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Apr 2020
35m 41s

Apple and Google Team Up for Contact Tra...

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai debate Apple and Google’s Covid-19 contact tracing plan. They also discuss the Federal Reserve, which has taken a series of unprecedented actions to prop up the economy.

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