The pandemic made life harder for deaf people. The solutions could benefit everyone.

The CEO's guide to safely reopening the workplace

The Download Your daily dose of what’s up in emerging technology 05.28.20 Good morning! Today we're looking at how the pandemic made life harder for deaf people—and the changes that need to happen. Plus we have tips for if you're a CEO and are planning to re-open your business. Get your friends to sign up here to get The Download every day. Pandemic life is now even harder for deaf people. The solutions could benefit everyone. The first problem: About a month after shelter-in-place orders began in her area, Shaylee Mansfield—an 11-year-old deaf actress in Austin, Texas—posted this video on Twitter. “I don’t understand my favorite people on Instagram,” she signed. “Why? No captioning!” Shaylee’s mother, Sheena McFeely, says the new reliance on video chatting during the pandemic has made navigating social and work life far more difficult for those who are deaf and hard of hearing. “It’s now even a bigger issue than it was pre-coronavirus,” she says. The response: The tech world is scrambling to improve accessibility with live captioning on video products. Google has announced that its video-chatting function, Google Meet, will now include live captioning capabilities that transcribe a conversation within seconds, for example. Read my lips: Another issue is the impossibility of trying to lip read through face masks. The obvious answer is to wear clear ones but the main producers are struggling to keep up with demand. That’s why many people are now making their own, following instructions on YouTube.  We all win: As these changes are pushed through it's not just the deaf community that they help. Lots of hearing people will benefit from the clarity and connection they provide, too. Read the full story here.  —Tanya Basu The CEO’s guide to safely reopening the workplace Perhaps the single biggest implication of reopening national economies is that responsibility and thus liability for dealing with the covid-19 pandemic will shift from the public to the private sector. Fortune 500 CEOs right through to small business owners will soon be making decisions that affect not only the health of their business but also their people—employees, contractors, customers, suppliers—which in turn affects the health of their families, friends, and neighbors. With so much at stake, how should business leaders plan for operating in the post-stay-at-home phase of the recovery? Here’s a simple but powerful framework for creating a plan. Radio Corona: what digital contact tracing means for privacy This week we have a discussion about digital contact tracing initiatives with Gideon Lichfield, our editor-in-chief, Danny Weitzner of MIT’s CSAIL, and Bobbie Johnson, a Tech Review Senior Editor. Bobbie is part of the team at TR that has been reporting on contact tracing apps around the world. Danny has been working on a privacy preserving protocol for these apps at MIT called PACT. We discussed the importance of these projects, digital contact tracing technology, how it might be used in the US, and privacy considerations. Listen and watch the discussion online here. We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet 'em at me.)   + How to create a meditation space at home.   + We really don’t know much about eels. But they are fun to read about.   + JK Rowling has put her new children’s fairy tale online for free. Meet the Ickabog.   + Listen to a new poem online every day at Poetry. Take a stand The top ten must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Yesterday’s SpaceX launch was scrubbed due to bad weather So close! But we'll have another chance at the weekend. (The Verge)   + And we got a good look at the new astronaut suits—a space tuxedo! (NYT) 2 Trump is going to sign an executive order aimed at social media firms Looks like that fact-check by Twitter didn't go down so well. (WaPo)   + He’s threatened to shut some down—can he do that? (Vox)   + Trump is a problem that Twitter cannot fix. (Atlantic)   + Fact-checking won’t change the way he acts online. (New Yorker) 3 Here are 40 ways we could mitigate coronavirus’s impact We need all the ideas. (WaPo)   + The UK’s track and trace program has just kicked off. (BBC) 4 Pulling apart a $370 gadget designed to ‘protect you from 5G' Guess what? It’s worthless junk. Of course. (BBC)   + The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation. (Nature) 5 The influencer aesthetic is changing in lockdown There’s more engagement than ever, but less advertising $$$ to go around. (NBC) 6 Three ways we could de-germ a post-Covid world We’ll need some sort of extra protection on every surface. (Wired) 7 Estonia already lives online—why can’t the US? The country is so online, it’s helped smooth some of the pandemic's weird logistics. (Atlantic) 8 Here’s how to keep yourself safe as we re-emerge A step-by-step guide to minimizing risk for you and your family. (New Scientist)   + Tips for having a safer summer. (Atlantic) 9 This should have been VR’s moment. It still could be. You might not use it, but there are some signs it’s making in-roads. (Protocol) 10 Audi have fired a Formula E driver who got a ringer in for an esports race Hey, video game races are serious business now, too. (Rock Paper Shotgun) Join us online at EmTech Next In an ever-changing environment of innovation and disruption, MIT Technology Review, in partnership with Harvard Business Review, is proud to offer you a thought-provoking and networking-rich forum to analyze the technologies impacting your market, your strategy, your clients, and your workforce. Register today. Quote of the day “Until it takes these actions Facebook risks becoming a no-go-zone for children.” —Sarah Widman speaks to Vice about her horrific experience of sex slavery, which was initiated on Facebook. She is calling for the firm to take steps to better protect children before it brings in end-to-end encryption. Top image credit: MS TECH | ANNA SHVETS/PEXELS Please send eels to hi@technologyreview.com. Follow me on Twitter at @niallfirth. Thanks for reading! —Niall Was this newsletter forwarded to you, and you'd like to see more? Sign up for free Get unlimited access to online stories. 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