GM distributes first ventilators below 30,000-unit government agreement
Ventilators constructed by GM and Ventec Life Systems were transported to hospitals on Thursday night with many more making their way to facilities now and over the weekend, the first is a 30,000-unit order with the U.S. government. The shipments, which reached to the hospitals...
Facebook’s latest ‘Quiet Mode’ option allows you to turn off the app’s push notifications
Facebook is starting a unique feature called “Quiet Mode” that will enable you to lessen distractions by silencing the app’s push notifications for a time you designate. The company published the change as an update on its COVID Newsroom column, defining it as a way...
Altman and others desire to crowdfund 1 billion masks in the following 180 days
Sam Altman, retired president of Y Combinator and CEO of OpenAI, posted out his intention to acquire 1 billion masks in 180 days. People require to crowdfund the masks, first. The Sourcing Of Masks Altman, with his brother Max Altman, an agent at Rippling; Radu...
Apple and Google are starting a joint COVID-19 tracing device for iOS and Android
Apple and Google’s manufacturing teams have banded mutually to build a decentralized contact tracing device that will assist individuals in defining whether they have been in contact with someone with COVID-19. How Does The App Work? Contact tracing is a beneficial tool that assists public...
Instacart’s employing spree proceeds as it faces unusual demand
Instacart is joining more support positions to serve its shoppers, consumers and retail associates as the business faces unusual demand for its grocery distribution services due to COVID-19 shelter in place procedures. Instacart announced that it had multiplied its Care team, from 1,200 workers to...
Tesla’s Furlough Calls: Impact on Delivery and Sales
Tesla began on Friday to furlough its sales and delivery workforce — with the least qualified workers bearing the brunt of the action — days later a companywide email stated salary cuts and decreased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several workers, who serve in sales...
Canalys sees PC demand surged in Q1; however, shipments delayed due to supply issues
As employees shifted from office to home and students shifted to being taught online, demand for fresh PCs rose in Q1 of 2020. Still, Canalys noticed that shipments fell 8% despite this, due to COVID-19 associated supply chain difficulties. The Impact Of The Drop The...
The COVID-19 pandemic is now reshaping tech’s misinformation disaster
Considering 2016, social media firms have encountered an unending barrage of critical press and public critique for failing to foresee how their platforms could be utilised for dark ideas at the scale of populations — threatening democracies throughout the world, say, or planting social division...
Insight secures $9.5B fund to support portfolio businesses through the pandemic further
We are now many weeks into what has grown a very huge dip for the global market due to the coronavirus pandemic. Still, among that, we are viewing are some great pockets of financing activity developing that will help form how the future startup scene...
New York City Bans Zoom in Schools Over Security Concerns
As schools lie vacant, students yet have to learn. But administrators in New York City say that schools are not allowed to use Zoom for distant teaching, indicating security concerns with the video conferencing facility. Instead, the city’s Dept. of Education is transitioning classes to...
