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    Sep 8, 2017

    09/08/17: Disaster prep, DACA and restaurants in the digital age

    We’re digging into how the digital world is changing the physical one this week. With hurricanes, flooding and earthquakes all over the headlines, we look at a few digital steps that make a big difference in disaster preparation. Then, how Instagram is pushing restaurant design to new places. Plus, what the end of a federal immigration program means for one person’s business life and the most expensive place in the country to give birth.

    People use their mobile phones near a telecom relay tower on September 7, 2017, at Pic Paradis on the French Carribean island of Saint-Martin, after the passage of Hurricane Irma.
    People use their mobile phones near a telecom relay tower on September 7, 2017, at Pic Paradis on the French Carribean island of Saint-Martin, after the passage of Hurricane Irma.
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    We’re digging into how the digital world is changing the physical one this week. With hurricanes, flooding and earthquakes all over the headlines, we look at a few digital steps that make a big difference in disaster preparation. Then, how Instagram is pushing restaurant design to new places. Plus, what the end of a federal immigration program means for one person’s business life and the most expensive place in the country to give birth.