wont-challenge-spacex-in-satellite-broadband-race/ 
• Yahoo News: AI tool predicts which coronavirus patients get deadly ‘wet lung’.
  • https://www.yahoo.com/news/ai-tool-predicts-coronavirus-patients-deadly-wet-lung-184124238.html 
• Business Insider: 5.2 million Marriott guests’ information exposed in security breach – Business Insider.
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/marriott-data-breach-5-million-hotel-guests-information-likely-leaked-2020-3 
• Dictatorships may arise from the surveillance of today’s crisis 
  • https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/coronavirus-lockdown-surveillance-tracking-dictatorship-authoritarian-united-nations-privacy-a9438561.html
• Zoom privacy issues
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/zoom-facing-multiple-reported-security-issues-amid-coronavirus-crisis-2020-4?r=US&IR=T 
  • https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-gains-access-to-florida-class-being-held-on-zoom-exposes-himself-district-says
  • https://www.fastcompany.com/90486586/zoom-banned-from-new-york-city-schools-due-to-privacy-and-security-flaws 
• Bosses speed up automation
  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/bosses-speed-up-automation-as-virus-keeps-workers-home?fbclid=IwAR0L1ObXqL4EewuKRT29x8220auVopGi6ro9RFJK-D8DJrDvTIYCfg_ySuU