Apple Makes Mobility Data Available To Aid COVID-19 Efforts
Apple released a mobility data trends tool from Apple Maps to support the impactful work happening around the globe to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This mobility data may provide helpful insights to local governments and health authorities and may also be used as a foundation for new public policies by showing the change in …
Tencent Cloud Launches International Anti-COVID-19 Service Package
On April 13th Tencent Cloud launched an international anti-COVID-19 service package to help support the global fight against the pandemic. The package will help companies, medical institutions and governments worldwide tackle the unique challenges presented by COVID-19. This is the latest step taken by Tencent to assist in the global campaign against the pandemic, beginning …
Bridging The Gap For Remote Workers Through Digital Assistants
AI-based chatbots or digital assistants stand to change the way we interact with business applications, not just consumer ones. The main benefit is the ability to get immediate responses to queries via natural local language, without having to download apps or get training. While we have the freedom to engage in user-friendly experiences in our …
Apple And Google Partner On COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technology
Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and save lives. In this spirit of collaboration, Google and Apple are announcing a joint …
BlackRock And Microsoft Form Strategic Partnership To Host Aladdin On Azure As BlackRock Readies Aladdin For Next Chapter Of Innovation
BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to host BlackRock’s Aladdin infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, bringing enhanced capabilities to BlackRock and its Aladdin clients, which include many of the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors and wealth managers. By adopting Microsoft Azure, BlackRock will both accelerate innovation on Aladdin through greater …
Dynatrace Expands Public Sector Presence Through FedRAMP
Software intelligence company Dynatrace, today announced it is ‘In Process’ to attain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorization at a moderate impact level. Achieving FedRAMP Authorization from the General Services Administration (GSA) FedRAMP Program Management Office (PMO) will allow federal agencies to benefit from the AI-powered, end-to-end observability capabilities of the Dynatrace® Software …
HUAWEI CLOUD: Fighting COVID-19 With Technology
Recently, HUAWEI CLOUD announced that they launched a global action plan to help customers around the world to fight COVID-19 with cloud and AI services. As part of this international action plan against the coronavirus, HUAWEI CLOUD will be providing free AI and cloud services and will be recruiting partners around the world to help …
Intel Commits $50 Million with Pandemic Response Technology Initiative To Combat Coronavirus
Intel is pledging an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat the coronavirus through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care, speeding scientific research and ensuring access to online learning for students. Included in Intel’s effort is an additional innovation fund for requests where access to Intel expertise …
How Google Cloud Is Helping U.S Public Sector Agencies During The COVID-19 Pandemic And Beyond
In light of the current situation with COVID-19, public sector agencies are turning to the cloud more than ever, particularly as people increasingly need access to information and government services. Today, we’re happy to share more on our efforts to help governments with their COVID-19 needs and also highlight a few recent agreements with state …
IBM Offers “Watson Assistant for Citizens” To Provide Responses To COVID-19 Questions
With COVID-19 affecting 206 countries, areas and territories, IBM is helping government agencies, healthcare organizations and academic institutions throughout the world use AI to put critical data and information into the hands of their citizens. With a flood of information requests from citizens, wait times in many areas to receive answers can exceed two hours. Available for …