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How Tech’s Lobbyists Are Using the Pandemic to Make Gains
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Why tech didn’t save us from covid-19
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/17/1003312/why-tech-didnt-save-us-from-covid-19/ America’s paralysis reveals a deep and fundamental flaw in how the nation thinks about innovation. David Rotman | June 17, 2020 Technology has failed the US and much of the rest of the world in its most important role:
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We’re embracing tech during lockdown – but can it replace the classroom?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/24/remote-learning-classroom-technology-coronavirus Families are using technology to keep things ‘normal’ during the pandemic but questions remain about what remote learning can teach us. Katie Bishop Fri 24 Apr 2020 01:00 EDT Social distancing measures and the subsequent shift to remote working,
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The tech industry’s winners and losers in lockdown
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52453296 The coronavirus pandemic has been bad news for business. But even as some technology companies have been squeezed tight, others have actually seen a boost. Some were in the right place at the right time – while others have
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What Big Tech Wants Out of the Pandemic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/big-tech-pandemic-power-grab/612238/ The firms are all too eager to help the government manage the coronavirus crisis. FRANKLIN FOER JULY/AUGUST 2020 ISSUE Long before the coronavirus pandemic, the tech industry yearned to prove its indispensability to the world. Its executives liked to describe
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The Technology 202: Many tech companies received large coronavirus relief loans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2020/07/07/the-technology-202-many-tech-companies-received-large-coronavirus-relief-loans/5f03c95e88e0fa7b44f6eeb1/ By Cat Zakrzewski | July 7, 2020 at 9:20 a.m. EDT Prominent tech companies that have raised millions in venture capital funding were among the recipients of some of the largest loans distributed by the federal government to small businesses
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Nearly 70,000 Tech Startup Employees Have Lost Their Jobs Since March
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nearly-70-000-tech-startup-employees-have-lost-their-jobs-since-march-11594167238 By Angus Loten | Updated July 8, 2020 | 6:48 pm ET Technology startups have been laying off tens of thousands of workers to cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, potentially blunting a key innovation pipeline for
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TCS, Infosys, HCL Tech and Wipro open up lateral hiring as more people walk out the door during the COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/tcs-infosys-hcl-tech-and-wipro-open-up-lateral-hiring-as-more-people-walk-out-the-door-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/articleshow/77045880.cms
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The inside story of Babylon Health
As strange as it sounds, I enjoy the ritual of going to the doctor. I love the crinkle and pop of badly laid lino, the smell of plastic-coated bottle green seats—harsh lights in the corridor, posters that haven’t been changed
