Coronavirus
Why You Should Never Use Microsoft Excel To Count Coronavirus Cases
Public Health England has admitted that 16,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK were missed from daily figures being reported between September 25 and October 2. The missing figures were subsequently added to the daily totals, but given the importance of these numbers for monitoring the outbreak and making key decisions, the results of the …
Adaptive Biotechnologies And Microsoft Launch Virtual ImmuneRACE Study To Inform Novel COVID-19 Diagnostics To Address Unmet Needs In Testing
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. announced it has begun enrolling a virtual clinical study, ImmuneRACE, as part of a broader effort it has undertaken with Microsoft Corp. to rapidly map and measure the immune response to the COVID-19 virus to inform improved diagnostics to fulfill the need for more reliable testing. The study calls for 1,000 participants …
Contribute To Open Source Healthcare Projects For COVID-19
Many of those that are familiar with the maker movement, including me, believe there is a significant opportunity to apply open source design principles and mass-scale collaborative distributed manufacturing technologies (like open source 3D printing) to at least partially overcome medical supply shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Already, an Italian hospital saved COVID-19 patients’ lives by …
How Google Cloud Is Helping COVID-19 Academic Research
As COVID-19 continues to grow in impact, healthcare and life science researchers are in a race to understand more about the novel coronavirus, and are increasingly turning to cloud technologies to aid them in their work. We’re so grateful for the work of these experts, and want to support them with tools and technologies that …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Video Chat Apps Rise To Prominence Amid Pandemic
With a huge chunk of the world in quarantine or lockdown in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, people have resorted to online platforms in order to continue working and to stay connected with their family and friends. That being the case, it should come as no surprise that massive increases in the global downloads …
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 …