Month: April 2020
Nikon is offering free online photography classes for all of April
Nikon has made its entire curriculum of online photography classes free until the end of April. Now through April 30th, all 10 classes available at the Nikon School can be streamed for free. The classes are normally priced anywhere between $15 to $50 each. Each class is taught by a…
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Virgin Orbit announces new plans for first Asian spaceport in Oita, Japan
Virgin Orbit may be focusing its production efforts right now on making ventilators to support healthcare workers battling COVID-19, but it’s also still making moves to build out the infrastructure that will underpin its small satellite launch business. To that end, the new space company unveiled a new partnership with…
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Go read this: the New England Patriots plane brought 1 million N95 masks from China
If you had “NFL team plane brings N95 masks from China to Massachusetts” on your list of “improbable things that may happen during the coronavirus outbreak,” congratulations. The Wall Street Journal has a remarkable, tense tick-tock account of the process that got the New England Patriots’ custom-branded airplane to China…
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T-Mobile customers on unlimited wireless family plans get a free year of Quibi
T-Mobile this morning officially announced its exclusive partnership with the new streaming service, Quibi, set to launch on April 6. The service will be made available for free for a year to T-Mobile customers on its unlimited wireless family plans. The streaming service, founded by Hollywood media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg,…
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Forward launches ‘Forward At Home’ primary care service to address COVID-19 healthcare crunch
The global coronavirus pandemic has already caused a tremendous strain on healthcare resources around the world, and it’s leading to a shift in how healthcare is offered. Startup Forward, which debuted in 2016 and has since expanded its tech-focused primary care medical practice to locations in major cities across the…
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Venture-backed Celularity receives FDA approval for early trials of a new cell therapy for COVID-19
Celularity, the venture-backed developer of novel cell therapies for cancer treatments, has received an initial clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to begin early-stage clinical trials on a potential treatment for COVID-19. The company, which has raised at least $290 million to date (according to Crunchbase), uses “Natural Killer”…
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