An app to make quarantine less lonely

The World

More of us are being told to work from home, and perhaps going a little stir crazy. Enter the new app, QuarantineChat, which randomly connects people across the world stuck inside due to the coronavirus outbreak. Host Marco Werman talks to Max Hawkins, CTO of Dialup, which is behind the app. 

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