Month: March 2020
Alphabet’s Verily debuts a COVID-19 community testing toolkit as it scales its own testing efforts
While the origins of its coronavirus testing program were muddled by President Trump’s misleading announcements attributing its efforts to Google and inflating its scale, Alphabet’s Verily health sciences subsidiary has established and grown its community-based California testing initiative, deploying drive-up testing sites and ramping the number of tests completed from…
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Microsoft’s new Edge vertical tabs look ideal for 16:9 screens
Microsoft unveiled its new Microsoft 365 subscription plans today and some new Edge browser features. The biggest new addition is vertical tabs for Edge, which will allow users to stack tabs at the side of the browser instead of the traditional long list of tabs at the top. While it…
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Google parent Alphabet will donate $800 million to combat ongoing pandemic
Google’s parent company Alphabet has revealed that it will donate $800m to produce medical supplies which will be used to combat Covid-19 and that it will also give out ad credits to government and health organizations as well as to businesses. In a blog post, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar…
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Free Zoom backgrounds you can use to disguise your messy remote work rooms
Now that people are finding themselves working remotely or setting up virtual parties to chat with friends and family while maintaining social distance, Zoom is quickly becoming the go-to source for those gatherings. But when you spend days quarantining at home, cleaning up for a Zoom call might be the…
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Everything you need to know about the USNS Comfort, the giant hospital ship in NYC
At 10AM ET on March 30th, the US Navy’s gigantic floating hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, arrived in New York City where it has been sent to help relieve the pressure on the city’s hospitals that are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. The Comfort’s 1,000 beds and 12 operating rooms will…
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Where to buy a mouse: all the retailers with stock available
It can be difficult to work out where to buy a mouse right now. With a massive proportion of people working from home, stock levels took a hit last week. We’re seeing more retailers get ahead of the rush right now, though, so there are plenty of places to pick…
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